Did Jürgen Habermas just die on the same day as Karl Marx?

end of an era

⚒️🌲Soviet Ecology paper alert: Marco Vianna Franco, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, and Joan Martinez-Alier write about the Podolynsky-Vernadsky connection link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Doppelrezension of Fressoz and "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon“ edited by @ueberdruss.bsky.social & Thomas Turnbull

Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

Whoop, whoop Heute erscheint 'Das Prinzip Verzweigung: Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft' von Cédric Durand (bsky.app/profile/cedr...) und Razmig Keucheyan beim Dietz Verlag (bsky.app/profile/karl...). Zur Episode mit Cédric Durand: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

Chers amis branchés histoire éco/environnementale, F. A. Jonsson et C. Wennerlind seront à Paris le 18 Mars pour présenter leur formidable livre, "Politiques de la rareté". Je vous invite à aller les écouter, et à les lire ! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social

new episode out today! we discuss Horkheimer's essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", asking what actually makes critical theory critical, and whether there's any genuinely critical theory going on right now. the social totality causing all kinds of problems rn fr www.patreon.com/posts/130-ma...

No future

👉 Watch the full interview and explore the complementary dossier. www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/g...

Anatole Lucet et Michèle Cohen-Halimi (ed.) - Gustav Landauer À paraître en février 2026

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share! events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

🔥 Jan 2027

Great exchange between @evgenymorozov.bsky.social, @abenanav.bsky.social, and @leifw.bsky.social in the ideas letter: www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

#VendrediLecture 📚 Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR In @cnsjournal.bsky.social, our PhD Candidate @mbickhardt.bsky.social reflects on how socialist thinkers interpreted and reacted to The Limits to Growth.

The link already expired, click here for full access: www.academia.edu/152457657/Co... 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' Thread Part 1 bsky.app/profile/mbic... Thread Part 2 bsky.app/profile/mbic...

Thread Part 2 ⤵️ Given the finitude of non renewable fossil stocks, Chatschaturow calls for a combined development of nuclear energy, hydropower, geothermal energy and the direct exploitation of solar radiation, whose industrial conversion into electricity he envisages as a “task for the future”.

New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

This was the most astounding chart—supporting his argument that humanity has seen three phases of energy consumption: 1. Prehistory-Industrial Revolution 2. Industrial Revolution-1990s 3. China's acceleration in 1990s to present

another reason to anticipate the new one from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, out in May: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804528...

timely www.bmartin.cc/pubs/19sd/re...

Great project by Jacob Blumenfeld @cominsitu.bsky.social & Rabea Berfelde @rabeaber.bsky.social

@ueberdruss.bsky.social‘s new book!

*Neurath spotted* tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...

Some isotopes from the Otto Neurath (knowledge for all) exhibit in Vienna

Marius Bickhardt, Gauthier Delozière et Cannelle Gignoux - Le marxisme écologique À paraître en avril chez La Découverte

Ich freue mich ganz außerordentlich: Im Februar 2026 erscheint mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” bei @suhrkamp.de: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-ve...

This will soon be out, by yours truly

In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.

‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more. Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️

"Entretien (par @reminoyon.bsky.social). Le philosophe Paul Guillibert est l’une des figures françaises de la pensée écomarxiste, qui connaît un regain d’intérêt à mesure que les températures augmentent et que s’éloignent les espoirs d’une transition énergétique tranquille."

At the Natural History Museum in London — the "cathedral of nature" and of "empire". As Kautsky remarked in 1910, on the decline of the American bison, the “extermination of animal species [is] caused by the pursuit of profit” — a capitalist 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘣𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵.

At this year's HM conference, I will give a talk on Karl August Wittfogel's marxist critique of geopolitics as a naturalist ideology of the age of empire (Thursday morning) and will discuss Joel Wainwright's great new book on Marx and Darwin (Friday morning).

Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

👋 Demain, 10h, ne manquez pas Aurélie Windels, journaliste et co-fondatrice de @diagrammes.bsky.social invitée au micro de @ostpolitik.bsky.social sur le live Twitch de @mediapart.fr. ⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct ! Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart

"Work, Bad Infinity, and Habit" is finally out! I’ve been thinking about some of these ideas since my dissertation, and had the pleasure of pursuing them further with Lisa Herzog during my postdoc. Here’s our take on Hegel as a helpful ecological thinker 🦉🌿 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

🚨Workshop Announcement🚨 THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING: RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav December 4-5, 2025 Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

essential reading

"uncanny combination of the intelligent and the stupid that is the mark of AI writing"

wow Italy www.reuters.com/world/europe...

RIP Claus Offe 😔 He wrote a lot but this is by far one of the best texts written about trade unions, their structural position and limitations. www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...

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

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today! www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...

My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...

Special Issue by @prokla.bsky.social on geoeconomics! www.prokla.de/index.php/PR...

Voici le lien www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202509...