Casey Williams

Postdoctoral Fellow @CollegeTokyo, Institute for Advanced Study at The University of Tokyo. Research on climate, fossil fuels, labor, the South. 🇵🇸

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

More brilliant work from @jonothingEB on the progressive-washing of eugenics

[Jonathan Basile @jonothingEB]

I wrote about Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book Original Sin, a strange but revealing blend of behavioral genetics and Calvinism. It's an attempt to build liberal acceptance for the eugenics driving far right politics and much of technoscience today: https://t.co/oByeod7MLy

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

Great piece pushing back on an emergent narrative that in lieu of political power, decarb will magically happen anyway thru markets.

"If 'economics' is driving the energy transition, in other words, capitalism starts to look like the planet’s saviour
rather than its enemy."

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

New piece for the wonderful @break_downradio arguing against placing hopes for an energy transition in mute financial or geopolitical forces. https://t.co/P2MBJrcSrY

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

@triofrancos @thenation You're very welcome! I found the book super generative and was pleased to review it!

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

Thea Riofrancos's Extraction isn't just a story about the hidden costs of green energy transition; it's a provocation to rethink the meaning of democracy in a "deglobalizing" but still deeply interconnected world. Check out my review in @thenation https://t.co/pRkLpBM9gJ

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

Stuart Hall wrote little about the environment, but I argue in a new piece for @break_downradio that Hall is nonetheless essential reading for a left committed to addressing climate change https://t.co/xPbZAt9JPI

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Today’s banana plantations could not simply be seized by workers and made to serve an ecologically conscious socialism. What’s needed is a totally different way of producing bananas—and probably far fewer of them.” —@CaseyWillyums https://t.co/Ss6Npe80H1

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Critics…see degrowth as a Luddite fantasy, motivated by middle-class consumer guilt,” @CaseyWillyums writes. “[But] almost all degrowth proponents…insist that such sacrifices would…open more avenues for self-fulfillment.” https://t.co/SvkM3xyeRI

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Casey A. Williams (@CaseyWillyums) on economic degrowth, abundance, and the climate crisis https://t.co/auU33fMgRF

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

@Matthuber78 Thanks, Matt! Always a pleasure to engage with your work. I appreciate your sharing!

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

I gloss the degrowth debate for @nybooks this month, reviewing work by @KoheiSaito and @Matthuber78. Ultimately, there's much to admire in the degrowth vision, but it still lacks a theory of political change https://t.co/JEEwYsC8tQ

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Our 7/24 issue is now online, with @JamesGleick on AI nonsense, @JoyceCarolOates on serial killers and toxic metals, @lola_seaton on Sheila Heti, @CaseyWillyums on degrowth, @ReginaMarler on the Brothers Grimm, @nijhuism on what we save, and much more. https://t.co/s0yMtWllVh

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

My work reviewed w/ @koheisaito0131 in @nybooks yet no cool pic w/Marx on my shoulder (jk it’s more about Kohei).

“Huber…sees eco crisis as a consequence neither of growth nor of capitalist tech but of how & for whom the modern economy’s productive powers have been put to work”

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

Thanks to @CaseyWillyums for writing this and a good time to boost his brilliant earlier review of my book in “Radical Philosophy”: https://t.co/fgyYTwgL8v

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

When commuters berate climate protesters blocking highways, it's not because they don't care about the climate. It's because FF infrastructure breaks solidarity, clarifying how much work is required to build a working-class climate movement. With the brilliant @ceravenscroft

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

More people see disruption tactics as necessary for climate action. How can local activists join in without jeopardizing solidarity? https://t.co/QmpeDHSBfr

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

So proud of everyone who spent years fighting for this! Duke is a union campus!

[Duke Grad Union @dukegradunion]

WE WON OUR UNION!

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

I could not be more proud of the @dukegradunion fighting for recognition. In response, Duke has challenged the right of grad workers everywhere to unionize. I’m pledging #NoDollars4Duke until they abandon this embarrassing and transparent delay tactic. #LetUsVote

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants.

This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.

[Scott Stoneman (He/Him) @scottrston]

A short vid that assembles some significant moments from the Volatile Trajectories podcast, now available on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts: https://t.co/QPvsBnv95U @sbalkan5 @CaseyWillyums @_Sobieski @szemanimre @DrPenelopePlaza @smwiebe @emi_eaton @CalebWellum @EJagoe

[Casey Williams @CaseyWillyums]

@elleeenel @barelifereview @alexanderchee @evagbo @bowlga @keyanbowes @omarelakkad @ChinuaEzenwa @amandaleekallis Thank you!