Alyssa Battistoni
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I'm on the editorial board of Jacobin, where I contribute regular writing and editing, and I write frequently on topics related  to my research for other publications, including The Nation, Dissent, and n+1. I also give public talks and make media appearances on the subjects of my writing.
​Essays, reviews, & editorials 

“There's No Time for Gradualism," Jacobin, October 2018


“How Not to Talk About Climate Change," Jacobin, August 2018

“States of Emergency," (on Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright),The Nation, June 2018


“Revolution at 100," Center for Creative Ecologies, July 2017

“Living, Not Just Surviving,” Jacobin, Issue 26: Earth, Wind, and Fire, Summer 2017

“Within and Against Capitalism," Jacobin, Issue 26: Earth, Wind, and Fire, Summer 2017

“Monstrous, Duplicated, Potent," (on Donna Haraway), n+1, Issue 28: Half Life, Spring 2017

“The False Promise of Universal Basic Income,” Dissent Spring 2017: ​Capitalism Today


"After Columbia," n+1, August 2016

“Marching Through the Institutions,” n+1, March 2015

“How to Change Everything” (on Naomi Klein), Jacobin, December 2015

“Beyond the Engine,” Colloquy: Twenty-First Century Marxisms, Arcade, July 2015

"Nature's Metropolis," Jacobin Issue 14, Fall 2014

“Alive in the Sunshine,” Jacobin Issue 13, Winter 2014

"Toward Cyborg Socialism," Jacobin Issue 13, Winter 2014

“Back to No Future,” Jacobin Issue 10, Spring 2013

​“The Flood Next Time,” Jacobin Issue 9, Winter 2012


Contributions to edited collections

“Wouldn’t a more democratic world just mean a bigger environmental crisis?” in The ABCs of Socialism, eds. Bhaskar Sunkara and Philip Wigglesworth, New York: Verso Books, 2016.
 
“The Green and the Red,” in The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century, eds. Sarah Leonard and Bhaskar Sunkara, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2016.
 
“Socialism or Whole Foods: Luxemburgian Answers to our Climate Crisis,” in Rosa Remix, New York: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2016.
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Public talks

“On the Financialization of Nature,” Discredited: Neoliberalism and the Age of Finance, Zone Books, Left Forum, June 1, 2018. 

“Capitalism, Ecology, and Technology,” Marx Now, Goethe Institut and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, May 6, 2018.
 
“A New Social Contract: Guaranteeing Dignity in a Precarious Economy,” National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, The New School, March 6, 2017.
 
“On Maintenance,” Night of Philosophy & Ideas, Brooklyn Public Library, January 29, 2017.
 
“Income for All?” Dissent and Verso Books, November 2016.
  
“Climate Change, Austerity, and Social Movements,” Brecht Forum, February 20, 2014.  
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