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Adam David Morton

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Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) www.ppesydney.net | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23h
The brilliant @therealelliotde.bsky.social on his latest article in New Political Economy and how capitalism as a totality is shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine
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Our Political Economy and Theirs - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy of health advance understandings of conflict, ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Significant and can’t wait to read! @stuartelden.bsky.social www.minorcompositions.info/the-developm...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Timely as this week my lecture on racial capitalism wrapped up. Looking forward to reading this one too.
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Bruce Pascoe’s new book may spark another culture war. He hopes for ‘decency and intellectual curiosity’ this time
The Dark Emu author rails against Christianity, capitalism and colonialism – and Shakespeare and Charles Dickens cop a serve too. He’s ready for blowback
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New School Economics Archive curated by Nick Anderson - well worth digging around the course cassette recordings, course transcripts, student dissertations, and documents from the Economics department's history. Ensure correct attribution as to source and collocation.
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New School Economics Archive - Google Drive
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The next text to be read in the Past & Present Reading Group - book number 37 in our reading group!
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis and starting in October 2026, our next text which is: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Univers...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In his memoir *In the Realm of the Last Man*, @frankfukuyama.bsky.social states: ‘When I wrote The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, I had not yet read Huntington’ (p.165). The two-volume series on *Political Order* was thus an effort to update Huntington’s work as well as Fukuyama’s own 1/
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest column, on economic gloom and doom. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Dark times as four horsemen ride out
“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Short overview with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our article in Progress in Human Geography on why the Marxist notion of totality must be defended @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @davidharvey.org
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A short introduction to our new article ‘Totality must be defended’ written with @morton.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/from-localit... Engaging with recent work by @mattthompson.bsky.social and @davidharvey.org among others
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The People’s Emergency Briefing – A missed opportunity, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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The People’s Emergency Briefing – A missed opportunity!
Across the UK, the People’s Emergency Briefing is currently being screened to large audiences. It is intended as a wake-up call just in tim...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Karel Kosík's classic *Dialectics of the Concrete* assists in parsing contemporary debates on conjuncturalism and totality in and beyond economic geography - blogging with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our new article in Progress in Human Geography @stuartelden.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now published in Progress in Human Geography, open access, *Totality must be defended*, co-authored with @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- brilliant to work on this together. We will blog on it next week on @ppesydney.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alexandre Kojève's famous lectures on Hegel (1933-1939), at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, included Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as students. Registered numbers: 19 (1933), 11 (1934), 9 (1935), 10 (1936), 11 (1937), 17 (1938). No threat of academic "sustainability" in those days!
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Latest book completed with the Past & Present Reading Group - Part I of *Theories of Surplus Value* — what an important text to read! Commentary to follow soon on @ppesydney.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/past-present...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces progressivegeographies.com/2026/09/13/n... A short piece about the occasional confusion between two writers called 'Henri Lefebvre'
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No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces
I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Le…
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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‘If he can make money in a tyranny, that’s fine by him’: Francis Fukuyama on Trump, democracy - and changing his mind
The political thinker became famous for declaring the triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty-seven years on, he explains what he really meant and why he made the rare journey from right to left
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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa
South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wonderful to receive Ericka Beckmann’s latest book on literary economy and Latin America *Agrarian Questions* with @versobooks.bsky.social @erickabeckman.bsky.social — sure to be a contemporary classic.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I wrote about Edward Said's abandoned book project on Jonathan Swift, and his early work on Foucault, briefly in June 2025, based on a little work in Columbia's Edward Said archives, and using an earlier essay by Helen Deutsch progressivegeographies.com/2025/05/25/t... (2/2)
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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift
Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s lit…
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The end of Ediciones Era 😔 sl1nk.com/uowzaah
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This frustrates the nerdy hell out of me @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More great work by Paul Daley @theguardian.com
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Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Teaching day! First up *Race, Class, Gender* (third-year undergrads) and second up *Social Foundations of Capitalism* second-year undergrads, all 240 of the latter. Drawing inspiration from Hilary Mantel to indicate that neoclassical econ is "like trying to return mayonnaise to oil and egg yolk"
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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel - Available now
Available episodes of Hilary Mantel
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Revisiting some reading and thinking on a theme that’s still not clear in my thoughts. But latest books received include a return to Louis Althusser and Stuart Elden. With appreciation to @stuartelden.bsky.social for a copy of *Mapping the Present* and its lovely dedication. Thank you! 1/
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A focus from @abieler.bsky.social on his New Political Economy article and the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the labour movement broadly defined
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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’ - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
A focus on the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the la...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Superb to receive confirmation that this co-authored article with @chrishesketh.bsky.social has now been accepted for publication in Progress in Human Geography #totality Thanks to all those who gave feedback as well as the peer reviewers and editors. @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A good editing day @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Details for the 2026 Wheelwright Lecture, the marquee event of the year for Political Economy, at the University of Sydney with Geoff Mann on *Climates of Uncertainty* @geoffmann.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @mkonings.bsky.social @clairerhiannon.bsky.social
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2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”?
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just come across this thanks to the research process of @jordantcamp.bsky.social consulting the Stuart Hall archive and discovering this speech of his on Walter Rodney from 1974. It is timely for me as I am about to embark on a second semester teaching a course "Race, Class, Gender" 1/
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When We Are All Enemies of the State
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’
The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wonderful to welcome new colleague Dr Aditi Dixit to the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. From the fun of reading group involvement, to setting up new course design, it has been a pleasure to welcome her to Sydney. The future is very bright with such a calibre scholar.
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Discovery
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For teaching, I have updated my tips on essay writing, which now includes 11 things to look out for in designing essays. The addition addresses the "slop" of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what students should (and should not) do when approaching the perils of #AI.
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11 Things to look out for about essay writing - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Across several of the political economy courses, or units, I teach at the University of Sydney the one set of issues often repeated to my students revolves around essay writing best practice. Rather t...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New collection on Henri Lefebvre focusing on space, rhythmanalysis, the rural, autogestion, the state and violence that push Lefebvre into new areas such as time, phenomenology and the environment, edited by Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson @anthempress.bsky.social
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The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press
Explore more about this title.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Over the past 10 years, especially, much of my shoe leather has been expended toing and froing between office and library to loan this book out. On my third attempt, I finally got lucky in sourcing an affordable secondhand copy of @stuartelden.bsky.social classic text, which arrived today!😎
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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My first publication in Spanish! Co-authored with @monicaclua.bsky.social for a 💥💥💥 volume on critical theories of the state, class and power. A great collection of essays.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New article on "Social Formation and Mode of Production" by Jörg Nowak in Science & Society @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Social Formation and Mode of Production: Peripheral Capitalism, Non-capitalist Relations, and Forms of Labor in Contemporary Capitalism - Jörg Nowak, 2026
The debate on how to theorize the coexistence of several relations of production, forms of labor, and various modes of production in a given society has a longe...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, @dukepress.bsky.social, July 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o... Introduction available open access at this link
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The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Over @ppesydney.bsky.social we are celebrating Martijn Koning's new book *The Bailout State* with this interview on state theory, the Minsky “moment”, the Keynesian revolution, Modern Monetary Theory and so much more @politybooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social
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The Bailout State - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Popular revolutions have no more bitter enemies than those they have trained themselves’ — Balzac, *Les Paysans*
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Luciano Carment @lucianocarment.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My new opinion piece on our departments blog, the pitch: there is some very old-school economic thinking behind Japan's 'new' arms industry.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The brilliant @lucianocarment.bsky.social on the paradoxes of Japan's arms trade. Is this old state capitalism at the centre of the “new” state capitalism? @iliasalami.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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Japan’s New Arms Exports Double Down on a Broken Economic Model - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
What are the paradoxes at the heart of the "new" Japanese arms trade?
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Isabel Karremann ed. Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama - @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, 2024, paperback December 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...
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Shakespeare / Space
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual sp…
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Luciano Carment @lucianocarment.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Frank Stilwell, @garethbryant.bsky.social and I co-edited a special issue of JAPE all about teaching political economy. If you teach political economy, IPE or heterodox economics I think this issue will make for great reading and could be a valuable resource for your own practice. Check it out!
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New Issue of JAPE: Teaching Political Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The usual focus of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is research – its framings, its findings, and the implications of the knowledge that the research generates. This issue of the jou...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Kojin Karatani, The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution – eds. Jonathan E. Abel, Yoshiki Tajiri and Hiroki Yoshikuni – @versobooks.bsky.social, August 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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The End of Modern Literature
What comes after the death of literature? Kojin Karatani, winner of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, examines the corpse, investigates the cause of death, and offers glimpses of an afterlife from various the...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
An island of heterodoxy in the form of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) is to close at Goldsmiths University of London. Will Davies reflects on its achievements
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Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Finishing one project this month involved reading and revisiting Pierre Macherey, which has led me (of course) to the fine work of @stuartelden.bsky.social on Georges Canguilhem!! Arrived today.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Absolutely brilliant to wrap up some reading and then find this blog post by @stuartelden.bsky.social than is intellectual gold in summarising Louis Althusser's lecture course on the philosophy of the scientists 1/
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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures
Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars …
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Having read all volumes of Capital and Grundrisse together, now it’s time for the highest of the ‘luminous summits’
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