My book is out! . Fictions of Financialization is a critique of ‘financialization’ discourses, and an effort to articulate a renewed Marxist perspective on the power of finance in capitalism. Just published with @PlutoPress!.

RT @IliasAlami: We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholars at the journal Economy and Society ! Submit your papers….

Another SI contribution now out! . Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.

New article! . In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism. Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access).

RT @IDanewid: I have a new piece in @RIPEJournal which is part of a forthcoming special issue on Raced Finance. Thanks to @IliasAlami @Vinc….

Really excited for this collection! On renewing Marxist debates about 'exploitation' as a lens on the transformations of contemporary capitalism. Coming soon.

A nice review of Fictions of Financialization in @IJURResearch:.

Now reading - really quite enjoying this one. Has its limits, but more takes on climate politics that put the political economy of asset stranding at the centre would be very welcome.

RT @SurbhiKesar: 🧵Don Goldstein & I edit a symposium on “Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine" in Review….

RT @chriskoutny: Some weeks ago I was invited by @IIPPE_ to speak at @SOAS and review @BernardsNick's latest book on financialisation (http….

An extended review of my book in Capital and Class, by Christian Koutny. Unsurprisingly I don’t agree with all of it, but it is really quite nice to see this kind of engagement with the book!.

RT @RyanDavey284: My book 'The Personal Life of Debt' is published today 🥳 and you can read the free e-book here:. .

Includes a small bit from me on financial infrastructures, colonial histories, and uneven development, looking at the durable imprints of branch networks and mortgageable land titles.

Very cool to see the *absolutely massive* Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastucture out! It's all open access.

These aren't just ecological costs, they're some pretty hard limits to the further expansion of 'AI'. .

More on this, nuclear power themed this time. Headline is 'Amazon boss is pushing for more nuclear reactors in the UK to meet AI power demand', actual story is 'we can't actually do that fast enough to meet projected energy demand'.

Related: The UK government’s staggeringly dumb ‘AI growth zones’ scheme went nowhere in no small part because the privatized form of existing water infrastructures just isn’t compatible with rapidly scaling up water availability to the levels needed.

This is a speculative site of accumulation whose further expansion requires water and energy flows that simply don’t exist. This feels like it should challenge the way that even a lot of critical narratives are talking about AI as some kind of inevitable steamrolling force….

Obviously the fact that data centres are being built in areas of high water stress is scary and infuriating. But it also feels really telling wrt how we think about nature and capitalism that there’s no real thought that water might be a fetter on ‘AI’.

Here's the World Bank doing its 'mobilizing private finance' thing, in 1995. There's really never been a point where this hasn't been the default response to the climate crisis.

RT @phirkie: New in @AgrarianChange : Vanessa Perin's excellent article on green bonds in Brazilian agriculture and how they are located in….