William Westgard-Cruice
@williamwc.bsky.social
Geographer • renewable energy, labour regimes, critique of political economy • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
www.williamwestgardcruice.com
www.williamwestgardcruice.com
Emissions aside, the COP circus yearly reproduces the illusion that climate change mitigation is a policy priority for any major state.
Any and all progress in decarbonization over the past years is better explicable in terms of the aim of some states, mostly China, to reduce fossil fuel imports.
Any and all progress in decarbonization over the past years is better explicable in terms of the aim of some states, mostly China, to reduce fossil fuel imports.
Given the stratospheric emissions from 50000-odd attendees, and the repeated lack of actual progress, it's surely the case that the annual COP circus is a net-negative for the climate?
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Emissions aside, the COP circus yearly reproduces the illusion that climate change mitigation is a policy priority for any major state.
Any and all progress in decarbonization over the past years is better explicable in terms of the aim of some states, mostly China, to reduce fossil fuel imports.
Any and all progress in decarbonization over the past years is better explicable in terms of the aim of some states, mostly China, to reduce fossil fuel imports.
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OnlineFirst - "Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization" by Julia Wagner:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
OnlineFirst - "Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization" by Julia Wagner:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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BYD is considering opening a factory in Catalonia. Company executives and engineers have visited Catalonia several times in recent months in search of a suitable location for a factory that would complement existing production facilities in Hungary
www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
El gigante chino BYD estudia abrir una fábrica de coches eléctricos en Catalunya
El fabricante, el mayor de China y ‘top 3’ en todo el mundo en volumen de ventas, busca un emplazamiento en la Europa occidental y sondea otras ubicaciones tanto dentro como fuera de España
www.elperiodico.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
BYD is considering opening a factory in Catalonia. Company executives and engineers have visited Catalonia several times in recent months in search of a suitable location for a factory that would complement existing production facilities in Hungary
www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...
Spot on. The far right (PVV+JA21+FvD+SGP) won even more votes this election than they did in 2023. Middle class voters will always cycle between the various liberal parties. The real story here is the utter collapse of the Dutch left and the continued shift of working class voters to the right.
Not to be cynical, but NL election results are not a “blow to the far right” — it’s possible they simply signal a return to the centrism that enabled it. PVV remains major. Big winner D66 ruled out working with PVV, but involving far right JA21 is on the table. VVD refuses to work with GL-PvdA. 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Spot on. The far right (PVV+JA21+FvD+SGP) won even more votes this election than they did in 2023. Middle class voters will always cycle between the various liberal parties. The real story here is the utter collapse of the Dutch left and the continued shift of working class voters to the right.
A lot of people are saying this is going to be one of the best books of the decade 👇👇
Ya está aqui lo que todo el mundo estaba esperando: el libro definitivo sobre el Distrito 22@ Barcelona👇👇.
Escrito a 6 manos por @greigc.bsky.social y
@monrf.bsky.social junto a mi mismo.
'The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District'
www.routledge.com/The-Politics...
Escrito a 6 manos por @greigc.bsky.social y
@monrf.bsky.social junto a mi mismo.
'The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District'
www.routledge.com/The-Politics...
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A lot of people are saying this is going to be one of the best books of the decade 👇👇
"[the Urbanization of Capital] puts capital's imperative to innovate and disrupt at the heart of the argument, along with the inevitable financial crises and urban revolutions that result. The theory is timeless in making clear that none of the shocks to the old ... order should come as a surprise."
Harvey's Urbanization of Capital
The Urbanization of Capital is a pivotal book in David Harvey's career, along with its twin, Consciousness and the Urban Experience. Published at the same time they are collections of (mostly) previou...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"[the Urbanization of Capital] puts capital's imperative to innovate and disrupt at the heart of the argument, along with the inevitable financial crises and urban revolutions that result. The theory is timeless in making clear that none of the shocks to the old ... order should come as a surprise."
"[David Harvey's] Consciousness and the Urban Experience never endorses any nostalgic search for lost time nor a headlong embrace of absolute modernization. Instead, David prises open the dialectic of modernity, the creative destruction that infused, and goes on infusing, our lives."
"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Marxist Restless Analyst
Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"[David Harvey's] Consciousness and the Urban Experience never endorses any nostalgic search for lost time nor a headlong embrace of absolute modernization. Instead, David prises open the dialectic of modernity, the creative destruction that infused, and goes on infusing, our lives."
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"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Marxist Restless Analyst
Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
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David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
www.versobooks.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.
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Otroligt många som just nu läser denna insatta analys av @jonasalgers.bsky.social:
Därför kör Kina över västvärlden
Jonas Algers: Medan vi bråkar om Charlie Kirk bygger Kina en ny värld
www.flamman.se
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Otroligt många som just nu läser denna insatta analys av @jonasalgers.bsky.social:
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Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
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Jag älskar den bilburna friheten kring värmländska Årjäng – men utsläppen växer för varje motorvarv.
I stället för att fylla despoternas fickor borde vi investera i ett grönt Sverige, skriver Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social.
www.flamman.se/varfor-vill-...
I stället för att fylla despoternas fickor borde vi investera i ett grönt Sverige, skriver Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social.
www.flamman.se/varfor-vill-...
Varför vill SD lägga Sverige under Mohammed bin Salman?
Jonas Algers: Saudiarabien älskar Sveriges klimatförnekare
www.flamman.se
September 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Jag älskar den bilburna friheten kring värmländska Årjäng – men utsläppen växer för varje motorvarv.
I stället för att fylla despoternas fickor borde vi investera i ett grönt Sverige, skriver Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social.
www.flamman.se/varfor-vill-...
I stället för att fylla despoternas fickor borde vi investera i ett grönt Sverige, skriver Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social.
www.flamman.se/varfor-vill-...
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Cover design for ‘Marxian Totality’ for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published August 2025. Cover art is a development of Painting 16, Rhythm 69. Paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2685-m...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2685-m...
August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Cover design for ‘Marxian Totality’ for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published August 2025. Cover art is a development of Painting 16, Rhythm 69. Paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2685-m...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2685-m...
Can't wait for this one to come out in paperback this month!
A further development of two of Nimtz's previous books, both very sharp, namely "Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough" and "Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real Time Political Analysis"
A further development of two of Nimtz's previous books, both very sharp, namely "Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough" and "Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real Time Political Analysis"
Cover design for ‘The Communist and Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book published August 2025. Cover art is a development of Long Live the New! no. 44, paint on wallpaper on canvas (2016).
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2681-t...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2681-t...
August 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Can't wait for this one to come out in paperback this month!
A further development of two of Nimtz's previous books, both very sharp, namely "Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough" and "Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real Time Political Analysis"
A further development of two of Nimtz's previous books, both very sharp, namely "Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough" and "Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real Time Political Analysis"
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The Revival of Critical Political Economy in Italy: Augusto #Graziani and Claudio #Napoleoni
to be published in September
#capitalism
#dynamics
#monetarycircuit
#Minsky
#Keynes
#macromonetary
#class
#valuetheory
#pricesofproduction
#Marx
#Heidegger
#Mill
#liberationoflabour
#liberationfromlabour
to be published in September
#capitalism
#dynamics
#monetarycircuit
#Minsky
#Keynes
#macromonetary
#class
#valuetheory
#pricesofproduction
#Marx
#Heidegger
#Mill
#liberationoflabour
#liberationfromlabour
August 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Revival of Critical Political Economy in Italy: Augusto #Graziani and Claudio #Napoleoni
to be published in September
#capitalism
#dynamics
#monetarycircuit
#Minsky
#Keynes
#macromonetary
#class
#valuetheory
#pricesofproduction
#Marx
#Heidegger
#Mill
#liberationoflabour
#liberationfromlabour
to be published in September
#capitalism
#dynamics
#monetarycircuit
#Minsky
#Keynes
#macromonetary
#class
#valuetheory
#pricesofproduction
#Marx
#Heidegger
#Mill
#liberationoflabour
#liberationfromlabour
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Now online: 'Geert Reuten: A Fond Recollection' by Marcel van der Linden.
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Now online: 'Geert Reuten: A Fond Recollection' by Marcel van der Linden.
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Socialists must plan for the next economic crisis *before* it happen. Otherwise, the ruling class will use it – again – to suppress workers and further destroy nature.
This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.
This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.
What Are We Waiting For? – Spectre Journal
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. The first part of the essay begins by drawing on the ...
spectrejournal.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Socialists must plan for the next economic crisis *before* it happen. Otherwise, the ruling class will use it – again – to suppress workers and further destroy nature.
This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.
This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.
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Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents a series of vignettes which capture five moments of Marxist encounters with authoritarianism:
1. Marx & Engels
2. Lenin & Luxemburg
3. Pashukanis & Stuchka
4. Neumann & Bloch
5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
1. Marx & Engels
2. Lenin & Luxemburg
3. Pashukanis & Stuchka
4. Neumann & Bloch
5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
August 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents a series of vignettes which capture five moments of Marxist encounters with authoritarianism:
1. Marx & Engels
2. Lenin & Luxemburg
3. Pashukanis & Stuchka
4. Neumann & Bloch
5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
1. Marx & Engels
2. Lenin & Luxemburg
3. Pashukanis & Stuchka
4. Neumann & Bloch
5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
Great article by Jon Las Heras, developing the work of Juan Iñigo Carrera, Guido Starosta and colleagues into an emphatic critique of the most widespread and ostensibly radical forms of "positivist" Marxism 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Great article by Jon Las Heras, developing the work of Juan Iñigo Carrera, Guido Starosta and colleagues into an emphatic critique of the most widespread and ostensibly radical forms of "positivist" Marxism 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles - Polity, May 2025
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, This intensely compelling book tells the story of an exceptionally daring operation to rescue as many writers, artists and intellectuals under threat from the...
www.politybooks.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Ute Wittstock, Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature, trans. Daniel Bowles - Polity, May 2025
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Less than five years ago, in the NLR, Mike Davis explained how and why Latinos in South Texas voted for Trump in such large numbers. Now, Mélenchon is pushing the idea that California is going to secede because "Spanish is spoken everywhere" and "this part of the population is mostly Catholic" 😑
“I think that by the end of the century, maybe even sooner, the United States of America will not exist. Why? Because it’s not a nation, it’s a country that has been at war with all its neighbours since the moment of its birth.”
buddy that’s what nations are
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
buddy that’s what nations are
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Jean-Luc Mélenchon & Tariq Ali, Insoumission — Sidecar
An interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
newleftreview.org
July 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Less than five years ago, in the NLR, Mike Davis explained how and why Latinos in South Texas voted for Trump in such large numbers. Now, Mélenchon is pushing the idea that California is going to secede because "Spanish is spoken everywhere" and "this part of the population is mostly Catholic" 😑
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What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Great article by Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons, and Guido Starosta in "Science & Society" on the determination of Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT), spelling out their own position vis-à-vis a major recent debate in the critique of political economy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Great article by Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons, and Guido Starosta in "Science & Society" on the determination of Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT), spelling out their own position vis-à-vis a major recent debate in the critique of political economy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Today I'm leaving for Germany for a few events - the first 2 in Berlin on May 31 at the "Marx is' Muss" festival. Then one in Leipzig at a workshop June 2 (thanks to Julia Kaiser & @ueberdruss.bsky.social !), then back to Berlin June 4 (thanks
@cominsitu.bsky.social !) See pics for details.
@cominsitu.bsky.social !) See pics for details.
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today I'm leaving for Germany for a few events - the first 2 in Berlin on May 31 at the "Marx is' Muss" festival. Then one in Leipzig at a workshop June 2 (thanks to Julia Kaiser & @ueberdruss.bsky.social !), then back to Berlin June 4 (thanks
@cominsitu.bsky.social !) See pics for details.
@cominsitu.bsky.social !) See pics for details.