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Marx and Environmentalism, fourth instalment in the lecture series on Marx and the Climate Crisis, available now: https://t.co/dP0Fp6k5BP
Bristol, England
Joined March 2011
My book Solidarity with Children comes out next month & I’ll be doing some talks in the Pacific Northwest: Portland - 11/13, Powell’s on Hawthorne @ 7pm Eugene - 11/14, ROAR Student Center @ 4:30pm Olympia - 11/28, Le Voyeur @ 4:30pm Seattle - 11/29, Left Bank Books @ 7:30pm
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📚 😍Finishing on a great note with Dr. Sean O’Brien’s work on precarity and representation. Thank you to everyone who joined us throughout these five sessions; we’re grateful for your time, generosity, and insights. We can’t wait to start the next "In Conversation" series!
😍📢It’s a wrap! Join us for the final “In Conversation” session with Dr. Sean O’Brien (U. of Bristol) 🗓️ Oct 24, 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST 💬 “Representing Precarity: American Literature and Culture from Boom to Crisis” 💌 Free registration & certificates: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
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Was such a pleasure to discuss my book project Representing Precarity with @SAAS_YScholars this afternoon, with huge thanks to @glorializigles for the fantastic discussion. Super lively Q&A after the interview, clearly SAAS are mentoring some brilliant thinkers.
😍📢It’s a wrap! Join us for the final “In Conversation” session with Dr. Sean O’Brien (U. of Bristol) 🗓️ Oct 24, 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST 💬 “Representing Precarity: American Literature and Culture from Boom to Crisis” 💌 Free registration & certificates: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
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"Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025," per Harvard.
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The 'young scholar' is the person who's interviewing me, obvs, but I like how it might seem to suggest I'm the young scholar.
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Doing an interview about my current book project as part of the SAAS Young Scholar's '"In Conversation" series next Friday at 16:00 (CEST), 10:00 (EST).
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Come to celebrate the launch of issue 2 of the @break_downradio with us! Featuring readings from contributors and friends of the magazine
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In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation. https://t.co/8MPUuYfmF6
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In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.
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We are honored to announce that THIS POOR BOOK—celebrated poet Fanny Howe’s final book, a kaleidoscopic recasting of her twenty-first-century poems—will be out May 5, 2026. Preorder: https://t.co/5St225TXHY
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BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.
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"The handing over of names is not only a capitulation to authoritarianism, but also a securitization of the UC’s financial interest in Israel, which we have repeatedly demanded they end through BDS."
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“Food prices rose for the fifth month in a row – after the hottest spring and summer on record which damaged harvests – to an annual rate of 5.1%, up from 4.9% in July and the highest since January.”
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Food prices rise at fastest rate since January 2024 with vegetables, milk, cheese and fish going up; US Federal Reserve widely expected to cut rates later today
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Seems like a good time to return to this excellent essay on campus panic by @lint_ax for @Parapraxis_Mag
https://t.co/79JXydG1x7
parapraxismagazine.com
How campus war is made Samuel P. Catlin
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Proletarian self-activity
starts with a P and ends in a Y and we all love it
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Torrential downpour pulling into station. Exact same as last September. FML
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Sunny all the way from London to Bath. Grey and raining in Bristol. Entirely on brand.
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