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New Podcast Episode!
This episode features a roundtable discussion featuring Matteo Pasquinelli , Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff, moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld. Throughout the conversation, the discussants criticize AI as an ideology, a mode of power, and a social relation.
Here's the link to the episode: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podcast-17-critique-of-ai-with-matteo-pasquinelli-anna-verena-nosthoff-roland-meyer-and-rainer-muehlhoff/
Podcast Relaunch - We are relaunching our podcast Critical Theory In Context with regular episodes, alternating in German & English, with our new regular hosts @sabinenuss@mastodon.social & Jacob Blumenfeld.
Unsere neue Episode über das Jahresthema des Centres:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/podcast-14-ueber-die-krise-des-rationalen-das-aktuelle-jahresthema-des-centres-for-social-critique/
Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning.
More information: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-grounds-of-planning-rationality-pseudorationality-and-critique/
Save the Date: On March 10th, Quinn Slobodian & Ben 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.
More info: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/muskismus-buchpraesentation-mit-quinn-slobodian-und-ben-tarnoff/
Our project 'Socialization in Theory and Practice: Democratizing Access to Land and Energy' now has its own website, including upcoming events, publications and resources on socialization and information about the project:
https://socializationproject.de/
RE: https://sciences.social/@criticaltheoryinberlin/116329698699175069
Diesen Freitag ist die Podiumsdiskussion unseres Socialization Projects.
eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich, also kommt gerne alle vorbei!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116384780686222603
Hier gibt es Beiträge von Freunden und Personen des Centres for Social Critique zu lesen!
Save the Date: Am 17.4., 18 Uhr, sprechen Rahel Jaeggi und Robin Celikates mit Oliver Nachtwey über die Analyse des aufkommenden Faschismus in seinem neuen Buch mit Carolin Amlinger, "Zerstörungslust - Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus".
Mehr Infos: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/regressive-destruktion/
The 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: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_school/international-summer-school-in-critical-theory-2026-forces-of-history/
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: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critique-of-ai/
On Wednesday next week, Søren Mau will join us to talk about his book "Mute Compulsion" - a novel theory of the forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative.
More info: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/mute-compulsion/
NEW DATES - Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty will hold this year's Benjamin Lectures on Tuesday June 23, Wednesday June 24 & Thursday June 25 at HKW. More information on what he will talk to us about can now be found on our website in EN and DE: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/
We are excited to officially announce Dipesh Chakrabarty as our next Benjamin Chair in 2026. Chakrabarty, leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, will join us as Benjamin Chair in Berlin next summer.
Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!
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: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podcast-15-1-the-grounds-of-planning-i-john-oneill-on-the-socialist-calculation-debate/
RE: https://sciences.social/@criticaltheoryinberlin/115864936119711708
Morgen Abend im Lichthof Ost (Hauptgebäude der HU Berlin):
Save the Date: Am 30.1. diskutieren Christoph Menke, Katja Diefenbach, Helmut Draxler & Rahel Jaeggi über Krieg & den liberalen Diskurs darüber. Warum erscheint Krieg in diesem als Ausnahmezustand, nicht als instituierte Form von Herrschaft?
Mehr Infos: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krieg-der-institution-oder-institution-des-krieges/
Save the Date: Zu unserer ersten Veranstaltung im neuen Jahr werden Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Seibert mit Daniel Loick über sein Buch "Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen", Gegengemeinschaften, und die Frage des revolutionären Subjektes sprechen.
Mehr Infos: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krise-und-kollektive-handlungsfaehigkeit-ein-gespraech-zur-politik-von-gegengemeinschaften/
We support the community of the New School for Social Research in their demands to stop the financial restructuring and austerity measures that are planned in response to recent budget challenges.
The letter can be read and signed here: https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783432/open-letter-on-the-new-school-s-restructuring-plans
Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-land-question-die-bodenfrage/
Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)". https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democratizing-finance-a-mini-workshop-with-michael-a-mccarthy/
To wrap up the Benjamin Lectures that Tommie Shelby held this semester, we have published two texts reporting on the three evenings - in English (by Mara Cayarga & Marvin Ester) & in German (by Hanna Hoffman-Richter).
Go to Report/Veranstaltungsbericht here: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/political-ethics-of-the-oppressed-on-freedom-solidarity-and-self-respect/
What explains the fact that we are subject to a variety of social norms? What grounds their authority over us? On April 23d, 2pm-7pm, we will discuss Charlotte Witt's recently published & widely acclaimed book with her.
Register via the form on our website: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/social-goodness-the-onotlogy-of-social-norms/
RE: https://sciences.social/@criticaltheoryinberlin/116255314443789305
Diesen Freitag ist die Buchdiskussion mit Oliver Nachtwey!
Unser Socialization Projekt wird am 24.4., 18:30 im Aquarium Fragen über Bodenpolitik und Eigentum in einer Paneldiskussion besprechen. Wie kann eine demokratische Verfügung über diese zentrale gesellschaftliche Ressource gestaltet werden?
Mehr Infos: https://socializationproject.de/event/transformation-ohne-boden-eigentum-und-bodenpolitik-auf-dem-land/
Neue Podcastfolge! Sabine Nuss spricht mit Rahel Jaeggi über Daniel Loicks "Gegengemeinschaften", mit Rückblick auf unsere Januar Veranstaltung mit D. Loick, Thomas Seibert und Charlie Ebert.
Verfügbar auf Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
Link zur Episode: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podcast-16-gegengemeinschaften-neue-revolutionaere-subjekte/
RE: https://sciences.social/@criticaltheoryinberlin/116527156780422694
These one is just a teaser.
If you want to find out more about our 11 Theses in Planning checkout our homepage here: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/interventions/11-theses-on-planning/
and join the debate in our forum here: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/forum/
11 Theses on Planning
1. Planning for Future
The prohibition on thinking concretely about the future has expired. An ecological and democratic concept of planning beyond capitalism is now necessary for planetary survival.
