A Spanish translation of the book Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis by @PaulCockshott, Allin Cottrell and Jan Philipp Dapprich has been published by @EditorialTrotta. indep.network/spanish-transl…

Why do we know so little about the Indus Valley people - a sophisticated civilisation believed to be bigger than both ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia that existed for thousands of years. 🎧 How long will traces of our civilisation last? bbc.in/4nfzTmb

Did cooperation make us human? - Meer - goo.gl/alerts/dvpkDD #GoogleAlerts

Honoured and thrilled to be chairing the fascinating Public Sector Data & AI Summit 2026 in Edinburgh tomorrow. Full of hot topics and top speakers! #ConnectDataSummit

Political poetry, in Glasgow, this Thursday! In a time when poetry of protest is more than ever needed. You can order the collection as well, from culturematters.org.uk/cm-pub…

Glasgow launch of my collection of political poems, Shouting in the Tunnel, March 12th, 6.30, Mount Florida Books. Happy to read almost anywhere! @ByLeavesWeLive @scottishbooks @Glasgow_Live @Glasgow_Times @UofGlasgow

Scottish PEN IWD event Woman of Courage and Endurance: Scottish-Gazan poet Nada Shawa, plus Uni-Ed Creative Writing students read the work of imprisoned international women writers and some of their own. MARCH 10th, 7pm, Edinburgh Futures Centre rm 2.55 tinyurl.com/5c7e5vcf

Mañana comienza en nuestro server Cibglobe un club de lectura de 'Hacia un nuevo socialismo' de @PaulCockshott y Allin Cottrell: una obra fundamental para entender la planificación en la era digital y tomar el control del metabolismo social. 🖥️📕 ¡Únete!: discord.gg/9EnQFbYpVP

That moment when you hold your very first poetry collection in your hand! Shouting in the Tunnel, poems of protest is available from Culture Matters at culturematters.org.uk/cm-pub… Launch in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the next months. I'd love to read from it anywhere I am invited!

📷 Do come to the Glasgow launch of @ruthaylett's and my novel Solstice, from @StairwellBooks, on Sun 7th Dec, 2pm-4pm, Garnethill Multicultural Centre, with Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. eventbrite.co.uk/e/solstice-…

Many thanks to the brilliant Jonathan Fardy for reviewing our book and to Marx and Philosophy for publishing the review! marxandphilosophy.org.uk/boo…

From the review: The sheer scope and ambition of Defending Materialism is startling. It proposes nothing less than a wholesale recommencement of materialism, but of a kind that one would have thought to be dead as a dog: mechanical materialism. We know well enough the history of this concept. Or do we? Kolozova (a philosopher), Cockshott, and Michaelson (both scientists) would argue we do not. What we know is a good hundred-plus years of obfuscation, confusion and polemic from the fulminations of dogmatic defenders of Soviet-inspired dialectical materialism, or ‘Diamat’ as it came to be called, to the later onslaught of revisionist efforts by so-called ‘post-Marxists’ (many of whom merely defend a more inclusive liberalism). The latter’s chief enemy is ‘mechanical materialism.’ This conception of Marxism – vulgar Marxism as it came to be called – is accused of all manner of heresies: economism (the belief that the economy is determinative of social and political reality); the metaphysics of the base-superstructure model (closely connected to the former heresy); and a forgetting of the relative autonomy of the cultural, social and political. And who would defend that? These authors do not. What they defend is a scientifically rigorous concept of ‘mechanics.’ Think Newton, not Kautsky.

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Posting a relatively old article of mine critiquing the policy of the current CPGB theorist McNair drive.google.com/file/d/0B8R…

Proud authors! @ruthaylett @StairwellBooks

That moment when your book appears on Amazon and it begins to feel real! Solstice, written with @gjmichaelson is a follow-up to Equinox; we launch in Edinburgh on June 17th! @scottishbktrust @thebookseller tinyurl.com/mppknhnp

Email me if you want more details. Should be very good! @GregMichaelson1

Remembering Mark today.

Early registration deadline has been extended until this Friday, 20th December for Trends in Functional Programming in Oxford in January. 28 contributed talks, three keynotes, plus Trends in FP in Education! trendsfp.github.io/index.htm…

Yukang Xie is presenting his research at TFP 2025 in Oxford. Draft paper title: "KappaMutor: A Compact Structured Combinator Processor for Haskell" Yukang is a PhD student on our EPSRC HAFLANG project.