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Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

@mschock.bsky.social

senior lecturer WU Wien | evolutionary political economy | agent-based modelling | EAEPE // sci-fi | jazz | hip-hop | electronic music @mschock@mastodon.social

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Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:

hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441

registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

26.08.2025 09:05 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 2
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Conceptualizing transformative climate action: insights from sufficiency research This synthesis article conceptualizes transformative climate actions (TCAs) by reviewing social-science-based climate and transformation research, with a particular focus on (Western) sufficiency l...

New review article out in @climate-policy.bsky.social

@envleeds.bsky.social

- with @ernestaigner.bsky.social (@leuphana.bsky.social), Nathan Barlow (@degrowthvienna.bsky.social) & Andreas Novy (@wuvienna.bsky.social, @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1080/1469...

Key messages below

25.04.2025 05:55 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
Titel des Standpunkts von Cecilia Rikap (University College London) und Aline Blankertz (Rebalance Now): "Demokratisch kontrollierte Alternativen gegen technologische Abhängigkeit" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Digitalisierung & KI.

Titel des Standpunkts von Cecilia Rikap (University College London) und Aline Blankertz (Rebalance Now): "Demokratisch kontrollierte Alternativen gegen technologische Abhängigkeit" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Digitalisierung & KI.

Europa & Deutschland müssen ihre Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen #Big-Tech-Unternehmen brechen, so lautet das Credo der Stunde. Doch #BuyEuropean & nationale Champions sind nicht die Lösung, schreiben @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Aline Blankertz 👉 is.gd/TVEGyN

18.03.2025 11:15 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social (@iipp-ucl.bsky.social) about how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership. Recorded at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social!

tinyurl.com/FH-Rikap

16.03.2025 10:10 — 👍 29    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 7
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Democratic Economic Planning Workshop - YouTube This expert workshop on "Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises", which took place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from...

Were you unable to attend our expert workshop on democratic economic planning last November? No problem! The full recordings of all three public events are now online! ▶️View them here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DEP #planning #transformation #WUVienna (1/3)

10.02.2025 13:37 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 3

The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇

10.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Cover der englischen Studie „Race2Paris: Shifting Gears for Climate Action: Transforming Europe’s Transportation“, veröffentlicht vom Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network (SET-NET).

Cover der englischen Studie „Race2Paris: Shifting Gears for Climate Action: Transforming Europe’s Transportation“, veröffentlicht vom Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network (SET-NET).

Cover der Studie „Race2Paris Österreich: Wirksame Klimapolitik bleibt in Österreich auf der Strecke“, veröffentlicht vom Momentum Institut.

Cover der Studie „Race2Paris Österreich: Wirksame Klimapolitik bleibt in Österreich auf der Strecke“, veröffentlicht vom Momentum Institut.

Europa hat ein neues progressives Netzwerk: SET-NET (Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network). Der Zusammenschluss europäischer Thinktanks fokussiert sich auf Klimapolitik & präsentiert eine neue Studie über den Verkehrssektor: Race2Paris – Shifting Gears for Climate Action. Ein 🧵 1/

23.01.2025 13:28 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Weekend viewing
#davidlynch

17.01.2025 07:22 — 👍 243    🔁 26    💬 7    📌 0
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Goodbye David Lynch and thanks for the beautiful weirdness 🖤🖤🖤🖤

17.01.2025 00:03 — 👍 265    🔁 56    💬 0    📌 1
As twenty-second-century Wilf Netherton explains to twenty-first-century Flynne Fisher, the jackpot was “no one thing”: “multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end. More a climate than an event, so not the way apocalypse stories liked to have a big event, after which everybody ran around with guns . . . or else were eaten alive by something caused by the big event. Not like that.” Triggered mainly by climate change, the jackpot included:

nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves.

Over forty years, 80 percent of the human population died; the surviving 20 percent, meanwhile, benefited from the technologies that developed as the slaughterhouse of history unfolded: “cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before, nanotechnology that was more than just car paint that healed itself or camo crawling on a ball cap.” Also, of course, the rich got richer, “there being fewer to own whatever there was.”

As twenty-second-century Wilf Netherton explains to twenty-first-century Flynne Fisher, the jackpot was “no one thing”: “multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end. More a climate than an event, so not the way apocalypse stories liked to have a big event, after which everybody ran around with guns . . . or else were eaten alive by something caused by the big event. Not like that.” Triggered mainly by climate change, the jackpot included: nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves. Over forty years, 80 percent of the human population died; the surviving 20 percent, meanwhile, benefited from the technologies that developed as the slaughterhouse of history unfolded: “cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before, nanotechnology that was more than just car paint that healed itself or camo crawling on a ball cap.” Also, of course, the rich got richer, “there being fewer to own whatever there was.”

Remembering how William Gibson described the "jackpot":

09.01.2025 02:18 — 👍 377    🔁 125    💬 13    📌 23
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Competition & Change - Volume 29, Number 1, Jan 01, 2025 Table of contents for Competition & Change, 29, 1, Jan 01, 2025

It's here! The Competition & Change special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg.bsky.social and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full!

Find it here:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

Please share and spread the word! Thx!

28.12.2024 15:35 — 👍 57    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 5
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Reclaiming digital sovereignty Authored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná

Important new white paper on how to fight back against big tech and democratize the internet!

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

03.12.2024 16:36 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future

After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies.

I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”

03.12.2024 16:56 — 👍 402    🔁 129    💬 10    📌 25

The case for a public digital stack NOW !

03.12.2024 15:44 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

#RegainDigitalSovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #AgainstBigTech #DemocraticeAI

03.12.2024 15:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!

03.12.2024 15:40 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 5
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Excited to share a few highlights from our expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning” (DEP) in Vienna last weekend! Over 2 days, we explored how democratic economic planning can reshape our economy. Here is a short summary of what we discussed 🧵👇(1/9) #DemocraticPlanning #DEP

03.12.2024 15:04 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Let's talk about "Ecological Planning And the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"on Friday, 29th November, 6-7:30pm.
Thanks to the Institut für Räumliche und Sozial-Ökologische Transformationen at Vienna University for the invitation!

21.11.2024 09:16 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We are co-organising an expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” WU November 29-30, 2024! Join us for three public events at WU Vienna Nov 29-30th! Register here!👉 wu.ac.at/institut-fue... @cedricdurand.bsky.social @wu.ac.at.web.brid.gy #democraticplanning

20.11.2024 10:23 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

co-organizers:

WU Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations

Arbeiterkammer Wien

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)

Kompetenzzentrum Alltagsökonomie

22.11.2024 08:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

local organization:
@solveigdegen.bsky.social Andreas Novy and myself

22.11.2024 08:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Panel discussion will be on "How to democratically plan social metabolism and technology"

with Cecilia Rikap @abenanav.bsky.social @cedricdurand.bsky.social and Christoph Sorg

22.11.2024 08:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Attila Melegh will give second keynote on "Non-capitalist Mixed Economies: A Polanyian Approach"

22.11.2024 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@cedricdurand.bsky.social will give the first keynote on "Ecological Planning and the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"

22.11.2024 08:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jens Schröter und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zu Computerspielen als transformationskritischen Medien | Future Histories Podcast Wie können Computerspiele soziale Utopien simulieren und so virtuell erfahrbar machen? Jens Schröter und Manuel…

Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal spreche ich mit Jens Schröter und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) über Computerspiele als transformationskritische Medien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Gaming #GamingUtopia

12.05.2024 09:06 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien (Teil 2) | Future Histories Podcast Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes "Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld" wurde eine agentenbasierte Simulation des…

Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal Teil II des Gesprächs mit Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) zum Simulieren von Utopien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Utopie

03.03.2024 09:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

danke für den einwand. ja, es ist ein modell, in dem stilisierte agenten programmiert werden; ich denke schon, dass man das machen kann, wenn man die ansprüche klar definiert. überzeugungsarbeit und konfliktlösung zwischen kulturen sind nicht abgebildet; forschungsfrage des papiers war eine andere

18.02.2024 22:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien | Future Histories Podcast Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes "Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld" wurde eine agentenbasierte Simulation des…

Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal spreche ich mit Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) über das Simulieren von Utopien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Utopie

18.02.2024 09:23 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Heterodox modeling: practicing well-tuned provisioning or commoning with networked multi-agent envir... Market-driven, profit-oriented, mainstream neoclassical economics is increasingly being challenged by alternative approaches such as heterodox economics. This article contributes to broader discussion...

„Heterodox modeling: practicing well-tuned provisioning or commoning with networked multi-agent environments“

By Shintaro Miyazaki @algorhythm.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

9/9

21.12.2023 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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COMMONSIM: Simulating the utopia of COMMONISM - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy This research article presents an agent-based simulation hereinafter called COMMONSIM. It builds on COMMONISM, i.e. a large-scale commons-based vision for a utopian society. In this society, productio...

“COMMONSIM: Simulating the utopia of COMMONISM”

By Lena Gerdes, @ernestaigner.bsky.social, Stefan Meretz, Hanno Pahl, Annette Schlemm, @mschock.bsky.social, Jens Schröter & Simon Sutterlütti

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

8/9

21.12.2023 09:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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