Kanishka Jayasuriya
@fafner100.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University. Posts are my personal views.
The Met live stream of Fidelio was excellent (esp Davidsen as Lenore. Peter Gelb intro focused on Ukraine, but the striking example is right in NY, is Mahmoud Khalil and his imprisonment for political speech.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Met live stream of Fidelio was excellent (esp Davidsen as Lenore. Peter Gelb intro focused on Ukraine, but the striking example is right in NY, is Mahmoud Khalil and his imprisonment for political speech.
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Excellent article that highlights the current state/elite adaptation to changing market/geopolitical context.
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal
An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...
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March 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Excellent article that highlights the current state/elite adaptation to changing market/geopolitical context.
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In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal
An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...
madeinchinajournal.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal
An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...
madeinchinajournal.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
I would substitute 'totality' instead 😘
“Systemic” has also been “forbidden” in grant applications by the “free speech” warriors.
February 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I would substitute 'totality' instead 😘
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The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.
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This is partly to do with the reclamation of the status of 'native', once doled out to colonized peoples all the better to govern them, but now repatriated back home under an altered and positive sign. This too is a kind of imperial boomerang.
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is partly to do with the reclamation of the status of 'native', once doled out to colonized peoples all the better to govern them, but now repatriated back home under an altered and positive sign. This too is a kind of imperial boomerang.
Academic freedom is further curtailed in Singapore and at the National University of Singapore. On this US Ivy League universities and NUS seem to be converging
www.academia.sg/editorials/o...
www.academia.sg/editorials/o...
Who is NUS trying to protect? Political leaders need to answer - Academia | SG
Only ministers can answer whether NUS is right or wrong in its judgment that there will be a political price to pay if university administrators do not properly screen “controversial” or “sensitive” e...
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January 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Academic freedom is further curtailed in Singapore and at the National University of Singapore. On this US Ivy League universities and NUS seem to be converging
www.academia.sg/editorials/o...
www.academia.sg/editorials/o...
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I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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The ADL steps in to explain that it’s not a Nazi Salute unless it comes from the Nazi Salute region of France.
January 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The ADL steps in to explain that it’s not a Nazi Salute unless it comes from the Nazi Salute region of France.
FForget about Greenland or Canada—the defining feature of the Trump administration is the crisis of social reproduction—as the LA fires vividly demonstrate—alongside the ongoing political crisis.
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
FForget about Greenland or Canada—the defining feature of the Trump administration is the crisis of social reproduction—as the LA fires vividly demonstrate—alongside the ongoing political crisis.
This is sharp on identity politics particularly on the politics of identity by the right. But we should be asking: why now ? how this shift relates to the hollowing out of mass politics and the intensification of crises of social reproduction.
novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
Identity Politics Is Dead, and the Far Right Knows It | Novara Media
People are tired of identity politics - and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Donald Trump proves it, writes Richard Seymour.
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December 31, 2024 at 1:32 AM
This is sharp on identity politics particularly on the politics of identity by the right. But we should be asking: why now ? how this shift relates to the hollowing out of mass politics and the intensification of crises of social reproduction.
novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
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I don’t really feel like Han’s impeachment (appoint the CC judges, already) is the story of the day, but rather the details dripping out of the investigations into various figures that reveal the extent of martial law plotting over the last 8 months and the dangers it would imply if successful.
"윤석열, 3월부터 '비상대권'"‥"8달 동안 비상계엄 구체화"
검찰수사에 따르면 윤 대통령이 비상계엄을 처음으로 입에 올리기 시작한 건 지난 3월부터였습니다. '비상대권', 즉 대통령이 비상조치를 취할 수 있는 권한을 반복적으로 ...
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December 27, 2024 at 10:44 PM
I don’t really feel like Han’s impeachment (appoint the CC judges, already) is the story of the day, but rather the details dripping out of the investigations into various figures that reveal the extent of martial law plotting over the last 8 months and the dangers it would imply if successful.
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The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:08 PM
The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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the Hitler meme posting white guy from South Africa who routinely boosts neo-Nazis and white supremacists on his twitter feed and worries about white population declines openly supports Germany's far right party?
Quelle surprise
Quelle surprise
The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM
the Hitler meme posting white guy from South Africa who routinely boosts neo-Nazis and white supremacists on his twitter feed and worries about white population declines openly supports Germany's far right party?
Quelle surprise
Quelle surprise
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Two reading recommendations for today: first, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social with a book review which makes some very incisive points on the tech sector's recent incursion into security and military matters here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The New Old Warfare - Boston Review
The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.
www.bostonreview.net
December 19, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Two reading recommendations for today: first, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social with a book review which makes some very incisive points on the tech sector's recent incursion into security and military matters here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
This will be the story of the next decade: increased fiscal pressure alongside a growing crisis of social reproduction, including ecological disasters and militarised neoliberalism. And in both the global North and South.
www.ft.com/content/1c67...
www.ft.com/content/1c67...
Brazil currency sell-off piles fiscal reform pressure on Lula
Investors issue warning after central bank burns through billions of dollars and lifts rates in attempt to prop up real
www.ft.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:33 AM
This will be the story of the next decade: increased fiscal pressure alongside a growing crisis of social reproduction, including ecological disasters and militarised neoliberalism. And in both the global North and South.
www.ft.com/content/1c67...
www.ft.com/content/1c67...
Crypto and its political imaginaries of the authoritarian neoliberalism of the far right.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
Donald Trump and the “crypto capital of the planet”
Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States.
www.lowyinstitute.org
December 17, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Crypto and its political imaginaries of the authoritarian neoliberalism of the far right.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 AM
New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵
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My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
A lot of the problem is that these accounts valorise institutional failure without addressing the social forces that shape these failures. This might seem obvious, but the failure has to do with the marginalisation of structural theories and debates ( Weber and Marx ) in comparative politics.
I am increasingly convinced that comparative politics (including especially me) has fundamentally misunderstood contemporary democratic backsliding. We are attending to elections and the rule of law, when the politics is more fundamental, about a vision for the state and society within it 1/x
December 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
A lot of the problem is that these accounts valorise institutional failure without addressing the social forces that shape these failures. This might seem obvious, but the failure has to do with the marginalisation of structural theories and debates ( Weber and Marx ) in comparative politics.
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In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5
December 11, 2024 at 7:53 PM
In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5