Michael

Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!

Wenn ich das nächste Mal Bourdieu unterrichte und über Klasse, Distinktion und insbesondere den selbstbewussten Besitz politischer Kompetenzen spreche, zeige ich den Studierenden die Werbe-Anzeige der Zeit, wo die Podcasts mit einem 500 Euro Kopfhörer bebildert sind.

Why is environmentalism class divided?

My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich.

🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

Theoretical Lineages and Contemporary Concerns in the Sociology of Economic Life This chapter explores the objects, methods, and purposes of economic sociology in a relational and historical mode. It is organized by a specific concern: how the subfield’s formation, concerns,...

Great Addition to this thread: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Forget Bourdieu | Nicholas Dames Those of us in commodity-rich, artistically saturated, more or less urbanized Western countries, at the start of the 21st century, know all too well how these games are played. We know it instinctivel...

Any invocation of “bad” music, like my putative confession above, performs an ironically distanced declaration of selfhood, one that is so knowing as to disarm argument."

From: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-8/revi...

Our Facebook lists say: Look at how cannily I negotiate the field of cultural consumption; look also at how I resist definition by others nonetheless, because I deliberately “miscode” myself, finding coherence in my strategic, quirky incoherence.

This is now accepted common sense, rooted in all our acts of aesthetic consumption; we know our list of favorite films or books is not a self but a series of “position-takings.”

"The form of the list survives mockery, however, and even thrives today, precisely because we agree with what Barthes argued: that taste lists create a “subjectivity effect,” a social profile, rather than revealing an actual self.

Adorno-Vorlesungen 2024: Loïc Wacquant »Rethinking the Penal State« - YouTube Seit 2002 veranstaltet das Institut für Sozialforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Suhrkamp Verlag jährlich Vorlesungen, die an drei Abenden an Theodor W. Ado...

Die Aufzeichnungen der Adorno-Vorlesungen 2024 »Rethinking the Penal State« von Loïc Wacquant sind jetzt auf dem Youtube-Kanal des IfS abrufbar.
Zu den Aufzeichungen: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ich habe euch eben eine Mail geschrieben. Vielen Dank :)!

Drei aufgefächert fotografierte Exemplare unserer Neuerscheinung »Johannes Agnoli oder: Subversion als Wissenschaft«, herausgeben von Michael Hewener. Daneben steht: OUT NOW

OUT NOW! Johannes Agnoli entlarvt die #Demokratie der Bundesrepublik als Instrument der Herrschaft, das die Massen von der Macht fernhält. Gerade diese kritische Perspektive macht ihn in Zeiten von Autoritarismus + faschist. Gefahr so aktuell: dietzberlin.de/produkt/joha.... Wir verlosen 1 Band! /1

Absolutely insane

Eine Kritik der Modern Monetary Theory als geldtheoretisches Konzept | Exploring Economics In diesem Beitrag diskutiert Ingo Stützle die Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) kritisch aus einer an Marx orientierten Ökonomiekritik. Dabei wird argumentiert, dass die MMT zwar wichtige Fragen aufwirft, aber weder einen adäquaten Begriff von Geld noch von Kapitalismus hat, was mitunter zu Fehlschlüssen führt. Dabei ist der wesentliche Punkt, dass die MMT auf der Basis eines falschen Verständnisses von Geld die notwendige Begrenztheit staatlicher Verfügungs- und Gestaltungsmacht im Kapitalismus nicht versteht.

Ein wirklich sehr gelungener Beitrag von @istuetzle.bsky.social zur #Geldtheorie.
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#EconSky #VWL #Makroökonomik
https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/eine-kritik-der-modern-monetary-theory-als-geldtheoretisches-konzept/

Ättestupa - Wikipedia

Mir fällt spontan die Darstellung im Film Midsommar ein (Ättestupa, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84t...)

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the critique of capitalocentrism. A world at "loose ends" mini-series # 1.

I'm enjoying Tooze's sudden burst of theoretical reflexivity, as per his latest substack. What is still lacking is same level of methodological reflexivity, of the sort captured by 'sociology of critique' or what others termed 'social life of methods' adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Hey, I was wondering if you have a screenshot available of the tweets you mention in your text. Thanks for the great essay

Great book, but that has to be one of the ugliest book covers I've seen in a long time 😢

From Bowling Alone to Posting Alone Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.

jacobin.com/2022/12/from...

Thomas Meaney, A Year in German Culture — Sidecar Gaza and censorship.

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Unser Lesekreis zur Politischen Theorie geht 2025 weiter!

Diesmal lesen wir Wolfgang Streeck, den "Karl Marx unserer Zeit" (NY Times).

Alle 2 Wochen online, Start Ende Januar/Anfang Februar.

Bei Interesse DM & gerne RT!

Hi, grüß dich. Ich bin über die Suchfunktion zufällig auf diesen Post gestoßen und hätte durchaus Interesse an einem Lesekreis zu dem Buch teilzunehmen. Wie könnte man näher in Kontakt treten?

This is a good framing I think. Ideology critique in an age of social media feels filled with pitfalls — the temptation is to talk about ideas where what matters more is affect, impulse, provocation

Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together.

I've made some free courses to help:

• Reading Capital v1
• Reading Capital v2
• Reading the Grundrisse
• Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
• The ABC of Contemporary Capital

davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

I think that there is still a point to be made that it is scandalous to omit Marxism from introductions and handbooks (as I've shown w/r/t economic sociology in one of my previous threads) - if Marx and Marxism is passé, why not have him pose as (another) negative foil akin to institutional econ?

Quite bold lol

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism The fact that my previous post, on John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism, attracted several times more readers than anything I’ve previously published on Substack, forced me to acknowledge that,...

josephheath.substack.com/p/key-stages... The follow-up does a much better job providing the explanation that I wanted, although I still do not entirely agree. As noted w/r/t economic sociology I still find it staggering how little dialogue there is between the Marxist tradition and NES..