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1. Umkämpftes Eigentum: Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte (Suhrkamp), edited along with N. Angebauer & T. Wesche. with over 20 new essays on property theory, history and conflicts (in German)
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaemp...
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Umkämpftes Eigentum. Buch von Niklas Angebauer, Jacob Blumenfeld, Tilo Wesche (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Vom Klimaschutz über die Vergesellschaftung großer Immobilienkonzerne bis zum Recht... | Buch von Niklas Angebauer, Jacob Blumenfeld, Tilo Wesche versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaempftes-eigentum-t-9783518300503
about 2 months ago
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Aaron Benanav
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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...
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Beyond Capitalism
<p> </p> <p>We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion w...
https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=/public/cals/MainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb70-9c08ff17-019c-0aa33467-00002af4events@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=
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London Review of Books
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‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’
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on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Guns, Money and Opium
There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium
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Ilias Alami
about 18 hours ago
Weekend reading
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Quinn Slobodian
1 day ago
"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...
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F&L Blog - Property Damages - International Karl Polanyi Society
Property Damages by Jacob Blumenfeld 13.02.2026 Does private property secure freedom, or train us for domination? In this article, philosopher Jacob Blumenfeld traces how liberal ownership rights shap...
https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/fl-blog-blumenfeld-property-damages/
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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
about 17 hours ago
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.
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Better Things Are Possible
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I didn’t consent to this
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Jonathan Roessler
2 days ago
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...
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Jürgen Zimmerer
2 days ago
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...
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Berlinale Immediately Gets Heated at Jury Presser as President Wim Wenders Asserts “We Have to Stay Out of Politics”
"We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press confe...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/berlinale-2026-gets-heated-wim-wenders-jury-politics-1236503389/
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thomas waller
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For
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, I wrote about Henrike Kohpeiß's new book Bourgeois Coldness
www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
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Fever Pitch: On Bourgeois Coldness by Henrike Kohpeiß - Notes - e-flux
Thomas Waller reviews a new philosophy book that seeks to adapt Adorno and Horkheimer for the modern era.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783453/fever-pitch-on-bourgeois-coldness-by-henrike-kohpei
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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...
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Solveig Degen
1 day ago
Excellent piece by my colleague
@cominsitu.bsky.social
for our Fascism&Liberalism blog! 📖A must-read!
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International Karl Polanyi Society
1 day ago
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
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F&L Blog - Property Damages - International Karl Polanyi Society
Property Damages by Jacob Blumenfeld 13.02.2026 Does private property secure freedom, or train us for domination? In this article, philosopher Jacob Blumenfeld traces how liberal ownership rights shap...
https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/fl-blog-blumenfeld-property-damages/
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin
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Militärisch aufrüsten, sozial abrüsten – das ist Bastard-Keynesianismus, sagt Adam Tooze
@adamtooze.bsky.social
. Warum dieses Gegeneinander-Ausspielen?
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Philipp Hölzing
1 day ago
»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.!
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Heiko Stubenrauch
1 day ago
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...
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Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Click on the article title to read more.
http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70035
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Verso Books
2 days ago
Out now - Politics after the end of the end of history Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger
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Hyperpolitics
What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3460-hyperpolitics
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this is a wild ride
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maybe this will wake up the climate movement
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Quinn Slobodian
2 days ago
finished copy arrived from
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
. bit nerdy but i really like how they embossed the letters...
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Hypervisible
2 days ago
“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.”
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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/ai-companies-college-students.html
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me too!
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Raechu
3 days ago
TIL what the Clever Hans effect is and goddamn if that doesn't just perfectly describe the AI hype.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_...
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Suhrkamp Verlag
2 days ago
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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Matt Huber
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Dylan Riley, First Principles — Sidecar
The left and the working class.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/first-principles
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Anna-Verena Nosthoff
3 days ago
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...
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🔥 Jan 2027
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INDEP
4 days ago
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...
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Talk and Discussion: A Plan to Save the Future from Collaps: Half Earth Socialism
The description is taken from the event’s website and has been translated into English. The event will take place in English. “Troy Vettese in conversation with Dirk Baecker and Maike Weißpflug…
https://www.indep.network/event/talk-and-discussion-a-plan-to-save-the-future-from-collaps-half-earth-socialism/
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Tonight!
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David Harvey
4 days ago
Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
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Kaye Ross
4 days ago
I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
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Matt Huber
4 days ago
🚨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👇👇👇
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Kohei Saito
5 days ago
My review of Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gift in The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World
In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-gift-alyssa-battistoni-capitalism-enclosure-nature/
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Ben Phillips
6 days ago
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy
5 days ago
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
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Tech Policy Press
5 days ago
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...
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The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought/
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MUSKISM in Berlin! with
@quinnslobodian.com
and
@bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
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highly recommend getting students to do podcasts as a project, very entertaining and rewarding all around
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Linke Literatur
5 days ago
In Berlin würde ich morgen gern sein:
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Soziopolis
5 days ago
In seinem neuen Essay entfaltet
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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...
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Chris O’Kane
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Stefan Schmalz
7 days ago
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.
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That’s not how parenting works
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Jason Read
6 days ago
One of Maurizio Lazzarato's best books is finally coming out in English.
www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-...
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Revolutions of Capitalism: The Politics of the Event
https://www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-of-capitalism
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Sarah Brouillette
6 days ago
this is very funny and true
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Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=gD1zEMVh4bB76Gaq
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Tad DeLay
6 days ago
Regardless of genre the self-evident axiom remains: if nobody bothered to write this, nobody should be bothered to read it
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Sarah Brouillette
6 days ago
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
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