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from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz
October 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz
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Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence
September 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence
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Communist imagination must balance a utopian and scientific tension, particularly for matters of technology and industry. @dfmanufracture.bsky.social discusses, among other topics, "The Black Box of Production" from Heatwave Issue 3 on Komintern Podcast (@kominternpodd.bsky.social) Links below!
September 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Communist imagination must balance a utopian and scientific tension, particularly for matters of technology and industry. @dfmanufracture.bsky.social discusses, among other topics, "The Black Box of Production" from Heatwave Issue 3 on Komintern Podcast (@kominternpodd.bsky.social) Links below!
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And for any non-swedish readers of @dfmanufracture.bsky.social - episode out now!
On utopianism, history, science fiction and production with writer and engineer Nick Chavez and Per Henriksson from the now defunct theoretical collective riff-faff.
On utopianism, history, science fiction and production with writer and engineer Nick Chavez and Per Henriksson from the now defunct theoretical collective riff-faff.
Gasspar och Per från riff-raff följer upp Forest and factory tillsammans med textens författare, Nick Chavez.
Resultatet blir ett långt samtal om utopism, mänsklighetens historia, revolutionära subjekt, och inte minst science fiction.
Det är tätt, det är långt, det är på engelska.
Mycket nöje!
Resultatet blir ett långt samtal om utopism, mänsklighetens historia, revolutionära subjekt, och inte minst science fiction.
Det är tätt, det är långt, det är på engelska.
Mycket nöje!
S10E02 - Kommunistisk realism
Tillsammans med Per Henriksson från teorikollektivet riff-raff ringer vi Nick Chavez, teoriker och ingenjör, för en uppföljning på vårt tidigare avsnitt om texten "Forest and Factory". Nick är aktuell
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September 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
And for any non-swedish readers of @dfmanufracture.bsky.social - episode out now!
On utopianism, history, science fiction and production with writer and engineer Nick Chavez and Per Henriksson from the now defunct theoretical collective riff-faff.
On utopianism, history, science fiction and production with writer and engineer Nick Chavez and Per Henriksson from the now defunct theoretical collective riff-faff.
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They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying.
I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
September 23, 2026 at 10:10 PM
They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying.
I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
Translation:
WARNING
THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS!
HE IS AN ENGINEER.
HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT EVERYTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
BUT NOTHING OF SOCIETY
Therefore he pollutes.
Therefore he builds enviroments hostile to humans.
Therefore he produces weapons and poisons.
(h/t comrade at @kominternpodd.bsky.social )
WARNING
THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS!
HE IS AN ENGINEER.
HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT EVERYTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
BUT NOTHING OF SOCIETY
Therefore he pollutes.
Therefore he builds enviroments hostile to humans.
Therefore he produces weapons and poisons.
(h/t comrade at @kominternpodd.bsky.social )
September 18, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Translation:
WARNING
THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS!
HE IS AN ENGINEER.
HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT EVERYTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
BUT NOTHING OF SOCIETY
Therefore he pollutes.
Therefore he builds enviroments hostile to humans.
Therefore he produces weapons and poisons.
(h/t comrade at @kominternpodd.bsky.social )
WARNING
THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS!
HE IS AN ENGINEER.
HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT EVERYTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
BUT NOTHING OF SOCIETY
Therefore he pollutes.
Therefore he builds enviroments hostile to humans.
Therefore he produces weapons and poisons.
(h/t comrade at @kominternpodd.bsky.social )
Salient reading* with implications for the current Navier-Stokes situation. Longer read but worth it.
davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
davidbessis.substack.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Salient reading* with implications for the current Navier-Stokes situation. Longer read but worth it.
davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
This Schaxel translation (and the intro written by @damashummus.bsky.social ) absolutely rips. Absolute must-read essay on the mystification of "the individual" in the field of biology, a lesson with philosophical and political dimensions that remain more important than ever.
but the introduction was penned by CTWG's resident biologist, Anatarah bin Al-Kaf. A brief biographical sketch of Schaxel's fascinating life is complemented by an analysis of his core argument in the text and the particularities of his conceptual vocabulary. 5/🧵
August 30, 2026 at 3:58 PM
This Schaxel translation (and the intro written by @damashummus.bsky.social ) absolutely rips. Absolute must-read essay on the mystification of "the individual" in the field of biology, a lesson with philosophical and political dimensions that remain more important than ever.
If this had come out a few years ago I would have tried to find a way to work "meat lettuce" into Forest and Factory
www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-p...
www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-p...
A Key Meat Protein Has Been Grown in Lettuce For The First Time
Eating meat is consistently shown to be one of the worst things we can do for the environment as consumers, due to the outsized negative impacts animal agriculture has on land, water and energy use, a...
www.sciencealert.com
August 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
If this had come out a few years ago I would have tried to find a way to work "meat lettuce" into Forest and Factory
www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-p...
www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-p...
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“Les auteurs assument [...] un pari. Soumettre la fiction utopique aux contraintes de la hard SF et de la théorie anti-utopique pourrait « attirer des gens vers le projet révolutionnaire »...”
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/05/26/l...
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Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme : Le communisme tangible - En attendant Nadeau
Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez écrivent contre les imaginaires communistes qui contournent la production dans Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme.
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr
July 15, 2026 at 7:49 AM
“Les auteurs assument [...] un pari. Soumettre la fiction utopique aux contraintes de la hard SF et de la théorie anti-utopique pourrait « attirer des gens vers le projet révolutionnaire »...”
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/05/26/l...
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www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/05/26/l...
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à propos de Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme :
“Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”
“Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”
July 15, 2026 at 7:49 AM
à propos de Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme :
“Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”
“Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”
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Read the Issue 3 editorial here: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
Editorial: On Communism, Drawing Lines, and Being Ecumenical | Heatwave
We attend to ecumenical practice not only because it is generative, but because difference is inevitable. Within fragmentation we must develop the capacity for cohesive communication and action.
heatwavemag.info
July 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Read the Issue 3 editorial here: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
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this is a real problem for people who are programmers but don’t also do other things. do other things.
On a slightly related note. When I started using Claude Code I was talking to a friend who is a programmer and I asked him: Is this what cocaine feels like? After a while you start to think: I can build anything with this.
July 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
this is a real problem for people who are programmers but don’t also do other things. do other things.
New essay on technical expertise, its occlusion to the majority of the human species, and the contours of its appropriation in any future project of communist construction. Read it online now, or in print in
@htwvmag.bsky.social
Issue 3
(link in reply below)
@htwvmag.bsky.social
Issue 3
(link in reply below)
July 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
New essay on technical expertise, its occlusion to the majority of the human species, and the contours of its appropriation in any future project of communist construction. Read it online now, or in print in
@htwvmag.bsky.social
Issue 3
(link in reply below)
@htwvmag.bsky.social
Issue 3
(link in reply below)
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Why does it feel so weird to talk about exercise and left politics? Want to get beyond the dichotomy of overly optimistic lifting for the rev and overly pessimistic rejection of all exercise as social domination?
June 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Why does it feel so weird to talk about exercise and left politics? Want to get beyond the dichotomy of overly optimistic lifting for the rev and overly pessimistic rejection of all exercise as social domination?
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Great new essay from @dfmanufracture.bsky.social on revolution and expertise
The Black Box of Production | Heatwave
The material world, made and re-made in the image of capital, looms large over humanity's future.
heatwavemag.info
June 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Great new essay from @dfmanufracture.bsky.social on revolution and expertise
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How are things made? Who knows how to make them? How is this knowledge distributed? @DFManufracture demystifies the riddle of technical knowledge and its relevance to communist construction in "The Black Box of Production," available on our website ahead of Issue 3 heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
June 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
How are things made? Who knows how to make them? How is this knowledge distributed? @DFManufracture demystifies the riddle of technical knowledge and its relevance to communist construction in "The Black Box of Production," available on our website ahead of Issue 3 heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
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My review of Eswar Prasad's Doom Loop, a book that isn't very good but vividly shows how and why economists are thoroughly washed.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Are Economists Going the Way of the Dinosaur?
In Eswar S. Prasad’s The Doom Loop, he attempts to defend a profession that failed to foresee the crisis of the post-liberal world.
www.thenation.com
May 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
My review of Eswar Prasad's Doom Loop, a book that isn't very good but vividly shows how and why economists are thoroughly washed.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Just found out about Peter Damerow. This guy was cooking wtf
May 18, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Just found out about Peter Damerow. This guy was cooking wtf
New preface for Forest and Factory, titled "The Immortal Science," to inaugurate the French edition is available (in English) to read now. Links in replies. Special thanks to
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.
May 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
New preface for Forest and Factory, titled "The Immortal Science," to inaugurate the French edition is available (in English) to read now. Links in replies. Special thanks to
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.
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Disponible en librairie !
Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez
128 pages 10 euros
Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez
128 pages 10 euros
May 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Disponible en librairie !
Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez
128 pages 10 euros
Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez
128 pages 10 euros
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le 7 mai en librairie
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social
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FABRIQUE & FORÊT
-- Science & fiction du communisme --
Phil. A. NEEL & Nick CHAVEZ
Sans soleil | Collection µV
Traduction : Julien GUAZZINI
Date de parution : 03/04/2026
www.hobo-diffusion.com/catalogue/97...
-- Science & fiction du communisme --
Phil. A. NEEL & Nick CHAVEZ
Sans soleil | Collection µV
Traduction : Julien GUAZZINI
Date de parution : 03/04/2026
www.hobo-diffusion.com/catalogue/97...
April 30, 2026 at 10:14 AM
le 7 mai en librairie
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social
@editionssanssoleil.bsky.social
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trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat:
me: where'd daddy go?
baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy
me: peekaboo!
baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
me: where'd daddy go?
baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy
me: peekaboo!
baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
April 29, 2026 at 5:29 AM
trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat:
me: where'd daddy go?
baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy
me: peekaboo!
baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
me: where'd daddy go?
baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy
me: peekaboo!
baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming "Every Acre Every Factory" documentary from LabournetTV featuring a series of interviews including of yours truly
The goat @dfmanufracture.bsky.social speaks about Forest and Factory in this new video!
sorry! here: www.labournet.tv/en/videos/fo...
April 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming "Every Acre Every Factory" documentary from LabournetTV featuring a series of interviews including of yours truly