I suppose it was too much to expect this piece to consider how the relative absence of 'complex financial ideas' in contemporary fiction is precisely because the former has increasingly become the latter

The book is out as of today! And you can save 30% off with the code 09BCARD by ordering it directly from Cornell UP: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

It's more complicated than saying it is one 'capitalism' vs another. It's not how global capitalism is constituted. Such 'model' thinking ignores massive interdependencies. Ilias Alami take this thinking on further in our new (free) book academic.oup.com/book/57552

A collection of my essays in Spanish, *The Poetics of History from Below*, published by Editorial Tesis XII in Santiago, Chile, can now be downloaded for free. This collection contains one of my favorite essays, about Géricault’s *Raft of the Medusa*. PDF here: tesisxii.cl/wp-content/upl…

Issue 3 of 2024 now published. Papers on infrastructure projects, state capitalism in China, the home in contemporary life, philanthropy and women's health, decolonial economics, finfluencers, climate risk, and the regulation of asset management. Wow! tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/53/…

Dissertation marking season is always moving, but this year students are using thesis acknowledgement sections to acknowledge the genocide in Palestine & those who will not graduate in Gaza this year. Thank God for the humanity of this generation who refuse to normalise 🙏

What Nick says!

When revolutionary Haiti helped Mexican & South American independence efforts: “Haiti had been converted, during that terrible year of 1816, into the center of the American Revolution.”

📢 SOAS Global Development Seminar Series! Join us for the first seminar of the 2024-25 series! Ilias Alami will discuss his recent book, co-authored with Adam Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism." The book argues that we are seeing a historic shift in state

My spectral presence is haunting this flyer

Read this when it came out in French a few years ago. Strongly recommend!

What a quote on the UK's energy state-owned enterprise from Ed Miliband "We have a simple proposition: if it is right for the Danes, the French, the Norwegians and the Swedes to own British energy assets, it is right for the British people to do so as well.” (1/2)

But the right companion to this quote is obviously Ilias Alami and co-author book and most recent article: x.com/IliasAlami/sta… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

C'est vraiment très crédible. Mais avez-vous testé Babar le roi des éléphants ?

what even is the global financial system?

The August 1965 issue of Révolution Africaine (Algeria's 🇩🇿 revolutionary newspaper),confiscated by the authorities after Boumédiène's coup. The cover features images of the LA Watts Rebellion + invokes James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time." (See Christian Phéline's recent book).

Capitalism shall be seen not only as a society based on depriving the many from the means of production but also depriving the many of the knowledge/intellectual capacities to organize & plan the production process. Intellectual monopolization is the latest step in this conflict

📢 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 The University of Vienna is offering a 3-year paid doctoral position focusing on extraction, displacement, and migration governance. Join Prof. Ayse Caglar, myself, and an exciting team of researchers! 🌍 🗓️ Deadline: 10 Oct 🔗 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

📚 Register below for SOAS Development Studies seminar on 3 Oct w/ Ilias Alami! He'll explore the rise of "new state capitalism" and the 'new' dynamic role of states (as promoter/supervisor/share-holder investor) in reshaping #Capitalism and #WorldPolitics. soas.ac.uk/about/event/sp…

Exciting book launch next Monday: Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach Edited by Juan Bohoslavsky and Mariana Rulli. The book's Open Access : tinyurl.com/BUPFeminismDebt universityofsussex.zoom.us/webinar/regist…