Yeah I’m taking this one off even though there are some cool calls this year for sure
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not a metaphor // @ Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) // author of 𝐶𝘰𝑢𝘯𝑡𝘦𝑟𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘋𝑖𝘴𝑝𝘰𝑠𝘴𝑒𝘴𝑠𝘪𝑜𝘯, 𝑅𝘦𝑐𝘭𝑎𝘪𝑚𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘓𝑎𝘯𝑑 www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520397767/…
![A 2x2 matrix titled "Sabotage Matrix", showing the material and immaterial effects of infrastructure sabotage, divided into destructive (left) and constructive (right) axes.
Top-left (Q1): Labeled "Destructive material effects" with a photo of a partially dismantled dam.
Top-right (Q2): Labeled "Constructive material effects" with a photo of a dislodged water pipe on dry earth.
Bottom-left (Q3): Labeled "Destructive ideational effects", with the quote: "We are saying [sabotage] is good, because it has made the things that were in darkness to come into the light."
Bottom-right (Q4): Labeled "Constructive ideational effects", with the quote: "The reason for us being included, it is because of the destructions they have seen."
The vertical axis is labeled "Material" (top) and "Immaterial" (bottom), and the horizontal axis is labeled "Destructive" (left) and "Constructive" (right).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opouudsmslyt4wwrlgf7v4ca/bafkreif3uyqyulyovtfcwpsmqtkisuxnb2d6nh6dfissgaqqal3zvnk65e)
![TIME FOR SOCIALISM: DISPATCGES FROM A WORLD ON FIRE, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty (2021 [2020]; translated by Kristin Couper from VIVEMENT LE SOCIALISME! CHRONIQUES, 2016-2020)
World-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented many of the recent political events that have shaken the planet, always arguing for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay in which he argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology. These essays offer readers an accessible way to understand the struggle against inequalities and tax evasion, in favour of a globalization more respectful of work and the environment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:liweifjp72sawd2tfklp6egk/bafkreibpyddew7cuftb3ybndf3orkimv77qaftorifnj65hgpqodo4gppq)
![PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, OR THE REAL LIBERTALIA by David Graeber (2022 [2019]; originally published as LES PIRATES LUMIÈRES)
A provocative rereading of the European Enlightenment, by situating its roots in the thought of precolonial indigenous societies, the pirates of the Caribbean in early modernity who relocated to the northeast coast of Madagascar and interacted with and learned from indigenous Malagasy people, the peoples who moved back and forth across the Indian Ocean of what woukd become Indonesia, India, Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Gulf, and the east coast of Africa. Graeber also centres indigenous Malagasy women this materialist history of debates about democracy and property in the European salons of the Enlightenment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:liweifjp72sawd2tfklp6egk/bafkreigzqbwzeopd2viyxzsj3wthxtesnhf6aatzfdgzsoyblpflfai7hm)
