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30 Citations Needed #Labor Episodes: 2. Citations Needed News Brief: "Unions, Gaza and Labor's Checkered Relationship With US Militarism" w/ Verso Books author, labor historian Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies & In These Times/Jacobin writer Jeff Schuhrke x.com/citationspod/s…

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What’s a Theory to Do? publicbooks.org/whats-a-theory… via @publicbooks A pretty solid review of Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy by Brendan Chambers.

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#Technofeudalism "The Schumpeterian refrain can be turned around, so that we can speak of a destructive creation. For the efforts to roll out the new techno-economic paradigm are accompanied by a breakdown in the social relations". thanks Jacobin and Verso Books

A 26 year old American peace activist was just shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank

Walter Rodney described himself as a guerrilla intellectual, committed to studying the concrete realities of the working class. Forty-three years on from his assassination, his work remains incredibly prescient.

“In the early years of the fifth century, a famous philosopher visited Athens. You could say that this philosopher, Parmenides, was the inventor of ontology, and thus, in a way, the first real philosopher.” From a lecture given by Fredric Jameson. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/09/0…

Next month Helen Charman + Richard Seymour will be taking part in the 3rd illness event at Ridley Road Market Bar. We'll be discussing the far-right's fantasies and obsessions with all things medical. Tickets below... !

What are you reading this weekend?

“We’ll see that this third period is characterized by greater forces under the impact of what I call the experience of defeat, because, indeed, I have omitted a crucial moment in contemporary French history.” From a lecture given by Fredric Jameson. buff.ly/3MGZDYN

Capital City by Samuel Stein is GREAT and it's published by Verso. Highly highly recommend if you are interested in learning about the political process of gentrification in the United States

It's taken a physical form!

“To be influenced by somebody is not to write like him or her; rather, someone’s work suddenly opens up new possibilities that you never thought of before.” From a lecture given by Fredric Jameson. buff.ly/3MGZDYN

Samuel McIlhagga visited Los Angeles to interview L.A. figures influenced by Mike Davis and to seek out touchstones—streets, buildings, and social realities—from Davis’s seminal City of Quartz. Part I comprises interviews with historian Peter Chesney. proteanmag.com/2024/09/06/fin…

Arm yourself with the political theory you need for the struggles ahead. All books discounted in our student reading sale!