The recording of our discussion with Katja Diefenbach about her book Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy is now online. It includes an appearance by special guest John Protevi
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Cédric Durand (@cedricdurand.bsky.social) about ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.
Full episode here:
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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...
ZKK Talks 2026
Solutionism, discontinued.
ZKK TALK #6
11. Mai 2026, 18:30
Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst.
Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski im Gespräch mit Roland Meyer
Universität Zürich, Raum KUM E 1/2/3, Künstlergasse 15 a, 8001 Zürich
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...
Tonight in NYC! Join Verso and @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social for an event on translating theoretical texts. Paul Reitter and Patrick Lyons will discuss the trials and thrills of translating leftist critiques from one chronology and geography to another.
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I can recommend!
Jetzt online: Mit Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social sprach ich über mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik” (@suhrkamp.de) – es ging u.A. um digitale Regierungskünste, die technikfaschistische Wende im Silicon Valley und Alternativen zum kybernetischen Kapitalismus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hM...
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...
Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics.
Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
In NLR 156: George Kennan-Anders Stephanson correspondence.
Unpublished letters between the Cold War strategist and a young Marxist critic studying his work.
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„Die rechtliche Einordnung ist komplex“
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Kim Stanley Robinson about Real Utopian Futures.
Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roger Caillois – Race, Games and a Ceremonial Sword
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NLR 156 out now.
Kevin Cox on South Africa; Ryan Ruby on the wikinovel; Cédric Durand remembers Aglietta; Pierre Vesperini on politics of history'; Julieta Caldas at Frieze; Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper; Grey Anderson on Brzezinski and much more...
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Mit Johannes Giesler vom tollen Newsletter @wierechtereden.bsky.social hab ich über KI-generierte Bilderwelten als faschistische Wunschmaschinen gesprochen – das Gespräch kann man jetzt als Podcast anhören steady.page/de/wie-recht...
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
Lieber @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy, es gibt eine deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, die DGfA. Dort tummeln sich Amerikanist*innen mit den Schwerpunkten Literatur, Geschichte, Politik und Wirtschaft.
Jedes einzelne Mitglied dort hätte ihnen einen qualifiziertere Einschätzung geben können
"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."
In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.
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David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.
"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
In Deutschland wird so viel vererbt wie noch nie. Warum es eine progressive Einkommenssteuer gibt, während Vermögen und Erbschaften beinahe unangetastet bleiben, erklärt Martyna Linartas im Gespräch.
Und der Mensch verschwindet wie am Meeresufer...
Das Plakat habe ich aufgehängt, aber der Campus Hölderlin ist ganz schön einsam gerade. Daher nochmals hier:
Ich freue mich darauf, im kommenden Wintersemester Heike Paul an der @fau.de zu vertreten. Schon mein zweiter Gig in Franken (aber meine erste Professurvertretung...).
