Mike Davis was so ahead of the curve on Marxist ecology because he was interested in making sense of all the world—Malibu real estate & So Cal flora & LA tenements; El Niños & grain markets & colonial policy. a true materialist. so grateful for all he taught us, RIP.

Today we submitted thousands of union cards from graduate researchers and graduate and professional teachers to the regional office of the NLRB. We also visited President Peter Salovey’s office to deliver an election petition to Yale.

'In the daily struggle to build the union and beat the boss and the odds, I saw something I desperately wanted to learn,' writes Alyssa Battistoni in 'Spadework' (@nplusonemag).

Join Alyssa Battistoni and organizers from Student Workers of Columbia and Starbucks Workers United this Wednesday: eventbrite.com/e/utopia-313-o…

I wrote about the world of Bruno Latour. (We're all living in it.)
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'The tricky but necessary thing, of course, is to hold these perspectives simultaneously.'

very good dialectical exhortations synthesizing automation, overproduction, manufacturing vs service, structural compulsion vs political agency from Alyssa Battistoni !!

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Inbox: Barnard's resident assistants just went public with a union campaign. 95% signed cards.

They'd be one of the 1st groups of undergrad RAs in the US to unionize. Union organizers say it's a trend that will likely spread in the coming months.

'More freedom, less necessity. Indeed, this demand—for time, for the freedom to live our lives—is perhaps the core animating vision of the Western left today.' Alyssa Battistoni on Aaron Benanav, Sarah Jaffe, and the changing nature of labor and capital's relationship thenation.com/article/societ…

SOCIALISM FOR OUR TIME, our Fall 2022 issue, is out now.

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FALL BOOKS is out—Jennifer Wilson on Pankaj Mishra, Elias Rodriques on Thulani Davis, Alyssa Battistoni on work after deindustrialization, Summer Kim Lee on Hua Hsu’s mixtapes, Adam Kirsch on IB Singer’s politics, Ilan Stavans on Olga Tokarczuk’s messiahs thenation.com/issue/october-…

CfP: GradConf Sciences Po 2022 on political theory and the environment. Paris 12/13 dec. Keynote Alyssa Battistoni. Abstract: 300 words to [email protected]. Deadline Sept 30. Info: contact organizers Léna Silberzahn, Léo Grillet, Claire Lejeune Marius Bickhardt Maxime Gaborit Gauthier Deloziere

I interviewed Alyssa Battistoni and she had a lot of interesting and insightful things to say terrain.substack.com/p/alyssa-batti…

I reviewed Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline in The Nation. It’s a compelling case for sabotage, but downplays anti-extractive resistance in Global South and lapses into propaganda of the deed, neglecting how to build a mass movement against fossil capital. thenation.com/article/enviro…

There's a symposium on my book In the Shadow of Justice out over at Review of Politics w/ Alyssa Battistoni Murad Idris erin pineda & Jason Frank. I'm v grateful to them for engaging my arguments in such generous and interesting ways. Open access til end August cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I wrote a sort of cultural & personal history of the abortion story, for The Yale Review: yalereview.org/article/dobbs-…

I wrote for New Left Review about Pierre Charbonnier's book Affluence and Freedom and what it means—particularly in the face of ecological crisis—to think of freedom as material newleftreview.org/issues/ii135/a…