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Jun 22, 2025 • 2h 5min
S03E41 - Hannes Kuch zu liberalem Sozialismus
Hannes Kuch, Dozent an der Goethe-Universität und Autor, bringt frischen Wind in den Dialog zwischen Liberalismus und Sozialismus. Er erklärt, warum beide Strömungen voneinander abhängen, und plädiert für die Integration solidarischer Prinzipien in die Demokratie. Interessant wird es, wenn er die Rolle von Bildung und gemeinschaftlichem Leben als Motor für Wandel beleuchtet. Außerdem diskutiert er die Herausforderungen des liberalen Sozialismus und innovative Eigentumsformen, die eine gerechtere Wirtschaft fördern könnten. Ein inspirierendes Plädoyer für eine neue wirtschaftliche Ethik!

Jun 8, 2025 • 1h 53min
S03E40 - Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
Jan Overwijk discusses critical systems theory, sociologies of closure and openness, and cybernetic capitalism.
Shownotes
Jan Overwijk at the Frankfurt University Institute for Social Research:
https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/personendetails/jan-overwijk.html
Jan at the University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht:
https://www.uvh.nl/university-of-humanistic-studies/contact/search-employees?person=jimxneoBsHowOfbPivN
Overwijk, J. (2025). Cybernetic Capitalism. A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. Fordham University Press.
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on the website of the distributor outside of North America you can order the book with a 30% discount with the code “FFF24”:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on Niklas Luhmann:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
Baraldi, C., Corsi, G., & Esposito, E. (2021). Unlocking Luhmann. A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory. transcript.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5674-9/unlocking-luhmann/
Fischer-Lescano, A. (2011). Critical Systems Theory. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 38(1), 3–23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453711421600
Möller, K., & Siri, J. (2023). Niklas Luhmann and Critical Systems Theory. In: R. Rogowski (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann (pp. 141–154).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anthem-companion-to-niklas-luhmann/niklas-luhmann-and-critical-systems-theory/982BC5427E171D2BA0D14364377A40F5
on Critical Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
on Cybernetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Future Histories explanation video on cybernetics (in German):
https://youtu.be/QBKC9mM8-so?si=64v0OgBKV3xjXvLl
on Humberto Matuarana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana
on Francisco Varela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1992). Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala.
https://uranos.ch/research/references/Maturana1988/maturana-h-1987-tree-of-knowledge-bkmrk.pdf
on Ferdinand de Saussure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
on Post-Structuralism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
on the differentiation of society into subsystems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)
on Jaques Derrida:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
Bob Jessop on Luhmann and the concept of “ecological dominance”:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318543419_The_relevance_of_Luhmann%27s_systems_theory_and_of_Laclau_and_Mouffe%27s_discourse_analysis_to_the_elaboration_of_Marx%27s_state_theory
Jessop, B. (2010). From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism. In: K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.). Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 171–187). Zed Books.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318524063_The_continuing_ecological_dominance_of_neoliberalism_in_the_crisis
on Surplus Value in Marx and Marxism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
on Louis Althusser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser
Althusser, L. (2014). On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Verso.
https://legalform.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/althusser-on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism.pdf
on Stuart Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
on Capital Strikes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
on the concept of “rationalization” in sociology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(sociology)
on Max Weber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
Weber, M. (2005). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Routledge.
https://gpde.direito.ufmg.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAX-WEBER.pdf
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
on Surveillance Capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
on Herbert Marcuse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
Marcuse, H. (2002). One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Routledge.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Marcuse,%20H%20-%20One-Dimensional%20Man,%202nd%20edn.%20(Routledge,%202002).pdf
on Jürgen Habermas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
on Jean-François Lyotard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard
Lyotard, J.-F. (1988). The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816616114/differend/
on Thermodynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics
on the Technocracy Movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid Modernity. Polity.
https://giuseppecapograssi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf
on New Materialism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_materialism
on Gilles Deleuze:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
on Bruno Latour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
on Donna Haraway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
for criticisms of new materialism and associated tendencies and authors:
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
Brown, W. (2019). In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Columbia University Press.
https://www.social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Wellek-Library-Lectures-Wendy-Brown-In-the-Ruins-of-Neoliberalism_-The-Rise-of-Antidemocratic-Politics-in-the-West-Columbia-University-Press-2019.pdf
Hendrikse, R. (2018). Neo-illiberalism. Geoforum, 95, 169–172.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718518302057
on N. Katherine Hayles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. October. Vol. 59. (Winter 1992), 3-7.
https://cidadeinseguranca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
Brenner, R., Glick, M. (1991). The Regulation Approach. Theory and History. New Left Review. 1/188.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i188/articles/robert-brenner-mark-glick-the-regulation-approach-theory-and-history.pdf
on the “Regulation School”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_school
Chiapello, E., & Boltanski, L. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
Hardt, M., & Negri, A. (2000). Empire. Harvard University Press.
https://monoskop.org/images/9/95/Hardt_Michael_Negri_Antonio_Empire.pdf
on the Tierra Artificial Life Program:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
on Gilbert Simondon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon
on Karen Barad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad
on Post-Fordism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Fordism
on Taylorism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Polity.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platform-capitalism--9781509504862
Hayek, F. A. (2014). The Constitution of Liberty. Routledge.
https://ia600805.us.archive.org/35/items/TheConstitutionOfLiberty/The%20Constitution%20of%20Liberty.pdf
van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528–545.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
on Rosa Luxemburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
on Luxemburg’s thought on imperialism:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/44096/rosa-luxemburgs-heterodox-view-of-the-global-south
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism. How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
on Mariarosa Dalla Costa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariarosa_Dalla_Costa
on the “Wages for Housework” Campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_Housework
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
on Stafford Beer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
Pickering, A. (2010). The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8169881.html
Foucualt’s quote on socialist governmentality is from this book:
Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf
Groos, J. (2025). Planning as an Art of Government. In: J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond (pp. 115-132). Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/
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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
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
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#JanOverwijk, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #NiklasLuhmann, #FrankfurtSchool, #CriticalTheory, #SystemsTheory, #Sociology, #MaxWeber, #Economy, #Capitalism, #CapitalistState, #Cybernetics, #Rationalization, #PoliticalEconomy, #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Governmentality, #Ecology, #NewMaterialism, #Posthumanism, #CyberneticCapitalism, #Totality

May 25, 2025 • 1h 32min
S03E39 - Jasper Bernes on Workers' Councils, Labor Time Calculation and the Future of Revolution
Jasper Bernes, Autor und Dozent an der University of California, Berkeley, spricht über die revolutionären Möglichkeiten von Arbeiter*innenräten und deren Rolle in der Selbstorganisation. Er beleuchtet, wie diese Strukturen neu gedacht werden müssen, um den Herausforderungen der heutigen Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden. Zudem diskutiert er die Transformation von Arbeitsstunden und die Notwendigkeit einer solidarischen Produktion. Die Bedeutung sozialer Zugehörigkeit in revolutionären Bewegungen wird ebenfalls hervorgehoben, insbesondere im Kontext der George Floyd-Unruhen.

May 11, 2025 • 1h 40min
S03E38 - Creative Construction Buchvorstellung
In dieser Aufzeichnung diskutieren Christoph Sorg, Wissenschaftler an der HU Berlin, und Jonna Klick, Autorin des Buches über Kommunisierung, faszinierende Themen. Sie beleuchten, wie demokratische Planung als Antwort auf die ökologische Krise dienen kann. Sie diskutieren die Idee von Revolution als Kommunisierung, alternative Wirtschaftsmodelle und die Notwendigkeit einer Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft. Außerdem wird die Rolle gesellschaftlicher Planung im globalen Süden und die Verbindung zwischen Rassismus und subjektiver Wahrnehmung kritisch analysiert.

6 snips
Apr 27, 2025 • 1h 7min
S03E37 - Frieder Vogelmann zu demokratischer Öffentlichkeit
Frieder Vogelmann, Professor für Epistemologie an der Universität Freiburg, beleuchtet die komplexen Bedingungen demokrativer Öffentlichkeit. Er diskutiert, wie mediale und ökonomische Faktoren die Qualität der Informationen beeinflussen und kritisiert die Verflachung der Berichterstattung durch kommerzielle Interessen. Zudem wird analysiert, wie moderne Öffentlichkeiten faschistische Ideologien fördern und der Einfluss von Desinformation auf die öffentliche Meinung. Vogelmann unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit neuer Strategien zur Bekämpfung von Falschinformationen und sozialen Ungleichheiten in der politischen Landschaft.

9 snips
Apr 13, 2025 • 56min
S03E36 - Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian Liberalism
Clara E. Mattei, Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Autorin des Buches 'Die Ordnung des Kapitals', diskutiert die komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen Austerität, Faschismus und autoritärem Liberalismus. Sie beleuchtet, wie Austeritätsmaßnahmen die soziale Struktur zugunsten des Kapitals verändern, und verbindet dies mit historischen Beispielen autoritärer Regime. Mattei fordert eine Demokratisierung von Investitionen und reflektiert über die Hoffnung der nächsten Generation inmitten globaler Herausforderungen.

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Mar 30, 2025 • 1h 38min
S03E35 - Andreas Folkers zu Nachhaltigkeit, Resilienz und gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen
Andreas Folkers, Fellow am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt und Mitglied des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung, erörtert die vielschichtigen Konzepte von Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz. Er beleuchtet historische Ursprünge und die eurozentristische Perspektive des Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses. Das Gespräch geht auf materielle Zeitlichkeit und die Herausforderungen der CO2-Reduktion ein. Zudem wird die Bedeutung dieser Konzepte für gesellschaftliche Planung und die Frage von Emanzipation behandelt. Folkers warnt vor 'Cruel Optimism' in der Debatte und dem Potenzial für radikale Veränderungen.

Mar 16, 2025 • 1h
S03E34 - Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI
Cecilia Rikap explains how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership.
This episode was recorded during a live event with Cecilia Rikap, hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation Berlin. Many thanks to everybody involved!
For information on the event, see: https://www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_detail/2MGCX
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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
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
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Shownotes
Cecilia Rikap at University College London (UCL):
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/94616-cecilia-rikap
Cecilias upcoming book:
Rikap, C. (2025). The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud. Verso Books.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790833/the-rulers-by-cecilia-rikap/
Rikap, C., & Lundvall, B.-Å. (2021). The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order. Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89443-6#overview
Rikap, C. (2021). Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Capitalism-Power-and-Innovation-Intellectual-Monopoly-Capitalism-Uncovered/Rikap/p/book/9780367750299?srsltid=AfmBOoohn2o3_THE5S57rt4kTs62Fp3kv5AUNj8rUTdn7ywK9LFhfEro
Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: A Roadmap to build a Digital Stack for People and the Planet.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2024/dec/reclaiming-digital-sovereignty
Bensussan, H., Durand, C., Rikap, C. (2023) 100 years of Corporate Planning. From Industrial Capitalism to Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922-2021).
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:171107
Rikap, C. (2023) Mapping the Cloud. Big Tech taking the Sky by Storm. CITYPERC Working Paper, No. 2023-05.
https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/280831
Rikap, C. (2024) From Planning AI to Planning the Green Transition. Intellectual Monopolization amid the ecological breakdown.
https://youtu.be/cckqeiwXuHA?si=N3lRKBiN-KVQaXyA
Rikap, C. (2022) Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism. Knowledge Predation and Corporate Planning in the 21st Century.
https://www.youtube.com/live/VMU1IHm8838?si=jiOLSryWIyM9NvYL
Rikap, C. (2022) Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism. How Big Tech Companies became the World’s largest Planners.
https://youtu.be/4va-JedZGQA?si=0p_Lm-CJ-mbK6GoN
on the concept of Value Chains:
https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/graduate-study/pgcerts/value-chain-defs
on “demand sensing”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_sensing
on the concept of „the stack” and its relation to states:
Bratton, B. H. (2016). The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029575/the-stack/
on Doge and its cutting of jobs at US government agencies:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23vkd57471o
on Lina Kahn, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under Biden and her policy efforts (including antitrust laws against Big Tech):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
on the different political strands coming together in the current Trump Administration, including the influence of Curtis Yarvin:
https://youtu.be/YIPWekMahXc?si=mcY_ntC1-etzulF5
on Yann leCun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
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S03E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e24-grace-blakeley-on-capitalist-planning-and-its-alternatives/
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/
S01E45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms or Platforms & Red Futurism (Part 2/2)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/
S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms or Platforms & Red Futurism (Part 1/2)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/
S01E42 | Moira Weigel on Palantir, Tech-Nationalism & Aggression in the Life-World
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e42-moira-weigel-on-palantir-tech-nationalism-aggression-in-the-life-world/
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Episode Keywords
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Mar 2, 2025 • 1h 45min
S03E33 - Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
Tadzio Müller, Politikwissenschaftler und Aktivist für Klimagerechtigkeit, spricht über die Herausforderungen der Klimabewegung und die Notwendigkeit solidarischen Preppens im gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Kollaps. Er thematisiert die Ineffektivität des traditionellen Aktivismus und betont die Bedeutung von Gemeinschaft und gegenseitiger Hilfe in Krisenzeiten. Müller reflektiert zudem über kollektive Trauerarbeit in linken Bewegungen und die Notwendigkeit, eine positive Zukunftsvision zu entwickeln, selbst in widrigen Umständen.

Feb 16, 2025 • 1h 34min
S03E32 - 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, 19h
Location: aquarium am Südblock
Skalitzer Str. 6
10999 Berlin
Deutschland
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
https://www.indep.network/
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.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Concept-of-Property-in-Kant-Fichte-and-Hegel-Freedom-Right-and-Recognition/Blumenfeld/p/book/9781032575186
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.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-rise-of-ecofascism-climate-change-and-the-far-right--9781509545377
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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