Opinion: Millennials' ire with boomers may soon be replaced by conflict with the privileged, property-owning elites in their own generation, writes John Burn-Murdoch on.ft.com/3vRab32

What I find fascinating is a worker's state with the fantasy of a world without workers.

Very much looking forward to talking about Aristotle, Brandom, and Pontoppidan (!) in Atlanta later this month, alongside my brilliant comrades Daniel Zamora Vargas, John-Baptiste Oduor, and Todd Cronan, among others. Come if near Emory!

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

¿Por qué personajes tan dispares como Elon Musk, Yanis Varoufakis, Mark Zuckerberg y el Pablo Iglesias del primer Podemos han defendido con pasión la renta básica?

Samuel Witteveen reseña el libro de Anton Jäger y Daniel Zamora Vargas sobre el tema.
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Les dynamiques de classe continuent de dicter qui a accès à une identité gay non stigmatisée — et d’exclure de nombreux membres de la classe ouvrière de la participation à une vie gay normale. Interview de l’anthropologue Roger Lancaster par Daniel Zamora Vargas
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Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids- A thread:

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'Experiences' are now everywhere. You can be 'immersed' in Van Gogh or in someone else's life through the proliferation of memoirs. This is what Anna Kornbluh called a broader 'refusal of mediation' in favour of 'immediacy' Jacobin
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Our Book of the Week is an intellectual history of basic income, which has precedents as early as ancient Rome but only rose to prominence when economic tumult shook the political culture of postwar welfare states.

By Anton Jäger & Daniel Zamora Vargas

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The other day I defended my thesis and passed with no corrections. Thanks to Gil Eyal and Liam Stanley for their invaluable feedback and advice. I'm very grateful to my brilliant supervisors lisa stampnitzky 🤦🏻‍♀️ and Prof Anastasia Sh for their support throughout this journey

Really sharp introduction to 'asset manager capitalism' by Benjamin Braun (Benjamin Braun) and Brett Christophers in an awesome-looking special issue of Environment and Planning A:
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Martin Scorsese's List of 39 Foreign Films everyone should see.

A pleasure to interview Branko Milanovic/Branko Milanovic for The Nation about his new book, “Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.” thenation.com/article/cultur…

Wrote about the dilemmas of protest politics in the 2020s and the K-shaped social recovery for New Left Review

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Very important article by zeithistoriker. This quote really made me finally clear what I have been thinking for years, on one hand working on early inequality scholars, of nationalist background, in 19th and 20th Italy, and on the other as an activist: newstatesman.com/uncategorized/…

If you want one graph only, perhaps this is it.

A serious critique of Saito's work, with a lot that applies to Jason Hickel and other theorists.

the ultimate publication with page numbers: cambridge.org/core/journals/…