Ilias Alami
@IliasAlami
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Assistant Prof Political Economy @CdsCambridge @Dept_of_POLIS Books: The Spectre of State Capitalism (out now and free!)- Money Power in Emerging Markets (2019)
Cambridge, UK
Joined June 2009
The Spectre of State Capitalism is officially out! Just received author copies. Download a pdf for free, or happy to provide discount codes if you want to order a physical copy! https://t.co/YFTjGKmzqb
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13 reference letters submitted this morning in support of former students applying for PhDs. I need a nap!
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New work by my colleague Lorah Steichen shows how the pentagon is stockpiling the raw materials needed for green industrialization and hoarding them for imperial war making in places like Venezuela. The US *should* be stockpiling these materials, but for socially productive ends.
The global arms race is undermining climate action as critical minerals needed for the green transition are diverted. Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to Cold War-era stockpiling from Lorah Steichen covered in @guardian. https://t.co/oSFO2RARgJ
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New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
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Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ @IliasAlami Ilias Alami is on the show to talk state capitalism in the neoliberal age. Link in the replies.
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Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ @IliasAlami Ilias Alami is on the show to talk state capitalism in the neoliberal age. Link in the replies.
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Thanks so much @IliasAlami! We have launches coming up at Queen Mary, Goldsmiths, more in new year. hope to catch you at one of them. @VersoBooks
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That was brilliant!
I am giving a talk today at Cambridge! https://t.co/Wf7wgDtBUN Still out here talking about cloud infrastructure, the contradictions it acts as a fix for, and the new ones it activates. Thanks to @IliasAlami and Pedro Mendes Loureiro.
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People! The amazing, brilliant and wonderful duo of Katy Fox-Hodess and @RafeefZiadah have written an insightful article about strategies of resistance in the Block the Boat Campaigns of 2014-2021:
journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines community-initiated picket lines in solidarity with Palestine at the ports of Oakland, Long Beach, Seattle, and Port Elizabeth in 2014 and 2...
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Essential essay by @IliasAlami on new configurations of state ownership + state investment funds being deployed in the race for military, AI, and energy supply chain dominance. The trend rhymes with earlier eras of Great Power conflict but updated for a networked global economy.
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A pleasure to host @JasonBJackson a couple of weeks ago in Cambridge to discuss his excellent new book
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New essay out, written for the excellent @TransitionSec. Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. Link below.👇🏽 @Dept_of_POLIS @CdsCambridge
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Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series
Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how and in whose interests? Read @IliasAlami’s “Imperial State Capitalism” to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition. https://t.co/C4T8sPwVri
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Excellent as always from @IliasAlami and a conclusion that is deeply resonant in Ireland. 'We must categorically reject ever-encompassing notions of national security, which are justified to extend the empire of state and capital over our lives.' https://t.co/7mcPPlMXIJ
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"Imperial State Capitalism: A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition." By @IliasAlami
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Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how and in whose interests? Read @IliasAlami’s “Imperial State Capitalism” to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition. https://t.co/C4T8sPwVri
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