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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"[W]hen we understand that inequality and exclusionary violence are built into the logic of private money we can begin to imagine new possibilities for monetary design founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, and care."

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Reclaiming Money’s Public Powers for Imaginative Intersectional Politics

By Rob Hawkes Alongside my Money on the Left colleagues Will Beaman and Tyler Suksawat, I recently joined Gus Dunn-Hindle of the Maine People’s Alliance to discuss public money and public banking o…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Curiouser and curiouser…

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Marion Jones @marionjones100.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a beautiful and necessary read.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“[B]y affirming […] that money is weirder than the austerity mindset […] will ever be able to appreciate or contain, we can build a postnormal, inclusive and sustainable world and unzip our ‘normal-person suits’ (along with our normal-person monetary imaginations) together.”

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✨New Essay!✨ How do we counter the imagination deficit enforced by an austere private money paradigm? Read @robbhawkes.bsky.social's latest: “Reclaiming Money’s Public Powers for Imaginative Intersectional Politics.” & please share! 🙏

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Reclaiming Money’s Public Powers for Imaginative Intersectional Politics

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Picturing another world is not the same thing as bringing one into being, of course, but freeing our imaginations from the austere limits of the private money paradigm is an important first step towards a better, more inclusive, and sustainable future.” 2/

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“For the former @greenparty.org.uk leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social, ‘the failure to rise to the challenge of the nature and climate emergencies’ is reflective of an ‘imagination deficit’ and ‘a failure to imagine that a better world is possible’.” 1/

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Modern Money Lab U.S. @mmlusa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We need more public banks! Our friends @moneyontheleft.bsky.social & @mainepeople.bsky.social recorded an easy-to-follow chat about how public banks can help cities and states save money and fund things that make life better and more affordable. Thanks for the shoutout, @mainebeacon.bsky.social!

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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!

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What if we rethought money through public banking? - Maine Beacon

The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. Will Beaman, Tyler Suksawat and Rob Hawkes of the collective join MPA legislative stra...

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“[A]s we @moneyontheleft.bsky.social have been arguing […] systemic exclusion is baked into the present logic of monetary design, [but] this is not and has never been inevitable – we can design another, more inclusive and sustainable system just as we can redesign our banknotes.”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“In asserting that money is weird, it is my hope that we can all ‘unzip’ our ‘normal-person monetary imaginations’ and refuse to be constrained by the artificial restrictions the economic orthodoxy imposes on our understanding of money’s limitless creative potential.”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“At the conclusion of my talk […], I turned to the words of the neuroqueer theorist @dr-nicky.bsky.social, who explains […] that: ‘Neuronormativity and heteronormativity […] are systems of artificial restriction on human potential. […] To neuroqueer is to refuse to be constrained by those limits.’”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In July, I presented at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social / @modernistudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms conference @lboroenglish.bsky.social. My talk (which you can read via @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s new Arts & Culture page) argued that *money is weird*.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“… and underscores the foundational role of public provisioning across the social, economic and aesthetic spheres.” Rob Hawkes, “‘Too paranoid for you?’: Suspicion, Trust and (Post/Meta?)Modern Money in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge” @edinburghup.bsky.social 3/

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Thus, in place of the paranoiac logics of privation and competitive individualism, our shared project valorises ‘capacious alternative visions of political economic possibility’, advances a politics of care, collectivity and interdependence…” 2/

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“The present chapter […] reject[s] the private-money-based economic orthodoxy in favour of the public money paradigm. This, I assert, entails moving away from a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ […] and towards what @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s William Saas has called the ‘hermeneutics of provision’.” 1/

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“My hope is that […] we can build a postnormal, inclusive and sustainable world and unzip our ‘normal-person suits’ (along with our normal-person monetary imaginations) together.”

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates moneyontheleft.org/2026/05/02/g...

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“When we understand that inequality and exclusionary violence are built into the logic of private money we can begin to imagine new possibilities for monetary design founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, and care.” robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Money is always created (and can only ever make meaningful sense) in a public context; it is issued and redeemed by public authorities, and facilitates transactions only after it has been named as a public unit of account. Therefore, in a profoundly important sense, all money is public money.”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Much of my recent writing has referred to ‘the public money paradigm’, but what does this mean and why is it so important to me, both as a literature scholar and as an advocate for democratic public finance?

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

‘[W]hen we understand that inequality and exclusionary violence are built into the logic of private money we can begin to imagine new possibilities for monetary design founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, and care.’ Let’s tell new stories about money. Let’s give credit where credit’s due.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What is the Public Money Paradigm? Why reconfiguring our understanding of money changes everything, not just how we think about economics. robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 27/07/2026

Q: How can we cultivate a paradigm of money founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, + care—i.e., one of PUBLIC money? A: Part of the way is by seeing, as @robbhawkes.bsky.social notes, how "inequality + exclusionary violence are built into the logic of PRIVATE money," our current paradigm.

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Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https:...

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Isn’t it though?

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

‘Why the Humanities Need Democratic Public Finance’ In response to @theguardian.com’s recent editorial on cuts in universities, I urge those defending the humanities to reject zero-sum austerity and embrace what we @moneyontheleft.bsky.social call Democratic Public Finance (DPF).

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Why the Humanities Need Democratic Public Finance

In opposing cuts to jobs and courses, we must reject zero-sum austerity and embrace the public credit at the heart of higher education.

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This thread is a manifesto I can get behind! ✊

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

✨ New Page! ✨ We’ve launched a dedicated Arts & Culture page on Money on the Left. We’ve always maintained that arts & culture are integral to political economy, never just an afterthought. This new space gathers all of our cultural critiques, interviews, & essays into one clear home on our site.

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Arts & Culture

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

✨ New Essay! ✨ If "money is queer," it's also deliciously weird. Check out @robbhawkes.bsky.social's latest, where he reads Fitzgerald, Larsen & Ford to challenge the austerity of the private money paradigm through the prism of modernist passing, performance, & trust. Please share! 🙌

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Weird Epistemologies of Money and Trust in Fitzgerald, Ford, and Larsen; or, Isn’t Money Weird?

By Rob Hawkes What follows is a slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference at Loughborough University, UK (1-4 July 2026), a collaboration between the UK-based …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Let's revolutionize public finance. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/13/i...

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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm very excited to share our recent episode with Walt & Peter from the Public Banking Institute (@publicbanksnow.bsky.social). If you have any interest in democratizing finance, then you won't want to miss this conversation.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“[I]n place of the paranoiac logics of privation and competitive individualism, our shared project […] advances a politics of care, collectivity and interdependence, and underscores the foundational role of public provisioning across the social, economic and aesthetic spheres.”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“The present chapter […] reject[s] the private-money-based economic orthodoxy in favour of the public money paradigm. This, I assert, entails moving away from a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ […] and towards what MotL’s William Saas has called the ‘hermeneutics of provision’.”

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A nice thing arrived in the post from @edinburghup.bsky.social today 🎉

Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature, ed. Adam Kelly and Katerina Pavlidi, front cover. The cover art depicts a virtual/digitised cityscape with a bright light at its centre and an open book in the foreground.

Second page of the table of contents from Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

“‘Too paranoid for you?': Suspicion, Trust and (Post/Meta?) Modern Money in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge” by Rob Hawkes, in Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Changing the captain will not divert our ship from its iceberg-bound course. What we need now is an entirely new politics of community, sustainability, and care. What we need is Democratic Public Finance. 3/3 moneyontheleft.org/dpf

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Democratic Public Finance

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The pa…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The consequences of this murderous logic are clear: decimated public services, soaring inequality, ecological breakdown, mass incarceration, widespread hatred of the other. 2/3

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The austerity mindset traps our politics in a death spiral of exclusionary violence: there is not enough to go round; ‘responsible’ leaders must make ‘tough choices’ about who to leave out. 1/3

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Amidst a new wave of excitement surrounding green politics in the UK, especially since Zack Polanski’s election as Green Party Leader in September 2025, Sheridan looks to a future where our economies are redesigned democratically to put people and the planet before profit.

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Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates

Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. In h…

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