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...

‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Weekend reading

"Liberalism is founded on the right to private property, but private property is also what breaks liberalism. For what better way than owning property is there for learning how to be a dictator?" www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...

Max Horkheimer fand erst spät zu seiner Berufung. Der am 14. Februar 1895 in Stuttgart Geborene wächst in einer jüdischen Fabrikantenfamilie auf. Im Familienunternehmen macht er eine Ausbildung und wird Prokurist. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

I didn’t consent to this

Ich durfte für den @unrastverlag.bsky.social einen Comic übersetzen (ein großes Vergnügen!). 11 Geschichten über antifaschistischen Widerstand während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Gibt's ab heute hier (oder in der Buchhandlung eures Vertrauens): unrast-verlag.de/produkt/part... 💫

Really surprised how an entirely predictable question could sink the entire Berlinale jury. "We have to stay out of politics" (Wim Wenders) could have been said in any authoritarian regime, where artists often are political. Here it was disgraceful. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Henrike Kohpeiß's new book Bourgeois Coldness www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...

Does owning property make you more fascist? Or does not owning property? I wrote a short piece for @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social trying to figure it out. Read on for the absolutely correct answer! www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...

Excellent piece by my colleague @cominsitu.bsky.social for our Fascism&Liberalism blog! 📖A must-read!

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? In this incisive new article, @cominsitu.bsky.social argues that liberal property rights don’t just allocate resources but that they prime societies - both owners and non-owners - with authoritarian desire 👉but there is a remedy

Militärisch aufrüsten, sozial abrüsten – das ist Bastard-Keynesianismus, sagt Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social. Warum dieses Gegeneinander-Ausspielen?

»Die Kybernetik ist überall, wie Luft.« In ihrem großen Buch zeichnet @annanosthoff.bsky.social eine faszinierende Genealogie der datafizierten Gegenwartsgesellschaft – von den Anfängen der »Wissenschaft von Kommunikation und Kontrolle« bis zum KI-Hype und Techfaschismus heute. 18.2.!

My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Out now - Politics after the end of the end of history Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger

this is a wild ride

maybe this will wake up the climate movement

finished copy arrived from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. bit nerdy but i really like how they embossed the letters...

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

me too!

TIL what the Clever Hans effect is and goddamn if that doesn't just perfectly describe the AI hype. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_...

Und jetzt: ab sofort lieferbar, in wenigen Tagen im Buchhandel und am 9. März bei der Buchpremiere mit @quinnslobodian.com und Ben Tarnoff in Berlin. Mehr zu Buch und Veranstaltungen: shrk.vg/Muskismus-B

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I look forward to the roundtable “Critique of AI” on Monday with @bildoperationen.bsky.social, Rainer Mühlhoff, Matteo Pasquinelli & @cominsitu.bsky.social. Perfect timing, as it's the release week of my book Kybernetik und Kritik 🎉(@suhrkamp.de): criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...

🔥 Jan 2027

A talk by Troy Vettese in conversation with Dirk Baecker and Maike Weißpflug on Half-Earth Socialism will be happening on Wednesday 11th February from 5-6PM UTC at Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43, Berlin. More information can be found here: www.indep.network/event/talk-a...

Tonight!

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Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization. This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions). OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

My review of Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gift in The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

What's the standard story of recognition? And why do we need to go beyond it? Discuss this w/ us at our book launch at EHESS, Feb 11, 3-5 pm, w/ M Congdon, F Gregoratto, T Khurana, C Menke & J Schaub @cominsitu.bsky.social @manongarcia.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social @danlor.bsky.social

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio. www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...

MUSKISM in Berlin! with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin socializationproject.de/event/muskis...

highly recommend getting students to do podcasts as a project, very entertaining and rewarding all around

In Berlin würde ich morgen gern sein:

In seinem neuen Essay entfaltet @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social die These einer ideologischen Affinität zwischen KI & Faschismus – eine unverzichtbare Lektüre, um die Verflechtung von Tech-Utopien, KI und rechtsextremer Politik besser zu verstehen, so Bastien Dratwa. www.soziopolis.de/sommer-folgt...

In unserem Einleitungsbeitrag unterscheiden wir vier Konfliktformen: Konflikte um Propertisierung, um Kommodifizierung, um Ausbeutung (Kapital vs. Arbeit) und um Renten. Die Konfliktformen sind als Idealtypen zu verstehen. Sie können sich im Konfliktverlauf wandeln und ihre Reichweite verändern.

That’s not how parenting works

One of Maurizio Lazzarato's best books is finally coming out in English. www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-....

this is very funny and true

Regardless of genre the self-evident axiom remains: if nobody bothered to write this, nobody should be bothered to read it

this has been going on in non-fiction and low content books for a long time -- it was only a matter of time; Ms. Hart is selling access to her technique and developing proprietary tech, just taking advantage of how many people out there are desperate for some kind of income