Chatting with Adam Hanieh about his book Crude Capitalism at East Bristol Books as part of their Climate Talks series later this month. Tickets are pay what you can: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
EBB Climate Talks: Adam Hanieh's *Crude Capitalism* at East Bristol Books
A conversation with Professor Adam Hanieh around his book *Crude Capitalism* (Verso). Part of EBB's Climate Talks series.
*Crude Capitalism* traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism f...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Chatting with Adam Hanieh about his book Crude Capitalism at East Bristol Books as part of their Climate Talks series later this month. Tickets are pay what you can: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
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My book comes out next month and I have some tour dates in the Pacific Northwest lined up:
Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm
Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm
Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm
Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm
Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm
Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm
Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm
Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My book comes out next month and I have some tour dates in the Pacific Northwest lined up:
Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm
Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm
Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm
Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm
Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm
Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm
Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm
Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm
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📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
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Check out Sean O'Brien's @seanobrien.bsky.social full lecture on theHythe whether you'd like to read it or watch 🌿 Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism
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March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Check out Sean O'Brien's @seanobrien.bsky.social full lecture on theHythe whether you'd like to read it or watch 🌿 Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism
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Fourth instalment in the lecture series on Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism available now from @the87press.bsky.social:
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www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
Marx and the Climate Crisis #4: Marx and Environmentalism by Sean O’Brien — the87press
The second lecture extends our line of inquiry into societal nature relations as it pertains to the problem of energy. At the heart of the relation between capital and climate lies energy. Fossil fuel...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Fourth instalment in the lecture series on Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism available now from @the87press.bsky.social:
www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
This is out later today. Fourth and final lecture in the “Marx and the Climate Crisis” series, this one on Marx and environmentalism. Stay tuned!
TODAY the final part of Sean O'Brien's series 'Marx and the Climate Crisis' comes out on your Youtube channel along with a transcript on theHythe ✨ This lecture focuses on Marx and and Environmentalism 🌿
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
March 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is out later today. Fourth and final lecture in the “Marx and the Climate Crisis” series, this one on Marx and environmentalism. Stay tuned!
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Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org
February 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
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An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Domestic Violence Is a Housing Problem
The processes of caring work, low pay, and domestic abuse are all intertwined. Women’s caring responsibilities and low income sometimes force them to move in with parents or other family members, or t...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024)
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
February 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024)
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
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“...the devilish outcome of a system of blindly asserted social averages and tipping points, is the nature of class domination under capital.”
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social.
via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social.
via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“...the devilish outcome of a system of blindly asserted social averages and tipping points, is the nature of class domination under capital.”
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social.
via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social.
via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
February 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital.
Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital.
Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
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A hyper-carceral model of schooling has been championed by successive British governments as they've handed primary education over to the private sector with predictably horrifying results www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents
Mossbourne academy accused of bullying and damaging children’s mental health as local authority asked to step in
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM
A hyper-carceral model of schooling has been championed by successive British governments as they've handed primary education over to the private sector with predictably horrifying results www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Here is the video of the BSA panel on The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary: Exploring Contemporary Critical Social Theory and its Critique of Political Economy I participated in alongside Stephan Lessenich, Cecilia Sebastian, and Esteban Torres.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=KIz...
m.youtube.com/watch?si=KIz...
The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary
YouTube video by britsoci
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November 22, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Here is the video of the BSA panel on The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary: Exploring Contemporary Critical Social Theory and its Critique of Political Economy I participated in alongside Stephan Lessenich, Cecilia Sebastian, and Esteban Torres.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=KIz...
m.youtube.com/watch?si=KIz...
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Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900.
WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
Assistant Professor in American Literature (Pre and Post 1900) - Department of English - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900.
WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
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The next Marxism in Culture seminar is this Friday at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The Blonde Bombsite: Towards a Cultural History of Working-Class Femininity in Britain
We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture event with Jennifer Jasmine White.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 8:24 AM
The next Marxism in Culture seminar is this Friday at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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I did a reading at Drop City Books in Stoke last month & it’s one of the finest & most worthwhile bookshops ever. A dodgy landlord has ruined their stock through flood damage so please get your book orders through them (online) for the foreseeable future t.co/kv1by7Y0r8
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/dropcitybooks
t.co
November 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I did a reading at Drop City Books in Stoke last month & it’s one of the finest & most worthwhile bookshops ever. A dodgy landlord has ruined their stock through flood damage so please get your book orders through them (online) for the foreseeable future t.co/kv1by7Y0r8
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@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/
February 13, 2024 at 12:21 PM
@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/
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Listening to the latest episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social I learned that more 1,000 people in the US have been dying of COVID every week since August. I knew that rate had dropped below 1,000/week for a bit, but didn't realize it was that high again—and staying that high!
December 7, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Listening to the latest episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social I learned that more 1,000 people in the US have been dying of COVID every week since August. I knew that rate had dropped below 1,000/week for a bit, but didn't realize it was that high again—and staying that high!
First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
Marx and the Climate Crisis #1: Marx and Nature by Sean O’Brien — the87press
This four-part lecture series asks what we can learn from Marx about the
climate crisis: its origins, its impacts, and what possible solutions we
might seek in the face of increasingly inadequate go...
www.the87press.co.uk
November 20, 2023 at 6:38 PM
First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
Is there a version of this for literary / cultural studies?
It's that time of year again! We're collecting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters published in 2023 by historians working off the tenure track. Lists will be published the week after US Thanksgiving. Use the form to submit your work--or that of a friend! 🗃️
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2023 pu...
contingentmagazine.org
October 8, 2023 at 7:56 AM
Is there a version of this for literary / cultural studies?
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three poems from Safe Word in the Brooklyn Rail
October 3, 2023 at 11:53 PM
three poems from Safe Word in the Brooklyn Rail
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this but not for writing
Since y'all seem susceptible to writing advice, I say if you're not going to reuse a setting, like a building or house, just have it blow up. Don't even explain. Just blow it up good. Let the reader figure out why all this stuff is blowing up 'cause you couldn't find a use for it
September 16, 2023 at 9:21 PM
this but not for writing