really appreciate this double review: The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition, by Jacob Blumenfeld, Routledge, 2023 Property and its Forms in Classical German philosophy, by David James. Cambridge 2023 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If this Most Cited List (from a Leiter post earlier this year on political philosophy books with over 4000 citations) is right then it's wild just how hard liberalism is winning in political philosophy. Total ideological domination.

auf dem Weg zur Endzeit

Morgen in Frankfurt 👉 www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/k....

From unpaid overtime to under-the-table jobs and algorithmic exploitation, there are as many ways to steal wages as there are to pay them. Did I mention I have a book coming out with @versobooks.bsky.social at the end of May? Pre-order it please, I have a child to feed.

See you there! March 10, 2026 14:00 » 16:00 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, room 2093 criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/mus...

"In this article, I aim to engage with the Dialectic of Enlightenment from a different angle and draw on its second key motif for interpreting the climate crisis: not the distancing of humans from nature, but their potentially fascistic 'regression to nature'."

This is so good

#wertform Der Kapitalismus ist notwendigerweise Geldwirtschaft. Mit Geld kann man alles kaufen, aber warum ist das eigentlich so? Steht in Marx’ »Kapital«. Aufgeweckt in den Tag starten: ☕️ dietzberlin.de/tasse-karl-marx

🎉 Finally: Heute ist der offizielle Erscheinungstag meines Buches “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” @suhrkamp.de. Aus diesem Anlass einige Einblicke – zunächst findet sich hier eine Leseprobe: res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/ima... Untenstehend zudem ein Thread zum Inhalt 👇

"My family." By a 5-year-old imprisoned in a Texas concentration camp.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

espresso machines

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

less than 90 days! you can pre-order this four-century odyssey of labor relations, philosophy, and struggle now though should you like www.versobooks.com/products/312...

Reviewed in today's @faznet.bsky.social which (somewhat oddly) for a bourgeois paper comes to the defence of petty bourgeois proper www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

colleagues do not despair if you missed the "digital humanities" train. these ones are still up for grabs and sure to attract tons of funding 1. the corporate humanities 2. the scalable humanities 3. the crypto humanities 4. the agile humanities 5. the consultancy humanities

So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based. Super worth reading and sharing around.

Neues Essay "Warten auf die Superintelligenz" bzw. den "technologischen Godot" im @surplusmagazin.de – wir freuen uns! "Wir müssen nur noch etwas mehr glauben, noch mehr KI und ihre Agenten einsetzen, noch mehr Energie reinstecken, vor allem mehr investieren – und alles wird super." Yeah ;)

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...

Full house at the critique of AI workshop today! ⚡️ organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social Some of the discussion points/statements below: 1/2

Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.

I'm working on a reader (in both English and German) to collect literature critical of the employment of generative AI technologies within academic contexts. Please feel free to add relevant titles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...

this afternoon!

Reviews like this make writing worth it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...

"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Am Montag hier!

Jetzt online: Mit Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social sprach ich über mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik” (@suhrkamp.de) – es ging u.A. um digitale Regierungskünste, die technikfaschistische Wende im Silicon Valley und Alternativen zum kybernetischen Kapitalismus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hM...

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