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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Free Gifts by @alybatt.bsky.social is now 50% off! This book is a timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature. Use code SPRING50 at checkout until June 9th: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Corriente Cálida @corrientecalida.com · 08/01/2026

ENTREVISTA | Alyssa Battistoni 📚 @carloscorrochano.xyz entrevista a @alybatt.bsky.social a propósito de la publicación de su libro «Free Gifts». Analizando la vigencia de «El capital» o el fenómeno de Zohran Mamdani, Battistoni esboza los contornos de una teoría climática para nuestro presente.

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Entrevista a Alyssa Battistoni - Corriente Cálida

Alyssa Battistoni Una sociedad poscapitalista también tendría que hacer frente a las transformaciones que ya hemos provocado y a las que están efectivamente integradas en el futuro. En este momento, n...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

fresh audio product: • Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium • Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.

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Facing the Limits

In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value the natural world. Yet the lesson of this exploration is much broader: that capitalism imposes fundamental limits on…

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Capitalism’s Toxic Nature

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

thank you so much!! loved talking about it

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more live now!

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni @adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world. Listen now 👇 www.break-down.org/politics-of-...

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

thanks for this terrific review Lukas!

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*

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Is Climate Change an Externality?

Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.* To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?

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What Can Politics Make of Nature?

Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

come enjoy a free lunch with me, Kate, Corey, and Leah in a couple of hours!

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."

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Free Gifts

A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

taught @alybatt.bsky.social and the labor process chapter together, now I finally understand why labor takes a wage but nature’s free of charge

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.

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In the Shadow of Commodification

While capitalism is typically said to commodify everything, much of what makes up our world isn’t commodified at all. It instead appears as a free gift: a social form that describes the condition of…

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Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought @columbiaccct.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NEXT MONDAY: Join The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities in honoring Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by @alybatt.bsky.social. In-person at Columbia University or remotely from Zoom. November 17 at 6:15 PM. To register, please visit sofheyman.org/events/celeb...

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

absolutely my pleasure, thanks so much for inviting me!

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

and looking forward to joining HM panels for great new books by @brunoleipold.com, @michaellazarus.bsky.social, and @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social, plus some musings on state theory...

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

more UK events to come this week: an @histmat.bsky.social launch panel noon Thursday Nov 6 with an amazing lineup: @sorenmau.bsky.social, Andreas Malm, Lukas Slothuus, and @kathunfeld.bsky.social

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

really bummed to be missing election day in NYC but doing my best to represent our mayor abroad

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

really looking forward to discussing Free Gifts with the brilliant @vbivar.bsky.social tonight at Blackwell's in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...

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Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar

A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Very much looking forward to talking to @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book on capitalism and nature next Tuesday in Oxford. If you're in town, come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...

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Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar

A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/10/2025

In the new TMK, I chat with @alybatt.bsky.social about her excellent new book — Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature — and we get into capitalism’s strange relationship to the natural world: one defined by brutal extraction but also strategic neglect. www.patreon.com/posts/142206...

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429. The Nature of Capital and Freedom (ft. Alyssa Battistoni) | This Machine Kills

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Extremely excited to be welcoming @alybatt.bsky.social to Ohio State University next Friday afternoon! Please join us for this conversation about her wonderful new book _Free Gifts_ - we’ll be discussing climate change, value theory, social reproduction, existentialism, and much, much more.

Free Gifts
Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM:
A CONVERSATION WITH ALYSSA
BATTISTONI
on her new book
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Friday, Oct. 3, 4-6 p.m.
Hagerty Hall 050
Please join us for a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni, assistant professor of political science at Barnard College, about her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. In Free Gifts, Battistoni explores capitalism's persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn't be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven't been. To understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, she contends, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism-and how others do not. Battistoni's book is a major new work of environmental thinking that offers new perspectives on everything from the politics of existentialism to the Wages for Housework campaign.
Sponsored by the Umwelt Center for Germanic Studies & Environmental Humanities, the Political Theory Workshop, and the Environmental History Initiative.

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Looking forward to discussing this next week with @alybatt.bsky.social ! Mon 15 Sep 2025 7PM BST / 2PM ET / 11AM PT Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 03/09/2025

Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Alyssa Battistoni in conversation

On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with contributor Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, out now from Princeton University Press.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Tomorrow (September 4) at 7pm EST, be part of this in-person @nplusonemag.com event where @alybatt.bsky.social will be in-conversation with senior editor Colin Vanderburg to discuss her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. RSVP here:

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Alyssa Battistoni in conversation

On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

On Thursday, September 4 at 7pm (EST), be part of this in-person @nplusonemag.com event where @alybatt.bsky.social will be in-conversation with senior editor Colin Vanderburg to discuss her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. RSVP here:

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Alyssa Battistoni in conversation

On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

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Jochen Schmon @jochenschmon.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It was a great pleasure interviewing @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @princetonupress.bsky.social for @jhideas.bsky.social: “Class rule consists in the power to produce the environment itself"

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

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The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I'm so excited to talk to @alybatt.bsky.social about her *brilliant* new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Next Tuesday in SF, at Book Passage! Come through 📚💚 www.bookpassage.com/event/alyssa...

Alyssa Battistoni with Daniel Aldana Cohen - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Ferry Building Event)

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

spectrejournal.com/the-price-of... Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Read the review! Read the book!

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The Price of Freedom – Spectre Journal

Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NLR 153 is now online. Featuring Zhang Yongle, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav, Michael Burawoy and Michael Lieven. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153 Subscribe now!

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