The Israeli settler government, conducting a genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, has taken steps to prevent Palestinian workers in Israel and settlements from the West Bank and Gaza Strip from reaching their jobs, and has...
Close up of watemelon’s red ripe slice and black stones isolated over blue On 25 March 2024, Francesca Albanese presented ‘An Anatomy of Genocide’, her report to the UN Human Rights Council as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the...
Republished from Progressive Political Economy: Last year I published an edited volume called Clickbait Capitalism. The title came as a surprise, even to me. The book was meant to be called Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism. No one was interested in the...
A few days ago a discussion developed on Twitter (as these things do) about whether Gaza (and specifically the failure to prevent or halt the ongoing genocide) signals a failure of international law. Many of the responses seemed to be saying a similar thing, mainly,...
Apparently, we might no longer live in the Anthropocene. Such was the result of a formal vote by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (SQS), issued on the 5th of March 2024, who oversee and administer 4.5 billion...
This was originally a talk, prepared for the Pashukanis @100 conference, with an afterword post-ICJ interim order of 26 January 2024. In some ways it is ironic and in other ways entirely appropriate that the Pashukanis @100 event falls on the very days...
