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The Bluesky representation of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/

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PODCAST 15.1 — The Grounds of Planning I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate - KTB What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide what counts as rational? In part one of this series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher...

New Podcast Episode: In part 1 of this two-part series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher John O’Neill about the socialist calculation debate and its legacy.
Listen to it here or on your usual podcast app: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

27.02.2026 10:50 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Save the Date: On March 10th, Q. Slobodian & B. Tarnoff will join us to present their new book on "Muskism", to discuss not just who Elon Musk is as a person but what he represents as an avatar of a technocratic ideology: a playbook for our postliberal age.
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/mus...

18.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 3
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Full house at the critique of AI workshop today! ⚡️

organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social

Some of the discussion points/statements below:

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16.02.2026 16:51 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Save the Date - Our socialization project has invited Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer & Rainer Mühlhoff to discuss critical perspectives on AI on Monday, February 16th.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...

05.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 44    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1
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Save the Date - Our socialization project has invited Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer & Rainer Mühlhoff to discuss critical perspectives on AI on Monday, February 16th.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...

05.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 44    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1
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On Wednesday next week, Søren Mau will join us to talk about his book "Mute Compulsion" - a novel theory of the forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative.
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/mute-c...
@sorenmau.bsky.social

02.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 5
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NEW DATES - Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty will hold this year's Benjamin Lectures on Tuesday June 23, Wednesday June 24 & Thursday June 25 at HKW. More information on what he will talk to us about can now be found on our website in EN and DE: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...

29.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Podcast Relaunch - We are relaunching our podcast Critical Theory In Context with regular episodes, alternating in German & English, with our new regular hosts @sabinenuss.bsky.social & Jacob Blumenfeld.

Unsere neue Episode über das Jahresthema des Centres:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

30.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 46    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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NEW DATES - Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty will hold this year's Benjamin Lectures on Tuesday June 23, Wednesday June 24 & Thursday June 25 at HKW. More information on what he will talk to us about can now be found on our website in EN and DE: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...

29.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Morgen Abend im Lichthof Ost (HU Berlin Hauptgebäude):

29.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nächste Woche:

20.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Nächste Woche im Lichthof Ost der HU Berlin:

20.01.2026 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nächste Woche Donnerstag im Aquarium (Südblock):

12.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save the Date: Am 30.1. diskutieren Christoph Menke, Katja Diefenbach, Helmut Draxler & Rahel Jaeggi über Krieg & den liberalen Diskurs darüber. Warum erscheint Krieg in diesem als Ausnahmezustand, nicht als instituierte Form von Herrschaft?
Mehr Infos: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krieg-...

09.01.2026 11:34 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
Socialization in Theory and Practice – Democratizing Access to Land and Energy

Our project 'Socialization in Theory and Practice: Democratizing Access to Land and Energy' now has its own website, including upcoming events, publications and resources on socialization and information about the project:
socializationproject.de

08.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3

The deadline for applications by outside Berlin applicants and Phd students for our Summer School closes in 2 days on January 7th at 23:59! Apply by using the form on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...

05.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new episode of Future Histories Live!

This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.

Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.

Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj

21.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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Save the Date: Zu unserer ersten Veranstaltung im neuen Jahr werden Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Seibert mit Daniel Loick über sein Buch "Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen", Gegengemeinschaften, und die Frage des revolutionären Subjektes sprechen.
Mehr Infos: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krise-...

19.12.2025 11:03 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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We support the community of the New School for Social Research in their demands to stop the financial restructuring and austerity measures that are planned in response to recent budget challenges.
The letter can be read and signed here: www.e-flux.com/notes/678343....

19.12.2025 10:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Plakat der Veranstaltung: https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/etienne-balibar-rasse-geschlecht-gattung-zur-frage-der-anthropologischen-differenzen.html

Plakat der Veranstaltung: https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/etienne-balibar-rasse-geschlecht-gattung-zur-frage-der-anthropologischen-differenzen.html

»Rasse, Geschlecht, Gattung. Zur Frage der anthropologischen Differenzen«
Vortrag und Diskussion mit Étienne Balibar am 28. Januar 2026 von 18 Uhr bis 20 Uhr.
Zeitgleich per Videoübertragung in Paris, Berlin und Frankfurt/Main.
@ktbberlin.bsky.social

17.12.2025 12:32 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 4

Tomorrow! Doors open 12h30.
Programme: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

03.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).

Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast

26.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 28    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 4

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...

24.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Join us for our next event: Fortress Fascism: Border Authoritarianism and Activist Struggle

1.12., 12.30 EST / 18.30 CET

An online conversation with Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social, Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social, Mahamat Daoud, and Seán Binder. Moderated by Esme Smithson Swain.

08.11.2025 09:55 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 4
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CfA for our next summer school is now online on our website. Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lillian Cicerchia, Maeve Cooke & Massimiliano Tomba will join us to discuss concepts of history and human agency.
More information and application form: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...

21.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Prof. Isabel Feichtner: "Land, Sea, Moon: From territoriality to becoming terrestrial"
YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin Prof. Isabel Feichtner: "Land, Sea, Moon: From territoriality to becoming terrestrial"

The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...

13.11.2025 10:11 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics
YouTube video by April Institute Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics

The video of the online conversation "Living in Authoritarian Times" that we co-organized with the April Institute and Critup is now online: Rahul Bhatia, Volkan Çidam, Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, and Joseph Howley, moderated by Zeynep Gambetti.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...

07.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

04.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

03.11.2025 12:59 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 4
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Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

24.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2