julián gómez-delgado
@juliangomezdelgado.bsky.social
political economy, state infrastructures, capitalism, technology, social movements,
Latin
America
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Latin
America
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The story of Rockefeller bankrolling the establishment of the University of Chicago is fascinating (he paid for everything). He generally abstained from meddling but somewhow the one guy who got fired was a political economists who advocated for ... public ownership of the energy infrastructure.
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The story of Rockefeller bankrolling the establishment of the University of Chicago is fascinating (he paid for everything). He generally abstained from meddling but somewhow the one guy who got fired was a political economists who advocated for ... public ownership of the energy infrastructure.
What role do state corporations play in capitalism’s past and present, reshaping our view of the state? South Africa offers insights.
— my (short) review of Faeeza Ballim’s Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technology Ambivalence
thenewcntxt.com/05-issue-07-1
— my (short) review of Faeeza Ballim’s Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technology Ambivalence
thenewcntxt.com/05-issue-07-1
05 issue 07 — THE NEW CONTEXT
cargo.site
thenewcntxt.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What role do state corporations play in capitalism’s past and present, reshaping our view of the state? South Africa offers insights.
— my (short) review of Faeeza Ballim’s Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technology Ambivalence
thenewcntxt.com/05-issue-07-1
— my (short) review of Faeeza Ballim’s Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technology Ambivalence
thenewcntxt.com/05-issue-07-1
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
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I was faculty at The New School for almost 19 years; I worked across several of these departments — many of which are central to the institution’s unique (and truly remarkable) legacy and continued strengths. Such a tragedy.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I was faculty at The New School for almost 19 years; I worked across several of these departments — many of which are central to the institution’s unique (and truly remarkable) legacy and continued strengths. Such a tragedy.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here
Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here
I woke up to find that Flatbush Avenue is now called Karl-Marx-Allee:
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I woke up to find that Flatbush Avenue is now called Karl-Marx-Allee:
“And perhaps in one of my favorite examples illustrating the historical obsession with measurement in organizations, Fourcade and Healy unearth how the division at Ford responsible for surveilling workers was named the 'Sociology Department.'”
& Hatim Rahman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“And perhaps in one of my favorite examples illustrating the historical obsession with measurement in organizations, Fourcade and Healy unearth how the division at Ford responsible for surveilling workers was named the 'Sociology Department.'”
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Just published: my review of @brettchristophers.bsky.social's excellent "The Price Is Wrong," in the @bjsociology.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just published: my review of @brettchristophers.bsky.social's excellent "The Price Is Wrong," in the @bjsociology.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026
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The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
www.versobooks.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
www.break-down.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
“Para hacerse una idea, un año de las utilidades de los bancos [en Colombia] bastaría para cubrir el presupuesto de 2024 del Ministerio de Justicia y tres veces el presupuesto del Ministerio de Ambiente.” www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
Espiral de concentración | Sofia Ocampo, Cristian Medina, Andrés Mojica
El poder de los bancos en Colombia
www.phenomenalworld.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“Para hacerse una idea, un año de las utilidades de los bancos [en Colombia] bastaría para cubrir el presupuesto de 2024 del Ministerio de Justicia y tres veces el presupuesto del Ministerio de Ambiente.” www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
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I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
‘the public has been turned into as cash machine’ :💥
Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again.
¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.
Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.
🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.
¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.
Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.
🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
‘the public has been turned into as cash machine’ :💥
“Private developers in Nigeria build the projects involving a network of photovoltaic panels and batteries, with the sun providing power during the day, and connecting to the main grid in the evening.” t.co/jGLPcED92G
https://on.ft.com/4719ALI
t.co
October 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Private developers in Nigeria build the projects involving a network of photovoltaic panels and batteries, with the sun providing power during the day, and connecting to the main grid in the evening.” t.co/jGLPcED92G
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Achieving a globally just energy transition requires understanding supply chains in reverse, starting from what we produce and consume and working backward to their material inputs, writes @triofrancos.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/gree...
Can We Design a Green Transition That Doesn't Turbocharge Extraction? | Common Dreams
Policies that promote alternatives to car use, reduce sprawl, encourage more compact batteries, and require recycling would all reduce the scale of mining needed for carbon-free transportation.
www.commondreams.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Achieving a globally just energy transition requires understanding supply chains in reverse, starting from what we produce and consume and working backward to their material inputs, writes @triofrancos.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/gree...
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Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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£416 — nearly a quarter — of your average energy bill was taken as pre-tax profits in 2024.
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.
‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders
Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
£416 — nearly a quarter — of your average energy bill was taken as pre-tax profits in 2024.
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.
Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.
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Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more
Tix free but going fast!
Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more
Tix free but going fast!
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more
Tix free but going fast!
Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more
Tix free but going fast!
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This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
www.tandfonline.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social
The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni
by Jochen Schmon
www.jhiblog.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy - @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Erika Monahan
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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy - New Books Network
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August 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy - @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Erika Monahan
newbooksnetwork.com/quinn-slobod...
newbooksnetwork.com/quinn-slobod...