The busiest port in North America is 45 minutes down I-35 from Texas’ infamous migrant prison. I try to demystify their relationship in the April issue of Field Notes
brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fie…
If my followers want a marxist critique of Mau's Mute Compulsion that's far more critical but also more generous than the meager Kantgelian line taken by OP below I highly recommend Hunsinger's critique here open.substack.com/pub/richar…
“Mute compulsion” does not explain why we sustain capitalism; it just describes the *fact* that we do. To take ourselves to be compelled by economic law is to fall prey to the very fetishism of capital as economic law that Marx diagnoses.
The Palm Springs School for Social Research wants to revitalize historical materialism, revive ideology critique, and ask big questions about social life.
We talked to one of its founders, Catherine Liu, about gangster capitalism and the future of socialism. jacobin.com/2026/06/liu-cult…
Si quieren entender la fascinación con JIC, y pq ha marcado un antes y un después en la lectura de Marx para muchos
Su último artículo es un buen punto de partida, y q bueno q alcanzó a resumir acá varias de sus ideas centrales. Hasta siempre master
cicpint.org/es/inigo-carrera…
Hoy nos dejó Juan Iñigo Carrera. Un tipo que reescribió la crítica de la economía política, diría, desde Marx. Ni hablar de la investigación sobre la especificidad del ámbito de acumulación argentino y latinoamericano que nos regaló. Hoy, más que nunca, nos queda su legado.
my absolute favorite example of the incoherence of hipster era 1 and why it confuses people is the lineup for the 2006 Bumbershoot festival: Kanye West, AFI, Of Montreal, Metric, The Blood Brothers, Mates of State, and DAVE EGGERS
We sat down with Tony Hernandez, a former construction worker, professional musician and a self-described “amateur historian” of Cuba’s urban music movements. His narrative demonstrates a deeply egalitarian understanding of the creative capacities of everyday people.
my article's up online now, so that's cool. I'd appreciate if you'd read it, please. thank you. (fair warning, it's kind of a downer.)
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/ar…
Thinking here of how Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is infamous among Early Modernists, but was still (as of 6 years ago) being recommended to me as a solid work by people who don't specializing in early modern period