"It is one of those rare books one puts away with the feeling that it cannot be possible that it took so long for someone to write them." Could not have hoped for a better first review!

Für Kurzentschlossene in Berlin: Am 18. Mai 2026 wird am WZB der Leviathan-Sonderband "Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen" vorgestellt. Moderiert von Leon Wansleben diskutieren die Beiträger*innen Andrea Binder, Philip Manow und Jenny Stupka ab... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30786

Das Essay »Kosmologie des Geistes« liegt erstmals auf Deutsch vor. Den Text kann man als Drehbuch für eine sowjetfuturistische Science-Fiction lesen oder als Abhandlung über das Naturverhältnis des Menschen auf der Grundlage astronomisch erweiterter Produktivkräfte:

half of the people reposting and liking this have were likely not read this ft 'premium' piece. can somebody with access tell me what exactly is argued here? it's not surprising that batteries get good/cheap enough to provide hours of electricity.

Am Mi, 27.5., 18 Uhr bringen wir @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kritische Perspektiven auf #KünstlicheIntelligenz miteinander ins Gespräch. Ich freue mich den Abend mit @milamiceli.bsky.social @rainerrehak.bsky.social und @akeiner.bsky.social! Anmeldung: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...

My profile page on the website of @unierfurt.bsky.social is now online: www.uni-erfurt.de/en/faculty-o... I am really happy to join the incredible team of Sophia Hoffmann and really look forward to continue my research and teaching in this new capacity.

WORKING NATURE: A HISTORY OF THE ENERGY ECONOMY Book Presentation with @ueberdruss.bsky.social, comments by Liliana Doganova and Jacob Blumenfeld, moderated by Thomas Turnbull July 9, 2026, 19:00 Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, Berlin socializationproject.de/event/workin...

been called a productivist for the first time

Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wie herrscht das Valley und was meint das eigentlich? Am 1. Juni ist der grossartige @adriandaub.bsky.social zu Gast bei uns am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin, um diese Frage und sein Buch "Was das Valley herrschen nennt" zu diskutieren! Wir freuen uns riesig auf den Abend. Kommt vorbei!

These two were just a teaser. If you want to find out more about our 11 Theses in Planning checkout our homepage here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/intervent... and join the debate in our forum here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/forum/

Something that's rare? Major fossil fuel producers - including Nigeria, Canada and Australia - getting together to find concrete ways to transition away from fossil fuels. That's what's happening with more than 50 countries gathered in Santa Marta Colombia right now. 📻🎧 only on @npr.org ⬇️ 🇨🇴🇳🇬🇨🇦🇦🇺+🌏

📄 @toteraltermann.bsky.social, "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" 👀🌐 Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Wer (wie ich) die Vorstellung verpasst hat: der ganze Bericht "Energie, Staat & Markt: Eine Geschichte der Vergesellschaftung der europäischen Energiewirtschaft" ist jetzt online communia.de/wp-content/u... @communiade.bsky.social 👇

Been hoping someone would write a book like this for a while: www.versobooks.com/products/334...

#Skystorians, die lehren, aufgepasst! Unser Buch ist da und als free download hier zu haben: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index... Buchvorstellungsanfragen gerne an uns Herausgeber_innen oder hier direkt an mich oder @kreienbaumj.bsky.social.

Very much looking forward to be teaching @mpifg.bsky.social signature #economicsociology PhD course this year. The course is a slightly modified version of the one developed by Jens Beckert featuring three amazing guest lectures I look particularly forward to! 1/3

#OTD 🎉 Heute vor 208 Jahren wurde #KarlMarx in Trier geboren. Aus diesem Anlass kehren wir aus der Pause zurück und haben ein Geschenk für euch: Die Marx-Engels-Werke (MEW), die meistzitierte Studienausgabe, gehen Anfang Dezember als digitale Edition online – anlässlich von 70 Jahre MEW!

geopolitics of grid synchronization, 1992-2026

geopolitics of grid synchronization, 1992-2026

Safe the date! GELD, MACHT UND DEMOKRATIE am @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social mit @andreabinder.bsky.social, Philip Manow & Jenny Stupka, moderiert von Leon Wansleben, begleitet von @dasneue.berlin🥳 zum LEVIATHAN-Sonderband FINANZEN @nomosverlag.bsky.social @aaronsahr.bsky.social

"Es geht also auch um Abschiebungen, wie sie derzeit monatlich tausendfach von der brutalen US-Einwanderungsbehörde ICE durchgeführt werden. Ursprünglich hieß es, die „Grenzpartnerschaft“ solle nur bei Einreisen in die USA angewandt werden."

Fancy a 4-year PhD position in Berlin @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social? Apply here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... #easterneurope #russia #soviet #energy

this is a great piece, both as correction to the literature and as explanation of the eurodollar market, which me and my students struggled to understand giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

New article out in @timeandsociety.bsky.social on the temporality of sustainable development, based on an attempt to reconcile the fundamentally incommensurable temporalities of Earth systems and capitalist economic growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #envhist #envhum #climate #greensky

Une thèse en STS au Centre de sociologie de l'innovation (Mines Paris PSL), ça vous tente ? Nous démarrons une nouvelle campagne de recrutement pour la rentrée 2026-2027. Date limite pour le dépôt des candidatures : vendredi 29 mai. Tout est expliqué ici : www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

this looks great. make it a series: volume II be like 'les économistes et la fin de la fin des énergie fossiles, 1931-1973', volume III 'les économistes et la fin de la fin de la fin des énergies fossiles, 1973-1986'... you get the idea.

Soziologie als Kunst des Möglichen: Frank Adloff plädiert für eine Sozialwissenschaft, die sich den Realitäten der Klimakrise stellt, ohne darüber die Suche nach theoretischen und praktischen Alternativen zu vergessen. Cordula Kropp ist von dem Entwurf überzeugt. www.soziopolis.de/soziologie-d...

The newly founded Brussel Institute for Geopolitics' mission statement is an eerie read: To remain soft on the inside Europe has to "strengthen its posture towards the outside" and learn "to act and think in terms of power, interests and strategy." big-europe.eu/mission-stat...

or perhaps this is just the return of the repressed colonial history? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

apparently, europe's electric sphere of influence reaches deep into central asia... when did european think tanks start talking this way? www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/202...

CHICAGO! Haymarket Presents: Free Gifts Join @alybatt.bsky.social and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social for a conversation on Capitalism & Nature. Co-sponsored by @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. Wed, May 6 at 5:30 PM Live at Haymarket House, streaming online RSVP:

Am Montag (27. April), 10–12 Uhr (online): Simon Schaupp @simschaupp.bsky.social spricht über „Arbeit und Ressentiment in der ökologischen Krise“ am Institutskolloquium vom @centremarcbloch.bsky.social. Der Kommentar von Sara Minelli folgt. Schaltet euch gern dazu: us02web.zoom.us/j/8950396542...

I'm giving a talk next week on plants and why many of our ideas about property feel so ill-suited for them. Tue, 28 April, 4:00 pm AEST / 8:00 am CET. Kindly hosted by @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social www.plantsuccess.org/event/bad-to...

Check out this call for contributions to a roundtable on energy and colonialism (the announcement is in French, the event in English)👇

1/5 📢 Appel à participation : Histoire coloniale et énergie Le terme 'colonialisme énergétique' est aujourd’hui utilisé pour désigner certains mégaprojets en cours de réalisation. L’histoire de l’énergie en contexte colonial reste cependant moins explorée que celle des puissances colonisatrices.

As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162

This is a long read. It’s also one of the single best things I’ve read about teaching “in the age of AI.” “Almost [every student] who filled out the questionnaire expressed some fear (or at least recognition) that AI could erode their capacity for original thought.” Spend time with this one.

HIS-Bibliothek nach Rom Die Bibliothek des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung (HIS) geht nach dessen Schließung im Jahr 2028 an das Deutsche Historische Institut (DHI) in Rom. Darauf einigten sich HIS-Direktor Wolfgang Knöbl und DHI-Direktorin Petra Terhoeven. zeitung.faz.net/data/749/rea...

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES docs.google.com/document/d/1...

apparently, europe's electric sphere of influence reaches deep into central asia... when did european think tanks start talking this way? www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/202...

A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

couldn‘t help thinking that this is so much smaller than the space it occupied in my head. there’s a relief in the objectification of thought: however troubling or obsessive, every idea can take the form of a handy, well-folded paperback.

striking conversation that offers a glimpse into the beautiful world of electric capitalism, where investors profit from the rotation of the Earth and seek 'the perfect arbitrage' between different local climate systems www.cleaningup.live/the-audaciou...

striking conversation that offers a glimpse into the beautiful world of electric capitalism, where investors profit from the rotation of the Earth and seek 'the perfect arbitrage' between different local climate systems www.cleaningup.live/the-audaciou...

Today in Berlin

Every major oil shock, put on the same timeline. The 1973 embargo was the longest lasting. The 1990 Gulf War was the biggest reversal. The 2026 Hormuz crisis is the steepest climb and drop. But the line isn't finished yet.

This quote continues to occupy my thoughts, as I'm trying to develop a concept of how workers engage technology. Kline/Pinch: "users as agents of technological change", but also car manufacturers in the 1930s displaced consumers' ability to tinker (K. Frantz) - (1/3)

🚨Publication and event alert: Over the past year, @ueberdruss.bsky.social and I have been writing a study on the history of ownership and power struggles in the European energy sector for @communiade.bsky.social (in German) On 29 April at 7pm, we will be presenting it in Berlin! 👇details below

Am 29. April 2026 um 19:00 Uhr im aquarium am Kottbusser Tor (Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin) präsentiert communia die neue Studie zur Geschichte der Energiewirtschaft von Prof. Daniela Russ und Solveig Degen, mit Beiträgen von Jakob Heyer und Ralf Hoffrogge. communia.de/einladung-ge...