Associate Editor @beaconpressbks. Words in @jacobin, @LAReviewOfBooks, @curaffairs, and elsewhere.

Joined November 2012
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O vídeo da noite.
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I’m writing a book. It’s called Goonworld. It’s not about gooning. Or it is, metaphorically. But mostly it’s about post-COVID culture writ large—the range of, let’s say, unusual online forms/tendencies that have emerged this decade and that have in various ways altered the texture of contemporary reality. Sort of a travelogue. A journey to the heart of slop etc. Out via FSG eventually!
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Three great books, three interesting authors coming soon to three amazing @Macro_Musings shows! @RobinWigg @GregWKaplan Will Bateman
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Lmao his ancestors spent the entire nineteenth century burning the city every time the price of bread climbed half a centime
His ancestors died on the Marne, at Verdun, at Passchendaele and at Dunkirk for this.
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If you’re at @AmerStudiesAssn in Chicago, come check out our panel today ft. New Books on Race and Capitalism by @benchansfield, Ian Carillo, and myself; chaired by @LowestFreedom #BlackPowerInc #AmericanStudies
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BIG VERSO NEWS! Next month we are launch a new series on China called Hundred Flowers. Against both China hawkery and uncritical admiration, the series will publish rigorous analysis of China's past and present. The first 3 books in the series are available for pre-order now!
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OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
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Imo, you can get mad at—and nonetheless pay greater attention to—US politicians doing theater for credibility alone, with no other real effect or purpose. Or you can pay attention to thousands upon thousands of workers directly trying to shut down the war machine.
News: On Tuesday in Livorno, Italy, during a sit-down interview, Giovanni Cerraolo, a national coordinator for Italy's logistics trade syndicate Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), told me that the forthcoming "International Day of Action" on October 30 had almost 90 confirmed ports and mobilizing dockworkers, who will be striking and demonstrating everywhere from Liverpool, UK to Koper, Slovenia to ports in the U.S., Mexico, and India. “Piece by piece, we got here; it was a long road," he said. On Wednesday, according to Ports in Action, a civil society organization supporting the union-led mobilization, that number of participating ports has risen to over 100 sites in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. No Harbor for Genocide, another autonomous organization supporting the action, has a website tracking the participating ports. "In nine days, on 30 October, dockworkers in more than 100 ports across Europe, Asia, Africa and America are taking action together, under the slogan: 'Dockworkers do not work for war.' The unions call it one of the biggest coordinated workers’ actions the docks have ever seen," they wrote, adding "We have documented 315 shipments of Elbit Systems components through 56 commercial ports and 3,400 shipments supplying U.S. military bases through 67 ports." No Harbor for Genocide (NH4G) encourages those who live near a port to join the international day of action by tracking the growing militant union activity at NH4G's website and joining an action: tracker.noharbourforgenocide…
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At some point I noticed that more and more people seemed to be telling me: everything you think you know about food is wrong. This led me down a rabbit hole that I’ve come to think of as “dark nutrition.” I wrote about this whole world for @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/21/magaz…
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Pub date for the English edition is tomorrow but a copy of Anti-fascist Economics has already found its way to Buchhafen in Berlin! ❤️
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NEW YORK! We're launch our new China series, Hundred Flowers, at the @BklynInstitute next Thursday. Very excited for a discussion about China from such a great group of writers and scholars. Hope to see you all there! eventbrite.com/e/hundred-flo…
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“Every donation brings our family closer to securing critical survival needs.” ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🛑 UPDATE: Kind souls just donated, leaving only $152 to reach our goal! Every donation brings our family closer to securing critical survival needs. If you can’t donate, please quote (RT) this tweet to help us! 🙏🤍 🔗 Donate here: chuffed.org/project/178018 @oliveegirl
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Michel Foucault the high school student--image taken from Michael Behrent's, "Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years": pennpress.org/9781512825145/…
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Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair continues to write the names of Palestinian children killed in Gaza on his game-day eye black, standing by his message despite repeated warnings and fines from the NFL.
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What a loss. Woke up this morning thinking this can't be true. RIP Perry.
There is international econ - based on "island" view of world econ & then there is analysis of global financial network centered on $ - what @PMehrling in his lovely new book on Kindleberger calls a cosmopolitan view. See Chartbook #160 h/t @HyunSongShin adamtooze.substack.com/p/cha…
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I couldn't stop thinking about all the recent deaths so I've spent the last couple of hours writing. I am about 2/3rds done, should be out in the morning. A certain small corner of the world won't want to miss this. crisesnotes.com/#/portal/sig…
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