(This is mostly a stupid joke but also we need to reckon with the role that the University in its current form has played in enabling fascism and managerialization and ‘impact’ is not not relevant)

Gramsci talks about many things! Usually not in pithy aphorisms!

There was a stretch from like the 1970s until ten years ago where most interpretations of Gramsci were super-narrowly focused on a bastardized idea of 'hegemony' as something like 'coercion + consent'. And that was dumb but I'm starting to miss it.

Or really any other Gramsci. Even just the rest of the ‘time of monsters’ paragraph at this point.

Thanks, I hope so!

Thanks Ian!

And finally, I write about how the specific modes of exploitation prevalent in the production of colonial export crops have shaped the uneven distribution and form of exposure to climate hazards, using examples from Senegal and Ghana. 12/

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This is the only article in the collection which isn't available Open Access. If you want a copy (you should!) and don't have access, just let me know. 11/

Shae Frydenlund writes about the 'dialectical disposability' of Rohingya refugees in Kuala Lampur. Exploring the uneven temporalities through which refugees' labour is exploited helps grasp the complex 'modes of existence' of relative surplus populations. 10/

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Ben Selwyn with a really useful conceptual provocation about capital's 'conjoined appropriation' of labour and nature, in and through the operation of capitalist value chains. 9/

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Bridget Kenny has contributed an awesome piece on logistics in Gauteng, South Africa. She shows how the remaking of labour processes to capture value in the process of circulation has re-articulated old racial hierarchies and transformed urban space. 8/

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But really, the best bits of the issue are the contributions... 7/

The intro concludes by opening up some questions about how relations of exploitation are managed and stabilized, arguing that this offers us a useful way in to questions about racialization and capitalism, and about the capitalist state. 6/

And 'plural' in the sense both that capital is (in Banaji's words) 'indifferent to the forms in which it dominates labour' and that those variegated concrete forms that exploitation takes can nonetheless be highly consequential for people and planet. 5/

The intro article argues for a dynamic and plural understanding of exploitation. 'Dynamic' in the sense that exploitation needs to be understood in relation to wider circuits of capital accumulation, as the concrete mechanisms by which value is materialized. 4/

We take Marxist debates about exploitation -- hinging on a problematic that runs something like 'how does some people's activity become other people's wealth' -- as an antidote to arguments that assume the declining relevance of labour in the face of technological change, assetization. 3/

The intro article and the issue as a whole try to argue that we need to, well, centre questions about exploitation in analyses of 21st century capitalism. 2/