ADAM TOOZE

When the houses were linear modern and the cars were gorgeously swoopy. twitter.com/vividcloudofwa…

Its a piece of found art. But aesthetics aside, imagine crossing from Cuba to Florida in this! twitter.com/dadams7308/sta…

@orangebegum Yeah … so do I.

“capitalism beyond its heroic reifications” So much political economy can learn from Tsing’s Mushroom At the End of the World. See Chartbook #67 for an appreciation. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-67… https://t.co/VPFnd3wyaC

Chartbook #66 just dropped. Hommage to Tsing’s Mushroom At The End of the World … I’ve been wanting to do this all break. What a book … adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-67… https://t.co/NL1fFgZrM3

RT @tatiroque: Este livro do @adam_tooze é essencial para construirmos um mundo pós-covid, que não será nada parecido com o de antes. Ele d…

For the Western public, that is, “for us who have been beyond and away from that,” Duchamp said, “when we see it today, it’s shocking to see the young girl at the window on the Red Square, seeing the parade of the soldiers.” Barry Schwabsky in @Artforum artforum.com/print/reviews/… https://t.co/rb9zIJKuAs

In an interview from mid-1960s, Marcel Duchamp observed that the only shocking thing in contemporary art was work being made in Russia, painted, he said, as “in the 1850s, very naturalistic and anecdotal.” artforum.com/print/reviews/… Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, At the Studio #1, 2018 https://t.co/gHoE3DIAcQ

European and American power grids are very old! The lifetime for a power cable should generally not exceed 30 years. ft.com/content/e0853c… https://t.co/ZjKyNeXfmF

Susan Mastrangelo, Shining Lights, 2020, acrylic paint, yarn, cord filler, fabric, 60 × 48”. @Artforum artforum.com/print/reviews/… https://t.co/OtGPYzrjsk

Kandidatos the retro chic Brazilian computer game where Bolsonaro and Lula engage in mortal combat feeds off polemics and a gaming culture shaped by protectionism and need to improvise local console and programs. economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/yKaWzpUFuy

Tatiana Trouvé, The Residents, 2021 for @Artangel at Orford Ness "The sculptures in their drowned world were a powerful cocktail of J. G. Ballard and Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology.” Briony Der artforum.com/print/reviews/… https://t.co/anRAvDWUXr

"If you want to make money in Cuba, buy garlic”. Seriously …! economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/Mpm1X2Vt7Z

Vivian Suter, Untitled, date unknown, mixed media on paper, 99 5⁄8 × 55 1⁄8” @Artforum artforum.com/print/reviews/… https://t.co/j0bB7KyEWv

Does anyone have anything good to say about AMLO’s proposed changes to Mexico’s electricity market? This @TheEconomist report makes it sound like a complete disaster. Higher prices, dirtier, insufficient power, huge losses to renewable generators. economist.com/the-americas/m… https://t.co/xutoXNVrGn

@SpitfireFilly Hi Victoria, have you published any material out of your PhD yet? Sounds v interesting.

BODY IMAGE Daniel Marcus on the art of Hannah Wilke @Artforum artforum.com/print/202201/d… Hannah Wilke, Motion Sensor, ca. 1966–67, terra-cotta, 10 1⁄4 × 6 3⁄4 × 3" https://t.co/wo2FsGmfQZ

In Sierra Leone normally sober imf, excited by new iron-ore mines, forecast growth of 51% for 2012. That spurred the government to splash out. GDP grew by 15%. In 2014 China shock -> iron-ore prices plunge -> mines close. Hit by ebola GDP shrank 20% 2015 economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/QTW2GMpeMr

David Lynch and Russell Brand practice Transcendental Meditation with students at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, San Francisco, May 6, 2013. @Artforum artforum.com/print/202201/p… https://t.co/hmTTLRG1ll

McConnell’s role in anchoring the US constitution during disputed transition turned him from a popular politician to a pariah amongst Republican voters. twitter.com/leedrutman/sta…

The un defines a country as dependent on commodities if they are more than three-fifths of its physical exports. Fully 83% of African countries meet that threshold, up from 77% a decade ago. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/dBetsSPmC7

Deaths in a single air raid From @SpitfireFilly excellent new website. spitfirefillyaviation.com/consultancy-wo… https://t.co/5wXoUPhcIA

@RobinBrooksIIF It was, after all, Spain that was in the crosshairs at that moment in 2012. Italy has come front and center amongst eurozone worries over the last decade.

RT @davies_will: There's plenty to attack New Labour for, but any historically nuanced perspective on regulation must accept that it tackle…

RT @davies_will: Post-War Keynesianism was over-shadowed by the living memory of the Great Depression, memory that no longer dominated by t…

It’s very likely that this 1936 black-and-white photo of a protest in Brooklyn captures two hitherto unknown paintings by Romare Bearden, one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated African American artists. @Artforum @mlobelart artforum.com/print/202201/m… https://t.co/fFlNkRW0vm

RT @icaa_mfah: LA-based Chicano artist #Gronk's 1981 #NEA application states, "In early 1981, I will erase the U.S./Mexico border with a la…

@NewLeftEViews @humford @bucephalus424 Oh hold that thought …. Hold that thought ….

RT @ShujaUH: A farmer in Turkey has fitted his cows with virtual reality goggles to make them think they are outside in summer pastures. Iz…

Czech Republic is leading a tightening cycle across Eastern Europe that diverges starkly from ECB. Prices, wages and demand are all running hot across CEE-3. Interesting from @Gavekal @CGemehl https://t.co/uKJUseIojh

GM CEO Mary Barra explaining the companies transformation from “automaker to platform innovator” economist.com/business/2022/… https://t.co/URxSfnPEeA

Divide the S&P500 by the price of oil -> what do you get? -> the value of production capital (shown by the S&P 500) at the prevailing price of energy has, since 1900, risen by an average 1.3% a year. research.gavekal.com/article/prices… https://t.co/qBRGnJ2Vvm

global spending on streamed video on demand content will exceed $230bn in 2022 according to @AmpereAnalysis nearly double what it was a decade ago. economist.com/business/2022/… https://t.co/kxFOLkjhxk

Freight rates from China are still rising. thedailyshot.com/2022/01/07/the… https://t.co/yE3rKcGnk1

The entire global recorded music industry had sales of $22bn in 2020, less than Apple made just from selling iPads economist.com/business/2022/… https://t.co/rtPf2w6TIR

US companies raised a record $12trn in equity, debt and loans in 2021. thedailyshot.com/2022/01/07/the… https://t.co/2go6mYQSk2