I finally decided to write a little about Obsession and the use of horror as social criticism www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/the-...
The Uses of Horror: Obsession and Get Out
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Simon Schleusener
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American Studies // Cultural Studies // Literature Currently Mercator Fellow of the Research Training Group "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics" at @fau.de.
Die Unabhängkeitserklärung der USA, als Kriegsdokument betrachtet: erhellender Vortrag von @fkelleter.bsky.social über einen Text, der vielleicht weniger bekannt ist, als es vor diesem 4th of July scheint 🎧 share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
250 Jahre USA - Wie Amerika seine Unabhängigkeit erkämpfte
Vor 250 Jahren erklärten die britischen Kolonien in Amerika ihre Unabhängigkeit. Das englische Parlament hätte das auch verhindern können.
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NLR 159 is out now. Featuring Anton Jäger on elite political culture, Javier Moreno Zacarés on American capitalism, an interview with Thea Riofrancos on the state of world climate politics, and much more. newleftreview.org
NLR 159, May–June 2026
NLR 159, May–June 2026. Includes articles by Tom Mertes, Jack Copley, Katie Ebner-Landy, Anton Jäger, Thea Riofrancos, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Christian Sorace, David Sneath and Régis Debray
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exciting! rights for a Turkish edition of IMMEDIACY just sold by @versobooks.bsky.social Portuguese already out from @boitempo.bsky.social Spanish, Romanian, Arabic, Slovene, German, Russian, Korean, Chinese coming pronto interested translators, get in touch! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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Wie können wir Faschismus verstehen u. bekämpfen? Ansätze für ein neues Nachdenken liefert das Buch „Was war Faschismustheorie?“ (@verbrecherverlag.bsky.social). Hrsg. @mortenpaul.bsky.social & Mona Leinung stellen es mit Lukas Hermann vor. ❗Anmeldung: hallo@readymadebooks.de 🔗 shorturl.at/PkXkY
Foucault’s Visit to McGill University, and his meetings with Quebec separatists – Stuart Elden and Marcelo Hoffman on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/f...
Foucault’s Visit to McGill University and his meetings with Quebec sep
Michel Foucault gave some lectures on Friedrich Nietzsche at McGill University in April 1971. This was his first visit to Canada. He had visited SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and returned there in spring 1972 ...
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Hier gibt es eine Aufzeichnung des Vortrags von Martin Saar auf der Konferenz zum 100. Geburtstag von Michel Foucault am Collège de France, an Foucaults alter Wirkungsstätte! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_zs...
Foucault Without Borders (2) EV - Didier Fassin (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences sociales - Collège de France
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Gerade als Open-Access-Publikation erschienen: "Posthumanist Cultural Studies" von Florian Cord. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
Posthumanist Cultural Studies
A systematic development of posthumanist cultural studies equipped with the analytical tools to respond to the challenges of the Capitalocene.
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Zweite Benjamin-Lecture von Dipesh Chakrabarty über den "problem space" der 1990er und 2000er.
My new book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social is also available as an audio book. www.audible.com/pd/The-Story...
The Story of Capital
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general listeners through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterworkFor decades, David H...
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Von Édith Piaf und Madonna über Taylor Swift, BTS und Kanye West bis hin zu Elon Musk oder Gisèle Pelicot: der Band Reading the Stars untersucht, wie Prominenz heute entsteht. Zum Buch: www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The... #theoriedergesellschaft #velbrückwissenschaft #medientheorie #celebrities
Reading the Stars von Irina Gradinari, Tanja Prokić
Wie entstehen Stars im digitalen Zeitalter – und was verraten sie über uns? Reading the Stars erkundet die neue Grammatik der Berühmtheit, in der virale Sichtbarkeit, affektive Dynamiken und mediale M...
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Ein neuer „Sern“ in der Kon-Stellation unser medialen Gegenwartsanalysen: Mit Beiträgen von @fkelleter.bsky.social, @kohouta.bsky.social, @nielswerber.bsky.social, @fmaschewski.bsky.social & @annanosthoff.bsky.social , @sschleusener.bsky.social, &unddieregel.bsky.social und vielen mehr...
The Automation of General Intellect: A conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra portolan-journal.org?post=the-aut...
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Eine neue Folge Future Histories! Dieses Mal spreche ich mit Stefan Niklas (bsky.app/profile/uvah...) über die Ästhetik des Planetarischen, Imagination und Demokratie. Zur ganzen Episode: buff.ly/MzXPRmb Zu seinem Forschungsprojekt, gefördert von der @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de: buff.ly/roqssEm
The recording of our discussion with Katja Diefenbach about her book Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy is now online. It includes an appearance by special guest John Protevi culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/02/s...
Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy with Katja Diefenbach
A seminar with German philosopher Katja Diefenbach on the legacy of Spinoza's thought in post-Marxist philosophy.
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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Cédric Durand (@cedricdurand.bsky.social) about ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast
New Podcast Episode: In part 1 of this two-part series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher John O’Neill about the socialist calculation debate and its legacy. Listen to it here or on your usual podcast app: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...
PODCAST 15.1 — The Grounds of Planning I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate - KTB
What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide what counts as rational? In part one of this series on planning, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with political economist and philosopher...
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ZKK Talks 2026 Solutionism, discontinued. ZKK TALK #6 11. Mai 2026, 18:30 Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst. Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski im Gespräch mit Roland Meyer Universität Zürich, Raum KUM E 1/2/3, Künstlergasse 15 a, 8001 Zürich
Save the Date: On March 10th, Q. Slobodian & B. Tarnoff will join us to present their new book on "Muskism", to discuss not just who Elon Musk is as a person but what he represents as an avatar of a technocratic ideology: a playbook for our postliberal age. criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/mus...
Tonight in NYC! Join Verso and @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social for an event on translating theoretical texts. Paul Reitter and Patrick Lyons will discuss the trials and thrills of translating leftist critiques from one chronology and geography to another. www.eventbrite.com/e/colloquy-2...
Colloquy 20: Translating Theory
Colloquy: Translators in Conversation, featuring readings from Paul Reitter and Patrick Lyons
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Jetzt online: Mit Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social sprach ich über mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik” (@suhrkamp.de) – es ging u.A. um digitale Regierungskünste, die technikfaschistische Wende im Silicon Valley und Alternativen zum kybernetischen Kapitalismus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hM...
Save the Date - Our socialization project has invited Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer & Rainer Mühlhoff to discuss critical perspectives on AI on Monday, February 16th. More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...
Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics. Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
In NLR 156: George Kennan-Anders Stephanson correspondence. Unpublished letters between the Cold War strategist and a young Marxist critic studying his work. newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Kim Stanley Robinson about Real Utopian Futures. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast
