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Aaron Benanav

@abenanav.bsky.social

Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com

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The Grounds of Planning PART II: @abenanav.bsky.social on Utopia, Socialism, and Rationality

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

28.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Vision Speaker Series w Aaron Benanav (Cornell)
YouTube video by Visions for the Future Vision Speaker Series w Aaron Benanav (Cornell)

This ist a great presentation of @abenanav.bsky.social condensing his idea of a multidimensional economics as described in his articles in the @newleftreview.bsky.social.

27.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I would take a pay cut to not have an email address.

22.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 119    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 2

Wait, isn’t he also a fraud? Wasn’t he taken down in the same wave that took out Gino? How does the article not mention this?

22.02.2026 04:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That one I just outright refuse. I say I don’t answer student emails. They have to come to office hours or ask me before or after class.

22.02.2026 04:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes.

22.02.2026 04:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would take a pay cut to not have an email address.

22.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 119    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 2

Very much looking forward to this debate together with Jeremy Kessler and Suresh Naidu!
Join us (registration required)

17.02.2026 01:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Discussion About Moving Beyond Capitalism The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism. The discussion will be held in English. To participate, please register here.

The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism between @abenanav.bsky.social and Professor Katharina Pistor on Monday 23rd February from 6PM UTC-5 at Jerome Greene Hall. More info here: www.indep.network/event/discus...

16.02.2026 06:39 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Beyond Capitalism <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion w...

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share!

events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

14.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
Beyond Capitalism <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion w...

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share!

events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

14.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
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Many congratulations to Baptiste Albertone for defending his fantastic PhD dissertation yesterday! A pleasure to examine his thesis "On the Periphery of the Anthropocene: Development, Freedom, and Nature" with @abenanav.bsky.social

11.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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.…

Great exchange between @evgenymorozov.bsky.social, @abenanav.bsky.social, and @leifw.bsky.social in the ideas letter:

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

09.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Waymo admits its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

Waymo admits its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

😂😂😂

08.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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A Real Political Economy of Technology - The Ideas Letter Two technological futures are competing for political and material priority: generative AI and the green transition. Benanav argues that while AI is marketed as a world-reordering breakthrough, its pr...

What might we be able to build in the future that we can't build today? For the @TheIdeasLetter, I wrote about the political economy of technology and technological change in a world beyond capitalism.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real...

06.02.2026 03:33 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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A Real Political Economy of Technology - The Ideas Letter Two technological futures are competing for political and material priority: generative AI and the green transition. Benanav argues that while AI is marketed as a world-reordering breakthrough, its pr...

What might we be able to build in the future that we can't build today? For the @TheIdeasLetter, I wrote about the political economy of technology and technological change in a world beyond capitalism.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real...

06.02.2026 03:33 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Mexico’s Big Green State | Jose Maria Valenzuela Claudia Sheinbaum plans to repurpose the country's state-owned enterprises towards decarbonization

Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social

things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...

02.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 47    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

"Economía multicriterio" es el concepto central, de ese artículo de @abenanav.bsky.social que es una maravilla, y la 2ª parte pìnta muy muy bien

30.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Ya disponible el nuevo número de @NewLeftReview

Para los que creen que el mundo no cabe en 280 caracteres

Con Zhang Yongle, Roberto Schwarz, @alybatt.bsky.social, @abenanav.bsky.social , Michael Burawoy and Michael Lieven.

+ info: newleftreview.es

20.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 17    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

18.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 1246    🔁 445    💬 15    📌 39

I haven’t read that. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.

07.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This Machine Kills Podcast Interview with Aaron Benanav on his multi-criterial socialism proposal - Part 1 In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial…

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts @jathansadowski.com and @edwardongwesojr.com interview @abenanav.bsky.social about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. www.indep.network/first-part-o...

07.01.2026 07:52 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Demokratische Planwirtschaft Der US-Wirtschaftshistoriker Aaron Benanav forscht zu einer Zukunft nach dem Kapitalismus. Mit Verweisen auf Otto Neurath und John M. Keynes skizziert er Umrisse einer demokratischen Planung.

6/ @abenanav.bsky.social erfindet mit Neurath und Keynes die demokratische Planwirtschaft neu

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196...

02.01.2026 14:04 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
Spotify – Web Player

Podcast about my new work in German. I haven’t listened yet, curious what you think!

open.spotify.com/episode/6e3W...

25.12.2025 13:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav) We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to get into his magisterial essays laying out a vision of society beyond capitalism. In part 1 of our conversation, we lay out his incisive analysis of how capitalism is

In the new TMK, we're joined by @abenanav.bsky.social for a deep dive into his essays laying out a detailed vision for a world beyond capitalism.

Sit back and enjoy — holiday listening doesn't get much better than this. Part 2 is out in a couple weeks. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

23.12.2025 21:56 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Yes! :)

21.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Local knowledge/innovation from below and planned research/ innovation from above are crucial to capitalist economies and to any post-capitalist future (and to my pieces). I’m not sure what GenAI introduces that’s new. I don’t think it’s the key tech revolution in our times—the energy transition is.

21.12.2025 14:53 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Is it?

20.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social

For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️

13.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql

Must read!

Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3

11.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 36    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1