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Adam David Morton
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Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
Whereas as *that* is how to do a trilogy and its associated texts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Nearly finished on this set of books.
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Just received!
Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽
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September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A fantastic opportunity to discuss economy and space in the literary work of David Ireland with Brett Heino @gleebooks.bsky.social on 31 October. Register here👇🏽

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September 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025
September 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*
August 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What a brilliant read this was with its focus, from the Vermont landscape to the wider American west of the twentieth-century, on the inequality and dispossession of capitalism. The hell scape appears “crimson as the landscape seen through the red cellophane strip on cigarette packs”.
August 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Completing the thread
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August 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What a superb book
August 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
From my research on the Monument to the Revolution, here are four postage stamps. My assumption was that there was just one, the far right one from 1934. But here are more. My favorite is the far left one on the XVI International Congress of Planning & Housing (1938). More here👇🏽
shorturl.at/VdYt6
August 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This table is largely from Mike Davis *Ecology of Fear* from @versobooks.bsky.social
But I’ve put together a thumbnail comparison on the last two lines with 1) the cost of the 2025 Palisades Fire and 2) the 2020 Black Summer in Australia. Look at the magnitude of territory and death.
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Four linked questions about the wonderful book *The Restless Dead* by @criveragarza.bsky.social. Drawing inspiration from her text:
1) What other authors might be disappropriationist at heart, which have passed through Latin America but without having been born there? 1/3 @isanchezprado.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
3) Nafin then moved to the Plaza Inn complex on Insurgentes Sur, No.1971 in 1986, designed by architect Juan José Díaz Infante. Pictured in Nacional Financiera 75 años (2009). You can still visit it today! 3/4
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
2) Nafin then moved round the block to Isabel la Católica, No.51 with the building designed by Ramón Marcos Noriega, inaugurated in 1964 with distinctive latticework by sculptor Herbert Hofmann-Ysenbourg. Pictured in The Rotarian (1968). You can still visit it today!
2/4
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The changing faces of Nacional Financiera (Nafin):

1) originally located on Calle Venustiano Carranza, No.25, in the Centro Histórico with the building designed by architects Manuel Ortiz Monasterio and Luís Avila, inaugurated in 1944. Pictured in El Tiempo (1945). You can still visit it today! 1/4
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Many thanks for reading!
I once witnessed a marriage proposal from the mirador of the Monument. This postcard best captures (on the right) what would be the offices of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) that was a clandestine detention centre during the “dirty war” of state terror in Mexico.
June 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“the lesson taught by all revolutions [is] … that the petty-bourgeois democrats are incapable of holding power, and always serve merely as a screen for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and a stepping stone to its undivided power”.
June 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"China could adopt a course of controlled linkage with the world economy, following an autonomous route towards an autonomous advanced industrial status" -- Robert W. Cox, 'Production Relations and the Third World' (1980)
June 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
This photo captures a similar aspect and period. The low rise building on the right is now a vocational training institute, rather than detention centre.
June 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Although poor in quality, this postcard captures what would become the offices of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) that was a clandestine detention centre during the “dirty war” of state terror in Mexico (the low-rise edifice on the right) on Plaza de la República #20.
June 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A Tronti shelfie!
June 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Most surprising - a stamp from Bulgaria featuring the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico issued to celebrate the 1986 World Cup! More on this beauty and beast of a monument in an open access article in Journal of Latin American Studies 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM