Many are still stuck in pre-Crash view of China's economy as a low-cost export powerhouse. Post-Crash China is a domestic demand-driven economy. A vast internal market supercharged by a logistics revolution (cheap transport) that attracts the worlds firms. ft.com/content/a7a8bf…

very true. they already build in Hungary. just like japanese auto FDI didn't mean reduction in US trade deficit with Japan back in 1980s. but FDI is always better than imports. China always prefer foreign auto FDI to auto import. it is developmentalism

Brazilian Ministry of Labour, DigiLabour and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung announce a guide on Digital Solidarity Economy. This will be launched August 14 in Brasilia and will be used to train thousands of workers in the country. More soon! rosalux.org.br/livro-sobre-ec…

🔈Out now: my book review of “The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China” by Yutao Sun and Cong Cao Cambridge University Press The China Quarterly If you don’t have access, I have a few codes to share. 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #China #BookReview

An article by someone who understands Taiwan's colonial history and its contemporary implications and can give a detailed account of the technical process of semiconductor production, a rare bird bostonreview.net/articles/semic…

A call to sociologists of different schools to coordinate their research and teaching to build a post-capital, post-empire, post-state world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08… I invite institutionalists, Gramscians, Bourdieusians, ecologists, world systems analysts, postcolonialists, and

Brazil has a great gp of scholars working on Chinese political economy. They have diverse perspectives & all nuanced. i'm fortunate enough to read this English volume in advance. highly recommended! brill.com/display/title/…

Looking forward to meet all of you, beginning tomorrow, online or in person☺️ #CA21118 #pwill #research #networking PWILL Campus Condorcet COST

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CfP, Digital Solidarity Economies, a special issue for Internet Policy Review journal. Deadline for abstract submissions: Nov 15. Guest editors: Belen Albornoz, Denise Kasparian , Ricard Espelt and I policy repay Call: policyreview.info/node/1808

"Long-Haul is a new quarterly magazine publicizing effective examples of worker self-organization on and off the shopfloor, past and present, inside and outside the unions." Suscribe to this great new US-based project: longhaulmag.com #workersinquiry

Important read from my esteemed colleague

#Habermas Machine: "#AI-mediated #deliberation reduced division within groups, with participants’ reported stances converging toward a common position...after deliberation; this result did not occur when discussants directly exchanged views, unmediated." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Digital Solidarity Economy in Brazil spotlighted on the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website rosalux.de/en/news/id/532…

n this new #OnlineFirst article, Simone Natale et al. apply Doreen Massey’s concept of power geometries to #AI—highlighting how agency, inequality & global-local relations shape AI’s development and governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Ha-Joon Chang: Trump has failed to see that the cause of the US's decline is its own capitalist class.

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In this new #OnlineFirst article, Payal Arora & Simone Natale argue that global #AI debates must move beyond abstract ethics. By situating AI in everyday cultural contexts, they spotlight how global-local dynamics shape our interactions with tech. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Tomorrow 6.30-8pm @SBanetWeiser & Angela McRobbie discuss the rise of female-centric groups & #influencers like the #tradwives who mirror the logics of the #manosphere. 🎟️Open to all, no ticket required: lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/06… 🎟️To attend online ➞ lselive.eckoenterprise.net/events/2025050…

🚨 BREAKING: The much-awaited Swiss AI model is here! It's fully OPEN, transparent, and multilingual, built in compliance with Swiss data protection and copyright laws and the EU AI Act (!). Here's what you need to know: The name of the model is Apertus, which is Latin for