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Call for Papers for #CLC2025 is now live!!! sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/call-f…

New piece in @ProgHumGeog, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

New article: #metabolic ethnography Social science methods need to become commensurate with the chemicalization of life, going beyond settled comfort with objects, multispecies relations and proximate causality. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/030913…

My new book is out from @PrincetonUPress. "Computing in the Age of Decolonization" tells the story of India's attempt to build sovereign computing capacity — from the 1950s through the 1980s — and why it failed. It's a story about what decolonization could have meant for technology, and about how Cold War geopolitics and multinational corporate power foreclosed those possibilities.

New #OpenAccess article by @v_e_thompson -- "Policing as Un-Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe" doi.org/10.1111/anti.7…

Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and others put together in response to his magnum opus, the Redress of Law.

Very excited for the next Critical Legal Conference, this year being hosted by Westminster Uni. We have this teaser of the theme: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/03/clc…

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what? Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically. Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?] Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages. So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

Please consider contributing to our special issue of British Journal of Aesthetics @BJAtweets on the topic of 'Transnational Feminist Aesthetics'. Philosophical contributions and inquiries welcome at bjafeministaesthetics@gmail.com. CFP details: british-aesthetics.org/bja-special-is…

My new book "Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution" is now up for pre-order with @PrincetonUPress ! Why India trains the world's tech workers but captures so little of the industry's wealth—and what happened to the dream of technological independence after 1947. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Event: Law and/as Process We are pleased to invite you to the first seminar in the new series, Law and/as Process, organised by the Centre for Critical Thought. With Professor Jason Beckett (The American University in Cairo) and Dr Gian-Giacomo Fusco (Kent Law School). This event will take place online on Wednesday, 19 November at 5:00 PM (UK time). Event link here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/11/10/eve…

Dhoom Machale, and Nehru? Goddammit he's a millennial Congress-era Indian kid.

@abbas_sophia Lololol. Ishq mein sheher Hona.

I am not agree with your argument. I am not agree with your analysis. From where you have got such garbage information

My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I. Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/new…

ITS happening! #ExeterCLC

Wow...

So strange to see voyeuristic-style photos on *social media* of a supposedly “intimate” celebration of a new book. Hard to see it as anything but the active cultivation of the kind of para-social relationships that have come to define so much modern cultural production.

In case you missed this, Nathan Moore on AI: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/31/spe…

Introduction— Global Black Ecologies in Environment and Society Justin Hosbey, Hilda Lloréns Hilda Lloréns, and J. T. Roane berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…