Jan Overwijk

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Collegium Phaenomenologicum The Collegium is intended for faculty members and advanced graduate and postdoctoral students in philosophy and related disciplines. The core of the program consists in a series of lecture courses, in...

Summer school in an Italian monastery on climate philosophy. With eco-Marxism and ecofeminism in the week that I'm there. Still time to apply, deadline 1st of March!
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Mede door de fusie op links is bij D66 de afweging gemaakt dat het maar beter bij het (centrum)rechtse peleton aansluiting kan vinden. Aansluiting had men al, maar nu wordt nog net niet tegen het achterwiel van de VVD aangereden.

Collegium Phaenomenologicum The Collegium is intended for faculty members and advanced graduate and postdoctoral students in philosophy and related disciplines. The core of the program consists in a series of lecture courses, in...

Summer school in an Italian monastery on climate philosophy. With eco-Marxism and ecofeminism in the week that I'm there. Still time to apply, deadline 1st of March!
collegiumphaenomenologicum.org

Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene

Call for applications: Deadline extended to March 1 2026.

The Collegium runs from July 6th to 24th, 2026, preceded by the participants' conference on July 4th and 5th.

www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/02/23/c...

In Duitsland - niet dat dingen daar verder veel beter gaan dan hier - zou d66 (& CDA) door het gros van de pers afgebrand worden voor het accepteren van een beslissende meerderheid die leunt op radicaal rechts.

Ben benieuwd hoe snel we dit in NL weten te normaliseren. Maar normaal is 't niet.

Jetten heeft zijn ziel, en de ziel van Nederland, verkocht voor het premierschap.

Met radicaalrechts de verzorgingsstaat afbreken. Wat is er toch gebeurt met het democratisch ethos?

Deze regering zal niet rusten tot de laatste cent van de verzorgingsstaat is overgemaakt naar aandeelhouders en grootbezitters.

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.

Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.

Annelien de Dijn: Academische vrijheid bedreigd door links activisme? Kom op!

In Trouw: Annelien de Dijn: Academische vrijheid bedreigd door links activisme? Kom op!

Supreme Court just in time to save Trump from high inflation during the midterms.

This is not what democracy looks like.

Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis Click on the article title to read more.

My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Cover und Rückseite des Buches "Kybernetik und Kritik".

🎉 Finally: Heute ist der offizielle Erscheinungstag meines Buches “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” @suhrkamp.de. Aus diesem Anlass einige Einblicke – zunächst findet sich hier eine Leseprobe: res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/ima... Untenstehend zudem ein Thread zum Inhalt 👇

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Academische vrijheid wordt wereldwijd bedreigd door rechtsextremisme en @nrc.nl publiceert doodleuk een opiniestuk dat stelt "Linkse dominantie op de universiteit ondergraaft vertrouwen in wetenschap." We leven in een omgekeerde wereld.

De schande van Nederland.

"... zo’n 445.000 mensen door ziekte of handicap niet kunnen werken, maar geen recht hebben op een passende arbeidsongeschiktheidsuitkering. Van hen ontvangen 245.000 mensen geen enkele financiële ondersteuning; nog eens 200.000 zijn aangewezen op de bijstand."

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

How far do we have to be in deep water until we stop discussing if absolute decoupling of economic growth and environmental resource use is actually possible?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Don’t sleep on this battle royale: @abenanav.bsky.social x @leifw.bsky.social x @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on AI and socialism

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www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Jarenlang gewaarschuwd dat de strijd tegen woke tot censuur en autoritaire ingrepen in de vrije wetenschap zou leiden, maar het moest en zou elke week weer in een opiniestuk moeten worden bedreven want het vrije democratische debat!

Les één: een democratisch ethos is meer dan een set formele regeltjes maar zou zich moeten uitstrekken tot ons economische leven.

Die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie (ZfPP) ist raus und damit der von Joseph Conrad, Stefan Knauss und mir herausgegebene Schwerpunkt "Die Klimakrise und die Praktische Philosophie". Hier ist der Link zur Ausgabe. Ich werde die Beiträge auch sukzessive einzeln posten.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

6. Not sure this elliptical reflection makes much sense to anyone, but I came upon it when again confronted with the absolute impossibility of doing philosophy. It’s really the number one professional hazard.

📣 Your daily reminder that copying the far right does not work ⬇️

Ah yes, the ontology or epistemology question...

You don't need philosophy to study capitalism, but you do get into philosophy once you try to answer all the conceptual questions and want to get them consistent. You also get into typical metaphysical questions, e.g. the question of form/matter is crucial to Marxism and classical metaphysics.

5... their connection. The difference precludes an identity. It means that you cannot prove that labor-power is exploited, but this is precisely why labor-power can be exploited in the first place: *because* it can produce more stuff than it receives in the wage.

4... the difference between labor-power's exchange-value (the wage) and its use-value (labor). The worker works more hours than they receive in euro's. But this difference is incommensurable, it is itself the difference between labor and value/capital. Therefore you can't philosophically prove...