I'm coming to Austria & Germany for the German edition of EXTRACTION (@suhrkamp.de) with events in Vienna, Freiberg, Berlin and Bochum. In collaboration w/ @surplusmagazin.de @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @kreiskyforum.bsky.social @dfg.de @ruhr-uni-bochum.de For info: www.suhrkamp.de/search?q=rio...

@oliverbullough.bsky.social reckoning that 80% of the luxury watch trade is for money laundering unlocked something for me. (this is a fantastic piece all around) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Save the date! Nov 12-14, HU Berlin, part of the Socialization research project at @ktbberlin.bsky.social socializationproject.de

+++Neuerscheinung+++ Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller, Tobias Heinze und Heiko Stubenrauch (Hg.) | Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe »Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung« Das Buch kann als Open Access kostenlos heruntergeladen werden.

been waiting for this article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really looking forward to this! Thanks to @solveigdegen.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @rabeaber.bsky.social & Clara Weinmann for organising 🤩🛢️💸

Two main exemplars of China’s new workers’ literature available in translation, both highly recommended. They are breathtaking memoirs of migrant workers going through staggering numbers of jobs & places. Hu Anyan’s was a bestseller, Xiao Hai’s is due to be published in China only later this year.

Für alle, die diese grandiose Folge bisher verpasst haben www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPv...

This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

"Empires typically do not collapse because of external aggression. They collapse because of some form of suicide. ..Trump is an extreme example of a cadre beginning to think about its own personal wealth at the expense of the big picture" Mad levels of insight packed in this by @thunen.bsky.social

"short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later." Lorna Finlayson in Sidecar, @newleftreview.bsky.social. 4/4

OUT NOW & Open Access: „Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe“, hg. v. Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller, @hstubenrauch.bsky.social und mir: campus.de/subjekte-der.... Das Buch versammelt theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf die Klimakatastrophe ... 1/3

Umkämpfte Faschisierung Während @wigefa.bsky.social vorbereitet wird, diskutiert das Feuilleton über Reemtsmas Provokation gegen den Faschismusbegriff. Hier mein Beitrag im @nd-aktuell.de: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200...

Woher kommt der neue Faschismus? - Darüber habe ich mit Robin Celikates und Rahel Jaeggi gesprochen, anlässlich des neuesten Buchs "Zerstörungslust" von @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social. Hört rein: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

Mapping the Margins of Capitalism by Daniel Colligan a review of Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 2025) endnotes.org.uk/palabre/mapp...

Neue Podcast Folge: Woher kommt der Faschismus? Ausgehend von Carolin Amlingers und Oliver Nachtweys Buch "Zerstörungslust" spricht Sabine Nuss mit Robin Celikates und Rahel Jaeggi über Elemente der Faschisierung. Hört die Folge hier: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

There's a video version, too, but without the introductory discussion - but with the question period! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri...

I thought this was a fruitful discussion of the critique of AI with Jacob Blumenfeld, @robin-c.bsky.social, @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social

many are saying it. including me, now that i’ve read this paper. i’m now saying that class is a moral injury

I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

We have a new forthcoming book! @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and I have been working with an incredible line up of authors for an edited volume of post-revolutionary science fiction stories. It will be out in about a year, and a great follow up to Everything for Everyone.

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How to navigate current debates on Artificial Intelligence? In this 80-page brochure, I aim to explain key concepts from the field of #AI in an accessible way—alongside critical perspectives on the subject by Joseph Weizenbaum and others. Download: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/media/Publik...

Ich hatte kürzlich die schöne Gelegenheit, mit @derlampenputzer.bsky.social und @jalenz.bsky.social ausführlich über mein Buch Kybernetik und Kritik @suhrkamp.de zu sprechen, jetzt online @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/digital/2026...

this is why we need more public debate on nationalization and socialization, or else the bourgeoise will just do it themselves as a crisis response

Germany's Most Wanted RAF Terrorist Gets 13 Years Thirty years underground, €2 million stolen, and rabbit litter she couldn't explain. www.heistberlin.com/news/former-...

Today is the launch party for my book Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft with @versobooks.bsky.social It’s been a collective effort and I am so grateful to everyone involved. There are five events in different places from London to Birmingham to Dundalk. See: mattcole.work

📢 Nächste Woche ist es so weit! Besuche in der ersten Juniwoche Veranstaltungen der Themenwoche „Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus“ oder organisiere selbst eine. 🤩 Bereits 150 Events an über 70 Hochschulen sind registriert. Höhepunkt: das bundesweite Podium am 3. Juni um 19 Uhr. Sei dabei! 👏🏼

That well known socialist rag, <checks notes> the @economist.com makes the case for partial nationalisation of AI companies 👀 economist.com/leaders/2026...

the revolution will not be prompted

hell freezes over, the FT opens the door to nationalization

now reading

Großartiges Gespräch mit Hartmut Rosa im Podcast Hotel Matze. Hörempfehlung! youtube.com/watch?v=fMKR...

unbedingt lesenswert

In der Druckerei und ab Anfang Juni lieferbar: "Was war Faschismustheorie?" hg. v. Morten Paul. Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/was-war... #verbrecherei #verbrecherverlag #waswarfaschismustheorie #mortenpaul

Heute erst dazu gekommen, dieses sehr gute Gespräch mit @mortenpaul.bsky.social zu hören. Lohnt sich.

🕖4. Juni 10-19 Uhr und 5. Juni 10-18 Uhr 📍Auditorium, Grimm-Zentrum Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1–3, 10117 Berlin Check out our Homepage and Instagram for more information on the conference and to get introduced to our panels and speakers! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/crisis...

NEW book (open access): Jörg Schaub, "Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life: The Struggle for Aesthetic Freedom" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Free download from: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... (Hardcopy release date: 7 July)

I am now catholic

"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

One thing I learned from this inspiring discussion is: We have to understand #fascistization as a process of both explication and escalation. It makes explicit the dehumanizing, racist, sexist and neocolonialist structures of exploitation and repression already at work in liberal democracies 1/

Soeben erschienen - erstmals in norwegischer Sprache: Günther Anders' Buch über die atomare Drohung: forlagethof.no/katalog/atom... Tausend Dank an Hannah, die hartnäckige Übersetzerin, und den kleinen H//O//F-Verlag, der das durchgezogen hat! 🙏

Gemeinsam mit Aline Blankertz habe ich seit letztem Jahr ein Buch geschrieben: "Digitale Solidarität - Zur Überwindung kapitalistischer Technologie"

Rappelvoll war es Ende April auf der Berliner Konferenz „Cables of Resistance“, die gegen Big Tech und Künstliche Intelligenz mobilisieren sollte. Das Thema ist zurzeit allgegenwärtig. Aber biegt die Linke mit ihrem Widerstand vielleicht wieder mal in eine altbekannte Sackgasse?

I'm excited to release part 3 of my series on beyond capitalism with @Autonomy_Inst. The big question people often asked about my recent work is—ok sure, but how do we get there? Please have a look at my first sketch of an answer to that question. autonomy.work/portfolio/be...