Leigh Claire La Berge
@marxforcats
Lit Prof @CUNY books ⬇️ Scandals and Abstraction (2014) Reading Capitalist Realism, Ed (2014) Wages Against Artwork (2019) Marx for Cats (2023) Fake Work (2025)
The collected reminisces of my life as a businessman, circa 1999. Coming soon from @haymarketbooks
This is the sort of thing that throws Hegelians into a tizzy
Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Bonaparte Before the Sphinx" (1886)
With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.
A Trump shakedown--but of higher ed. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Total shot in the dark, but anyone on here study with Richard Marius at U Tenn Knoxville in the late 1960s / early 1970s?
When I do book events for Fake Work people often ask: what's our moment's Y2K/dot.com bubble? I always answer, AI
I think there's still more than a chance that AI is overhyped as a world-altering technology and the mega-expansion looks silly in a decade, if not sooner
“The truth was that in those premillennial days, so concerned had everyone been to ward off a fake crisis that several real ones had been left to fester.” Leigh Claire La Berge (@marxforcats) in Fake Work, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
So nice to see a section of "Fake Work" in this month's @Harpers under the truly great title, "Aught Bourgeois." harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
ICYMI Alex’s ICYMI
ICYMI - @marxforcats on her new book 'Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke'. We talked about Y2K, the socio-cultural atmosphere of the late 1990s, and how Leigh Claire's book fits within the tradition of Workers' Inquiry. Link in 🧵
I could not have landed a job at Vogue in the 1990s. But I did land a surreal Y2K job in 1998. It’s out now and half off with @haymarketbooks
Happy Bastille Day! Feline reminder that patron saint of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, put a cat on the cover of "The Social Contract" because cats were his “test of character”; those who don’t enjoy cats “have the despotic instinct of men.” @DukePress
For anyone interested in species history, animal history, environmental history, can't recommend this scholar's work enough. Great interview, too. @PublicBooks publicbooks.org/are-species-ti…
So much fun! This is one of my favorite podcasts. Give a listen!
📢NEW EPISODE 📢 - @marxforcats on her new book 'Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke'. We talked about Y2K, the socio-cultural atmosphere of the late 1990s, and how Leigh Claire's book fits (or doesn't) within the tradition of Workers' Inquiry. Link in 🧵
Fun conversation with @poltheoryother !
"part of Donald Trump’s … incredible political success … is that in many ways he is a stand-up comic … the way he holds a space, the way he goes off the cuff … his improvisation" @marxforcats brilliant on @poltheoryother patreon.com/posts/fake-wor…
Disfruté esta entrevista; "Marx para Gatos" ahora en español. Gracias a Ediciones AKAL.
🗣️ @marxforcats rastrea el uso metafórico y literal de los gatos en la historia de la economía política. 👉 En @SinPermisoInfo entrevistan a la autora de 'Marx para gatos' dónde los felinos son símbolos de poder. sinpermiso.info/textos/marxism…
The NY State Democratic Party has trotted out every corpse they have to try to stop Zohran Mamdani...except real estate developer Eliot Spitzer. When can we expect him to join the coalition?
Literally none.
@marxforcats what better endorsement could you ask for
every corpse in the ny state democratic party uniting against mamdani
INBOX: Former Gov. Paterson is set to make an announcement tomorrow morning on "the urgent need for strategic unity" to defeat Mamdani, and will also "discuss the possibility of other candidates withdrawing"
Exciting to see a woman in this issue of New Left Review
