Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social

My review essay on the crisis of social reproduction and the development state in JCA with a focus on the excellent book by Jamie Doucette Postdevelopmental State: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@strom_m @TomCBallard @LaborAgainstWar This book might interest you. There are chapters on the domestic politics- including the ALP - of AUKUS and its broader implications. mup.com.au/books/search-f…

I was very happy to sit down and chat with @TomCBallard about @LaborAgainstWar and why we aren't patsies and stooges - and what the heck a Marxist is doing in the ALP. Thanks for having me on the show Tom. youtube.com/watch?v=tH5qfB…

New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to some of you 🙏 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut.

Jacques Tati - genius. JOUR DE FÊTE (1949)

Unlike most of the accounts of Iran that are obsessed with geopolitics, Kayhan Kayhan Valadbaygi offers an excellent history of #Iran in churn - the social classes at play and their tussles in reaponding to a now-fraying neoliberal global order. A must-read, esp now

The USyd VC is in the AFR today on unis as places of robust disagreement – conveniently ignoring that he's overseen the most intense repression of 'disagreement' ever in the history of the campus. My reply to him on internal uni social media, which may be censored at any moment.

Habermas’s passing comes at the time when it looks like the NSSR will be destroyed. The future of critical theory in the american academia is bleak.

Habermas was extremely generous with me as a young doctoral student writing his dissertation on his political development in the Federal Republic. RIP.

There is much to be said for Katrina Forrester's argument situating Rawls in the context of post war liberal democratic capitalism in the US, in a similar way Habermas was a product of post war German democratic capitalism. And their institutional focus has much in common.

If oil price shocks weren’t bad enough, Trump’s war could have other unintended consequences | Adam Hanieh theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Over the years I’ve been in many towns and cities when they were being bombed — in a few cases (Baghdad, Belgrade etc) by my own country. No matter what the justification, most of the victims have been entirely innocent. I’ve come to loathe the very thought of aerial bombardment.

Low-levels of cash transfer/benefits cannot be a solution to systemic issue of surplus labour excluded from meaningful jobs, subsisting as unemployed or informal. Such minimal transfers are way to govern/manage the poor for political stability rather than provide dignified life.

@Alberto63137378 Thanks , will read with interest. K

@fafner100 read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic…

Tomorrow in Madrid, I'll be talking about the lessons we can draw today from Latin American debates on fascism from the 1970s.

@HeerJeet This entire debate loses sight of the way states such as Australia and Canada are strcturally embeeded within the extended US state . The US political crisis is intensifying the contradictions within these linkages. Leo Panitch is excellent on this .

Mark Carney's Davos speech did offer a credible alternative to Trumpism, but Carney himself isn't willing to follow the logic of his own arguments. thenation.com/article/world/…

Natural gas supply shocks have stagflationary effects in the €zone. A 10% increase in gas prices raises core prices by ~0.5% and reduces economic activity. Gas shocks pass through to core prices more strongly than oil shocks, due to role of gas in European electricity production

We just saw the largest single day price jump in oil ever. Governments have to act immediately to contain the oil price shock. Our research shows: Price shocks in essentials like oil coordinate price hikes across the economy. That means sellers inflation & a boost to profits.

@SkyNews 🇮🇱: Killed 🇱🇧: Dead What was the point in deleting the original post just to reverse the order?

Okay okay here’s the clip

“In all mourning there is the deepest inclination to speechlessness, which is infinitely more than the inability or disinclination to communicate. That which mourns feels itself thoroughly known by the unknowable.” — Walter Benjamin