Some of Europe’s biggest banks are turning their backs on the business of financing the global market in raw materials, amid a series of scandals, large losses and Basel IV capital demands. ft.com/content/a61cb8… https://t.co/Gp8wpkQAyo
RT @nikhil_palsingh: Roberto Unger suggests secular stagnation redefines right-wing politics around a logic of hoarding, yielding policies…
After midnight on Sep. 14, all Huawei’s non-American suppliers across the world will have to stop shipping to Huawei if their products contain U.S. technology. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huaw… https://t.co/vvtlLamjZr
“If foregrounding power relations underpinning the currency system is 1st move in a new politics of money, one of maxims of political realism is ‘pick your fights’. Debate about EUR exchange rate should be held at arm’s length.” #2 for @stefeich & gang socialeurope.eu/the-politics-o… https://t.co/xlZlZtQ8Ol
"While some argue that European integration process has always had a dominant neoliberal component, this contribution will argue that the EU has always been characterized by a balance of socially-oriented, neomercantilist, and market-oriented” Warlouzet hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02915647/d… https://t.co/LJn4d1W0ZR
Would be great if someone WOULD try to gauge the relative significance & importance of US West Coast fires, which get a huge amount of coverage, and the fires in Latin America, which, at least in North, do not. twitter.com/rrrocean/statu…
Why were folks so nervous about the ECB talking about currencies last week? I did a piece for @socialeurope on the politics of central banking and foreign exchange. One for @sobel_mark @PositiveMoneyEU socialeurope.eu/the-politics-o… https://t.co/EMT97m4KU9
@EconGeo @maxinefowe Thank you … who in turn takes it from Luke T W (1995) On environmentality: Geo‐power and eco‐knowledge in the discourses of contemporary environmentalism. Cultural Critique 31:57–81 … environmentally is where B&F end up.
The Foucault-derived notion of geopower developed by Bonneuil & Fressoz as a way of getting a purchase on hegemonic anthropocene politics, seems rather interesting. Cant find much to read. Other than this intriguing piece by Federico Luisetti journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… https://t.co/IQhEGZBzqM
Bonneuil & Fressoz convince me that rather than thinking of reflexive modernity as an epoch, we should speak instead of a tension btw reflexive & unreflexive moments running through history of modernity and recurring even in those moments that celebrate themselves as reflexive. https://t.co/ZmouZBqxeW
RT @WSJ: A 15-year-old rides a four-wheeler across a mountain to get his internet. Others catch Wi-Fi in parking lots. Students are doing w…
RT @artvallotton: Otto von Bismarck, 1895 #artnouveau #felixvallotton https://t.co/l5p7WccFCA
RT @SpiesVespers: #OTD Sept 13, 1944 #Noor_Inayat_Khan hero of the #SOE. 1st female radio operator in occupied France. Executed by Nazis at…
RT @_seanstephenson: @PaulBlustein great read. https://t.co/6qfErssz26
"They have come, the foresters from the other side, unknown to us and rebels to our customs. They have come in large numbers. Their troop appeared on the dividing line of the cedars…We have come, they said, to warn you that the hurricane will soon arrive, your implacable enemy" https://t.co/m9uRTtUAwP
This Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto Is mind-blowing. youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7v… https://t.co/W7c0NTT45t
Just after ‘conquest of Moon’ in July 1969, Werner von Braun father of V2, announced to press that ‘from this marvellous observation platform we will be able to examine all the riches of the Earth: unknown oil wells, mines of copper and zinc’. Zinc!! Bonneuil Fressoz https://t.co/IQ2tYAtbjU
V-2 missiles developed by Third Reich were used by US Army in 1946 to measure solar radiation above the ozone layer Bonneuil Fressoz The Shock of the Anthropocene ->1st image of earth from space 24 October 1946 taken at 105 km up by V2 launched from White Sands Missile Range https://t.co/rYpf9NJqSP
So, if you are freaked out by that NASA fire map, as I was, this explainer from 2019 @washingtonpost H/t @DavidNir is helpful. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… Still leaves me worrying about Argentina and Amazonia theguardian.com/environment/20… https://t.co/BURxMFOvVz
RT @JuliaLuz98: @berryb4seball Santa Fe, Argentina here (we're very down south, our fires on that map are just a few red spots, so I CAN'T…
The human body as the site for a comprehensive invasion by unnamed powers, as seen by the conspiracy-theoretic take on 2020. Handy graphic for teaching purposes perhaps …. https://t.co/3ieqnQrOXW
Wow … this graphic is definitely one for the 2020 scrapbook! twitter.com/Ryujapan2020BR…
Another highly instructive back and forth btw @RobinBrooksIIF & @Brad_Setser 1. US manuf balance =/= trade balance =/= current account 2. $ not far off fair value according to reasonable model 3. German surplus & non-German Euro area deficit offset 4. Chip producers matter. twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF…
RT @StanekLukasz: With the requirement of quarantine in Britain, the time one needs to reserve for traveling to Manchester from much of Eur…
"As for the word ‘crisis’, does it not maintain a deceptive optimism? It suggests a perilous turning-point of modernity, a brief trial, or even an opportunity, a transitory state, while the Anthropocene is a point of no return." Bonneuil & Fressoz Shock of the Anthropocene https://t.co/JScssk1Ihs
RT @RoyalNavy: ⚓ The city of #Plymouth will be home to a new #ColdWar naval museum that will give voice to the #SilentService and will host…
"We should not act as astonished ingénues who suddenly discover they are transforming the planet: the entrepreneurs of the ind rev who brought us into the Anthropocene actively willed this new epoch and shaped it. Bonneuil & Fressoz The Shock of the Anthropocene @VersoBooks https://t.co/XSwP4H6R2H
"We should not act as astonished ingénues who suddenly discover they are transforming the planet: the entrepreneurs of the ind rev who brought us into the Anthropocene actively willed this new epoch and shaped it. Bonneuil & Fressoz The Shock of the Anthropocene @isacsmt https://t.co/EDMig9hnWJ
"In 1 or 200 years, criss-crossed by railways and steamships, covered with factories & workshops, the world will emit bn of m3 of carbon oxide, and, since forests will have been destroyed, this carbon oxide may indeed disturb the harmony of the world.” Eugene Huzar 1857. https://t.co/uV1ZpgqaKb
In 2018-2019, c. 8% of the WHO’s totally inadequate budget went to pandemic preparedness. Nearly 3* that amount was budgeted for eradicating polio, a top priority for the WHO’s two largest contributors: the U.S. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. wsj.com/articles/the-w… https://t.co/VvJW4fZIWS
2020: earnest discussions of locating homes in the middle of golf course or using goat herds to thin vegetation around sprawling Californian real estate development to mitigate fire risk. economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/zsoYVFPoiO
“The death of the tank comes round every five years or so. But the tank is more vulnerable now than it has ever been. We’re reaching the apex of the armour versus gun race—and armour has lost that race.” Hawkes of Janes quoted in @TheEconomist economist.com/science-and-te… https://t.co/QnWMyujcba
The New York recovery from the COVID-shock is dragging. @Investopedia via @SoberLook https://t.co/3JoC1lZrns
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