Jan Overwijk
@jloverwijk.bsky.social
Social Philosophy & Critical Theory | Book: Cybernetic Capitalism (2025) | Assistant Professor at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht | Fellow at Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt | Eco-Marxism & Ecological Economics
‘The market’ didn’t decide that AI would be our future. Capital did. And when the devastating consequences of their decisions become clear, capital must be made to pay. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centr...
Data Centres and Democracy
The AI boom was planned by capital. When it collapses, capital must be made to pay.
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Dit bericht wordt frivool opgetypt alsof het om lifestyle gaat in plaats van een regelrechte bedreiging van onze collectieve welvaart, vrijheid en democratie.
RTL Nieuws@rtl.nl · 5d agoElon Musk verliest in zes weken de helft van zijn vermogen: ruim 600 miljard foetsie
New essential work in critical theory of ecology just dropped.
Andreas Folkers@afolkers.bsky.social · 2w agoEs ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
Es ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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Was immer Motor moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind ihr Treibstoff. Freiheit, Fortschritt, Krieg, Kolonialismus und Kapitalismus sind kohlenstoffhaltig, wie Andreas Folkers in seinem brillanten Buch mit Blick auf unsere planetare Zukunft zeigt. Out 20.7.
Four recent books of new Marx/ist scholarship on nature, politics, power and energy from the 2020s. All very good! Seems like a new wave, we can finally stop saying “Since 2008 global financial crisis” and start saying “Since 2020s total planetary chaos…”
Next week! WORKING NATURE: A HISTORY OF THE ENERGY ECONOMY by Daniela Russ July 9, 2026, 19:00 Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/wor...
Schreef een essay voor de Volkskrant over vier recente boeken die het thema klasse adresseren. Takeaway: niet al het spreken over klassenverschillen heeft een kritische agenda.
Kunnen we over klasse ook anders praten dan als lifestyle?
Jonge auteurs schrijven over de smaak, de stijl en de vakanties van de hogere middenklasse, en dat is niet vreemd: klasse is overal weer een thema. Waarom willen hun boeken dan toch geen klassenkritie...
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@helmerstoel.bsky.social, ontnuchterend. www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/kunne...
Kunnen we over klasse ook anders praten dan als lifestyle?
Jonge auteurs schrijven over de smaak, de stijl en de vakanties van de hogere middenklasse, en dat is niet vreemd: klasse is overal weer een thema. Waarom willen hun boeken dan toch geen klassenkritie...
volkskrant.nl
🚨Crisis and Transformation🚨 What time is it? What world are we living in? Is it continuous with the past, or has there been a radical break? This episode is devoted to these questions, specifically in relation to the meaning of crisis and transformation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Crisis and Transformation
Podcast Episode · Critical Theory in Context · June 26 · 58m
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Lodewijk Napoleon is na een paar jaar tijdens z'n koningschap van Den Haag naar Utrecht verhuisd omdat 'ie meende dat die kille, natte zeelucht funest voor z'n gezondheid was en ik denk nog steeds dat 'ie daarin een groot visionair was.
Excited to be part of this special issue on Philosophy in a Planetary Age, w/ great contributions by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lynne Huffer, Mohamed Amer Meziane & others. My exchange with @mafritsch.bsky.social is on Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Discussing Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene - Volume 70, Issue 1, Winter 2026
This is the transcript of a written exchange that Robin Celikates and Matthias Fritsch carried out between November 2024 and March 2025. We focus the conversation on civil disobedience in response to ...
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Just in time for the current heat wave: new @criticaltimes1.bsky.social special issue “Climate Crisis Politics,” guest-edited by Wendy Brown & Timothy Mitchell w/ amazing contributions by Brown, Mitchell, @afolkers.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Nayanika Mathur & others
“Ethics of AI” is absolute ideology. An expression of the same weakness that gave us the world’s first trillionaire.
My paper on "residual reification" and "reparative critique" is out in @criticaltimes1.bsky.social Big thanks to Wendy Brown and Tim Mitchell for editing this SI on "climate crisis politics". Such a wonderful set of papers by my dear IAS climate year classmates. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Critical Climate Materialism | Critical Times | Duke University Press
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A new episode of Future Histories LIVE! This episode is a live recording of the book event that took place on June 11 at @nachtasyl_thaliatheater, where @koheisaito.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social and I discussed democratic planning in the 21st century. Full episode: buff.ly/QGieJEr
Cary Wolfe chats with publicist Alena Rivas about the forthcoming JAGGED ONTOLOGIES and recommends five books for posthumanities beginners. youtu.be/g1rETSoFFpc
Cary Wolfe on Jagged Ontologies + 5 Books for Posthumanities Beginners
YouTube video by UMinnPress
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Went on the NICA-podcast together with friend and colleague Noortje de Leij. Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois are great hosts. Spoke about cybernetic capitalism and my current project on value and ecology. www.nica-institute.com/nicast-episo...
Nicast Episode 12: “Marxism(s), Critique, and Cybernetic Capitalism”
The 12th episode of NICAst features a conversation with Noortje de Leij and Jan Overwijk about Marxism, cybernetic capitalism, the eco-Marxist problematic and the role of critique.
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Went on the NICA-podcast together with friend and colleague Noortje de Leij. Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois are great hosts. Spoke about cybernetic capitalism and my current project on value and ecology. www.nica-institute.com/nicast-episo...
Nicast Episode 12: “Marxism(s), Critique, and Cybernetic Capitalism”
The 12th episode of NICAst features a conversation with Noortje de Leij and Jan Overwijk about Marxism, cybernetic capitalism, the eco-Marxist problematic and the role of critique.
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It is absurd to believe the EU can meet the challenges of today's world with a central budget of little more than 1% of GDP. The only viable solution to this unseemly and reality-denying ritual every 7 years is to agree on new "own resources" for the EU and sensible rules for an EU fiscal capacity.
Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 2mo agoThe #EUCO 🇪🇺summit has just ended, and northern leaders have used their closing press conferences to bash the Commission's proposed EU budget increase. They keep tasking the EU with new things to do, but then they refuse to pay for it.
Het kan wél deel 19572.
Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 2mo agoThe #EUCO 🇪🇺summit has just ended, and northern leaders have used their closing press conferences to bash the Commission's proposed EU budget increase. They keep tasking the EU with new things to do, but then they refuse to pay for it.
"...Marx redefines freedom as existing apart from social labor. This freedom can only be gained as the consequence of capitalism's ever-greater economic & productive power" (p. 79). (1/3)
Enkele frases die weer uit de kast kunnen bij zo'n WK: 'zwabberbal', 'in wezen', 'hondenlul'.
Idee voor het juni-weer: een temperatuur ergens tussen de 16 en 36 graden.
The wealth of the rich is a direct measure of our own weakness.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo agoElon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.
+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social
Excellent state of the art-y piece by Chris O’Kane (who’s left Bluesky?) for anyone interested in the recent (and less recent) history of Marx-interpretation.
Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn an essay for the blog, Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as yet another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.”
