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Jan Groos
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Aug 3, 2025 • 60min
S03E44 - Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.
Events (from the introduction):
at the Zollo Collective:
https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en
at La Band Varga:
https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102
Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
https://resuso.ch/
Shownotes
Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):
http://www.annakornbluh.com/
Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:
https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/
Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism
Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire
Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.
https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism
Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html
Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs
https://www.alexispauline.com/
her essay on the Maui wildfires:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/
on climate fiction (cli-fi):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction
Rebecca Saltzman:
https://rebeccasaltzman.net/
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
on the genre of the Heist film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film
on “Logan Lucky”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky
Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/
Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:
https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/
on climate/eco-anxiety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety
Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty
explanation “hypersititon”:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition
on Kim Stanley Robinson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140
on the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
on the Green New Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
website of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):
https://aldanacohen.com/
Climate & Community Institute:
https://climateandcommunity.org/
“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:
https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL
Aronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win
Klein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
on the Zohran Mamdani campaign:
https://www.zohranfornyc.com/
on Social Realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism
on Brandon Taylor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)
his website:
https://brandonlgtaylor.com/
on Colson Whitehead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead
his website:
https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/
on “Succession”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)
on “Somebody Somewhere”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)
on public luxury:
https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/
https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:
http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com/
Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.
https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalism
Boston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/
on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/
S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/
S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/
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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
#AnnaKornbluh, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #FutureImaginaries, #Art, #Literature, #Representation, #Immediacy, #ClimateChange, #ClimateBreakdown, #ClimateCollapse, #Capitalism, #Economics, #Collapse, #GreenNewDeal, #ClimateAnxiety

Jul 20, 2025 • 1h 35min
S03E43 - Steen Thorsson zu Psychoanalyse, Klimakrise und Kapitalismus
Steen Thorsson zu Kapitalismus als Ursache der Klimakrise und die Psychopathologien ihrer Leugnung.
Events (aus Anmoderation):
beim Zollo Kollektiv:
https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en
bei La Band Varga:
https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102
Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
https://resuso.ch/
Shownotes
Thorsson, S. (2025). Burn Baby Burn. Kapitalismus als Ursache der Klimakrise und die Psychopathologien ihrer Leugnung. Psychosozial-Verlag.
https://psychosozial-verlag.de/programm/2000/2110/3413-detail
zur Psychoanalyse:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalyse
das Zitat von Adorno zur Psychoanalyse stammt aus seinem Aufsatz „Zum Verhältnis von Soziologie und Psychologie von 1955 und ist in diesem in Adornos gesammelten Schriften Band 8, Soziologische Schriften 1 zu finden:
Adorno, T.W. (2003). Gesammelte Schriften Band 8: Soziologische Schriften 1. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/theodor-w-adorno-gesammelte-schriften-in-20-baenden-t-9783518293089
Bruschi, V., Zeiler, M. (Hrsg.). (2022). Das Klima des Kapitals. Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse und Ökonomiekritik. Dietz.
https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/das-klima-des-kapitals/
zum „Kapitalozän“:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalocene
Dorn, F. (2022). Anthropozän und Kapitalozän. Das Zeitalter des Kapitalismus.
https://www.felixdorn.com/blog/anthropozaen-kapitalozaen-kapitalismus
Moore, J.W. (Hrsg.). (2016). Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. PM Press.
https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=779
zur Kritischen Theorie:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritische_Theorie
Löwy, M. (2015). Ecosocialism. A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe. Haymarket Books.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/696-ecosocialism
Was ist Ökomarxismus und wozu brauchen wir ihn? Livestream der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung mit Jan Rehmann, Markus Wissen und Julia Egenhoff. (02.07.2025).
https://www.youtube.com/live/yij25N24E88?si=DIb0hzfqLI1T2BJY
Engels, F. (1962). Dialektik der Natur. Dietz.
https://marx-wirklich-studieren.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/einleitung_dialektik_der_natur.pdf
Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital
Malm, A. (2021). Der Fortschritt dieses Sturms. Natur und Gesellschaft in einer sich erwärmenden Welt. Matthes & Seitz.
https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/der-fortschritt-dieses-sturms.html
zur „ursprünglichen Akkumulation“:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urspr%C3%BCngliche_Akkumulation
Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862
zu Herbert Marcuse:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
zu Geoengineering:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
Löwenthal, L. (2021). Falsche Propheten: Studien zur faschistischen Agitation. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/leo-loewenthal-falsche-propheten-t-9783518587621
Knasmüller, F., & Brunner, M. (2022). Schiefheilung als Kompromissbildung. Eine biographische Fallrekonstruktion der psychischen Funktionalität rechter Weltbilder. Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, 46(1/2), 111–138.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363699446_Schiefheilung_als_Kompromissbildung_Eine_biographische_Fallrekonstruktion_der_psychischen_Funktionalitat_rechter_Weltbilder
Freud, S. (2010). Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Reclam.
https://www.reclam.de/produktdetail/das-unbehagen-in-der-kultur-9783150186978
zum Todestrieb bei Freud:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todestrieb
Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W. (2022) Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente. S. Fischer.
https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/max-horkheimer-theodor-w-adorno-dialektik-der-aufklaerung-9783103971521
zur Massenpsychologie:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massenpsychologie
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
Herrmann, U. (2022) Das Ende des Kapitalismus. Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden. Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/ulrike-herrmann-das-ende-des-kapitalismus-9783462002553
Müller, T. (2024). Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben. Mandelbaum.
https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/
Communia, BUNDjugend. (Hrsg.). (2023). Öffentlicher Luxus. Dietz.
https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/oeffentlicher-luxus/
zur „Gelbwestenbewegung“:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelbwestenbewegung
zum „Lucas-Plan“:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas-Plan
Thematisch angrenzende Folgen
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu Solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-tadzio-mueller-zu-solidarischem-preppen-im-kollaps/
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/
S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/
S02E59 | Lemon und Lukas von communia zu öffentlichem Luxus
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e59-lemon-und-lukas-von-communia-zu-oeffentlichem-luxus/
S02E30 | Philipp Staab zu Anpassung
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e30-philipp-staab-zu-anpassung/
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Episode Keywords
#SteenThorsson, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Klimakrise, #Sozial-ökologischeTransformation, #Klimabewegung, #Kapitalismus, #Gesellschaft, #PolitischeImaginationen, #Zukunft, #KritischeTheorie, #SigmundFreud, #Psychoanalyse, #Solidarität, #Marcuse, #Freud, #AndreasMalm, #Technokratie, #Geoengineering

Jul 6, 2025 • 2h 28min
S03E42 - Rüdiger Haude und Thomas Wagner zu herrschaftsfreien Institutionen
Rüdiger Haude, Historiker an der RWTH Aachen und Experte für nicht-staatliche Gesellschaften, diskutiert mit Soziologe Thomas Wagner über die Stabilität herrschaftsfreier Institutionen. Sie beleuchten die Rolle von Zwang in egalitären Strukturen und die Differenzierung zwischen Macht und Herrschaft. Außerdem geht es um historische Beispiele, etwa die Irokesen, und wie Geschlechtergleichheit in solchen Gesellschaften institutionalisiert werden kann. Die beiden stellen kreative Ansätze vor, um soziale Kohäsion ohne Herrschaft zu fördern.

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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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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May 11, 2025 • 1h 40min
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S03E37 - Frieder Vogelmann zu demokratischer Öffentlichkeit
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Apr 13, 2025 • 56min
S03E36 - Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian Liberalism
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S03E35 - Andreas Folkers zu Nachhaltigkeit, Resilienz und gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen
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