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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm presenting the Endnotes contribution to this book this afternoon at Goldsmiths—coincidentally, also the place that project was first presented in 2007 or 2008. 3-5pm RHB 137 (in person only) Free and open to all Organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Years ago I wrote some stuff for this book, coming out of a debate we participated in as Endnotes. I had thought the project gone, but it has risen from the dead. Odd to have something you wrote come out so long after the event. Glad they got there though! minorcompositions.info?p=1690

Book cover with text: "Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What is to be done under real subsumption?", edited by Anthony Iles and Mattin.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar

On Cuba.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Mi artículo sobre las últimas agresiones estadounidenses contra Cuba, en español. Traducido y publicado por Communis Press. communispress.com/llave-al-cue...

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¿Llave al cuello?

¿Cuenta el Estado cubano con la capacidad de aguantar lo suficiente antes de alcanzar un nuevo terreno estratégico?

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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Identification with the mambise guerilla; invocation of the machete-charge; rehearsal of ‘patria o muerte’ cries – often performed at the top levels of state, these are not without their residual popular bases." On Cuba and Venezuela in @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar

On Cuba.

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

@roblucas.bsky.social on the US attempt to strangle Cuba by cutting its fuel supply: "... between the chokepoint of oil-dependence and a green alternative... The question is whether Cuba has the capacity to hold out long enough to reach new strategic terrain." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar

On Cuba.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brings a new, unexpected meaning to that old piece.

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Diario Red @diario.red · 28/01/2025

Armas para pensar 🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos ✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social

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Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba

El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

'Perhaps the safest thing to say is that the working class, as a class, didn’t do anything. The vote is evidence of dealignment, not realignment: voters below $100,000 split basically down the middle.' Tim Barker writes for Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Tim Barker, Dealignment — Sidecar

On the US elections.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

The Economist's "World in Brief" this morning: "A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

So it turns out two of the dogs are actually named after THAT economist—the one who is named after that guy who works for NLR.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Pablo Pryluka, Argentina Realigned — Sidecar

After the elections.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I am told that my dissatisfaction has been logged with the reference number CRL57GH3JK.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The Economist's delirious war propaganda.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

This is a really original take on the question of secular stagnation.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Writing a letter to the management to tell them how much you support them and admire their work because this is the best way of ensuring that you can get on with being a radical in academia.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Important things that go ignored because they are so boring.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Debating with other users in the support forum whether it is even possible to close your own account, or whether that is a logical contradiction.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

The banking app doesn't give me full privileges and directs me to the website for a certain kind of transaction. The website just displays an ad for the app instead of the login page. The people on the support line tell me I should log into the website by entering a code from the app in the site.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Calling IT support so that I can gain the correct access privileges to click a button to tell someone the same thing that I just told them in person so that their boss has a formal record of it in a database.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

AD 2150: humanity is reduced to warlordism as the scattered survivors fight over the embers of a dead planet, but somewhere there's still a guy arguing that capitalism is healthy enough to accommodate his idea for a reformist programme.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Doomed to negotiate the endless headaches of a social world that was first subordinated to intricate bureaucratic procedure and then materialised as glitch-riddled infrastructure.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Farewell Evelyn Fox Keller. "Century of the Gene" was the single best thing I ever read on genetics or cell biology.

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Some intellectual projects make no sense until you see whatever the marketing or career move was that the author or publisher was attempting. "Oh, you were trying to maximise theoretical claims so the years spent in an obscure archive would seem as important as possible, as they might seem trivial".

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Can anyone help me out with a copy of Lorraine Daston, Before the Two Cultures? I've been trying to buy it, but the site is in Hebrew and even with Google translate the interface is too opaque to get through! www.academy.ac.il/Shop/Entry.aspx?n…

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Before the Two Cultures: Big Science and Big Humanities in the Nineteenth Century

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Rob Lucas @roblucas.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

This piece from the new NLR is the most illuminating thing I've ever read on the CCP and the nature of the Chinese state. Really gets into the mechanics. newleftreview.org/issues/ii142/arti…

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