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looking forward to HM 2025 aka Marxist hunger games

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...

Charlemagne Marx

Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

you had me at “bleak”

I'll be teaching this whole debate in my grad seminar on class analysis next quarter. Genuinely excited to dig into this!

NLR 155 is now online. Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more. newleftreview.org

Excited to see Sofia Menemenlis discussing her @the-breakdown.bsky.social essay on solar geoengineering on the great @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

moving back to nyc to experience really existing communism under general Mamdani

One for the ages

see you at HM! (before i collapse)

spotted in NYC:

more UK events to come this week: an @histmat.bsky.social launch panel noon Thursday Nov 6 with an amazing lineup: @sorenmau.bsky.social, Andreas Malm, Lukas Slothuus, and @kathunfeld.bsky.social

what a conference last week! still thinking about all those amazing presentations, and gathering my thoughts on the “land question”. either way, the question of agriculture and land ownership in the transition to and beyond capitalism is far from settled.

The long heyday

Eine detaillierte und sehr genaue Zusammenfassung meiner Adorno Vorlesungen. Vielen Dank!

the temporal disjunction, the dislocation of finding this only days after hearing the news of his passing. RIP Peter Watkins, a director I wish I had been obsessed with for years. Sn incredible film, formally bold and utopian in a way that nothing else I've seen has matched

I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with @politybooks.bsky.social. 🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning. More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

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...

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

after the conference is before the conference

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Frühstück

And we’re off!

Tomorrow!! See you there

dieses Buch ist sehr schön zu lesen, besonders die kleinen Bilder.

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

»Wie bereits in der Vergangenheit, gibt es auf der konservativen Seite die Bemühung, den Klassenbegriff von allzu subversiven Inhalten zu befreien und politisch unschädlich zu machen«, schreibt Fabian Nehring in seiner Rezension des neuen Buchs »Klasse – Die Entstehung von Oben und Unten«.

Come talk with us about Energy's History in Spore (Neukölln) on 3 November 2025. Register here: spore-initiative.org/de/programm-...

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

This version of Total Recall sucks.

"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...

Ein interessanter Bericht zu den diesjährigen Adorno-Vorlesungen von Katharina Pistor über die Gefahren der nur nachträglich regulierten Finanzmärkte. 1/2

📣 "Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe", erscheint mit Open Access im Frühjahr 2026 beim Campus Verlag in der Schriftenreihe des @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, hrsg. zusammen mit Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller und Heiko Stubenrauch. www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

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

Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time: It rules

the hero we need

anti-sycophantic action

Despite sycophantic AI’s reduction of prosocial intentions, people also preferred it and trusted it more. This reveals a tension: AI is rewarded for telling us what we want to hear (immediate user satisfaction), even when it may harm our relationships.

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

For those of you in London, a reading on 4 November commemorating the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose’s death. Coorganised by my brilliant PhD student, Rosie Woodhouse. I look forward to it. Join us?

Next week in Berlin. All welcome.

Writing about Bloch again, and I need you all to go read this 👇 libcom.org/article/nons....

Lol the Germans truly can’t stop writing this one weird book 😂

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Next Thursday! Check out our programme for details on all the panels discussing different aspects of the land question: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...