Sun is shining and our playlist is keeping the neighbours entertained 😂 Have a great Saturday Rudies 🖤🏁 ##2ToneDublin

Now that everyone's banging on about 90s music, let us not forget this gem from Uncle Jools' Later show in '95. McAlmont & Butler - Yes

Societies are in flux, facing geopolitical shifts, social protest and crises on multiple fronts. How are sociologists making sense of these changes? #britsoc25 invites your insights. Submit by 18 October tinyurl.com/bdhcmhhp

New Palestine issue out now! Atef Alshaer, 'Writing Gaza during a genocide' Nasser Abourahme, 'In tune with their time' Sami Khatib, 'Against singularity' Walaa Alqaisiya, 'The urgency of anti-imperialist feminism' Abdaljawad Omar, 'Shock without awe' radicalphilosophy.com

“The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory” – my latest op-ed for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

But the conditions of everyday life and welfare plus wages in DE (incl the old East) are still far higher than many areas of England today and this has been the case for more than 20 years..neoliberalism is a recent phenomenon in DE ...the 'economic crisis' is overblown ..

This is sociological nonsense ..the social wage (as in David Harvey ) still exists in DE , there are benefits even if they are being shrunk, there are almost no food banks ! The old East by UK standards is affluent indeed...it is the cultural question that needs to be addressed

The Weber position shows how economics deftly masks the cultural questions that are too difficult to confront ...and the economic account is also faulty and one sided ..it is not about poverty ,,

Prince playing acoustic guitar. Prince as a performer he could steal the spotlight, share the spotlight, or let someone else have it and let them have their moment. This man was from another planet. #Prince

First up 🗓️for #Marx1313: Étienne Balibar will discuss Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach in conversation with Ernst Bloch’s Commentary on the Theses, on Tuesday Oct. 15, 2024, at 4:30PM (Paris time) live Columbia Global Paris Center and livestreamed. RSVP for Marx 1/13 here: eventbrite.com/e/marx-113-mar…

Who can forget that night in 2017.?..I recall thinking the PM had to get there to help the victims and the firefighters opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/gre…

And here is the one I wrote quickly and in fury..opendemocracy.net/en/transformat…

Really enjoyed reading this article about how 'care' is enacted, and it's meaning abused, in HE

There’s nothing like a picture of a small angry-looking man sitting in a graveyard to sell tickets to a book festival. Luckily, tickets for the Byres Road Book Festival are free. So please do come along on September 29. I’ll even try to smile.

Remembering Sylvester who was born on this day in 1947. Here's You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) with Patrick Cowley on synthesizer. One of the greatest floor-fillers of all time, it's obviously on this playlist of 101 Disco Classics ▶️🪩 open.spotify.com/playlist/3qxv1…

We have a new article out in Economy & Society - 'Stay Home: Mapping the new domestic regime' by Will Davies, Sahil Dutta & me tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… thanks to the many ppl who provided feedback at presentations of this one!

We often hear that business drives innovation while the State merely facilitates and “fixes” market failures. In my 2013 book “The Entrepreneurial State," I presented a different narrative (and history) - where public funding and direction are crucial in market creation and

Footnote: Two thirds of the refugees who came to Germany in 2015 have jobs and pay tax now. spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soz…

The festivals to mark the opening of the new Govan-Partick are in full swing! 🎶 We’re delighted to share in the celebrations. The bridge will make it easier for people to get around this part of the city which has so much of interest to explore.

This photo of poet Joseph Brodsky (right) at Anna Akhmatova's funeral in 1966 with the remainder of the group of disciple poets later known as Akhmatova's orphans