Song Zeyi is a photographer who has traveled across China to document more than 200 factories established as part of the Third Front Movement, a national drive launched in the 1960s to develop industrial and military facilities in 13 provincial regions, including Ningxia,

“Chinese overseas clean-tech manufacturing investment is nearly $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.” phenomenalworld.org/interviews/the…

The British historian and New Left Review editor Perry Anderson set out to trace the history of European class societies from antiquity to the present. Anderson’s uncompleted project is a landmark in the development of Marxist historiography. jacobin.com/2025/09/perry-…

Listening to the FP Live event with Adam Tooze and I almost lost it when the host suggested that the spread of Chinese photovoltaics might involve some drawbacks, namely surveillance technology

What if we ended what after all wasn't meant to be at the Yokohama shipyard (Yokohama BJ Blues [1981, dir. Eiichi Kudo])

26/9/75 Deng Xiaoping says that some are "secretly attacking" experts, but that even bourgeois experts are more use to the country than sectarians.

Yokohama BJ Blues (1981, dir. Eiichi Kudo)/Violent Cop (1989, dir. Takeshi Kitano).

Listening to an old interview Alexander Kluge did with Kenzaburo Oe, who at some point mentions Adorno, and Kluge stunned interrupts the interpreter, "OUR Adorno?" dctp.tv/filme/mann-des…

Greenland has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. This robust state sector has helped the small island nation prosper economically over the past 50 years. jacobin.com/2025/09/greenl…

Dylan Riley shows the way: reading the Times, employing the sociologist's raster to pinpoint the symptomatically relevant bits, and then write a Zeitdiagnose-column whose reading time exactly corresponds the length of smoking a cigarette newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Great news for the international left: Archive-unlock for FT articles works again

Martin Barnay on the Sarkozy trial: ‘Beyond a tale of Sarkozy's venal appetites, this episode opens a window onto how French political life has operated for half a century.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Most of the piece is about the "pol-econ" of international weapons procurement, and since it's about the French, it's some real kino

The Economist vs Phenomenal World on anti-China tariffs and Chinese FDI: archive.ph/FL5of phenomenalworld.org/interviews/the…

One of Milei's most loyal followers, FAZ Wirtschaft, advises investors to give him a break

Listening to contemporary German-language pop, and I kinda like it? youtu.be/4DxPTJqFlX8?si…