Rob Lucas
@roblucas.bsky.social
Brings a new, unexpected meaning to that old piece.
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Brings a new, unexpected meaning to that old piece.
In a newspaper both started by Fidel Castro and noted for its sex education column, coverage of a presentation I did on the geopolitics of telecoms:
www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecn...
www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecn...
La izquierda en la era de la inteligencia artificial
Edificar un futuro tecnológico que esté al servicio de la soberanía y la emancipación de los pueblos requiere una visión diferente sobre el uso de las nuevas tecnologías, tal y como se debatió recient...
www.juventudrebelde.cu
April 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In a newspaper both started by Fidel Castro and noted for its sex education column, coverage of a presentation I did on the geopolitics of telecoms:
www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecn...
www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecn...
Reposted by Rob Lucas
Armas para pensar
🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social
Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
www.diario.red
January 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Armas para pensar
🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social
Mi artículo sobre Cuba, Biden y Trump en castellano hoy en Diario Red.
www.diario.red/articulo/arm...
www.diario.red/articulo/arm...
Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
www.diario.red
January 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Mi artículo sobre Cuba, Biden y Trump en castellano hoy en Diario Red.
www.diario.red/articulo/arm...
www.diario.red/articulo/arm...
Rob Lucas, Abject Gesture — Sidecar
Cuba and US policy.
newleftreview.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Rob Lucas
'Perhaps the safest thing to say is that the working class, as a class, didn’t do anything. The vote is evidence of dealignment, not realignment: voters below $100,000 split basically down the middle.'
Tim Barker writes for Sidecar:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Tim Barker writes for Sidecar:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Tim Barker, Dealignment — Sidecar
On the US elections.
newleftreview.org
November 12, 2024 at 10:26 AM
'Perhaps the safest thing to say is that the working class, as a class, didn’t do anything. The vote is evidence of dealignment, not realignment: voters below $100,000 split basically down the middle.'
Tim Barker writes for Sidecar:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Tim Barker writes for Sidecar:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
In the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social, I wrote about the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, and her recent book, "Rules".
newleftreview.org/issues/ii145...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii145...
Rob Lucas, From Thick to Thin, NLR 145, January–February 2024
Rob Lucas on Lorraine Daston, Rules. A historian of science tackles the thinning of ‘rules’: how paradigms to play with became regulations and algorithms to obey.
newleftreview.org
March 16, 2024 at 12:21 PM
In the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social, I wrote about the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, and her recent book, "Rules".
newleftreview.org/issues/ii145...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii145...
The Economist's "World in Brief" this morning:
"A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."
"A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."
November 24, 2023 at 9:47 AM
The Economist's "World in Brief" this morning:
"A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."
"A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."
So it turns out two of the dogs are actually named after THAT economist—the one who is named after that guy who works for NLR.
"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist."
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Pablo Pryluka, Argentina Realigned — Sidecar
After the elections.
newleftreview.org
October 31, 2023 at 1:56 PM
So it turns out two of the dogs are actually named after THAT economist—the one who is named after that guy who works for NLR.
"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist."
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Pablo Pryluka, Argentina Realigned — Sidecar
After the elections.
newleftreview.org
October 31, 2023 at 1:39 PM
"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist."
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
I am told that my dissatisfaction has been logged with the reference number CRL57GH3JK.
October 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM
I am told that my dissatisfaction has been logged with the reference number CRL57GH3JK.
The Economist's delirious war propaganda.
October 20, 2023 at 7:09 AM
The Economist's delirious war propaganda.
This is a really original take on the question of secular stagnation.
‘The rate of profit on productive capital has received the lion’s share of attention on the left. But another relation is just as important: the rate of interest.’
Nic Johnson on secular stagnation and the case for socializing the deployment of capital:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii143...
Nic Johnson on secular stagnation and the case for socializing the deployment of capital:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii143...
Nic Johnson, Times of Interest, NLR 143, September–October 2023
In a striking contribution to the debate on secular stagnation, Nic Johnson examines the longue durée tendency of the rate of interest to fall. From the emergence of public debt in early-modern Europ...
newleftreview.org
October 19, 2023 at 11:43 AM
This is a really original take on the question of secular stagnation.
NLR is now on Bluesky at @newleftreview.bsky.social
‘On any realistic assessment, international law is neither truthfully international nor genuinely law.’
In the latest NLR, Perry Anderson writes on the history, theory and practice of a powerful hegemonic instrument:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii143...
In the latest NLR, Perry Anderson writes on the history, theory and practice of a powerful hegemonic instrument:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii143...
Perry Anderson, The Standard of Civilization, NLR 143, September–October 2023
A world order governed by the rule of law is the mainstay of the West’s claim to leadership. A host of institutions, topped by the UN itself, lend this principle material form. But what is the jurid...
newleftreview.org
October 13, 2023 at 9:52 AM
NLR is now on Bluesky at @newleftreview.bsky.social
Writing a letter to the management to tell them how much you support them and admire their work because this is the best way of ensuring that you can get on with being a radical in academia.
October 12, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Writing a letter to the management to tell them how much you support them and admire their work because this is the best way of ensuring that you can get on with being a radical in academia.
Important things that go ignored because they are so boring.
October 12, 2023 at 8:26 AM
Important things that go ignored because they are so boring.
Debating with other users in the support forum whether it is even possible to close your own account, or whether that is a logical contradiction.
October 12, 2023 at 8:22 AM
Debating with other users in the support forum whether it is even possible to close your own account, or whether that is a logical contradiction.
The banking app doesn't give me full privileges and directs me to the website for a certain kind of transaction. The website just displays an ad for the app instead of the login page. The people on the support line tell me I should log into the website by entering a code from the app in the site.
October 12, 2023 at 8:17 AM
The banking app doesn't give me full privileges and directs me to the website for a certain kind of transaction. The website just displays an ad for the app instead of the login page. The people on the support line tell me I should log into the website by entering a code from the app in the site.
Calling IT support so that I can gain the correct access privileges to click a button to tell someone the same thing that I just told them in person so that their boss has a formal record of it in a database.
October 12, 2023 at 8:04 AM
Calling IT support so that I can gain the correct access privileges to click a button to tell someone the same thing that I just told them in person so that their boss has a formal record of it in a database.
AD 2150: humanity is reduced to warlordism as the scattered survivors fight over the embers of a dead planet, but somewhere there's still a guy arguing that capitalism is healthy enough to accommodate his idea for a reformist programme.
October 7, 2023 at 6:36 PM
AD 2150: humanity is reduced to warlordism as the scattered survivors fight over the embers of a dead planet, but somewhere there's still a guy arguing that capitalism is healthy enough to accommodate his idea for a reformist programme.
Doomed to negotiate the endless headaches of a social world that was first subordinated to intricate bureaucratic procedure and then materialised as glitch-riddled infrastructure.
October 6, 2023 at 1:19 PM
Doomed to negotiate the endless headaches of a social world that was first subordinated to intricate bureaucratic procedure and then materialised as glitch-riddled infrastructure.
Farewell Evelyn Fox Keller. "Century of the Gene" was the single best thing I ever read on genetics or cell biology.
September 26, 2023 at 6:18 PM
Farewell Evelyn Fox Keller. "Century of the Gene" was the single best thing I ever read on genetics or cell biology.
"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
September 15, 2023 at 7:55 PM
"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
Some intellectual projects make no sense until you see whatever the marketing or career move was that the author or publisher was attempting. "Oh, you were trying to maximise theoretical claims so the years spent in an obscure archive would seem as important as possible, as they might seem trivial".
August 28, 2023 at 1:36 AM
Some intellectual projects make no sense until you see whatever the marketing or career move was that the author or publisher was attempting. "Oh, you were trying to maximise theoretical claims so the years spent in an obscure archive would seem as important as possible, as they might seem trivial".