If you're in the Boston area, come along to the first Capitalism and its Critics workshop today! @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I are hosting the legendary Leopoldina Fortunati to discuss the new translation of The Arcana of Reproduction. At Harvard, Sever Hall 113, at 4pm

Coming March 2026

Zu Karp, Palantir und der Frankfurter Schule empfehle ich den tollen Text von Moira Weigel, die Karps Doktorarbeit sehr genau durchgegangen ist.

www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

Lauch comes up a lot too

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

just found a post it in my office that reads “NIGHTBITCH is also a novel about work”

@linzhang.bsky.social @elainejyuan.bsky.social

I’m honored to have an article in the new issue on “Platform Economies in Digital Asia” edited by Lin Zhang and Elaine Yuan!

I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I know a group of sociologists of technology at Zhejiang University working on these questions and fascinating ways. Happy to connect you if you like!

TIL that this book, which I desperately wanted to teach with but thought had not been translated, is coming out in English in October! Profs teaching tech / labor / digital society take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465353...

to me the most interesting thing may be the fact that the trade war has led to Google and Meta losing their biggest advertisers more or less overnight

I talked to @nytimes.com again, this time about the end of the de minimis exemption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...

See you tonight, Harvard! 6PM! #MoreEverythingForever @harvard.edu @harvardbookstore.bsky.social @maxgladstone.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social

The one person I wanted to hear on tariffs is Moira Weigel.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

@moiraweigel.bsky.social knows WTF is going on. 🙌🙌🙌

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Wish me luck!

About to be on CNN morning news, relatedly, just realized I don’t own a lipstick

I wrote about cross-border e-commerce, tariffs, and Trump memes and memorabilia @nytimes.com

I have yet to crack the book, I must confess, John you have done us a service