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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fantastic piece, now in english. one of the more sophisticated accounts in the ongoing F-debate taking place in the German public sphere. see also texts by m. paul, r. jaeggi, r. celikates, jp. reemtsma, d. loick, o. nachtwey, c. amlinger, v. thompson, ev. redecker, and a. demirovič
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar
On the economics of AI.
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My new article is just out in @finandsoc.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The nihilism industry: Streaming disavowal and ressentiment in the age of prediction markets | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
The nihilism industry: Streaming disavowal and ressentiment in the age of prediction markets
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Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy @mscphilosophy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Our Evening School programme is open for registration. Two semester-long courses are on offer. - Philosophy and Poetry: The Originality of Poetry in the Writings of Martin Heidegger - Andrew Benjamin - Nietzsche’s Symptomatology of Value - Max Lowdin www.mscp.org.au/courses/even...
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Semester 2 2026
Two semester long courses taught in-person and online
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Excellent reading for those seeking to trace the earthquakes of contemporary politics to the plate tectonics of social psychology.
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A new episode of Future Histories Live! This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements. Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland. Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
this is so sad … Asad was such an incisive thinker & wonderful human being. he joined us for the 2021 Summer School in Critical Theory on solidarity & our discussions on Stuart Hall still echo in my mind. a video of the public panel with him is here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fou...
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Foundations of Solidarity - KTB
In this round table event we discussed with Hauke Brunkhorst, Stefan Gosepath, Asad Haider, Sabine Hark, Serene Khader, Stefan Lessenich, and Frederick Neuhouser. Organized by the Humanities and Socia...
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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
not clear if the loneliness becomes visible to the chatbot user, though it certainly becomes visible to tech companies, who have incentive to perpetuate it datasociety.net/points/all-t...
Being digitally alone, then, is not merely a social condition but a method of relating to oneself. In conversation with a chatbot, loneliness becomes visible as this existential condition is translated into text and archived, interaction after interaction. For some, this aids in the unfurling of patterns they could not otherwise name; it might surface feelings they would rather keep private. Technology mediates a fundamental, familiar act: talking to oneself via another. 
And what begins as a private exchange soon reveals itself as a social system, reflecting both the self as well as the architectures of isolation that shape us all.
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Great looking event with @robin-c.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social and Teresa Koloma Beck at diffrakt for @blnreview.bsky.social, discussing Dirk’s piece on critical theory (vor allem in Deutschland?) after Gaza blnreview.de/events/educa...
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Berlin Review · Education after Gaza—Critical Theory and the Present
Zeitschrift für Bücher und Ideen.
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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
CfA for our next summer school is now online on our website. Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lillian Cicerchia, Maeve Cooke & Massimiliano Tomba will join us to discuss concepts of history and human agency. More information and application form: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Save the date: I am very excited to be part of this roundtable with some amazing colleagues — on February 16 at HU Berlin, Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social and yours truly will discuss our perspectives on the «Critique of AI», moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld
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Critique of AI - KTB
with Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg), Roland Meyer (University of Zurich), Rainer Mulhoff (University of Osnabrück...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’ thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others! ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
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New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Learned so much from my exchange with Rosaura Martinez Ruiz on surplus populations and authoritarianism - the first of our transnational and transconceptual dialogues on the Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge 1/
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KI-generierte Bilder aus den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien zur Landtagswahl - Ausstellung und Podiumsdiskussion; Materialien für Schulklassen
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
fantastic book, now in English divided.online/all-books/bo...
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Defund consultants www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report
Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules. Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling." www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
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Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux
Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...
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Binswanger and Existential Analysis | Columbia University Press
In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss psychiatri... | CUP
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Dr. Judith-Frederike Popp @judithpopp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Jonathan Lear has died. I had the pleasure to work with him in Chicago a couple of years ago. We had fruitful disputes about philosophy and psychoanalysis as well as about the need to appreciate the silent presence of negativity in both. What a devastating loss.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“The far-right AfD, now the 2nd largest party, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy that they are the product of incestuous unions between immigrants. Prejudice against disabled people & racial minorities is being whipped up once more.“
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Solange Manche @smanche.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌹 Hi there: I'm still looking for a job & short-term gigs 🌹 • Main research interests: financialisation studies, French philosophy/political phil, French econ history & francophone colonial hist & activism. • Journalism: French politics & activism & long-form on French thought & culture.
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Job in feminist continental philosophy! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
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Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy (Continental Philosophy)
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry , Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Full-time, permanent position Base salary will be in the range $114,824 to $136,048 + 17% Superannuatio...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One more month to apply! #DigitalHumanities #JobAlert #PleaseShare
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New co-authored piece out today in Philosophy, Politics and Critique. It's from a special issue on 'the random' with stellar contributors - check out the whole issue, edited by Ranjan Ghosh. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
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Active Noise Control: Cybernetics, Information Theory, and the Financialization of Randomness | Philosophy, Politics and Critique
In the second half of the twentieth century, Claude Shannon’s 1948 definition of noise as the enemy of communication became hegemonic basis of polities, economies, emergent network technologies and th...
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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Truly a libidinal economy.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
‘Postliberalism’ is mainly books with titles like ‘The Fate of Civilisation and the Death of God at the End of the West’ by men with backgrounds as investment analysts
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Disappointing to see NLR publish another piece by Streeck whose anti-immigration rhetoric, trivialization of the AfD & attacks on pro-refugee activism have helped move the discourse to the right. Neither he nor the Wagenknecht party he supports are on the left & the young know (& not bec. of TikTok)
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Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
RP2.18: New issue out now! Sita Balani on culture wars Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction' Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags' Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt radicalphilosophy.com
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Politics of Critical Theory: A Conversation with Alex Demirović Wednesday, May 14, 19:00 CEST, Webinar/Zoom Register now! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...
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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Reminder: Diesen Donnerstag, 18-20 Uhr, diskutieren mehrere Autor:innen von "Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie" (u.a. @tbiebricher.bsky.social) im Senatssaal der HU. Wir freuen uns über das Buch und auf die spannende Veranstaltung! www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I have a new (open access) article in @theoryculturesociety.org 'Another age of anxiety: psychological distress and the 'asset economy'', on how the understanding of anxiety has changed, and some of the broader conditions of its recent resurgence
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Applications open for the Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025 on ‘Forms of Life’ with Claire Colebrook and Vanessa Lemm presiding. Monday 21 Jul to Friday 25 Jul. Masterclasses, reading groups, public lectures, and screenings. arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-cu...
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Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025: ‘Forms of Life’
Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025: ‘Forms of Life’
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Workshop w/ Forensic Architecture/Forensis: Counter-investigating German racist state violence and complicity Berlin, March 19, 2:30-6pm for info & registration: www.sfb-intervenierende-kuenste.de/en/veranstal...
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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
[#CulturalStudies] A renewed critical theory of #capitalism that highlights the psyche and body as sites of desire, critique, and complicity.  www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376… @bengook.bsky.social #Psychoanalysis #Sexuality #CriticalTheory #Culture #Economy #Neoliberalism
Das Buch-Cover von »Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times« auf blauem Hintergrund.
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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Reminder: This Friday we will meet at the Grimm Zentrum Auditorium to discuss the paradoxical phenomenon of green capitalism with many interesting guests and speakers. Come early, stay late!
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...
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The Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall Foundation
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl...
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This week’s mail.
Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times edited by Ben Gook and Faire Ensemble by Franck Fischbach
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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, has just filed her new report 'Genocide as Colonial Erasure' Read it here in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish www.undocs.org/A/79/384
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
New book is out and free to download! Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times
What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in crit...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
I don’t agree with absolutely everything here — but it is a reminder to academics that when we work with Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, etc, we’re feeding the forces of enclosure and privatization
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