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Going to make Bloch my pinned post

The US desperately needs the collaboration of its regional lackeys to fight Iran, so waives the human rights requirements on aide to Egypt, and right away Egypt starts disappearing journalists. Free Lina Atallah. Down with the military regime. Free all prisoners. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Me? Doing literature review as the world burns, yourself?

Samuel Fisher's latest review of Chris O’Kane’s Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre out now in Spectre spectrejournal.com/the-personif...

The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage | Nesrine Malik

Shipping companies are some of the most evil out there: www.ft.com/content/8c87...

Short and sweet, a prelude to the Karl Landauer translation later this week: Horkheimer’s 1932 letter to Freud on the hypothesis of social research and the role of psychoanalysis! jamescrane.substack.com/p/horkheimer...

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

This little rascal has been getting way too comfortable! Nowadays he audaciously positions himself smack-dab in the middle of my bed, and he clearly wants me to move!

Pietro Daniel Omodeo’s fantastic review of JBF’s Dialectic of Ecology. Deftly goes over JBF’s eco-Marxist limitations while hinting on how Marxist science historiography ought to be weaved together. Must read for those interested! marxismandsciences.org/wp-content/u...

Last weekend to prepare your panel or paper abstracts for the October 30th HMNY/Radical Assembly conference radicalassembly.org

Alright another niche request lol: does anyone have a PDF of: Theorie der Affekte und andere Schiften zur Ich-Organisation. Karl Landauer, Hrsg. HJ Rothe (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991) It seems to be *very* out of print & I’m not having any luck finding a scan online!

في أقل من 24 ساعة، تضامنت أكثر من 119 مؤسسة إعلامية ومنظمة مجتمع مدني حول العالم مع لينا عطا الله رئيسة تحرير مدى مصر، بعد إحالتها إلى المحاكمة بتهمة إدارة موقع إلكتروني دون ترخيص. ويشارك معهد التحرير هذه المؤسسات في إدانة هذا التصعيد الخطير بحق الصحافة في مصر. timep.org/post-arabic/...

So basically, the Pentagon refused to evacuate families of US service members from Bahrain because "it would look bad at home", but senior leaders evacuated their own family members and left Bahrain under the cover of "military exercise". Yeah, the US is definitely a failing empire...

What does it mean to say the organism is a SYSTEM? Can we make this concept precise and useful? Paul Weiss showed us how a century ago! In my new paper I recover his neglected systems view & use it to undermine four entrenched theses in biology: reductionism, genocentrism, determinism, & mechanicism

super specific request: does anyone know where i can find a PDF of Volume 1, Issues 1-3 (1937) of the American Marxist Association’s short-lived “Marxist Quarterly” journal? Only been able to find No. 3 online. Thanks in advance!

Substudies: Phase 2! More soon from the archives of critical theory—dialectical logic, studies in fascism, early crit theory & biology—& an ask from “that one broke friend who’s always” etc! As always, thanks for reading! jamescrane.substack.com/p/substudies...

Also the insight in Eugen Leviné’s “We communists are dead men on leave”—not nihilism or resignation, but refusal of every return to normal, resumption the wrong life. Communists are “dead men on leave” because “life does not live.” When it does, it won’t need communists anymore.

New from @histmat.bsky.social, the indelible Jairus Banaji released a fantastic reading guide on agriculture and the history of capitalism. Everyone is there, including Lewontin! www.historicalmaterialism.org/9930-2/

In which we go ham on “dynamei-on” and “kata to dynaton.” Learn what these hieroglyphics mean below! The materialist line from Avicenna to Marx makes manifest the incomplete yet humanly actionable reality due to the potent nature of matter!

This should be bigger news. Big Tech is a threat to democracy in many ways.

EP 29: Ibn Sina & Materialism—Nora & Anatarah discuss Ernst Bloch’s Avicenna & the Aristotelian Left! Glossing Bloch’s “right-vs-left Aristotelian” history of materialism, your hosts talk Islamic enlightenment for Marxists, naturalism for communists, & hope for histomat! buff.ly/YNNbloG

The schedule for Exeter Centre for Gulf Studies virtual seminar series (2026-2027) is now up. You can register for the events at arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/events/ (click on the relevant month on the calendar to find the events).

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I am suddenly furious that we never got to see Stephen Jay Gould writing for Marvel

One of my favorite games Planescape core question is “what changes the nature of man?” And despite the game telling you it is an open-ended ordeal, it nonetheless has an answer: regret.

mailchi.mp/haymarketboo... Phil A. Neel talking to the folks at @haymarketbooks.org about Hellworld. @histmat.bsky.social

Proud to launch my fresh newsletter, Supersensual! This is now the best and most beautiful way to keep up with my writing. Please check it out, share among your collaborators, and join us: www.supersensual.world

The liberal Zionists capacity for evil is actually staggering, and the rapidity of the right-wing shift with defenses of Mamdani are pathetic. Work for the good with the whole in mind. From there, keep your mind in hell, and despair not.

I hate how good this is.

Got a good follow-up question re: the claim “anti-anti-imperialists” would likely make that their motive is more “a desire for adherence to communist politics” than a rejection of violence as such, & this was my response

For the LRT, this is what the temporal core of truth means btw.

My final postdoc project is out today in Nature! We show microbes co-migrated with humans out of Africa; three independent methods agree, and timing matches archaeological / genetic evidence (Fig. 4c). Seeing Fig. 4c for 1st time was one of my most memorable "eureka" moments! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Horkheimer from the same: Never trust someone “who becomes a human being only when tears are to be shed for a Tsar” &, “learning of the nexus of imperialist world politics, [European] prisons, & colonial terrors, flies into rage—but [first & most] at who exposed, not authored it.”

October 7th did not inaugurate the hell that we're in so much as expose its contours. It also pointed the way out.

one for the Bloch heads: www.sup.org/books/theory...

🚨🚨🚨 We are very happy to announce our 2026 shortlist for the Deutscher Prize! Free Gifts, @alybatt.bsky.social Coercive Commerce, Stacie A. Kent Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social Working Nature, @ueberdruss.bsky.social Capitalist Value Chains, Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold

New on Substack: Varela's preface to PBA. We go long in this one on adumbration in Husserl, autonomy, information, viability, Niels Bohr, and plant cognition fvfc.substack.com/p/pba-1-info...

New on our site: "Beneath Class and Consciousness," an essay from X. Rivera Maya and Richard Hunsinger. The authors provide a critique of the theory of the party in Phil A. Neel's work and defend an alternative conception of the party. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2026/Pa...

For those in London: this Friday! Many thanks to Svenja Bromberg, Andrés Sáenz de Sicilia and Peter Osborne. Really looking forward to the discussion! damagedlife.eventbrite.com

Today is a sad day :(

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

@jacobbolton.bsky.social and I have a new, open-access piece out in the Global Labour Journal today on the stranding of seafarers around the Strait of Hormuz. We go through the legal or contractual mechanisms meant to protect seafarers in war and argue that in practice they're virtually non-existent

The moment of accountability has arrived at #ManCity doorstep. Important report from @fairsqprojects.bsky.social why it matters! @ciluna27.bsky.social

In advance of my conference paper dedicated to the work of Peter Brückner, Thomas Leithäuser, and Werner Kriesel at the meeting of the international forum for psychoanalytic education this week I am sharing one last translation into English of a chapter from their book. Link below!

I’m pleased to present a special episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series feat @philosophermoss.bsky.social (CUHK). In "Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling, & the End of Alterity," Dr. Moss unpacks major themes from his new work. youtu.be/Onf3aOXaPeI