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...
Reposted from Unemployed Negativity: Years ago I remember encountering Félix Guattari’s little essay, “Everybody Wants to be a Fascist.” At the time its title seemed more clever than prescient. (Although it is worth remembering how much...
On 29th December 2023, South Africa filed an application at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), instituting proceedings against Israel. In its application, it asked the ICJ – the judicial organ of the United Nations – to determine whether Israel had violated its...
