Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!

Wenn ich das nächste Mal Bourdieu unterrichte und über Klasse, Distinktion und insbesondere den selbstbewussten Besitz politischer Kompetenzen spreche, zeige ich den Studierenden die Werbe-Anzeige der Zeit, wo die Podcasts mit einem 500 Euro Kopfhörer bebildert sind.

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

"The form of the list survives mockery, however, and even thrives today, precisely because we agree with what Barthes argued: that taste lists create a “subjectivity effect,” a social profile, rather than revealing an actual self.

Die Aufzeichnungen der Adorno-Vorlesungen 2024 »Rethinking the Penal State« von Loïc Wacquant sind jetzt auf dem Youtube-Kanal des IfS abrufbar. Zu den Aufzeichungen: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

OUT NOW! Johannes Agnoli entlarvt die #Demokratie der Bundesrepublik als Instrument der Herrschaft, das die Massen von der Macht fernhält. Gerade diese kritische Perspektive macht ihn in Zeiten von Autoritarismus + faschist. Gefahr so aktuell: dietzberlin.de/produkt/joha.... Wir verlosen 1 Band! /1

Absolutely insane

Ein wirklich sehr gelungener Beitrag von @istuetzle.bsky.social zur #Geldtheorie. 1/ #EconSky #VWL #Makroökonomik https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/eine-kritik-der-modern-monetary-theory-als-geldtheoretisches-konzept/

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm enjoying Tooze's sudden burst of theoretical reflexivity, as per his latest substack. What is still lacking is same level of methodological reflexivity, of the sort captured by 'sociology of critique' or what others termed 'social life of methods' adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Unser Lesekreis zur Politischen Theorie geht 2025 weiter! Diesmal lesen wir Wolfgang Streeck, den "Karl Marx unserer Zeit" (NY Times). Alle 2 Wochen online, Start Ende Januar/Anfang Februar. Bei Interesse DM & gerne RT!

This is a good framing I think. Ideology critique in an age of social media feels filled with pitfalls — the temptation is to talk about ideas where what matters more is affect, impulse, provocation

In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together. I've made some free courses to help: • Reading Capital v1 • Reading Capital v2 • Reading the Grundrisse • Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason • The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls... Not entirely knowledgeable on the history of Western Marxism - particularly in the anglophone world - as well as political philosophy as a field but this substack entry seems to be particularly bad in outlining the reasons for the decline of academic Marxism

This fascinating interview with Tooze interestingly avoids mentioning the figure who had already expounded the identical epistemic-political orientation and scholarly vocation, and who also preferred to only do so via interviews: Foucault. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Chartbook 341 On thinking in medias res: An Interview with Ding Xiongfei from the Shanghai Review of Books (summer 2024) open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Thread: I have quite a bit of time on my hands of late, so I am (re)reading some classics, starting with Discipline and Punish. A briljant, strange book, suprisingly different from the textbook version (scary opening, Panopticon, docile bodies etc) most people have in mind. Some thoughts >>

Good to know Burawoy has had this anxiety at least once, too. #ethnography #positivism http://t.co/LmFAG97E

This article is a nice piece on the emergence and state of NES in general and has a short and sweet 1.5 pg section on the estranged relation between NES and (Neo-)Marxist sociology. Will look further into the quoted Fasenfest article, too. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

The complete absence of reference to Marx (and by extension Marxist economic sociology) in much of new economic sociology seems even more strange now that I have reread some chapters of Capital.

Kohei Saito to packed audience at Japan Institute in Cologne: „it‘s great the room is so full, but you should hire some Marxist professors in German academia!“

Economic Sociology expansion pack! Need to add others or add yourself? Do it! go.bsky.app/Tdf2TZ2

Did anyone get around to creating an economic sociology starter pack? #econsoc #economicsociology #sociology #politicaleconomy #polecon