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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · May 11

“Le discours capitaliste : la valeur de la force de travail dans les liens sociaux”

Yahya Madra & Ceren Özselçuk

Traduit de l’anglais par Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc

(Reach out for a copy of the English version)

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Le discours capitaliste : la valeur de la force de travail dans les liens sociaux

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · 16d

Only half joking: Is he spiraling out of control?

yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · 17d

It is important to recognize that there is a thing called neoliberal state and neoliberalism is not classical liberalism. Also neomercantilism largely remains within the neoliberal governmentality/episteme as it deploys economic incentives to govern citizenry, even if meddles with macro levers.

yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · 17d

There is a robust literature on neoliberal authoritarianism as well as the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarianism. Having said that I think neomercantilism in its variants as a postneoliberal phenomenon is worth using to understand late Erdogan.

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · 23d

I am thinking about that Harper’s Magazine letter on cancel culture and its esteemed signatories. They are very quiet now.

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ilhan dögüs @ilhandogus.bsky.social · 25d

QAD-Barış Meydanı ile barış ve ekonomi üzerine konuştuk:
youtu.be/i1IoX3ZYve0?...

Ekonomik Kriz Barış Sürecine Desteği Düşürüyor | İktisatçı Dr. İlhan Döğüş Anlatıyor

YouTube video by Qad - Barış Meydanı

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Aug 27

McJihad essay by Mitchell is pretty interesting and pivotal.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 5

“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower"
NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?

Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

foreignpolicy.com

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 26

She's Gone Away

yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 26

Sugar on my tongue

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bianet @bianet.org · Jul 25

#biamag | XXIV. Dokufest’e buyurmaz mısınız?

✍ Murat Türker, 24. Dokufest’te Türkiye’den katılan yapımları ve festivalin öne çıkan filmlerini yazdı.

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Görselde, siyah beyaz bir orman manzarasında, sırtında dev bir yılan taşıyan bir kişi yürürken görülüyor. Elinde büyük bir pala var. Sol üstte “Murat Türker yazdı”, sol altta “biamag cumartesi” logosu yer alıyor. Görsel, vahşi doğa ve insan ilişkisini çarpıcı biçimde yansıtıyor.

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 24

Coming from a denialist culture, I have a sense that once perpetrators begin to produce too many explanations as to what is going on is not a genocide, it is a sign that the process has already reached its highest stage.

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QAD-Barış Meydanı @qadinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dr. Nisan Alıcı ile Kürt Meselesi, Direniş ve Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti Üzerine

“Barış inşa sürecini mevcut eşitsizliklerin ve güç ilişkilerinin dönüştürülmesi için bir fırsat olarak görmek mümkün.”

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QAD-Barış Meydanı @qadinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 16

Xavier Universitesinden akademisyen Dr. Nazan Bedirhanoğlu:

“Barış Müzakerelerinin Başarısız Olması, Statükodan Daha Kötü Sonuçlar Doğurabilir”

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here’s the short intervention I delivered for the roundtable. Two main threads of the roundtable were on death drive and free association, but there were many other connections.

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QAD-Barış Meydanı @qadinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 19

Barselona Otonom Üniversitesi Barış Kültürü Okulu’nun kurucularından ve eski yöneticilerinden Vicenç Fisas:

"PKK’nin silahsızlanma süreci başladı ama buna eşlik edecek kurumlar hazır değil."

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is happening on July 19th:

"The Communists Believe..."

For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 18

Tomorrow:

yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is happening on July 19th:

"The Communists Believe..."

For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is happening on July 19th:

"The Communists Believe..."

For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Jul 8

I hope it’s become evident that corporate news will partner with fascists to attack the Left because literally our history is the story of how the wealth class use their political and media organs to ensure all Leftists are demonized and crushed.

That’s the whole ballgame.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 8

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Jul 7

France could raise around €20 billion per year from this tax

That’s half of the €40B the government is looking for this year

Globally? $302–377 billion could be raised—every year

From the ultra-rich. Who currently pay very little.

gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 4

NYTimes, how low can you go?

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yahya m madra @ymadra.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ghouls.