I'm delighted to share our schedule for the autumn for the Anthropocene Histories seminar at UCL. Poster attached, but I will put details and links to specific event pages below. Please share widely!
daniela russ
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
what is unchangeable in nature can take care of itself | assistant prof & historical sociologist | private account
beautiful exhibit on Peter Weiss and the Aesthetics of Resistance, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm bonnierskonsthall.se/en/utstallni...
Very pleased to confirm that our ASEH 2027 panel on “Consuming Frontiers: Markets, Gluts, and the Environmental History of Commodity Extraction,” has been accepted. Delighted to be discussing w Corey Ross, Liz Chatterjee, Rachel Steely, and Victor McFarland -- a wonderful lineup. Come and join us!
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The Deutscher Prize@deutscherprize.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨🚨🚨 We are very happy to announce our 2026 shortlist for the Deutscher Prize! Free Gifts, @alybatt.bsky.social Coercive Commerce, Stacie A. Kent Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social Working Nature, @ueberdruss.bsky.social Capitalist Value Chains, Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold
Next week in Frankfurt: Wendy Brown, Eva von Redecker and myself on our untimely present @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social. www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/li...
Lingerings. The Politics of Resentment, Residuals, and Repair - Institut für Sozialforschung
With Wendy Brown, Andreas Folkers and Eva von Redecker
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"Wir sollten herausragende Personen an weniger Universitäten und Fakultäten mit einem großen Betrag ausstatten." Sehe die Glanzbroschüren der German Initiative for Supreme Scientific Excellence schon vor mir.
Jan-Martin Wiarda@jmwiarda.bsky.social · 23h ago"Wir haben viele Exzellenzuniversitäten, gehören aber international trotzdem nicht zur Spitze" Max-Planck-Präsident Cramer über Reformbedarf der Exzellenzstrategie, Chancen bei KI, Jagd nach Spitzenkräften, Umgang mit China und Sicherheitsforschung. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/10...
Spaces of Urban Platformisation investigates how financialisation and platform capitalism shape urban everyday life. It looks at the speculative operations around Airbnb and coworking in Berlin. The book has been out since May ’26, but it is never too late to promote it a little bit.
much anticipated in the enviro history/historical materialism debate on coal
Florian Louis@florianlouis.bsky.social · 2d agoFredrik Albritton Jonsson - Infinite Coal How Britain Became the First Fossil Fuel Economy À paraître en mars aux Princeton UP
i'm over the moon working nature made it on this list!
The Deutscher Prize@deutscherprize.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨🚨🚨 We are very happy to announce our 2026 shortlist for the Deutscher Prize! Free Gifts, @alybatt.bsky.social Coercive Commerce, Stacie A. Kent Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social Working Nature, @ueberdruss.bsky.social Capitalist Value Chains, Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold
Very excited for the kick-off conference of my new Einstein Foundation research project next week. Featuring lots of empirical work on corporate, financial and state planning and a @futurehistories.bsky.social Live Episode. Registration, timetable etc. here: buff.ly/ciCXIxB
Future Histories LAB@futurehistories-lab.com · 6d agoExcited to announce our media partnership with the 'Age of Planning?' conference at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social organized by @christophsorg.bsky.social, and with a Future Histories LIVE recording with @iliasalami.bsky.social and Dylan Riley. Find out more: buff.ly/ciCXIxB
🚨🚨🚨 We are very happy to announce our 2026 shortlist for the Deutscher Prize! Free Gifts, @alybatt.bsky.social Coercive Commerce, Stacie A. Kent Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social Working Nature, @ueberdruss.bsky.social Capitalist Value Chains, Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold
Jetzt be diffrakt: @cominsitu.bsky.social und @ueberdruss.bsky.social im Gespräch mit @mortenpaul.bsky.social über Zerstôrung, Klimakatastrophe und Demokratiekrise.
"Keep your mind in hell and despair not; you may be weaker than the whole world, but you are always stronger than yourself: it’s fine to read Love’s Work and its epigrams as good advice for living in extremis, but they also illustrate an approach to logic, speculation, dialectics."
Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...
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Christian Sorace - Steppe Immunity Reimagining Political Futures from Mongolia À paraître en mars aux Stanford UP
Veranstaltungshinweis: Am 5.11. organisiere ich an der Uni Frankfurt a. M. ein Symposium zum Thema: „Lesen und Schreiben in der Krise? Das Handwerk der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften im Zeitalter Künstlicher Intelligenz.“ Eine Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Kommt vorbei.
My book "Contested Sciences: Between Idealization and Contempt" is out with @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social. Many thanks to all who made this possible, and to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social, Linda Martín Alcoff and Janet Kourany for their kind praise! www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
ich empfehle frühzeitige buchungen, das wird toll. 18.-22.9.28 und schon jetzt danke für den support an @tobeasbold.bsky.social und @dgsoziologie.bsky.social
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V.@dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 7d agoIm Flurfunk hat es schon die Runde gemacht, jetzt ist es offiziell: der nächste Kongress der DGS findet 2028 an der @unileipzig.bsky.social statt. Stellvertretend für Team Leipzig übernehmen @smithersdeluxe.bsky.social, Uta Karstein und Hannes Krämer den Staffelstab. #dgs2026 #dgs2028
For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November
CfP for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" organized by Christine Bichsel, Katja Doose, Nargiza Kenzhaeva & Oybek Makhmudov (Fribourg, June 2027) #envhist 👇 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
I have a piece in the latest @nybooks.com on two of the best books about tech published in recent years www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How Tech Rules | Ben Tarnoff
One of the hallmarks of the modern corporation is the separation of ownership from control. The firm is owned by shareholders but led by managers, who
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Das NNW meldet sich zu Wort und erinnert an die notwendige Kritik des NNW (und anderer) an der Exzellenzstrategie. Wir spoilern etwas die Auskünfte vom 2.11. über die Gewinner und Verlierer der Exzellenzstrategie: In der F.A.Z. von heute.
Sehr herzlichen Glückwunsch an @larsdoepking.bsky.social, dessen herausragendes Buch "Fiskalische Herrschaft" gestern mit dem diesjährigen Karl-Polanyi-Preis unserer Sektion ausgezeichnet wurde 🎉🥂 Vielen Dank an die Jury Andrea Maurer, Philipp Degens & Till Hilmar für die Auswahl & tolle Laudatio!
"Ja, Grundgesetz, ja, Grundgesetz, ja, Grundgesetz. Sie berufen sich hier pausenlos aufs Grundgesetz. Sagen Sie mal, sind sie eigentlich Kommunist?"
Ingo Stützle@istuetzle.eurosky.social · 3w agoZum Glück soll vergesellschaftet (Art 15 GG) und nicht enteignet (Art 14 GG) werden – mal unabhängig von der Frage, wie er die Verfassung mit einem Gesetz aushebeln will
With governments buying stakes in AI and defense contractors, a new political economy is fueling imperialist scrambles abroad, while deepening illiberalism at home. Our essay of the week traces the rise of imperial state capitalism. By @iliasalami.bsky.social in @illsp.bsky.social buff.ly/fJRL9xn
very interesting on the legal history of undermining socialization: "What emerged was a supra-positive constitutionalism that sought to supersede the written constitution," which had in fact "granted extensive power to modify property relations." doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Legal Counterrevolution: Property and Judicial Power in the Weimar Republic | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Legal Counterrevolution: Property and Judicial Power in the Weimar Republic - Volume 21 Issue 3
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Sergey Radchenko - Power Play The Ruthless Rise and Perilous Future of Russia’s Energy Empire À paraître en février chez Public Affairs
Upcoming talks/events: Oct 6: klimawandel und demokratie, Diffrakt Berlin Oct 8-11: Talmud, destruction and renewal, Stockholm Nov 5-8: socialisation and the state HM London Nov 12-14: contradictions of energy, HU Berlin Dec 9: aesthetics of transition Uni Hamburg, futures of sustainability
How did Soviet economists go from trying to reform socialism to helping make capitalism possible? Reviewing three recent books, an upcoming essay by Anna Ivanova follows their uneasy path between loyalty to Marxism, market experiments, competition with the West, and “civilizing” the population.
