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Die Dynamik der Faschisierung ist in der liberalen Demokratie, ihrer dysfunktionalen & gewaltsamen Deutung und Bearbeitung von Krisen angelegt & wird aus der Mitte der Gesellschaft heraus befeuert. Rahel Jaeggi & ich antworten hier auf Reemtsmas Kritik am F-Wort: www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...

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...

Today, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Wrote a review of @ueberdruss.bsky.social excellent Working Nature. Go read it, it’s a book that should have been written decades ago, when the ecosocialist current was just starting to get going. Also one for all the Sohn-Rethel heads out there.

Emerging from discussions at @ktbberlin.bsky.social's “The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality and Critique“, a text formulating 11 theses on planning has been published by @cominsitu.bsky.social , @rabeaber.bsky.social and @solveigdegen.bsky.social. www.indep.network/11-theses-on...

„Wir“? Ja dann hängt euch mal rein, liebe Ü70…

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴! Roland Atzmüller offers a rich and nuanced analysis of current (mis)interpretations of the far right and its entanglements with the neoliberal project - bringing a compelling Polanyian perspective. Read the entire article here: tinyurl.com/y83ewxen

11 Theses on Planning 1. Planning for Future The prohibition on thinking concretely about the future has expired. An ecological and democratic concept of planning beyond capitalism is now necessary for planetary survival. More: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/intervention...

really looking forward to discussing the new manuscript by @katforrester.bsky.social on the contradictions of the welfare state! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/in-and...

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.

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Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Primary needs

The more unstable the present becomes, the more necessary it is to plan for the future. But what does it mean to plan? Read our 11 theses on planning to find out!

mark your calendars: CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION Berlin, June 4-5, 2026 w/ great speakers incl. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Maeve Cooke, Alex Demirović, Verónica Gago, Stephan Lessenich & Isabella Weber more info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri...

New episode of the @ktbberlin.bsky.social podcast CRITIQUE OF AI - featuring @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @mttpsq.bsky.social and introduced with @robin-c.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Diesen Freitag! Podiumsdiskussion über den Strukturwandel der Landwirtschaft, Eigentum und Bodenpolitik 🚜

Die Energiewende geht vielen nicht zu schnell sondern zu langsam. 📊 57 % sagen: zu langsam 📊 Nur 15 %: zu schnell Besonders deutlich: 🔴 67 % unter 35 wollen mehr Tempo Das zeigt: Die Mehrheit ist weiter als die Politik. Jetzt braucht es Umsetzung statt Kurzschluss. ⚡️ #Energiewende #Kurzschluss

How can we put green planning into practice? Last Tuesday, @brusselermel.bsky.social, @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, Justus Henze (@communiade.bsky.social) and I had a really interesting discussion on this question. Recording is now online!

Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.

Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet

new books from @versobooks.bsky.social ! including Working Nature by @ueberdruss.bsky.social (book release in Berlin, July 9, with special guests)

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...

🚨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

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets

Next Tuesday! Join us to discuss how we can put green democratic planning into practice ⚡️

The more I’ve learned about private equity, the more I’ve come to see it as a metaphor for how power and wealth now operate in Britain. I wrote about it for @theguardian.com - two days before THE ASSET CLASS publishes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The recording of our online talk in partnership with @ktbberlin.bsky.social, where Janina Urban and @solveigdegen.bsky.social discuss how investment could be democratised and socialised in a financialised capitalist economy, has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. www.indep.network/recording-of...

Deutschland zeigt sich von seiner erbärmlichsten Seite: Das Völkerrecht wird plötzlich entdeckt, wenn man merkt, dass man auf der Verliererseite steht.

this is a crime against humanity

Das Kolloquium des Fachgebiets Soziologie in der Sozialökonomie an der @uni-hamburg.de zeigt im SoSe 2026, wie die historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft sozialökonomische Transformationen analysiert @dgswisoz.bsky.social. Mit @ueberdruss.bsky.social, Virginia Kimey Pflücke und @trgn.bsky.social.

Kann man sich nicht ausdenken, ich habe gefragt und die Antwort von Katherina Reiche: Sie plant keine weiteren Maßnahmen zur Unabhängigkeit von Öl und Gas. www.n-tv.de/politik/Reic...

Next Tuesday evening Janina Urban and I will give an online talk on socialising investment! 💸 Zoom, 24.03 - 19-20:30 CET The event is organised by @lndep.bsky.social ⬇️sign-up below!

👉 How does a fascist regime create its own reality - and what does liberalism have to do with it? Drawing on Arendt’s idea of the organized lie, Silke van Dyk examines how the Trump administration and the new tech capitalism form a coalition around the manipulation of knowledge #fascism #Trump

Wie eine Krisendeutung aussieht, die statt Migranten oder Transferempfängern die eigentlichen Schuldigen für die sinkende Kaufkraft identifiziert und probate politische Antworten anbietet, demonstriert der... Sprecher des Tankstellenverbands?

This truly is mesmerizing. 😳 It shows the insanity and amateurism of this administration. The fact that this is possible, however, and about one-third of Americans are fine with it, is what is truly mind blowing.

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions. Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.

“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”

Statement by the Iran Labour Confederation. iranlc.org/en/12023

excellent Note by ISRF Director @cnewf.bsky.social on our Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice project, in preparation for workshop on Coercing Finance, where we explore the macrofinance/political economy of credit and sketch futures of socialised investment isrf.org/blog/coercin...

the Grounds of Planning Part 1: Interview with John O'Neill on Neurath, Hayek, the socialist calculation debate and more tomorrow comes Part 2: interview with Aaron Benanav

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

There will be no clean break: oil and gas will not be easy to shake off. We are, however, beginning to see a challenge to the dominance of fossil capital, and a path toward a world dominated by electricity.

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

Eva Völpel und Sabine Nuss sprechen darüber, wie und warum wir extremen Reichtum anders besteuern sollten - aber auch, warum das alleine nicht ausreicht, wenn man Ungleichheit bekämpfen will. Hört jetzt die neue Folge von Armutszeugnis 👉 www.rosalux.de/media... #Vermögenssteuer