Alyssa Battistoni
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political theory @BarnardCollege : climate, nature, Marxism, feminism. co-author, A Planet to Win @VersoBooks …
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Recent debates about growth, stagnation, & political capitalism have said remarkably little about our warming & destabilizing planet; in
@NewLeftReview
,
@GeoffPMann
and I assess what Bidenomics portends for the climate—and what climate portends for us
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proud of our students
BREAKING: 40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Mike Davis was so ahead of the curve on Marxist ecology because he was interested in making sense of all the world—Malibu real estate & So Cal flora & LA tenements; El Niños & grain markets & colonial policy. a true materialist. so grateful for all he taught us, RIP.
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to be clear the ideas we've talked about all semester are glaringly relevant and enormously important—which is why it's so difficult to stomach this institution's contempt for them
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We regret to announce that this event is canceled. We will not speak at the New School while student protesters are being arrested. We will announce an alternative date and location in due course.
Marxism and the Capitalist State: Authors' Roundtable | Friday, May 3rd | w/BISR faculty
@rafkhach
and
@alybatt
, alongside
@selfactingmule
@kmunro_econ
@chrisokane_nyc
and Jasmine Chorley-Schulz |
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I wrote for
@NewLeftReview
about the life and work of Bruno Latour, including his views of science, anti-social theory, turn to climate politics, and often vexed relationship with the left
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very excited to be starting this new semester as assistant professor of political science
@BarnardCollege
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very sad to hear about David Graeber for many reasons but most personal to me is his courageous stand with
@33unitehere
, for which he was denied tenure by a dept whose anti-union faculty still have a chilling effect, as I found when I tried to organize it. rest in power.
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Hotel workers' dues funded our grad union campaign
@33unitehere
; they paid my salary when I was organizing full-time. Frankly, hotel workers have done more to support me as an academic worker than APSA ever has. Solidarity forever
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I wrote for
@thenation
about two important books about the future of work, by
@sarahljaffe
&
@abenanav
, and what they help us understand about the politics of work in the rapidly changing present
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disgusted at the way this administration is treating our students, though not sadly surprised after Shafik's total capitulation to the right in Congress yesterday
Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment
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is “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” a necessary jolt to climate strategy? a moralistic exercise in wishful thinking? I responded to Andreas Malm’s compelling, provocative, intensely frustrating work for
@VersoBooks
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I wrote about Vivian Gornick's beautiful, frustrating book The Romance of American Communism and what a new generation of readers might take from it, perhaps especially in a moment of defeat
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keep seeing WFH and thinking ‘wages for housework’ rather than ‘working from home’
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boomers: hope I die before I get old
millennials: hope I get old before I die
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I wrote an essay about organizing—about my efforts to do it, and to understand it— for
@nplusonemag
, now unpaywalled
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happy May Day! Solidarity Forever from the Local 34 (Yale clerical & technical workers) 1984 strike songbook
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truly just witnessed one of the more astonishing mansplains of my life as a bunch of old guys at Yale tried to tell
@sarahljaffe
that people should just, like, be more persistent in looking for work and have a positive attitude about their jobs 🙃
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unseasonably beautiful day in Massachusetts to get out the vote for climate candidate Bernie Sanders
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As the coronavirus crisis drives us toward global recession, we can't repeat the mistakes of 2008—we need to use this moment to remake the economy in ways that cut carbon and increase care. me,
@aldatweets
,
@KateAronoff
, &
@triofrancos
in
@jacobinmag
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A statement from the Labor Politics Group on APSA's deeply disappointing decision: We continue to ask
@APSAtweets
to move online in keeping with
@UNITEHERE11
's request and are organizing alternatives. Please read and share widely!
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much to admire and debate in the LRB Andreas Malm double feature, but I particularly appreciate
@piercepenniless
’s attention to sticky political challenges
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I wrote for
@NewLeftReview
about
@picharbonnier
's book Affluence and Freedom and what it means—particularly in the face of ecological crisis—to think of freedom as material
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.
@GeoffPMann
and I wrote a short piece about a Gramscian politics of crisis, the challenge of facing up to climate change as a permanent condition, and why we need both Climate X and a Green New Deal
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I made a short video for
@BernieSanders
! it's about why we need to reject the jobs-vs-environment dichotomy and fight for a just transition as part of a Green New Deal💥🌎
Our enemy is climate change, not coal miners and oil rig workers. We will not leave them behind. That is why the Green New Deal invests in job training, education and benefits for fossil fuel workers.
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shame on Barnard for suspending and evicting our students for protest
UPDATE: 3 students SUSPENDED at
@BarnardCollege
for their participation in the camp!!
2 Muslim & 1 Jewish students suspended. All 3 have lost access to food, medical center, university buildings, class. 2 live in student housing and have already been locked out & evicted
SHAME
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read A Planet to Win and be in good company! now 50% off at
@VersoBooks
if you need more convincing 🌎📖⚡️
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I wrote a short post-election piece for
@DissentMag
about why I'm worried that climate will fall into the same safety-vs-economy dichotomy that covid did and why Democrats have to stop treating the fossil fuel industry like a job creator
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I wrote for
@thenation
Spring Books about Branko Milanovic's surprisingly melancholy view of capitalism's triumph in his recent book "Capitalism, Alone"
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I'm sad to hear about Bruno Latour; like many I both learned from and struggled with his work, which I tried to write about here—especially the question of whether Latourean & historical materialisms can be reconciled and what a Latourean politics entails
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I wrote for
@logicmagazine
about what we might learn from the experiment Biosphere 2 about the possibilities of technologically assisted ecological reproduction and repair, thinking with
@reproutopia
, Shulamith Firestone, & my editor
@bentarnoff
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.
@JedediahSPurdy
and I wrote an essay about democracy and climate change, trying to outline past debates and draw out real tensions without either coming to fatalist conclusions or offering tidy solutions
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really excited to be putting together a series on the GND
@jacobinmag
with ecosocialist dream team
@KateAronoff
@aldatweets
and Thea Riofrancos, opening editorial out today and many more pieces to come!
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A Yale dean wrote a hit piece on my union,
@33unitehere
, and our fight for recognition; here's my response.
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I wrote a post for the
@VersoBooks
blog on a few of the books and authors that have helped me think about organizing, from Stuart Hall to Vivian Gornick to
@rsgexp
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"It is a shame that APSA is refusing to leverage its considerable weight to help the workers win the strike...But solidarity takes courage. And then there is its opposite: cowardice." Must read from
@alexnpress
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What does U.S. climate politics look like after the IRA? I helped edit a special section for
@DissentMag
taking stock of the present moment, featuring many brilliant thinkers on a wide range of issues—online now!
Our Spring 2023 issue, WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE CLIMATE LEFT?, is out now.
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v excited to say that
@aldatweets
,
@KateAronoff
,
@triofrancos
& I wrote a book (foreword by
@NaomiAKlein
!) arguing for a radical Green New Deal + sketching out how we can win it. A PLANET TO WIN: WHY WE NEED A GREEN NEW DEAL is out w
@VersoBooks
Nov 12!
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our book is out today!! get your copy (copies?!) of A PLANET TO WIN: Why We Need a Green New Deal from
@VersoBooks
or your local bookshop 🌍💥🌞
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the key line in this infamous Summers pollution memo is the last one, where he admits that this proposal is completely in line with World Bank liberalization policies more generally. this isn't an immoral extreme, it *is* the logic of allowing free movement for capital
A memo rom Lawrence Summers, currently advising the Biden campaign, arguing that Africa is under-polluted and "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable"
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in celebration of
@NikilSaval
’s projected victory here's a passage from his essay “On Canvassing” that I think about all the time—we all have a version of this choice to make and it’s been really moving to see Nikil choose to fight
The Associated Press is projecting that
@NikilSaval
, a former editor at leftist magazine N+1, has unseated an incumbent state senator in Philadelphia
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so happy to see this cyborg socialist vision of a future with a smart grid and bullet trains and yes, climate disasters, but also care work, unionized wetland restoration, indigenous expertise, & low carbon leisure, inspired by the brilliant
@KateAronoff
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I wrote for
@thenation
Spring Books about two new books on climate, Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth and David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth
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I wrote about Bruno Latour's recent work on climate in relation to his thinking about materialism and politics for the current issue of
@DissentMag
, now unpaywalled:
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dismayed by the near-complete lack of overlap between Lenin birthday twitter and Earth Day twitter
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does the NYT know they could commission someone who has actually thought about these questions
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begging Alyssa Milano to stop before Al*ssas become the K*rens of Me Too hypocrisy
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I wrote a short piece about
@NaomiAKlein
’s new book On 🔥—a reminder that the current state of climate politics has been in formation for a long time, and that she's been right about climate politics for a long time too
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I love There Will Be Blood but we're facing a critical shortage of movies about the oil & gas industry compared to a Wall Street glut
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I wrote about Francesco Boldizzoni's book "Foretelling the End of Capitalism" and how we should think about capitalism's future for
@BostonReview
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I'm looking forward to working with
@Columbia
TAs in my course next semester and am appalled by this threat to retaliate against student workers who are on strike. Solidarity with
@SW_Columbia
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this passage from Beauvoir is perfect as an ending to a piece reflecting on what it means for a ‘feminist heroine’ to live freely, and devastating as a reminder of what we’re losing right now
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I wrote about the IPCC report and why I'm mad that William Nordhaus won the Nobel for econ
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Bernie’s just-released GND plan is the boldest climate program out there bc it recognizes that climate is part of the class war that capitalists are waging & currently winning: me &
@triofrancos
in
@jacobinmag
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have received neither my trump bux nor my endnotes vol 5, what blacklist am I on
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I wrote for
@TheNation
on
@GeoffPMann
and Joel Wainwright's book Climate Leviathan, about the state and capitalism in the age of climate change
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"How about it girls? Spring bids you rise and wake...a six hour day in Spring, and to get it we will organize into a union." Happy May Day from
ILGWU legend Pauline Newman 🌸🌸✊
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Really looking forward to discussing Nancy Fraser’s *Cannibal Capitalism* at the New School at 6pm tonight with David Harvey, Rocio Zambrana, and Nancy Fraser herself
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We have a powerful enemy in the form of fossil capital. To defeat it, we need a powerful low-carbon labor movement. read this excerpt from A PLANET TO WIN by me,
@KateAronoff
,
@aldatweets
, &
@triofrancos
in
@thenation
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@AdomGetachew
brilliant as ever on Pan-Africanism as “an organized movement…a sensibility, a culture, and a lived experience” and attentive to the “disjuncture & disruption, the reformulation & rearticulation that characterized projects of African unity”
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the right's had a monopoly on the language of freedom for too long--time to reclaim it
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proud to sign this letter of political scientists supporting
@BernieSanders
, the candidate fighting to strengthen democracy and attack inequality & exploitation, including in higher ed; please consider signing!
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“what’s often downplayed is the revolutionary potency of what Indigenous resistance stands for: caretaking & creating just relations between human & nonhuman worlds on a planet thoroughly devastated by capitalism.”
@nick_w_estes
on a Red Deal
@jacobinmag
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just found out Joanna Newsom was named for ‘Visions of Johanna’ which is perfect bc imho she is Dylan’s true heir...the Dylan woman revealed as musical genius
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it's somehow perversely appropriate that the UN doom report came out the same day that William Nordhaus, who's been a major advocate of discounting the future i.e. putting off the costs of climate adaptations till we're richer in some imagined future, won the 'Nobel' for econ
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this from
@GeoffPMann
is typically illuminating on the limits of an economics that treats every shock, from financial crisis to coronavirus to climate change, as external
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New York! we're launching A Planet to Win tonight at
@VersoBooks
at 7pm—all four of us (me
@KateAronoff
@aldatweets
@triofrancos
) plus
@OsitaNwanevu
moderating, come for the convo & stay for the drinks!
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tonight! excited to discuss the challenges & possibilities facing the climate left with brilliant comrades
@orangebegum
and
@patrickopticon
at
@DissentMag
issue event at McNally Jackson (Seaport), 7pm!
This Wednesday in NYC, join
@alybatt
,
@orangebegum
, and
@patrickopticon
for a discussion on what's next for the climate left.
RSVP:
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I'm proud to be a signatory on this letter calling for a
#GreenStimulus
to address the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic-recession, climate emergency, and extreme economic inequality— please read and sign!
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APSA: come talk about theories of work tomorrow morning! (8am...I know...) I'll be asking what we really mean by (re)productive labor &
@katforrester
will be talking about housework & feminist demands, w
@AdomGetachew
discussing,
@CoreyRobin
chairing, &
@moiragweigel
in absentia
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"polluting goods will become luxury items, inaccessible to the
majority but still available to the privileged; inequality will
intensify, the poor will become relatively poorer & the rich
richer...already, in France and elsewhere, we see the signs of this decay" André Gorz, 1975
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Appalling, shameful decision by Columbia to punish and intimidate its own students
NEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.
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what's funny is that the day before our grad union election the head of the NFL players' union gave us a pep talk bc this comparison of academic workers to athletes—as privileged non-workers who should just shut up and be grateful instead of unionizing—is so common
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must-read from
@triofrancos
in
@viewpointmag
: "it is precisely the indeterminacy of the Green New Deal that provides a historic opening for the left...how the new world is born out of the old is the vexed question of any project of radical transformation."
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solidarity with
@DivestHarvard
and
@FossilFreeYale
as they confront a pair of very rich and powerful institutions about how they invest their enormous endowments, together worth ~$71 billion~
BREAKING: Over 150 Yale + Harvard students, alumni, faculty stormed the field at
#HarvardYale
to demand DIVESTMENT from fossil fuels & cancel holdings in Puerto Rican debt. When it comes to the status quo,
#NobodyWins
.
@YaleEJC
@FossilFreeYale
@DivestHarvard
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"The situation calls for large-scale, rapid, systemic change. That kind of change doesn’t happen when wonks & bloggers agree on the perfect solution & achieve multiple PDFs. It happens when people put their asses on the line & fight."
@drvox
on "the virtues of being unreasonable"
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very clarifying from
@simontorracinta
on higher ed's broken business model, now laid bare by the pandemic:
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Poli sci: the APSA council exec committee will be meeting tomorrow (Wed) to discuss the
@UNITEHERE11
call to cancel/move the annual meeting in solidarity with hotel workers; please write council members directly to express your support for the union:
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finally caught up on
@thedigradio
's great interview with
@abenanav
and wondering: is there a good book/paper on the history/genealogy of "services" as an economic concept?
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god I hope this review of Jonathan Safran Foer from
@KateAronoff
saves us from any more sad bois who just wanna be in their feelings about climate change though tbh I’m not sure they’re self-aware enough
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love this from
@nick_w_estes
! "Yet, like unwaged caregiving work, land defense and water protection are undervalued but necessary for the continuation of life on a planet teetering on collapse."
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really excited to start teaching my
@BklynInstitute
class on Ecofeminism & Xenofeminism next week 🌝👾
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on this note I also appreciated
@kunktation
's caution, in a piece on Pipeline a while back, against tactical fetishism:
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I loved talking to
@JedediahSPurdy
about his wonderful new book This Land Is Our Land & everything from the choice of commonwealth or barbarism to the 30 trillion tons of global technosphere to liberal denialism to economic powerlessness & the environment:
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as someone increasingly convinced that it is impossible to circumvent politics, one of the things that's been striking in left-liberal embrace of Malm (and, relatedly, KSR) is the desire for a single tactic, strategy, subject, policy that can cut through political stasis
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excited to run this terrific piece from
@_RajPatel
& Jim Goodman on agricultural politics and bringing farmers into the bloc that can win a Green New Deal, which has everything from graphs to Gramsci to farmer's strike songs 🥕🌹🌾
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