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Bert Russell
@bertrussell.bsky.social
Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB

Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025)

Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell
From Robert Brenner's "Economics of Global Turbulence".

And from the FT earlier this month:
"10 AI startups — not a dollar in profit among them — have gained nearly $1 trillion in market value over the past 12 months."
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Really excited and honoured to have received endorsements for Radical Abundance from @jasonhickel.bsky.social @kohei-saito.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com and Jodi Dean.

Preorder here: www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...
June 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Forthcoming January, the hardback (£85 😱) is now available for pre-order. One to tell your library about... and a cheaper paperback version is forthcoming.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-muni...
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A certain irony that my copy of Beyond Leviathan just got trashed by a wave
June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future is now available to pre-order!

PLEASE do this directly via @plutopress.bsky.social rather than through Amazon etc. Their distro is from both UK and US.

www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...
May 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
😍 That moment when the proofs arrive... @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Complete blackout in Barcelona.
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Does visual complicity reflect conceptual complicity?

Asking for a friend. #abundance
April 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Last day of my Marie Curie @IGOP UAB. In 2 weeks I join @icta-uab.bsky.social on Project REAL w @jasonhickel.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social and Giorgos Kallis, to focus on the politics of transition.
March 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I have decided to actually read this from cover to cover, rather than second hand accounts of it.

And so far, it’s tortuous.
January 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This really ought to be made into a TV documentary series
December 31, 2024 at 11:20 AM
😌 After 2.5 years of work, it is finally submitted!

Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services

As part of @brisunipress.bsky.social "Alternatives to Capitalism" series.
December 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Thanks to @amyclancy.bsky.social for getting tickets to see Ibrahim Maalouf.

If you don’t know his majestic work, this is timely: “Beirut” youtu.be/wpg8jBFaj3c?...
December 12, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Here's my (still growing) 2025 to-read book list. Some I've read before, others I've read parts of, and many are new.

What ties them all together? Developing a politics of transition. The focus of @kmilb.bsky.social @kaiheron.bsky.social and I's ongoing work and forthcoming book.
December 6, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Post a picture of you from another era...

I used to be an alright climber before the kids took over. But one day my kids will climb mountains with me, and it will be all the sweeter :)
November 25, 2024 at 9:20 AM
One thing I miss from the other place is MoneyballMemes

If you know, you know
November 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Oh Mr Tayto, what have you done…
November 21, 2024 at 6:48 PM
UK Labour - under the leadership of a human rights lawyer - is actively arming a political leader subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant “for crimes against humanity and war crimes”
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Forthcoming 2025 with @plutopress.bsky.social, written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.
November 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Hey @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We've just finished writing our book – Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. For US and UK release with @plutopress.bsky.social.

We'd be honoured if you'd like to take a look at an advance copy?
November 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
🎄Christmas is coming! For the true love in your life!🎄

The entire text of Das Kapital (in German) as a poster (and they've got the Manifesto too...).

H/T @sorenmau.bsky.social for making me aware!

www.jungelinke.at/shop#!/Poste...
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
But I thought Starmer was the left’s great hope?
November 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
You’ve got to be smoking military grade psychedelics
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 AM