Archive - Bo’s Research

Selected Facts from Energy and Civilization: A History

Excerpts from Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization: A History

Aug 27, 2023 •

June 2023

Trajectories of Fragmentation II

Polycrisis, Intellectual Labor, and Transdisciplinary Research

Jun 15, 2023 •

Trajectories of Fragmentation

Polycrisis, Intellectual Labor, and Transdisciplinary Research I

Jun 7, 2023 •

April 2023

The Analytical Power of Labor Power

“The nature of Marx’s critique of political economy may be indicated elliptically by pointing to the replacement of ‘distribution’ by ‘conditions of…

Apr 24, 2023 •

Automation and Labor: On Smart Machines and Service Work

Review of Jason E. Smith. Smart Machines and Service Work. Field Notes Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 192 pp.

Apr 6, 2023 •

March 2023

The Revenge of Use Values: Part I

Supply Chains, Bitcoin, and Lubricators of Velocity - Reflections on Banaji's Commercial Capitalism

Mar 22, 2023 •

The Future of Political Philosophy

Political Philosophy After Forrester’s Rawls // On Katrina Forrester's In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political…

Mar 12, 2023 •

February 2023

Readings From February, 2023

When Robert Heilbronner composed his Future as History (1960), you could write passages like the following without being accused of metaphysics:

Feb 28, 2023 •

The Other 'Marburg School'

An Enemy of Seminar Marxism? Lothar Peter's Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School, Historical Materialism Book Series, 195 (Boston…

Feb 19, 2023 •

On the 'Polycrisis': Part II

Philosophies of History & Crises in Political Thought

Feb 11, 2023 •

Readings from January, 2023

I was reminded recently by a friend of Keston Sutherland’s “Marx in Jargon,” one of the best essays on Marx’s style I can recommend.

Feb 1, 2023 •

January 2023

On the 'Polycrisis': Part I

Issues in Abstract Conceptual Circumference

Jan 24, 2023 •

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