Neues Interview mit Eva von Redecker out now - in voller Länge auf YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts via *Nullpunkt*

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Over the next few months I’ll be putting together a reading guide to “value form theory.” What contributions, extensions, critiques and secondary literature should I include?

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 60. Geburtstag heute, Rahel Jaeggi! Pünktlich zum Fest lotet dieser Band das Spannungsfeld von Materialismus und Emanzipation neu aus: zwischen Freiheit und Notwendigkeit, zwischen Geist und Materie, zwischen Bewahrung und Revolution. Out now!

Sehr sehenswertes Interview der Philosophin Eva von Redecker zum Faschismusbegriff: youtu.be/bIOtu0cadzQ

NEW Working paper: "Theory for agency: For an analysis of structural change in too-late capitalism" proposes reviving the structuralist ambition within political economy to reinforce human agency in navigating the present conjuncture. archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:194466

Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.

Cassirer, cited by @alfatau.bsky.social, on the «mythical rearmament» of Germany, which preceded its military rearmament: «Our technical age has birthed a ‹new technique of myth,› so that myths can now ‹be manufactured in the same sense and according to the same methods as any other modern weapon.›»

Nature, Class, and Crisis: Locating the State in Ecological Marxism Part of the shift being discussed yesterday, @cominsitu.bsky.social? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

what about Joyce’s fascination with Max Stirner and the politics of egoism? He published much of his work first in a journal called…The Egoist!

Die Bundesregierung plant per Bundesgesetz Vergesellschaftung auf Landesebene zu verbieten, obwohl 2021 58% der Berliner*innen für eine Vergesellschaftung stimmten. 🗣️ Elif Eralp ist Spitzenkandidatin für die Linke im Herbst und war auf der Sicher-Wohnen-Konferenz im Mai.

‘James Joyce stands out​ among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress and the preciousness of the everyday. If he is outrageously experimental, he is also in thrall to the mundane and disregarded.’ Terry Eagleton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

new Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...

I say this without hyperbole, that the federal govt's banning of the IWO during the Red Scare was perhaps one of the greatest catastrophes for an inter-racial Marxist left and also, a Jewish-Yiddishkayt left in the U.S. 7/8

The Jewish section of the IWO, the JPFO, helped build a dozen other socialist language/ethnic clubs, including the African American Lincoln-Douglass Society, the pan-Spanish language Cervantes Society, the Italian American Garibaldi Society and so on 4/8

My original title for this essay was: an American Bund? I find it funny when people say there was no Jewish Labor Bund in the US, since US Bundists founded 2 Yiddishkayt Jewish socialist organizations, the Arbeter Ring & the IWO, aligned with the Socialist Party & the Communist Party rsp 1/8 🧵

I’m ready for the Neue-Freud Lektüre

Emanzipatorischer Materialismus

The point i want to make here is that there is a crucial difference between self reflexivity and historicization but i think they all too often get conflated.

Rahel Jaeggi wird 60, wir feiern mit ihr! @ktbberlin.bsky.social

Four recent books of new Marx/ist scholarship on nature, politics, power and energy from the 2020s. All very good! Seems like a new wave, we can finally stop saying “Since 2008 global financial crisis” and start saying “Since 2020s total planetary chaos…”

There is now also a promotional graphic for Massimiliano Tomba's "Teleology and Revolution" from the special issue of of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution." The entire article is available here: doi.org/10.1080/1462...

Moral panics about kids not reading and kids being addicted to their devices are projection on the part of adults who no longer read and are addicted to their devices.

‘Resentment of Hamas among ordinary Gazans is widespread, even if the rage against Israel is much greater. Many people have lost everything since 7 October. Tens of thousands have died.’ Muhammad Shehada on Palestine’s future. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Very sharp @quinnslobodian.com piece on the limitations of the data/digital/AI/tech "empire" analogy www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

Habe bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur "Extraktion" von @triofrancos.bsky.social empfohlen. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob der Kampf gegen die Klimakrise – also der Umstieg auf E-Autos und erneuerbare Energien – eine Ausweitung des Rohstoffabbaus rechtfertigt. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/buchkritik-e...

socialize dinosaur bones!

Must read!

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

“What might it mean for psychoanalysis to theorize moments of genuine social rupture as therapeutic?” on Idris Robinsons’ “The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World has to Offer” (2025) www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/deb...

„Beim Projekt der Vergesellschaftung geht es also um die Vergesellschaftung des bereits Gesellschaftlichen, die Vergesellschaftung von etwas, das eigentlich bereits gesellschaftlich ist, also um die Verfügung über das unausweichlich gemeinsame Leben.“ www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...

Europe’s summer of fire

"Wir wohnen radikal ungleich. Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Wohnungen selbst, sondern auch auf das Wohnumfeld. Wie belastet ist mein Quartier durch Emissionen oder Verkehr? Wie viel Grünraum habe ich um mich herum? Wie weit muss ich aus der Stadt rausziehen (...)?" taz.de/Professorin-...

Die bpb hat mein Buch nachgedruckt. Auch angesichts der aktuellen Vergesellschaftungsdebatten freue ich mich darüber sehr und hoffe, dass es zum Verständnis beiträgt, warum Vergesellschaftung ein demokratisches Projekt ist.

Out now in Contemporary Political Theory, my review of Federica Gegoratto’s Love Troubles: a philosophy of eros. This is a fantastic book about what eros is, why it matters, and how it might change our lives and society. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...

Gen Zs are the first to have grown up entirely in the age of the smartphone. Now many are reflecting on the cost. My report from a festival for Luddites is in @economist.com this week economist.com/united-state...

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

Today, R.H Lossin explains how early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws invoked "sabotage" and property protection to criminalize the IWW's speech and organizing — a formula for anti-left repression that remains widely appealing.

Initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen protestiert vor dem Bundesrat gegen ein Verbot der Vergesellschaftung.

New Event! 🕖 July 15, 2026 10:00 am 📍 Auditorium, Grimm Zentrum, University Library Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 3, 10117 Berlin This event will try to help understand how technologies sustain global dynamics of extraction, dependency, and uneven development. criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/decolo...

great discussion of a great book!

Proofs of my eco-Freudian turn (out in German later this year, English 2027)

Liebe Leute, ich freu mich, euch künftig als taz-Kolumnistin auf Klassenfahrt mitnehmen zu dürfen. 🙃 Die Meldung: taz.de/!6194816/ Die Premiere: taz.de/Hitze-Klima-...

NEW: How did such different things as coal, sunlight, calories, human labour and electric currents come to be understood under a single name, “energy”? Working Nature by @ueberdruss.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social looks at the formation of the modern energy economy. Review by Ivan Radanović.

new posthumous preorder just dropped www.versobooks.com/products/353...

Tomorrow! 7-9 PM Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin More about this event: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workin...