Jeremy Morris

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I think I'm done. Just finished reading a hot and 'timely' elite uni press book and it's super well-written but one of the most vacuous things I've read to date. I was specifically asked to review and for the first time I'm refusing.

If you're into prole whispering without the sentimental lib handwringing just know that I already did this with a different nuke-equipped large country.

Latest Levada 'support for the war'. Moscow support - 56%. Small towns and villages - 35%, 30%. 'Surplus populations' and 'internal colonization' spring to mind. Also... 'Moscow is not Russia'. Maybe we should be saying 'this is Moscow's war'?

Allowing myself this one, in this place, given how pessimistic I am in the other place.

Haha. Fuck off, you cunts.

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Lewis Mumford, from "Technics and Civilization" (1934) 🎯

Finally, a mainstream treatment of the amazing ethnographic work being done by Public Sociology Lab in Russia. Let's hope more mainstream press pick up on this zany method that's also a social science. /sarcasm off meduza.io/feature/2024...

Kinda cringe they have to make this newsworthy by saying Polanyi is unknown and unpublished in the UK, but good they actually talked to and acknowledged @garethdale.bsky.social whose Polity 2010 book 'The Limits of the Market' is on a shelf in front of me. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlightwww.theguardian.com After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been published in the ...

Reading Morrison. Really brilliant. Now on Perovsky expedition. Ignore the Qazaq guides. Set off in winter with camels that cannot tolerate frost. Don't take enough fodder or clothing. Shoot the Qazaq guides. Lose most camels and 1000 men to frostbite. Maybe the 100k litres of vodka was to blame.

Looks like Elmo on *the other site* shadow banned Nafo replies. They now are flagged as 'suspected spam' and it's funny they've been put on a par with nude replies. Couldn't happen to a nicer troll subculture.

Meanwhile in Elon-land I got unfollowed and QT shamed by a very important polprof who thinks it's a serious criminal offence for people to put cornflour on some stones outside.

Olga Tkach on 'Elastic Neighboring', in Space and Culture 2024. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Now reading Wheeler 2021 on how after Aral Sea's fisheries dried up, they imported refrigerated pollock by rail to process and re 'export' to rest of USSR which no one wanted and so still made losses. Chapter 2: 'Seeing like a bureaucrat':

Nice to see colleague Liviu Chelcea mount a fighting withdrawal defence of the term #postsocialism in this recent piece "Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East", Eurasian Geography and Economics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As usual, Russia the vanguard with its 'First Department' embedding spies in unis from the get go. Remember that when you read bleeding-heart liberal pieces from former rectors and their colleagues now in the West. t.co/HfOvJXGHXy

EU wants spies on university campuses to fight Chinese tech espionaget.co The bloc is urging researchers to take steps to secure their work against foreign interference.

Uk soon to kill right to protest. My book argues Russia is a vanguard - not only in terms of state repressive capacity (copied in part by UK), but in terms of resistance too. In the future, W Europeans are going to have to learn from Easterners about how to contest repression without legal protest.

An itch I wanted to scratch a long time. postsocialism.org/2024/05/17/t...

The broken model of North American academic publishingpostsocialism.org a short pitch for my book. Here I document failure. Is thirteen* rejects an unlucky number? Some readers might know that in 2023 I wrote a book I had been planning for many years. The idea of the book...

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Many important points in the recent Foreign Affairs piece by @gavinwilde.bsky.social et al. "Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat" www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede... Sharing some of the same concerns, here's a book chapter I wrote: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-... (open access)

Responding to Alleged Russian Interference by Focussing on the Vulnerawww.taylorfrancis.com This chapter defines ‘Russian meddling’ as a distinct phenomenon that emerged at the time of the United States presidential elections in November 2016 based on

MAY DAY with a big red flag is how I feel to be included in this new Handbook of Labour Union, edited by G. Gall. Abridged versions of chapters are available. Full author version on my site t.co/qO32HxP6uS

Gaslit by schizoanalysis discourses: Russian security services person: 'We're done for. By the end of 2024 we'll have no one left. No one is volunteering' US think tanks: 'Russians are recruiting 1000 volunteers a day will roll up the Ukrainians in Donbas.

Russian liberal scholars since 2022: 'Jeremy, you can't deny the reality of public opinion' Russian liberal scholars in 2024. 'This poll is BS because I don't like it' [what kind of society would you like to live in: Red is socialism, Grey is 'don't know']

A write up of the simplifications, distortions and belatedness of Western coverage of complexities re: war's effect on Ukrainian society. Those who inspired this piece know who they are! Дякую, хлопці postsocialism.org/2024/04/23/c...

Coverage of the war is changing, but it too often misses the mark in communicating complexitypostsocialism.org [this is an op-ed piece about op-ed pieces. It's a long version of a newspaper piece for the Danish press] Even as we move well into the third year of war in Ukraine, the media sphere, dependent as it...

Just about to discuss this book and more with Russian Trade Unionists. In Russian. 😱 Wish me luck. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Jason Furman’s review of Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Partywww.goodreads.com This comparative study at the intersection of history, sociology and politics seeks to understand why unions workers, specifically Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, have shifted from the Democrati...

Finally found a reason to quote Tim Snyder! On the Night Wolves bikers of all people. Predictably my cite is to say: 'he's not even wrong'! "The public spectacle of the Russian invasion was provided by a Russian biker gang that served as a paramilitary and propaganda arm of the Putin regime."

Thanks to Kathryn Cassidy for recommending Ian Buchanan's recent book on Assemblage.

Putting easter-eggs into my book MS in the form of references to NAFO. Nothing snarky, just how it resembles the Russian social media obsessions I follow.

A great measure of how ridiculous the Twitter temperature is the comparative engagement I get there when I comment on an anglo geopol piece (10k clicks) versus a much more interesting Ukrainian lang piece on society (1k clicks).

Loads of discussion of this in the other place. My take: you can't take seriously a negotiating party that send Medinsky. It's good to get more detail, but at the same time there's too much retroactive apportioning of motive. www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talk...

The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukrainewww.foreignaffairs.com A hidden history of diplomacy that came up short—but holds lessons for future negotiations.

Feisty interview with independent demographer Raksha. Lots of ground - from Russia's falsification of population stats and its circular logic, to the similarity in impact of Irish potato-famine depletion to today's Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3v1...

“Китай начнет высасывать рабочую силу”. Отрезвляющий разговор с Ракшой о демографическом кризисеwww.youtube.com UPD На моменте 10:15 Алексей оговорился — не афроамериканец, а африканец* UPD2 Когда речь заходит про одинаковую по миру стоимость техники, имеется ввиду за ...

Saturday reading. What the Russian election tells us is that living in an authoritarian state is still 'boring and bearable'.

New post: Why did people who don't like Putin or his decisions vote for him in March 2024? postsocialism.org/2024/04/12/t...

The Russian Presidential Election of 2024 and the meaning of authoritarianismpostsocialism.org People can tolerate autocracy, but they can’t tolerate the absence of hope in the future The Russian presidential election presents us with a paradox that itself is something of a sea change for the m...