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I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital (@VersoBooks). Up now at @endnotesjournal. endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o-b…

Issue 06: Resistance starts shipping this week. Order yours now. Feeling restless.  Hunger tactics. Laughing in the face of fascism. Breaking through. Diagnosing revolution. Madness in the Maghreb. Essays by Fady Joudah, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more.

In this text on the LA ICE raids I discuss the conflict btwn feds & local politicians, the dynamic btwn community self-defense actions & the "No Kings" march, fractures in Trump's coalition highlighted by the kidnappings, & what burns when a Waymo burns. brooklynrail.org/2025/07/field-…

From David Macey’s biography of Fanon, who would be 100 today. The passage is about this photo. Happy birthday FF

For the first time since we launched the Sameer Project 15 months ago, we didn’t do food distributions for 3 days in a row. We are scrambling to find anything for the most malnutritioned cases on our lists 💔

I wrote about Dubai, for @NewLeftReview Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

The section on anagnorisis in Valences is so good. Keep coming back to it and finding something new.

If you haven’t read Proust already, forget it mate. Your brain is destroyed from short term dopamine burst addiction and algorithmic k-hole content.

The British lead the west in innovative admixtures of hair and skinfade combos

How I’m tryna be

.@thomasowaller on Jaleh Mansoor’s “Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction” up now at @efluxcriticism: e-flux.com/notes/6783374/…

Witnesses to the Massacre . A painting by the Palestinian artist Saleh Al-Malhi, 1984 .

New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant on complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; the Dem establishment collapse; the resurgent left. Recorded live from @socialismconf! thedigradio.com/podcast/notes-…

This needs to be curtailed by mass migration.

wow didn't realize recordings from the famous 1967 Hopkins conference featuring Derrida, Lacan, etc., were recently discovered & put online in 2023. you can hear not just the original lectures (Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play") but the discussions! jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/collections/5c…

Fanny Howe:

I was asked to review Adam Kirsch’s atrocious book on settler colonialism (which is basically an apologia for Israeli genocide). So I actually took the occasion to highlight the amazing Palestinian scholarship going back DECADES on the subject: jewishcurrents.org/history-lesson

The notion that new ideas are the SOURCE of economic value, while still wrong, is only *comprehensible* in a situation where simply making or providing useful stuff is not consistently profitable due to generalized overproduction. Its original advocates grasped this contingency

🔥 “Hellworld examines the megastructures of global capitalism, asking how revolutionary subjectivity might emerge within and against capital’s domesticating force. Central to this inquiry is the planetary factory...” Sep 2025.