Publishing Director at New Left Review. https://newleftreview.org/https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3mj2rp6w7tc2xI'm presenting the Endnotes contribution to this book this afternoon at Goldsmiths—coincidentally, also the place that project was first presented in 2007 or 2008. 3-5pm RHB 137 (in person only) Free and open to all Organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2rp6w7tc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3mfqyhtxfjk2yYears ago I wrote some stuff for this book, coming out of a debate we participated in as Endnotes. I had thought the project gone, but it has risen from the dead. Odd to have something you wrote come out so long after the event. Glad they got there though! minorcompositions.info?p=169026 Feb 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqyhtxfjk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3mdqqssd3422yIf Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints! https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/stranglehold31 Jan 2026 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqqssd3422yhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3mdqckn2cpc2fMi artículo sobre las últimas agresiones estadounidenses contra Cuba, en español. Traducido y publicado por Communis Press. https://communispress.com/llave-al-cuello/31 Jan 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqckn2cpc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3lsg5zlzr7k2wBrings a new, unexpected meaning to that old piece.25 Jun 2025 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsg5zlzr7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3lm63m7vibk25In a newspaper both started by Fidel Castro and noted for its sex education column, coverage of a presentation I did on the geopolitics of telecoms: https://www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecnica/2025-04-05/la-izquierda-en-la-era-de-la-inteligencia-artificial06 Apr 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm63m7vibk25https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3lgsapyvloh2lMi artículo sobre Cuba, Biden y Trump en castellano hoy en Diario Red. https://www.diario.red/articulo/armas-para-pensar/gesto-abyecto-partido-democrata-trump-cuba/20250127113726041790.html28 Jan 2025 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgsapyvloh2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3lgsanmeqfh2lA little thing on Cuba, Biden, Trump. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/abject-gesture28 Jan 2025 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgsanmeqfh2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3knssoi2knk22In the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social, I wrote about the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, and her recent book, "Rules". https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii145/articles/rob-lucas-from-thick-to-thin16 Mar 2024 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3knssoi2knk22https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kewfg2ol2m2eThe Economist's "World in Brief" this morning: "A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."24 Nov 2023 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kewfg2ol2m2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kd2i47axra2tSo it turns out two of the dogs are actually named after THAT economist—the one who is named after that guy who works for NLR. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Oct 2023 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2i47axra2thttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kd2h5vdglr2p"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist." https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/argentina-realigned31 Oct 2023 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2h5vdglr2phttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kcj4ba5pj42bI am told that my dissatisfaction has been logged with the reference number CRL57GH3JK.24 Oct 2023 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcj4ba5pj42bhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kc64ancj2d2cThe Economist's delirious war propaganda.20 Oct 2023 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kc64ancj2d2chttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kc433gsr2j26This is a really original take on the question of secular stagnation. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2023 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kc433gsr2j26https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbqaw5xm7k2yhttps://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-185092565714 Oct 2023 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbqaw5xm7k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbms4aiedf25NLR is now on Bluesky at @newleftreview.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2023 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbms4aiedf25https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbl4w6zqdo2fWriting a letter to the management to tell them how much you support them and admire their work because this is the best way of ensuring that you can get on with being a radical in academia.12 Oct 2023 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbl4w6zqdo2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbk4ttqra42lImportant things that go ignored because they are so boring.12 Oct 2023 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbk4ttqra42lhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbk4my5bji2dDebating with other users in the support forum whether it is even possible to close your own account, or whether that is a logical contradiction.12 Oct 2023 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbk4my5bji2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbk4csa6gw27The banking app doesn't give me full privileges and directs me to the website for a certain kind of transaction. The website just displays an ad for the app instead of the login page. The people on the support line tell me I should log into the website by entering a code from the app in the site.12 Oct 2023 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbk4csa6gw27https://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kbk3l4vhmp2tCalling IT support so that I can gain the correct access privileges to click a button to tell someone the same thing that I just told them in person so that their boss has a formal record of it in a database.12 Oct 2023 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbk3l4vhmp2thttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kb6mm5hp7q2bAD 2150: humanity is reduced to warlordism as the scattered survivors fight over the embers of a dead planet, but somewhere there's still a guy arguing that capitalism is healthy enough to accommodate his idea for a reformist programme.07 Oct 2023 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb6mm5hp7q2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kb3kgdrgzo2pDoomed to negotiate the endless headaches of a social world that was first subordinated to intricate bureaucratic procedure and then materialised as glitch-riddled infrastructure.06 Oct 2023 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb3kgdrgzo2phttps://bsky.app/profile/roblucas.bsky.social/post/3kacwgrnoy327Farewell Evelyn Fox Keller. "Century of the Gene" was the single best thing I ever read on genetics or cell biology.26 Sep 2023 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:fiogksiija2ctpphfhfx5waa/app.bsky.feed.post/3kacwgrnoy327