This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans
I can see this child practicing her handwriting, can imagine the books she used. How are we still going on?
Gabriel Winant's lecture at last year's HM did a brilliant job of showing why the opposition between class and identity as a mode of analysis is false problem. It is now available online. brill.com/view/journal...
Décalages: An Althusser Studies Journal relaunched and is back online. (I joined the editorial advisory board of the journal) decalagesjournal.org
An Althusser Studies Journal
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
The Just Stop Oil activists have been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison for throwing soup on the glass covering of Van Gogh's sunflowers. This ruling is a great example of the repression we're seeing in response to non-violent civil disobedience. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
A remembrance of Fredric Jameson by Rebecca Karl. Especially interesting on Jameson's reception in China and the depoliticised way he's being remembered there. positionspolitics.org/rebecca-karl...
It didn’t seem possible that someone so full of life and thought and humor could die, but Fredric Jameson has passed. Those of us who were fortunate enough to sit in his classrooms, to go to his home ...
Very timely discussion of the Lebanese Marxist Mahdi Amel. Daniel Finn talking with Hicham Safieddine, who edited a translation of works by Amel into English.
An introduction to the thought of a key Lebanese Communist.
Terry Eagleton's obituary for Fredric Jameson. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
I first met Fred Jameson in 1976, when he invited me to teach his graduate students at the University of California, San Diego. Before then I had known of his existence only through the stunning Marxi...
