And finally, if you have some money to spare, Verso Books could use your help: its UK distributor recently filed for bankruptcy, which has left the publishing house in the lurch and facing a financial crunch for its fall 2024 season. kickstarter.com/projects/verso…

Big thanks to Carl Wilén Hugo Lundberg & Hedvig Lärka for organizing an amazing conference Lund University. So rich in critical theory, perspectives & joy. We can only solve structural problems by connecting planetary. Upcoming conferences in Brazil & Chile 👉🏼 legalform.blog/pashukanis-100…

Does the article explore the possibility that it was irresistible blog-sized content that dulled their book-reading faculties? Asking for a blog.

The call for papers for the British Socio-Legal Studies Association conference (Liverpool, 15-17 April 2025) is now open: liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-2025/ This year, the 'Law and Political Economy' stream will be featruing as a permanent stream. Please consider submitting!

Interesting to think that Richard Dawkins being a molecular biologist allowed him to pontificate on the nature of Islam, or Jason Stanley being an analytic philosopher of language to make expert judgments on the history of fascism. It would be somewhat surprising for me to write

From David Graeber's classic work called "Against Economcs."

In addition to this bit of Simon Clarke, a loosely ordered and inevitably incomplete list of Marxist writing on money and finance that I’ve found really useful in one way or another:

When Acemoglu, Robinson and Johnson unironically claimed to have invented the concept of bourgeois revoluton ...in 2005

++ CfP ++ For the journal Rechtsphilosophie (Legal Philosophy) I organize a special issue about Critical Legal Theory today. Papers can be in German or English (preferred). Interested? Send a short abstract to: [email protected] #pashukanis #cls #lpe #feminism #law

Since I’m <1 week away from my regularly scheduled nervous breakdown, here goes: my one final thread on the “fascism debate.” The argument against labeling MAGA fascist has to do with the historical specificity of fascism. I think this misses two key points (a brief 🧵). 1/12

Great fun to engage with Judy's forthcoming book. It's a multi-scalar and multi-actor legal genealogy of 'modern slavery.' Go buy the book when it's published later this year with Cambridge University Press - Law: cambridge.org/core/books/con…

Carl Wilen with his piece 'From Negt to Negri: A History of Pashukanian Theory'. legalform.blog/2024/11/05/fro…

Come hear our fantastic PhD student Fernando Quintana present 'On Legal Fetishism and Reification: Towards a dialogue between Lukacs and Pashukanis' Universidad Alberto Hurtado You can watch here tinyurl.com/fquintana

Super interesting topic being discussed by some super interesting people, including Fernando Quintana

Paper published in American Economic Review begs to differ. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

"You set up the angel in the nativity scene?" Sure did boss. Real burdened with the catastrophe of human history, just like you asked. "What?"

DAVID LYNCH has passed away. We have lost one of the greatest directors in history, a superlative artist. A unique and timeless cultural figure. Forever in our memory, forever in our hearts. Long live The Greatest.

"One's immediate experience of oppression or exploitation is powerful, but it is unable to locate that experience within a broader ensemble of social relations. It is only through theoretical reflection that one can understand the ways in which broader logics produce and sustain

Congratulations Matt Dimick!