Leigh Claire La Berge
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
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People who speak to their cats about Marx
I've been toying with the idea of expanding this starter pack to include dogs, or all pets even, but I'm not there yet.
@julesboykoff.bsky.social
Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author of What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); The 1936 Berlin Olympics (Common Ground 2023); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). www.julesboykoff.org
@sanjukta.bsky.social
Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.
@alybatt.bsky.social
political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts forthcoming at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5 www.alyssabattistoni.com
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@andrew-brooks.bsky.social
academic. writer. editor @ rosa press race, policing, abolition, noise, historical materialism, aesthetics
@mims.bsky.social
WSJ tech columnist. Dog person. Author of Arriving Today, an unfortunately timely book about the global system of trade we're currently flushing down the toilet: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims
@mldavies.bsky.social
Victorian lady invalid, lying in bed surrounded by books. Long covid, ME, other ailments. Bylines in The Sick Times, Electric Lit, Jezebel, etc; cohost of Overinvested pod in absentia; picking away at a novel. she/her https://linktr.ee/morganleighdavies
@benbraun.bsky.social
Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
@jjoque.bsky.social
visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
@kylewoodley.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief, Young and the Invested / WealthUp Formerly Kiplinger, InvestorPlace, Gannett Site: https://youngandtheinvested.com/ Skeets are not personalized financial advice.
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Nation, The Cut, and elsewhere. www.lydiakiesling.com
@enzoreds.bsky.social
Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
@jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Author of Blue-Collar Empire (Verso, 2024). Labor historian, journalist, unionist.
@redandinexpert.bsky.social
Host of @poltheoryother podcast. Never ending playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05XFG7JSVmcudw5SEftghU?si=97039b355d
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes I don't care about typos on here, neither should you HOLD THE LINE
@agonhamza.bsky.social
Teaches philosophy, Co-editor of "Crisis & Critique journal. Co-host of "Crisis and Critique" podcast. "Reading Hegel" (2021). Writing a book on Hegel.
@alinapleskova.bsky.social
poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly IG: @alina_pleskova alinapleskova.com
@amandaannklein.bsky.social
media studies professor writing historical fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E! Views expressed are my own Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@michaelglasper.bsky.social
Freedom Radio ace, Prime Minister designate of Estonia, betting tout.
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of the forthcoming "Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads. Occasional Weisenheimer.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
NYS Assemblymember for District 36. Running for Mayor to freeze the rent, make buses fast + free, and deliver free universal childcare. Democratic Socialist. zohranfornyc.com
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@robinjames.bsky.social
editor & independent scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Bylines Jezebel, Guardian, LARB, Real Life, etc. no views, just vibes. its-her-factory.com
@ednabonhomme.bsky.social
Historian of Science & Culture Writer Author of A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES & Co-editor of AFTER SEX Bylines The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, Frieze, etc www.ednabonhomme.com https://bonhomme.substack.com/
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ to the undergrads at Lang/NewSchool and NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
@danioliver.bsky.social
Poet. Free lecture attendee. Development at n+1. Master of booby traps.
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
PhD candidate Binghamton University • Incoming Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • She/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@malahern.bsky.social
Collector of errors, glitches, and misprints. Researching 🤖 🎨 🏭 🎞️ 📽️ 📰 📺 and more. Professing at UW (Seattle)
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@walkertufts.bsky.social
Eco-bio-bacterial dirt based collaborative artist and game designer
@vjoshuaadams.bsky.social
Professing English at the University of Louisville. Poetry, poetics, philosophy, translation — plus old books, old cars, cat pics. Views mine.
@sternbergh.bsky.social
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY I wear suits now
@adamdalva.bsky.social
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Fiction Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
@thefrontlist.org
Culture journalist @Esquire and elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (One Signal, Dec 2025). Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan Tips: adam@thefrontlist.org
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
@dceiver.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
@garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
@mltondre.bsky.social
English Prof. Oil (Bloomsbury, Object Lessons series), Oil! (Penguin), The Physics of Possibility (U of Virginia)🌞 https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-9781501386626/
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@carlygoodman.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
@nilsgilman.bsky.social
Historian of the intelligentsia. Adored by little statesmen, philosophers & divines. COO & EVP @ Berggruen Institute + Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
@katemac.bsky.social
understander of things climate-related, Polycrisis co-writer, and more