Future Histories International Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the concept of “managing decline”, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
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Info on Creative Construction Book Launch:
Date: March 4th, 19hLocation: aquarium am SüdblockSkalitzer Str. 610999 BerlinDeutschland
About the book:
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Shownotes
The Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate barbarism: Adapting to a wrong world. Constellations, 30(2), 162–178.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12596
Blumenfeld, J. (2023) What was socialization. A look back.
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/
Blumenfeld, J. (2024a). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Blumenfeld, J. (2024b). The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. Freedom, Right, and Recognition. Routledge.
Blumenfeld, J. (2024c). Socialising Nature.
https://www.break-down.org/post/socialising-nature
Blumenfeld, J. (2024d). Welcome to the Anderscene. Brooklyn Rail.
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/Welcome-to-the-Anderscene/
Angebauer, N., Blumenfeld, J., & Wesche, T. (2025). Umkämpftes Eigentum: Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaempftes-eigentum-t-9783518300503
Jacob contributed to this soon to be published book:Forstenhäusler, Robin, et al. (Eds.). (2025). Klima und Gesellschaftskritik. Verbrecher Verlag.
https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/klimawandel-und-gesellschaftskritik/
Buck, H. J. (2021). Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2735-ending-fossil-fuels
on the productive forces turning into destructive forces see:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
Felli, R. (2021). The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/841-the-great-adaptation
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2024). Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3131-overshoot
on the „Promethean Gap“:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethean_gap
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Freud’s concept of the “Reality Principle”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_principle
Marcuse, H. (1955) Eros and Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Beacon Press.
https://archive.org/details/HerbertMarcuseErosandCivilization
on Vaclav Smil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil
on the Yellow Wests Protests (also “Gilets Jaunes”):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
Mann, G., & Wainwright, J. (2018). Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/520-climate-leviathan
Moore, S., & Roberts, A. (2022). The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right. Polity Books.
on Marxist crisis theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_theory
Markley, S. (2023) The Deluge. Simon & Schuster.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Deluge/Stephen-Markley/9781982123109
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