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Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal spreche ich mit Philipp Staab (@humboldtuni.bsky.social @ecdigitalfuture.bsky.social) über sein neues Buch 'Systemkrise. Legitimationsprobleme im grünen Kapitalismus' (@suhrkamp.de).

Zu finden hier: buff.ly/zMHzpXj

#FutureHistories #Podcast

How not to talk about capitalism The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”

For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in Sven Beckert’s and Branko Milanovic’s brilliant new books.

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

“broad, broader… Braudel”

📢 Call for Participation!

Socializing Algorithms Conference
Kiel University, Germany — 7–9 Oct 2026.

With keynotes from N. Katherine Hayles and Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social

📝 Submit abstracts by 28 Feb 2026

algorithmen-regieren.de/projects

Aaron Benanav on how to formally abolish the value-form

figuring out the planned economy

John O’Neill on Neurath’s critique of pseudorationalism in the socialist calculate debate

Check it out. At The New School, you could've studied composition with John Cage, social science methods with John Dewey, cultural history with Lewis Mumford, or photography with Berenice Abbott

Jurgen Habermas's head just exploded.

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice

🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

🙏🏼 Tamas is so foundational I can’t believe I didn’t cite him (or Gunn)

I enjoyed this paper a lot -- a good companion to "Telling the Truth about Class" by G.M. Tamas, IMHO.

Fichte’s Grundlage too yea?

Tomorrow! Find out who plans the planners, with special guests Neurath, Hayek, Weber, Lange, and Mises

time for volume II!

Had the same feeling! bsky.app/profile/comi...

Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?

Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.

First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵

twin peaks for modern times

On this day in 1914, Karl Liebknecht stood as the only SPD deputy in the German Reichstag to vote against war credits. The SPD majority’s abandonment of its internationalist antimilitarism destroyed the second International as Europe descended into a catastrophic war. Today, many socialist 1/2

I am very excited that there is now an English translation of this important book. Christopher John Müller has done an amazing job. Thank you to both @morbuscriticus.bsky.social and Christopher for making this happen!

welcome back David Lynch

Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Germany’s Wollstonecraft

In 1802, a work of philosophy was published under a woman’s name. In On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Development, Amalia Holst declared that it was time someone spoke out about the plight of women in Germany ‘from a woman’s standpoint aeon.co/essays/amali...

Schriften zur Technik

Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’ AI image generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E or Stable Diffusion are able to perfectly simulate the appearance of photographic images, but they are no longer part of the history of optical media....

Great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social on how generative AI reshapes the photographic — not just technically, but conceptually and culturally. A strong humanities perspective on a rapidly evolving visual landscape.
#DigitalCulture #VisualStudies

the beginning of the 21st century

YouTube video by The Autonomy Institute Is the Green Transition a Betrayal?

My interview on 'Or Something Worse' (@versobooks.bsky.social) with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social is out now - it was great chat as we worked through betrayal, work, hope and the transition economy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgW...

this week’s reading

Our Planning Workshop is coming up next week! There is a reader available on our website for those who want to prepare for the discussions of classical texts in the socialist calculation debate: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

Wulf D. Hund, Lukas Egger und Felix Lösing untersuchen die Schriften von Marx und Engels im Hinblick auf rassistische, antisemitische, eurozentrische Stereotype und Vorurteile. Für Kolja Lindner bleiben trotz der Qualitäten des Buches eine Reihe von Fragen offen:

www.soziopolis.de/anachronisti...