Johannes Agnoli on preferring to publish shorter interventions and essays: 'reading takes time, time during which Habermas writes'.

1/ New chapter out (with Franz Knappik): “G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” – in Matt Congdon and Thomas Khurana’s Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. ⬇️ Short thread below:

Marius Bickhardt, Gauthier Delozière et Cannelle Gignoux - Le marxisme écologique À paraître en avril chez La Découverte

the soviets (the lurking bearded man with a shapka in the background) beating the baltic timber market in the 1920s

A new episode of Future Histories Live! This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements. Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland. Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj

This will soon be out, by yours truly

[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers. One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

The special issue on 'renewables capitalism' is fully out now. It looks amazing! All open access (for now)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660...

Was Lesen mit Denken zu tun hat und warum uns die Maschine genau das nicht abnehmen, sondern nur abgewöhnen kann, darüber habe ich für @54books.bsky.social nachgedacht. Es geht um KI-Hype, den Zustand der Kulturindustrie und die faschistische Tendenz der Affirmation.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

From the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Karlson Preuß' Studie will einen „Beitrag zur Historiographie des westlichen Rechtsdenkens“ leisten – und eröffnet Einblicke in die Dynamiken des juristischen Feldes, die über reine Geschichtsschreibung hinausgehen. Die Rezension von @larsdoepking.bsky.social: www.soziopolis.de/wozu-ein-jah...

Gillian Rose passed away on this day 30 years ago, at age 48. "[Rose] showed that philosophy could combine a search for the truth with the quest for a meaningful life." - Martin Jay

short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

hagen schulz-forberg, james quilligan and I sat down a couple of months ago to talk about planetary thought in the early soviet union and why it's worth studying it today. the full conversation is now out: online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/6...

“Readers braving [Beckert’s] 1100 pages should mentally prepare to end up without a clear idea of what capitalism is; they can find comfort in the fact that the author doesn’t have one either.” www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

nothing in the study of sociology today prepares you to even begin to understand this book

nothing in the study of sociology today prepares you to even begin to understand this book

📢 Call for Participation! Socializing Algorithms Conference Kiel University, Germany — 7–9 Oct 2026. With keynotes from N. Katherine Hayles and Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social 📝 Submit abstracts by 28 Feb 2026 algorithmen-regieren.de/projects

„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.

Bald öffnet sich wieder das Transferfenster und die Fußballberichterstattung wird schier unglaubliche Ablösesummen und komplizierte Leihoptionen verkünden. Doch warum gibt es das eigentlich? Für das aktuelle Heft der PROKLA durfte ich über Fußballer als eigenwillige Vermögenswerte schreiben.

Out now! Sociology in the Weimar Republic. 2 Volumes 🥳🤓 some of the structural problems and crises of Weimar society are very similar today, so that the earlier sociological analyses of these problems still remain relevant…

Sneak-peek auf das Buch aus unserem @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social Projekt zu "Fristen, Fristen, Fristen" blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/zif/ent...

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/

🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025 PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

New Peoples & Things episode this week features Verena Halsmayer talking about her award-winning book, _Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact_, including how it relates to the economics of technological change. newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...

i'm two years late, but what a great article this is!

…der für dich auf den Telefonmast stieg und sich irgendwo einstöpselte. Er hat sozusagen das Telefonnetz gehackt, gegen Geld. Vor dem Hacker-Telefonmast bildete sich immer eine Schlange

The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026. ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....

what a review! www.cambridge.org/core/service...

the most anticipated book of 2026: bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !! www.versobooks.com/products/334...

My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read! research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...

Save the date: I am very excited to be part of this roundtable with some amazing colleagues — on February 16 at HU Berlin, Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social and yours truly will discuss our perspectives on the «Critique of AI», moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld

New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social

where are the energy historical texts about dutch mercantile capitalism running on peat and wind-powered sawmills?

My paper on ordoliberal influence on early EU integration has just been published by @conteurohistory.bsky.social. A ton of gratitude to @manumourlon.bsky.social for organising the @eui-eu.bsky.social conference where this was first presented and for his help since www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come work with us at @recentglobe.bsky.social and @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social, for those starting new dissertation projects with an interest in global multiplicity and ethnography uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/0...

alles nur künftige ruinen, material für die nächste schicht

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Unsere Tagung zu 'Kapitalistische Dynamiken' in Basel hat jetzt ein Programm: die Beiträge reichen von der Kommodifizierung des Monsoonrisikos, Gewalt als Operationsmodus des Kapitalismus, zur Militarisierung des Investitionsregimes in den USA. Kommt vorbei – eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig!

Lars Döpking @larsdoepking.bsky.social , Fiskalische Herrschaft Steuern, Staat und Politik in Italien seit 1945, Hamburger Edition @hhedition.bsky.social 2023

New book: Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia, by Marko Grdešić & Mislav Žitko amzn.to/3JoWy1M

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...

The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?

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