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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17h

all of life is screens, and all the screens are now haunted, and somehow we've got to somehow keep a society going on this set of facts.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This really needs to be said and understood. What makes it worse, if possible, is that it is not coming out of any genuine crisis or emergency. It is a deliberate attempt to whip up anger and grievance in order to capitalise upon it & in Jenrick's case purely to advance his leadership ambitions.

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 2d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 2d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 1d

One of the weird things about reading 20 year old Latour is the crushing prescience and the sense that it’s all so much worse than the worst he was imagining

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 1d

why would he or
she not be able to absorb the most sophisticated tools of deconstruction,
social construction, discourse analysis, postmodernism, postology?

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 1d

💚 If the dense and moralist cigar-
smoking reactionary bourgeois can transform him- or herself into a free-floating agnostic bohemian, moving opinions, capital, and networks from
one end of the planet to the other without attachment,

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

In this vein I also recommend reading @busedoyu.bsky.social and colleagues taking Callon to Zucotti park: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And @philiproscoe.bsky.social on the simultaneous rise of "market studies" amid the downfall of market primacy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The times they are a-changin': markets after neoliberalism, and how to study them

This is a lightly edited version of the inaugural lecture given by Professor Philip Roscoe, at the University of St Andrews, 19 February 2025. Philip has been Editor-in Chief (joint) of this journa...

www.tandfonline.com

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24d

I'd add that @jcultecon.bsky.social is open to comment pieces & analyses of the present conjuncture of this kind, under the excellent stewardship of @busedoyu.bsky.social. There's no "party line", other than a need to be in (maybe critical) dialogue with the kind of thinking the journal foregrounds.

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Paul Rekret @paulrekret.bsky.social · 16d

Just published open access @jcultecon.bsky.social. On the aestheticisation of money in hip-hop; a cultural logic since generalised. Its also a theorisation of mediations of political economy and cultural form operating across scales of time and space www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular

This article examines the absorption of hip-hop into the upper echelons of the popular music charts. It identifies 1997 as a pivotal turning point in this history and focuses on three albums releas...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 6d

Our article on the design-ification of future making (out last March) has finally found a home in the latest issue of @jcultecon.bsky.social (i.e., vol. 18, no. 5)! :)

doi.org/10.1080/1753...

The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse

This article investigates how design-oriented approaches have made their way into contemporary business discourse. It does so by exploring how the figures of ‘the strategist' and ‘the entrepreneur'...

doi.org

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 6d

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 6d

it's been over 20 years since I submitted an abstract to the BSA and already I'm exasperated by the process. THERE ARE NO FAVOURITES in my head

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 7d

U.S. regions more exposed to AI saw faster emissions growth, more reliance on fossil fuels, and dirtier electricity generation.
cepr.org/publications...

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 7d

I feel for you! I’ve had problems with my knee that have stopped me running regularly for a year and that has been v v bad for ma poor heid. Wish I could get into low impact exercise

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 7d

8 months till I could jog on it then it was fine enough for me to be running 20 k a year later.

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 7d

Ouch, I ruptured my Achilles doing an unaccustomed dance leap a couple of years ago. Am hoping yours is faster healing!

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no what did you do?

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 9d

Oh no! So sorry Karen! She was such a smasher

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Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social · 15d

My new paper on "Economic sociology and the far-right" is out in the @jcultecon.bsky.social ! How do businesses promote the far-right? How does the far-right transform accumulation regimes? How is the new reactionary, post-neoliberal regime embedded in tools of surveillance and control?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20d

Think we're seeing why the left has histroically been so determined to takeover Labour rather than setting up something new. They need an infrastructure because setting one up seems beyond them.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20d

🚨 | Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that the YourParty membership sign up link posted this morning by Zarah Sultana was unauthorised.

Over 20,000 people had already signed up, with the standard rate being £55 per annum. These are set to be cancelled.

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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 20d

Deleted. Please get in touch with me if you would like access to one of my papers. Always happy to share.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

😂

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

I was probably supposed to take all the papers down first but I was just too outraged to think

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve also just done this

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 20d

Done. Meant to do it for ages. Finally.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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