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Daniel Hartley

@danieljhartley.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.

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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's happening.
Photo of China Miéville's new book The Rouse on a café table, with a window in the background, next to a red cup of black coffee.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/06/2026
Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Next Thursday I'll be in Edinburgh to talk about the book project. critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/daniel-hartl...
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Daniel Hartley – Peasant Modernism (18 June)
We will be joined by Daniel Hartley (Durham) for a discussion of his new book project, Peasant Modernism: Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well. Rethinking the peasant as a f...
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.
Hardcover copy of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP June 2026).Table of contents of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES Image of interior pages with Shell OIL advertising photos.
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excited to report that "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" has been published online. It introduces the forthcoming special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" that I co-edited with @s-msorentino.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/1462...
A screen cap of the first page of a pdf of a journal article titled "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" by Mikkel Flohr from the journal Political Theology. It shows the title, the abstract and part of the text.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
👀 hey now: jed esty on jameson in the newest issue of *novel* read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
Late Jameson
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Jed Esty

Despite having passed away in the autumn of 2024, Fredric Jameson published two books in that same year (they will not, we are told, be his last). It makes sense, given Jameson's career-long engagements, that one of these is a “theory book” and the other a “novel book.” When we read the two together, some interesting patterns and contrasts emerge. For example, the theory book's subtitle claims to follow its topic to the present, but the story of French thought, for Jameson, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. His account implies an arc: forty glorious years from 1950 to 1990—the rest is aftermath. The novel book, on the other hand, makes good on Jameson's wish to address the present. The novel is in its crisis of globalization. The crisis is not over, and neither is the novel, not quite. And that is maybe the most important thing to say at the outset.
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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Been interviewed on Tyne Tees about trying to pursue the case of my sister's murder in Nairobi, which is still unsolved. Very grateful to Kris Jepson for his sensitive reporting: www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Today.
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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Image of a beer and a biography of Gramsci by Giuseppe Fiori on an outdoor pub table.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21/05/2026
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston has just been released from Israeli prison. Alex was abducted while traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla and details the abuses he experienced while detained.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@morton.bsky.social might know...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What are the stand-out books on Gramsci to have appeared since Peter Thomas's The Gramscian Moment? (Preferably in English/French/German).
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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m happy to share that our book proposal has been accepted in Routledge’s History and Philosophy of Biology series! I’m so excited and honored to be co-editing the volume - titled Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin - with Jonathan Basile and Denis Walsh.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Read this recently. Excellent article.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Caveat: the Feuerbachian flourishes in Marx's 1844 MS.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm losing 100% of my pay this month, and for the foreseeable future, because of management's punitive response to the marking and assessment boycott launched by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social to try and stop compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1448...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Looking forward to speaking on this panel at Newcastle University next week.
Poster advertising an event entitled Elemental Commodities: Trade, Extraction and Dispossession next Thursday at Newcastle University. Speakers: Katherine Baxter (Newcastle), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Rebecca Macklin (Aberdeen)
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Anatarah عنترة @damashummus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is a good book. I’ve been having a bunch of fun reading it. If you want to be a “left-Aristotelian,” it’s a must read!
Pictured is the cover of “The History and Philosophy of Materialism” Edited by Charles T. Wolfe and John Symons
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A very interesting article that contextualises Welsh devolution in the longue-durée history of the British state and reflects on what Reform's rise might mean for "Welsh European" regional autonomy.
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Ericka Beckman @erickabeckman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.
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Agrarian Questions
Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Rising costs forcing 3m UK households to skip meals, Which? report finds
Consumer insight tracker shows 85% are worried about food prices and a majority think the economy will deteriorate
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm giving a talk at Oxford University next week as part of their Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar. The title of the talk is: '"In the Belly of this Story": Metabolic Autonomy in Leslie Marmon Silko and the Late Marx'. Do come if you're around!
Poster advertising the seminar series. If you'd like specific details, please do ask.
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The coming global food crisis - www.ft.com/content/3634... via @FT
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The coming global food crisis
Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Reminder that this is on Tuesday next week. Still places available.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I've just donated. If you can afford it, you should too.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.
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Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024
Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read...
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Hadn't intended to read this tonight, but once I started I couldn't stop. Incredible novel.
Front cover of Joseph Andras's novel, Tomorrow They Won't Murder Us.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What a shame! Hopefully we'll cross paths elsewhere soon.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!
Slide showing event key info:
Event: Symposium
Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question
Date: April 21
Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m.
Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004)
Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology.
Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley,  Amanda Herbert,  Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas SpencerSlide showing programme schedule:
10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley)

10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’

11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’

12.45-13.45 – Lunch

13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’

14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’

15.45-16.00 – Break

16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’

17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question
A one-day symposium at Durham University exploring the intersection of culture and the 21st-century agrarian question.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!
Slide showing event key info:
Event: Symposium
Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question
Date: April 21
Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m.
Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004)
Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology.
Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley,  Amanda Herbert,  Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas SpencerSlide showing programme schedule:
10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley)

10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’

11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’

12.45-13.45 – Lunch

13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’

14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’

15.45-16.00 – Break

16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’

17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I recently ordered the English translation of Derrida's The Post Card, but for days now it's been "delayed in transit". Is this...destinerrance?
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If you're an author: you're welcome to this prompt for a dead cert global bestseller. (2/2)
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Maybe this is just end-of-term delirium, but a strange thought I've had more than once recently is: I'd love to read either a) a Bolaño-style novel whose protagonists are Italian specialists of Young Hegelianism, or b) a Wu Ming-style novel whose protagonists are Young Hegelians. (1/2)
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 27/02/2026
Going to be publishing my book on Socialist Republicanism with Cambridge University Press. Should be out in both hardback and paperback next year.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congrats! Can't wait.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New special issue of Crisis and Critique: "Alain Badiou: Philosophy, History, and the Transformations of the Dialectic" www.crisiscritique.org
Cover image of the journal Crisis and Critique special issue dedicated to Alain Badiou showing a blurred, brown image of Badiou behind the title "Alain Badiou: Philosophy, History, and the Transformations of the Dialectic".
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Though, for what it's worth, for me that doesn't negate the importance of other parts of her work (though I haven't read her most recent book or two).
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I attended a conference on the "Mode of Production" debate at Nottingham in 2019, at which Federici was present. I recall the late Neil Davidson politely but firmly deconstructing the historical basis of her witchcraft arguments.
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Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨Fancy contributing to a special issue on Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social? Look no further... Details, including the deadline, at the link: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
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Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)
constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The book reads Marx in light of the ideas, art and practices emerging from contemporary global peasant movements (e.g., La Via Campesina and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement), while revealing lines of thought in Marx’s work germane to ecological framings of land, food and agrarian politics.
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Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
Artistic image of an MST militant in traditional dress holding a scythe stood next to harvested crops with a slogan "MST 40 anos de luta e resistência". The art work is by Judy Duarte.
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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Dear friends, We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies. Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;). www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science/ Ecological transitions in/of Europe and the European Union.
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