Maritime misadventures in early modern Southeast Asia: storms, pirates, accidents and war
Book review –
Book review –
by Abel van Beijnum – I checked the (pernicious) WhatsApp business account at work. A status update appeared: a video of a colleague. With the subtitle, originally in…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/making-value Kenzell Huggins: This book draws from an eclectic mix of data, building on ethnographic exploration of Irish music sessions, interviews with members …
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory edited by Jairo Funez-Flores et al. resists Eurocentric, institutionalised norms in decolonial theory by establishing a scholarship that takes a ground-up perspe…
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore, recently re-issued for its tenth-anniversary, refigured how we understand capitalism’s relationship to nature, arguing that economic systems, social…
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke argues that contemporary US elites claim the language of social justice and identify with progressive causes on one hand while reinforcing…
Atul K. Shah‘s Organic Finance denounces our destructive, profit-driven financial system and proposes an alternative model rooted in community, ecology, and cultural diversity. Employing nature-…
As pandemic restrictions began to ease in late 2021, the annual Finnish startup conference Slush made its return as an in-person event. Held for the first time in…
from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (free download): 本書收錄 2019-2025 年發表於「衝突、正義、解殖」(CJD) 的著作，主題涵蓋以色列-巴勒斯坦戰爭、加沙的種族滅絕、巴勒斯坦的殖民結構，以及阿拉伯世界中的社會政治鬥爭歷史。 出版單位：國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 全書開放下載…
Matthew Archer’s Unsustainable critiques the frameworks used to measure corporate sustainability and exposes how market-driven reporting shirks environmental responsibility. This convincing and timely…
This year marks 200 years since the formation of trade unions in the UK was legalised. A new exhibition at LSE Library, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade…
Only adding this to the archive – tanks are not needed just now in Indonesia. It is a Matilda Tank of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment in Tarakan…
Lets not forget the redundancies built into the news cycle. #1 What was the Trump—Musk alliance if not the merger of two distorted character masks representing shills for…
I am not sure there isn’t a major disconnect here. The global mining comglommoabberation Riotinto have the worst record, morally, ethically, and with their dirty-mucky-fingers inside the struct…
Wie könnte eine von Transmaterialist*innen veränderte Gesellschaft aussehen? Auf diese Frage haben die Studierenden im studentischen Projekttutorium “Transmaterialism – an Introduction” im Somme…
The CIA brags about the US being the largest weapons exporter/producer – Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? From their very own world factbook. that one browses over coffee…
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
The contortions of Empire got a new lease of life in recent years, again, ugh, over and over, the deeply problematic desire to lord it over others as…
. Maybe the worst thing about the Trump-effect will be things like: – the resuscitation of the liberals in Canada… – the unification of the Australian middle of the roa…
May Day. On proletarianisation. Consider the extent to which you contribute to the production of surplus value, directly or indirectly (working for wages or not, adding value to…
The Precariat in Western China by Xueyang Ma examines the experiences of workers in precarious employment in Ya’an, a city in Sichuan province, Western China. Drawing on interviews…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…