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 🕵️‍♂️ How to Be a Dissident w/ Gal Beckerman Is there a right way to rebel? What can we do when we face a moral dilemma and are uncertain how to act?

 Tue 6 Oct At Arminius dedependance.eu/events/how-t...

Thank you for attending our talk with Anna Tsing on 28 May. We explored 'The Patchy Anthropocene': how dominant economic structures exhaust ecosystems, communities, and forms of life, but also how human and more-than-human actors can develop new ways of coexistence in damaged environments.

Thank you for attending our talk with Paul Krugman. We hope to welcome you back soon at: 🇪🇺 Timothy Garton Ash: On Europe 🗓️ Wed. 23 Sept. at Theater Zuidplein. 💸 How Private Equity Erodes Our Societies with Hettie O’Brien 🗓️ Tue. 3 Nov. at WORM. Info and tickets: dedependance.eu 📸 Aad Hoogendoorn

Heads up! Tickets for our talk with @pkrugman.bsky.social on May 19th will sell out soon. More information and tickets 👉 dedependance.eu/events/paul-...

Tickets are now on sale 👇 🍄 Anna Tsing On the Patchy Anthropocene How do we continue living in a world that is already broken? On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us at Nieuwe Instituut for a conversation on landscapes shaped by extraction, capitalist logic and ecological crisis.

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Date: Thursday 28 MayTime: 19:30 (free exhibition entrance at 17:00)Location: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, RotterdamAdmission: € 12,50 (regular), € 7,50 (students & teachers), € 6,25 (H…

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🍄 Anna Tsing on the Patchy Anthropocene How do we live in a world already broken? On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us to explore fragmented landscapes shaped by extraction and ecological crises, and how new forms of coexistence emerge in damaged environments.

🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us last Saturday at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social for our talk with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Together they made the case that Elon Musk isn't just a polarising figure but a mirror held up to our times. 📸 Aad Hoogendoorn

On Tuesday, May 19, we welcome Nobel Prize laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social 🎙️ In a world of rising geopolitical tensions and trade disruptions, he will explore the forces reshaping the global economic order. How vulnerable is the global economy - and what's at stake for Europe?

On Saturday 14 March @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com will discuss their forthcoming book 'Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed' at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social. Secure your seat 👉 dedependance.eu/events/muski...

On Saturday March 14th, two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right, @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com, will join us at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social to discuss their upcoming book ‘Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed’.

📡 Muskism: Playbook for a postliberal age with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com.

Feb. 12, we welcomed two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist and one of the sharpest observers of European politics and the state of the liberal order.

Heads up: tickets for our upcoming talk with Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter on ‘Finitude Capitalism’ are moving fast. There won’t be ticket sales at the door, so make sure to secure your seat in time. 👉 Final tickets: dedependance.eu/events/finit...

⚙️ Finitude Capitalism: Neoliberalism’s Predatory Turn w/ Arnaud Orain & Caroline de Gruyter 👉 dedependance.eu/events/finit...

On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals, Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter, to Rotterdam on occasion of the Dutch translation of Orain’s new book, ‘The Finitude of the World: Boundless Capitalism from the Seventeenth Century to Today’.

As we wrap up 2025, we wanted to pause and say thank you. Thank you for attending and for being part of the conversations that matter. We're taking a moment to rest and recharge, and we hope you are too. We can’t wait to welcome you all back in 2026.

Membership: The Gift of Reflection 💭 Don’t know what to get your loved ones this season? Here’s a suggestion. We all feel it: the holidays have become too commercial. You don't feel like supporting yet another big retail chain. Why not give something that truly lasts?

On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking public intellectuals: @arnaudorain.bsky.social and @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social. 👉 dedependance.eu/events/finit...

Two new podcasts up for listening! Head to your platform of choice for engaging conversations on: 🔮 Indignity and the fragility of truth w/ @leaypi.bsky.social and Nuria Ribas Costa 🦅 Vulture capitalism w/ @graceblakeley.substack.com and Hani Salih 👉 dedependance.eu/podcasts

On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek’s Bastards) and @bentarnoff.com (Internet for the People, Voices from the Valley).

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🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us last Monday at Debatpodium Arminius for our talk with philosopher and public intellectual Agnes Callard on The Case for a Philosophical Life.

Our latest podcast episode with Nikole Hannah-Jones is up! Together with moderator Hani Salih, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks the struggle over narrative, the power of memory, and what it takes to defend democracy when its core ideals are under siege. 👉 dedependance.eu/nikole-hanna...

🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us Sept. 30th for our sold-out evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Democracy, Resistance & the Politics of Memory. @nhannahjones.bsky.social

📣 Last night at a sold-out OASE, @leaypi.bsky.social explored memory, survival, and solidarity in an age of crisis - from Ottoman aristocracy to modern Albania. We would like to thank you all for your presence, insightful questions and your commitment to thinking beyond the status quo.

Heads up: tickets for our upcoming talk with @leaypi.bsky.social are moving fast. Join us this Friday for a timely conversation about the personal and political challenges that we currently face. 👉 Final tickets: dedependance.eu/events/lea-ypi

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project reframes the dominant narrative U.S. history by placing slavery and Black Americans’ contributions at its center. A landmark work that continues to spark urgent debates on democracy, memory, and justice.

📖 Fri 26 Sept: Political philosopher @leaypi.bsky.social joins De Dépendance to present the Dutch translation of her new book Indignity. This powerful publication blends philosophy & autobiography to explore survival, solidarity & the fragility of truth in an age of crisis.

📚 Mon 20 Oct: Renowned philosopher Agnes Callard joins De Dépendance (Rotterdam) for The Case for a Philosophical Life to celebrate the Dutch translation of her book Open Socrates. This evening, @agnescallard.bsky.social explores philosophy as a shared practice of asking life’s hardest questions.