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

Karl-Werner Brand ist verstorben (per Verteiler DGS-Sektion Umweltsoziologie)

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...

huber 🤝 bogdanov

they made load sculptures 🤩

When there was less noise about AI, I actually enjoyed listening to a podcast drama about a lovely, curious, thoughtful AI (Rebecca Ferguson) explaining to her maker (Mark Rylance) how she experiences her own evolution as freeing and deeply unsettling. recommended! open.spotify.com/show/1LrK2U4...

🚨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👇👇👇

AI's power use is too spiky and irregular for any power source to follow it, so data centers implement 'dummy loads' which are not needed for computing but suck energy solely to avoid sharp fluctuations in grid draw... arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11119

Am 23. Januar 2026 ist Bernhard Waldenfels gestorben. Sein geistiges Erbe ist die responsive Phänomenologie, die deutsche und französische Ansätze untrennbar ineinander verflicht. @cmpeter.bsky.social würdigt das Werk des Philosophen in einem Nachruf. www.soziopolis.de/bernhard-wal...

I actually agree with a lot of stuff in @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's follow-up essay (which, despite the snark, I liked a lot more than the first one)! And yet, I vehemently disagree on the role of AI as sketched in the essay.

Deutsche Bahn ad, 1960s. ‘Everybody talks about the weather… we don’t.’

I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to. But you should read this.

check out this program 🔥 www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/k...

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

oh look, a seminar on adorno and electricity!

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g... (what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)

Veit "Nitro" Braun – I‘d hire him!

Should you want to browse through the new academic public sphere of papers fully written by autonomous AI agents www.clawxiv.org

love the wild mix of people and topics at the Brecht Tage next week, centering around the Brecht's 'green revolution' and featuring Thomas Turnbull, Hanna Hamel, @simschaupp.bsky.social, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...

My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ "Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.” - Andreas Malm

Ende letzten Jahres ist meine Doktorarbeit open access bei Konstanz University Press erschienen 🥳 „Ökologien der Psyche“ rekonstruiert, wie der Mensch im 20. Jahrhundert von der Psychologie in seiner Umwelt erforscht und dadurch in neuer Weise regierbar gemacht wurde. www.k-up.de/978383539187...

Announcement! From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks. You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com

if we are effectively on an oil-standard since the 1970s, how would a decarbonized international financial system look like?

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

this is still on until feb 22 and highly recommended!

Free copy for whoever figures it out first 💫

So happy to see this published! A huge congrats to the editors of the volume and the other contributors. It’s open access: volumul Open Access aici: www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

Am 12. Januar 2026 ist Matthias Koenig gestorben. In einem Nachruf würdigt Monika Wohlrab-Sahr den Soziologen als integeren Menschen und akribischen Wissenschaftler, der hochgradig normative Fragen mit Herzblut und analytischer Distanz zu behandeln verstand. www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...

Dear friends, We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies. Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;). www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.

Adam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025. Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...

Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant 💥 www.ft.com/content/f789...

D'emblée, il faut souligner qu'il y a une certaine naïveté à déplorer la fin d'un droit qui, plus que jamais, continue d'organiser le monde, de dessiner les cartes et les espaces, d'écrire les récits nationaux et les histoires globales, …1/2 www.lalibre.be/Debets/opini...

We’re kicking off my Consolidator Grant “The Battle of Materials”—and celebrating with a talk by Prof. Erika Rappaport: “Aims of Industry”: Big Sugar, PR & the Fight for Free Enterprise in Decolonizing Britain. Sugar, propaganda, capitalism—what could go wrong? 📣🌍 March 16, 4 pm Basel! All welcome

Meaning of AI conference at University of Chicago end of February with me, Leif Weatherby, Yuk Hui, Nan Z Da, N. Katherine Hayles, Hannes Bajohr, James Duesterberg, Anastasia Berg. Will be streamed and extremely rockin

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Save the Date: Am 30.1. diskutieren Christoph Menke, Katja Diefenbach, Helmut Draxler & Rahel Jaeggi über Krieg & den liberalen Diskurs darüber. Warum erscheint Krieg in diesem als Ausnahmezustand, nicht als instituierte Form von Herrschaft? Mehr Infos: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krieg-...

i never understood how looking for the human in the russian would be justifying the war, but i'm glad we finally all get to make up our own minds about this documentary: www.russiansatwar.com/watch

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science – Ecological Transitions in / of Europe and the EU. Applications welcome until February 5 (4 PM, Paris time). Full Job Description and Recruitment Process ⤵️ #AcademicJobs #PolSci

Many critical AI resources are written for teachers, rather than students. I wrote this for undergrad students dealing with “AI literacy” in the humanities, hoping to raise more fundamental questions about what it means to write. People have added it to syllabi, so maybe you’ll find it useful, too.

I’m super excited to discuss the new translation of Günther Anders with @morbuscriticus.bsky.social Chris Müller and @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Monday, March 2, 2026 2:30pm ET 7:30pm UK 8:30pm DE sign up! www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/are-w...

Veranstaltungshinweis: Nächsten Mittwoch (14.01.26, 19:00) trage ich am fiph in Hannover vor. Der Vortrag "Grenzen der Naturbeherrschung. Die Kritische Theorie in der ökologischen Krise" ist öffentlich und kann online angesehen werden (ohne Aufzeichnung). Mehr Informationen: fiph.de/Veranstaltun...

Große Freude! Ich durfte mit Stephanie Rohde in der Reihe Sein & Streit über politische Utopien sprechen. Zu hören auf Deutschlandfunk Kultur: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/politische-u...

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

'It would not be hard for the Justice Department to write an opinion in support of the Venezuela invasion even if the military action violates the U.N. Charter. A long line of unilateral executive branch actions, supported by promiscuously generous executive branch precedents, support it.'

📽️Donald Trump wants you to know he's targeting Venezuela because of illegal drugs. But what if this were really about something else altogether...? Dig into the murky world of crude oil refining and you find another, even more intriguing explanation... Full primer 👇 youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...