Christian Haines
@cphiliphaines.bsky.social
English Prof at Penn State University. Wrote a book on utopia and politics, A Desire Called America (Fordham UP, 2019). Writing on Marxism, lit theory, speculative fiction (SFF), contemp novels & poetry. Assoc Editor of Utopian Studies. Views my own.
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"neoliberalism championed market as ultimate arbiter of value—efficiency, competition+price discovery. the grift economy does not pretend that markets are fair efficient or good. It simply asserts that everything is a market—meme coins, ideology, political access"
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A Hell Without End? Neoliberalism and the Grift Society - The OLR Supplement
Gratton brings into a post-neoliberal age of grift Adam Kotsko's Neoliberalism's Demons, an account of the theological roots of using debt to govern subjects with the illusion of freedom
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December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"neoliberalism championed market as ultimate arbiter of value—efficiency, competition+price discovery. the grift economy does not pretend that markets are fair efficient or good. It simply asserts that everything is a market—meme coins, ideology, political access"
olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...
olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...
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While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
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multiple neofeudalism workshops over past few weeks, had to keep saying:
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
multiple neofeudalism workshops over past few weeks, had to keep saying:
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
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“They got to send me more grad student interviewers” says @themountaingoats.bsky.social after talking with @indyweek.bsky.social writer (and current grad student) Shelbi Polk. Read their sprawling conversation here. indyweek.com/news/culture...
“Any Story You Tell, You Wind Up Telling On Yourself In Some Way”: Talking With John Darnielle About His New Book
The Durham musician's new book, "This Year: 365 Songs Annotated," is a close read of some of The Mountain Goats' most legendary lyrics.
indyweek.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“They got to send me more grad student interviewers” says @themountaingoats.bsky.social after talking with @indyweek.bsky.social writer (and current grad student) Shelbi Polk. Read their sprawling conversation here. indyweek.com/news/culture...
Solaris publishes a lot of great stuff. Work by Premee Mohamed, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sam J. Miller, just to list some obvious examples.
As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Solaris publishes a lot of great stuff. Work by Premee Mohamed, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sam J. Miller, just to list some obvious examples.
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The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
hmistanbul.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
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Such a good piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social that really captures the MAGA ethos: "The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’"
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Such a good piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social that really captures the MAGA ethos: "The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’"
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Next, adrienne marie brown's "Ancestors", the third & final part of their "Grievers"-trilogy - a sci-fi novel about life in Detroit after climata catastrophe and a pandemic that kills black people all over the city. You need to read fiction, you need to read Robinson and Markley, yes, but also THIS!
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Next, adrienne marie brown's "Ancestors", the third & final part of their "Grievers"-trilogy - a sci-fi novel about life in Detroit after climata catastrophe and a pandemic that kills black people all over the city. You need to read fiction, you need to read Robinson and Markley, yes, but also THIS!
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The Frankfurt School be like . . .
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Frankfurt School be like . . .
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
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Interview with Annie McClanahan on service work and the impending strike in Las Vegas.
truthout.org/articles/imp...
truthout.org/articles/imp...
Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide
Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
truthout.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Interview with Annie McClanahan on service work and the impending strike in Las Vegas.
truthout.org/articles/imp...
truthout.org/articles/imp...
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POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
Duke University, English Department
Job #AJO31122, Postdoctoral Associate, English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
One of my favorite things I've written in the last couple of years is a profile of Adrian Tchaikovsky. He's had a lot of great fiction coming out recently (Shroud is a favorite). #sciencefiction #SFF
reactormag.com/reimagining-what-it-means-to-be-human-adrian-tchaikovsky-alien-ecologist/
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Reimagining What It Means to be Human: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Ecologist - Reactor
From his brilliant worldbuilding to the ecological perspective that drives his work, Tchaikovsky's fiction cultivates radical empathy, asking fascinating questions along the way.
reactormag.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One of my favorite things I've written in the last couple of years is a profile of Adrian Tchaikovsky. He's had a lot of great fiction coming out recently (Shroud is a favorite). #sciencefiction #SFF
reactormag.com/reimagining-what-it-means-to-be-human-adrian-tchaikovsky-alien-ecologist/
reactormag.com/reimagining-what-it-means-to-be-human-adrian-tchaikovsky-alien-ecologist/
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I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
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The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.
The world took his theory as gospel.
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The world took his theory as gospel.
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Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds
Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that even advanced climate intervention strategies may not be enough to secure the future of wine grapes, coffee and cacao. These crops are vital to many economies and provide livelihoods for farmers worldwide. However, they are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Rising temperatures […]
The post Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds appeared first on IOP Publishing.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.
The world took his theory as gospel.
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The world took his theory as gospel.
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Pasolini knew fascism would return. Guardian article below and his essay Io So is here: overland.org.au/2012/03/what...
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Pasolini knew fascism would return. Guardian article below and his essay Io So is here: overland.org.au/2012/03/what...
Short, but very good, post on material interests and class struggle: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Dylan Riley, Material Interests — Sidecar
On the new Marxism.
newleftreview.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Short, but very good, post on material interests and class struggle: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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New blog post: in which I discuss books 2, 3, and 3.5 in @aptshadow.bsky.social Tyrant Philosophers series, "the richest and most complete exploration of the theme of totalitarianism and its inherent contradictions in all of Tchaikovsky's recent work." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/hous...
<i>House of Open Wounds</i>, <i>Days of Shattered Faith</i>, <i>Lives of Bitter Rain</i> by Adrian Tchaikovsky
After I published my effusive review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances , I received a comment from Tchaikovsky on twitter notin...
wrongquestions.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New blog post: in which I discuss books 2, 3, and 3.5 in @aptshadow.bsky.social Tyrant Philosophers series, "the richest and most complete exploration of the theme of totalitarianism and its inherent contradictions in all of Tchaikovsky's recent work." wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/hous...
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Of course not.
(gift article)
(gift article)
The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels.
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Of course not.
(gift article)
(gift article)
David Harvey's turning 90 and Verso's publishing a series of essays on his work for their blog.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/r...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/r...
Revolutionary Optimisism
Back in the early 2000s, when I first taught David Harvey’s freshly minted Spaces of Hope in my geography and feminist/queer undergraduate classes, I remember the challenge of introducing critical geo...
www.versobooks.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
David Harvey's turning 90 and Verso's publishing a series of essays on his work for their blog.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/r...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/r...
Giving a talk next week, first one at Penn State since I got the job, here.
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Giving a talk next week, first one at Penn State since I got the job, here.
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Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.
honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
hyperallergic.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.
honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...