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Future Histories International
The podcast to expand our concept of the future.
English episodes only feed of the Future Histories podcast.
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- 59
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- Typical length
- 1 hr 32 min
- On air since
- 2019
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Holly Jean Buck on Emerging Technologies and Managing Decline
Season 4, Episode 15
Show notes
Holly Jean Buck on fossil fuels, development, and the role of emerging technologies in managing decline.
Shownotes Holly Jean Buck
Holly Jean Buck at the Department of Environment and Sustainability, University of Buffalo:
Buck, H. J. (2019). After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. Verso.
Buck, H. J. (2019). Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough. Verso.
on the term ‘assholocene’ used by German climate activist Tadzio Müller:
Müller, T. (2024). Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben.
https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/
on degrowth:
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/
White, J. (2024). In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/
Holly’s essay in Compact Magazine:
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-long-slow-death-of-development/
Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140
Huber, M. (2013). Lifeblood. Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816677856/lifeblood/
Daggett, C. (2018). Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305829818775817
on Orphaned Wells:
https://www.doi.gov/orphanedwells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_wells_in_the_United_States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acdae7/meta
Blumenfeld, J. (2024a). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
on Athropic’s IPO (initial public offering):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/05/business/anthropic-ipo-stock-market
on long-term climate strategies:
Buck, H. J., Carton, W., Lund, J. F., & Markusson, N. (2023). Countries’ long-term climate strategies fail to define residual emissions. Nature climate change, 13(4), 317-319.
on Cecilia Rikae’s work on a digital stack:
Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming digital sovereignty: A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet. Available at:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/Reclaiming-Digital-Sovereignty
Relevant Future Histories Episodes
S04E11 | Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
S03E34 | Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S02E26 | Andrea Vetter zu Degrowth und Technologie
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e26-andrea-vetter-zu-degrowth-und-technologie/
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Episode Keywords
#HollyJeanBuck, #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofBuffalo, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Geoengineering, #FossilFuels, #Technology, #AI, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Development, #Progress, #Decline, #Capitalism, #Alternatives, #DigitalStack, #Climate, #ClimateCrisis, #Future
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Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Season 4, Episode 13
Show notes
Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.
Shownotes Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty
Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9781400828654/html
Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/596640
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures ‘A Second Decline of the West?’ at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/
on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/
Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html
on Frantz Fanon:
on Francis Fukuyama:
https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama
on the metabolic rift:
Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2/
Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm
on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:
https://jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit/
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020224
Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.
https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/
on Subaltern studies:
Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subaltern-studies-9780195052893?cc=at&lang=en
Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small_History_of_Subaltern_Studies
on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:
https://polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-historic-bloc-base-superstructure/
Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age/
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:
Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307?lang=en&cc=nl
Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract
Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA
Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.htmlon Habermas on the colonization of the lifeworld by instrumental rationality:
Silva, F. G. (2019). Colonization of the Lifeworld. In A. Allen & E. Mendieta (Eds.), The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (pp. 36–39). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.
https://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANETARY-PROPORTIONS.pdf
Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.
https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/
Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.
https://philarchive.org/rec/HAFTXX
Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/
Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986/
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic-crisis-fr-9783518128237
Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary
Related Episodes of Future Histories
S04E11 | Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress
S04E03 | Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation
S03E53 | Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e53-philipp-staab-zur-systemkrise/
S03E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
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Episode Keywords:
#DipeshChakrabarty #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofChicago #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #PostcolonialStudies, #SecondDeclineoftheWest, #BenjaminLectures, #Capitalism, #Ecology, #ClimateCrisis, #Nature, #History
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1 hr 55 min
Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Season 4, Episode 11
Show notes
Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Launch of the Future Histories LAB - a Space for Radical Imagination and Postcapitalist Construction.
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Shownotes Jonathan White
Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white
White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/
Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.
https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534
Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:
White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072
White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796.https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13415
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.1341
the Great Replacement Theory:
https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrative
on Brexit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
on Lexit:
https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexi
on Otto Bauer:
https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolution-book-review/
https://jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit/
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
on atomic bombings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
on John Stuart Mill:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
on the ‘too late’ narrative:
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.
https://www.isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-little-too-late-scientists-warn
on tipping points:
https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on Extinction Rebellion:
https://rebellion.global/about-us/
on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:
Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sleepwalkers-christopher-clarkon climate change adaptation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial
Amorim-Maia, A. T., & Olazabal, M. (2025). Beyond adjustment: A new paradigm for climate change adaptation in a complex world. Global Environmental Change, 93, 103027.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000640
on collapse and climate movements:
https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/
https://www.collapseclub.com/about/
on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burnham-keir-starmer-leadership-styles-compare
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on democratic planning:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.
https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction
on participatory budgeting:
Sintomer, Y., Herzberg, C., & Röcke, A. (2008). Participatory budgeting in Europe: Potentials and challenges. International journal of urban and regional research, 32(1), 164-178.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00777.x
on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:
https://communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamdani-zeigt-wie-es-geht/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd782pjgq3o
on Liberalism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#Bib
on economic Liberalism:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/economic-liberalism
on the critique of trickle-down economics:
https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/joseph-stiglitz-trickle-down-economics-is-absolute/
on ‘promissory legitimacy’:
Beckert, J. (2020). The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(3), 318–330.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867
on Post-liberalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliberalism
the Corbin Campaign in 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labour_Party_leadership_campaign
on Gaza solidarity protests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests
Related Episodes of Future Histories
S04E10 | Christine Hentschel zu Sicherheit und Aktivismus in katastrophischen Zeiten
S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
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Episode Keywords
#JonathanWhite #JanGroos, #Interview, #LSE, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #Future, #PoliticalIdeas, #Liberalism, #Capitalism, #Democracy, #ClimateCrisis, #Postliberalism, #DesirableFutures, #Neoliberalism, #DemocraticPlanning, #AlternativeFutures
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1 hr 28 min
Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Season 4, Episode 9
Show notes
Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Shownotes Orit Halpern
Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in
Orit Halpern’s website:
Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data
Halpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-mandate/
Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.
https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hayek.pdf
Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103
on CERN:
https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/
on the Event Horizon Telescope:
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
on the IPCC:
on critiques of the Enlightenment:
https://polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/critiques-enlightenment-modernity/
Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-enlightenment
on Keynesianism:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus
on MAGA:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
on the Frankfurt School:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School
on high modernism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernism
on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
Friedrich Hayek:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek
on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionism
on the Electoral College:
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about
on Stafford Beer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
https://www.kybernetik.ch/en/fs_beer.html
on post-sovereign planning:
Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/book/9781529235142/ch014.xml
Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674948396
on the cultural revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
on the Belt and Road initiative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
on Mao Zedong:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
on Planetary Experiments:
https://orithalpern.net/planetaryexperiments
Halpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10.
Halpern, O. (2020). Planetary intelligence. In The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies (pp. 227-256). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56286-1_8
on Large Language Models (LLMs):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Language_Model
on Victor Papanek:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek
Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Terraforming:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
on Geoengineering:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
on NVIDIA Earth 2:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/high-performance-com
on Destination Earth:
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Destination_Earth
on Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:
https://equitablegrowth.org/pareto-distribution-r-g/
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674430006
the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22):
https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/73aba255-56d2-4595-83b5-bfdad3740ffb/content
Against Catastrophes:
https://againstcatastrophe.net/
Orit Halpern on resilience:
Halpern, O. (2025). The geo-politics of resilience: On the historical convergence between ecology, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. new media & society, 27(8), 4581-4605.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251336420
on Ground Truth:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Truth
on benchmark data:
https://brilliantfuture.se/en/glossaries/benchmark-data
Related Episodes of Future Histories
S03E34 | Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
S02E43 | Samia Mohammed zur Zukunft jenseits des Marktes
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Episode Keywords
#OritHalpern #JanGroos, #Interview, #TUDresden, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #Knowledge, #Data, #Democracy, #Technology, #Society, #ArtificialIntelligence, #AI, #Data, #Capitalism, #Neoliberalism, #PlanetaryExperiments, #PostSovereignPlanning, #DemocraticPlanning, #Alternatives
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1 hr 46 min
Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress
Season 4, Episode 7
Show notes
Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discuss democratic planning in the 21st century.
Future Histories LIVE.
This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recorded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode is the live recording of a book launch and discussion event that took place on June 11, 2026 at the NACHTASYL Hamburg:
The video recording of the event can be found on our Youtube-Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw
Shownotes
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.
https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction
Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.
https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534
NACHTASYL Hamburg and Thalia Theater:
https://www.thalia-theater.de/de
on Friedrich von Hayek:
https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/personen/friedrich-august-von-hayek
Saito, K. (2023). Systemsturz. dtv.
https://www.dtv.de/buch/systemsturz-28369
Cédric Durand at the University of Geneva:
https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand
Philipp Staab at Humboldt University Berlin:
https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/zukunftarbeit/mitarbeiter_innen/pstaab
Jacob Blumenfeld with Critical Theory in Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/jacob-blumenfeld/
on the Dark Enlightenment (or Neo-Reactionary) movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/dark-enlightenment/
Curtis Yarvin coined the term as Blogger under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Nick Land summarised Yarvin's theories in a book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
Linus Westheuser and ‘climate populism’:
Westheuser, L. & Siebert, J. (2025). Warum wir Klimapopulismus brauchen. Surplus.
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/warum-wir-einen-klimapopulismus-brauchen/
For the chapters on ‘models’ by Jakob Heyer, Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti see:
https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction
on Karl Polanyi:
International Karl Polanyi Institute (2019). Karl Polanyi. Life and Works of an Epochal Thinker. Falter.
https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism I-II. New Left Review.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Herrmann, U. (2024). Das Ende des Kapitalismus. Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden. Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/ulrike-herrmann-das-ende-des-kapitalismus-9783462007015
Neckel, S. (2022). Infrastruktursozialismus: Die Bedeutung der Fundamentalökonomie. In Kapitalismus und Nachhaltigkeit (Ed. S. Neckel, P. Degens, S. Lenz). Campus.
on Claus Offe and the 'legitimation crisis':
Offe, C. (1986). Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates: Aufsätze zur Politischen Soziologie. Suhrkamp.
https://www.amazon.de/Strukturprobleme-kapitalistischen-Staates-Politischen-Soziologie/dp/3518105493
Krippner, G. R. (2012). Capitalizing on Crisis. The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674066199
Menon, N. (2024). Planning Democracy. How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India. Penguin India.
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/planning-democracy/
Blumenfeld, J. P. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail (3).
https://www.academia.edu/121062536/Managing_Decline
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
Struwe, A. (2025). Totalität. Marx, Adorno und das Problem kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie. Verbrecher Verlag.
https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/totalitaet/
on Nancy Fraser and the question on ‘demos’ (exemplary):
Fraser, N. (2005). Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World. New Left Review.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii36/articles/nancy-fraser-reframing-justice-in-a-globalizing-world
Rikap, C. (2025). A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty. Policy Brief. FEPS.
https://feps-europe.eu/publication/a-progressive-roadmap-for-expanding-european-digital-sovereignty/
Related Episodes of Future Histories
S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/
S03E53 | Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e53-philipp-staab-zur-systemkrise/
S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Teil 2)
S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Teil 1)
S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/
S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/
S02E58 | Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e58-soren-mau-on-planning-and-freedom/
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1 hr 13 min
Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China
Season 4, Episode 5
Show notes
Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China.
Shownotes Ho-fung Hung
Prof. Ho-fung Hung at the Johns Hopkins University:
https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/ho-fung-hung/
The Conference ‘China and Us: Perspectives on Peace, Human Rights and Socio-Ecological Transformation’:
https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite
Ho-fung, H. (2015). The China Boom. Why China Will Not Rule the World. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-china-boom/9780231540223/
on Citic Press:
https://www.group.citic/en/Diversified_Portfolio/New_Consumption/Citic_Publish/
on the 1989 protests in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
on the fiscal reform in China in 1994:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-Sharing_Reform_of_China_in_1994
on Carl Schmitt:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
on Benito Mussolini:
https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/benito-mussolini
the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China:
https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.html
on Foucault's ‘Regime of Truth’:
Lorenzini, D. (2015). What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?. Le foucaldien 1(1).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317961938_What_is_a_Regime_of_Truth
the mentioned article by Ho-fung Hung in the Jacobin:
Ho-fung, H. (2023). Mussolini in Beijing. Jacobin.
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/mussolini-in-beijing
on China’s falling CO2 emissions:
on renewable energy in China:
Ho-fung, H. (2026). The China Question. Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/china-question/C15B207366F98DC034ED279435A8CCCA
on the case of Solyndra:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
on the economic policy of Mao Zedong and China’s relationship to the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer’s youtube channel ‘Studying Maoist China’ is recommended:
https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051
on Chile during the Cold War:
Lockhart, J. (2016). Reimagining Chile’s Cold War Experience: From the Conflict’s Origins to Salvador Allende’s Inauguration. University of Arizona.
https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620841
on Salvador Allende:
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Allende
on the Paris Commune:
Badiou, A. (2021). The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow. Monthly Review 73(1).
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-paris-commune-marx-mao-tomorrow/
Weber, I. M. (2021). How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate. Routledge.
the mentioned publication on i.a. guerilla policymaking:
Heilmann, S. & Perry, E. J. (2011). Mao’s Invisible Hand. The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674060630
the quote ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’ is commonly attributed to Frederic Jameson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson
on Wolfgang Streeck:
https://www.mpifg.de/457994/Streeck
on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election
Relevant Episodes of Future Histories
S04E02 | Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China
S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/
S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/
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#Ho-fungHung, #JanGroos, #Interview, #JohnHopkinsUniversity, #FutureHistories, #China, #PoliticalEconomy, #Capitalism, #MarketSocialism, #Socialism, #Mao, #Governmentality, #Democracy, #Imagination, #Society, #Communism, #ClimateChange, #FutureHistoriesInternational
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2 hr 15 min
Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation
Season 4, Episode 3
Show notes
Rodrigo Nunes on ecologies of organization and democratic transformation.
Shownotes Rodrigo Nunes
Dr. Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes at the University of Essex:
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/NUNES97805/Rodrigo-Guimaraes%20Nunes
Rodrigo Nunes at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio):
http://www.fil.puc-rio.br/o-departamento/corpo-docente/rodrigo-guimaraes-nunes/
Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Nunes, R. (forthcoming, October 2026). Anatomy of Disintegration. What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right. HaymarketBooks.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2881-anatomy-of-disintegration
on ‘fidelity’ by Alain Badiou:
Badious, A. (1988-2022). Being and Event I-III.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/being-and-event-9781472511065/
on the Russian revolution:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution
on Democracia Real Ya!:
http://www.democraciarealya.org.es/
on Juventud Sin Futuro:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JuventudSINFuturo/videos
on Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamic Systems:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/complexity-theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/chaos-theory
Lorenz, E. N. (1975). Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSIvtZQaoMHrKUImVBH5gqn303JX0M5n/view?usp=sharing
Italian Communist Party ‘Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI):’
https://ilpartitocomunista.it/
on Circolo ARCI:
further reading on (Italian) communist history:
Magri, L. (2019). The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism. Verso.
on ‘Autonomia Operaia’ and the Autonomist movement in Italy in the 70s:
Wright, S. (2017). Storming Heaven. Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism.
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/storming-heaven/
on potentia/potestas see Chapter 1 ‘Towards a Theory of Political Organisation’ of Rodrigo’s book:
Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
on Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Continua
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potere_Operaio
on Partito Democratico:
https://partitodemocratico.it/
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books.
Related Episodes of Future Histories
S04E01 | Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism
S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/
S03E52 | Alexander Neupert-Doppler zu Kairos und Verbindender Organisation
S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/
S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/
S03E42 | Rüdiger Haude und Thomas Wagner zu Herrschaftsfreien Institutionen
S03E40 | Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/
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Episode Keywords
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1 hr 38 min
Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism
Season 4, Episode 1
Show notes
Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism.
Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero
Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham:
https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/
Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press.
on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx:
Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3).
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/
Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U
Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058
Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655
on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’:
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291
Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/
on the Oskar-Lange-Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_model
Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-reproduction/BE9B0DBDC89593F3284FE3F51D3B0418
on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’:
Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-i/paper
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
on Otto Neurath’s political economy:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/political-economy.html
on the quote by Otto Neurath:
Otto Neurath in O'Neill, J. (2003) ‘Socialism, Associations and the Market’, Economy and Society 32(2): 184–206
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249006144_Socialism_associations_and_the_market
on Friedrich Hayek’s argument against centralized planning:
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review 35(4), 519-530.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hayek-opposes-centralized-economic-planning
Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117.https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294231220690?
Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press.
https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf
Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books.
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute
Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1
Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159.https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning
Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980
Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva.
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429
on Barcelona En Comú:
on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1
on the Socialist party of Catalonia:
on the airport expansion in Barcelona:
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain
on the paper by Union Populaire:
https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/
on the quote from Mike Davis:
Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso.
Future Histories Folgen
S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/
S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/
S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website:
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#YousafNishat-Botero, #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofBirmingham, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #DemocraticPlanning, #Planning, #EconomicPlanning, #Ecology, #Socialization, #Organization, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Municipalism, #Metabolism, #PlanetaryCrisis, #Nature, #Barcelona
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1 hr 16 min
Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
Season 3, Episode 59
Show notes
Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.
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Shownotes
Cédric at the University of Geneva (includes a list of his publications):
https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand
Cédric’s personal website:
https://durandcedric.wordpress.com/
Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2026 forthcoming). Das Prinzip Verzweigung. Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dietz.
https://dietzberlin.de/verlagsprogramm-fruehjahr-2026
Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2024). Comment bifurquer. Les principes de la planification écologique. La Découverte.
https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/comment_bifurquer-9782355221910
Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., Schmelzer, M. (2024). Planning Beyond Growth. The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 437.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623045092?via%3Dihub
Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2022). Planning without Political Constraint imposed on Economic Actors is not real Planning. Verso Blog.
on Karl William Kapp:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_William_Kapp
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
O’Neill, J. (2002). Socialist Calculation and Environmental Valuation. Money, Markets and Ecology. Science & Society, 66(1).
http://gesd.free.fr/oneill.pdf
on La Planification Ècologique in France:
https://www.info.gouv.fr/grand-dossier/france-nation-verte
the Secrétariat général à la planification écologique (SGPE):
https://lannuaire.service-public.gouv.fr/gouvernement/6af2c8c4-bdf7-405c-bd9e-ed48dad83b96
Viennot, M. (2025). La planification écologique. La Découverte.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Pisani-Ferry, J. & Mahfouz, S. (2023). The Economic Implications of Climate Action. A Repot to the French Prime Minister. France Stratégie.
https://www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/en/publications/economic-implications-climate-action
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias
on the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
on the Developmental State concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_state
Zhou, Z., Ou, J., Li, S. (2016). Ecological Accounting. A Research Review and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Protection. 7. 643-655.
on Citizen’s Assemblies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
on Michel Husson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Husson
on the Commanding Heights of the Economy concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_heights_of_the_economy
on the British Wartime Economy during the Second World War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_home_front_during_World_War_II
on Economic Planning in France after the Second World War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning_in_France
Ali, S. (1969). Economic Planning in France 1945–1965. A Brief Review. The Punjab University Economist, 7(1), 51–69.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25821321
on Malthusianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
on Degrowth:
on Jason Hickel:
on Giorgos Kallis:
https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17610/giorgos-kallis/
Jackson, T., Hickel, J., Kallis, G. (2024). Confronting the Dilemma of Growth. A Response to Warlenius (2023). Ecological Economics, Vol. 220.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180092300352X?via%3Dihub
Zeug, W., Heyer, J., Lutosch, H. (2025). Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning & Holistic Accounting. An Economic Framework to Achieve Sustainable Societal Metabolisms.
on the Holistic and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (HILCSA):
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=50083
on Ecosystem Services:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service
O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F. et al. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability 1, 88–95.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4
Fehér, F., Heller, A., Márkus, G. (1983). Dictatorship Over Needs. Blackwell.
https://archive.org/details/dictatorshipover0000fehe/page/n5/mode/2up
Keucheyan, R. (2024). Ágnes Heller’s Theory of Need Is a Vital Political Tool. Jacobin.
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/agnes-heller-philosophy-marxism-needs
on Planetary Boundaries:
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
on Wassily Leontief:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Leontief
on the Input-Output Model in Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model
on the Berlin Housing Campaign for Socializing Housing owned by Big Real Estate Companies:
on Socialization in the Energy Sector:
https://communia.de/en/energy-power-transformation/
on the New International Economic Order (NIEO):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order
on the Banque de France:
https://www.banque-france.fr/en
on the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE):
https://www.insee.fr/en/information/2107702
on the Direction Générale des Entreprises:
https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/
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S3E55 | Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e55-kim-stanley-robinson-on-real-utopian-futures
S03E54 | Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e54-rabea-berfelde-on-socialisation/
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S02E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website:
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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1 hr 9 min
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons
Season 3, Episode 57
Show notes
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.
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Shownotes
Yanis’ website:
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raphael’s website:
Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/
Hirad’s website:
the Monetary Commons website:
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/
on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:
on Wolfgang Schäuble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on IOU’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU
on the Money Market Multiplier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
on the Digital Renminbi in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
on Universal Basic Income (UBI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.
on fiat money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/
on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:
on the distributed ledger technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
on citizen’s assemblies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
on the International Monetary Fund (IMF):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund
on the Digital Euro:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
on the Meidner Plan:
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-plan
on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:
on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):
https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980
on Ursula K. Le Guin:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
the speech including the mentioned quote by her:
https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2E
on the 1973 Coup in Chile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
on Fernando Haddad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddad
on pix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis
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S3E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturen
S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning System
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e28-marcus-meindel-zum-global-commoning-system/
S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismus
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/
S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)
S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)
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1 hr 8 min
Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures
Season 3, Episode 55
Show notes
Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Real Utopian Futures.
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Shownotes
The reference page on Kim Stanley Robinson, his works, interviews, talks, etc. (including a discussion forum):
https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books.
https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780356508863/
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit Books.
https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/new-york-2140/9780356508788/
Robinson, K. S. (1988). The Gold Coast. Macmillan.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312890377/thegoldcoast/
Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate Barbarism. Adapting to a wrong World. Constellations, 30, 162–178.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12596
the quoted Kohei Saito video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=SdfPftKOCJM6MS9j
the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”:
https://youtu.be/HpzXkpx29S4?si=PVlOE53Hj5-BZR5B
reporting on and summary of the talk:
Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750500108237
for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/
on Anna Kornbluh:
on Mass Extinction Events:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html
Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves
on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal:
https://www.cop28.com/en/thought-leadership/The-30x30-Biodiversity-Goal-at-COP28
the International Maritime Organization:
on the ‘Half-Earth Project’:
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/
Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492525
Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2650-half-earth-socialism
one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times:
https://youtu.be/p1wNhc46xjE?si=hOdKuwRQhef-9tLs
on the Turing Test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left:
Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26).
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110365481.20/html
on Keynesianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ascendancy-of-finance--9781509509294
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on Thomas Piketty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
on Gabriel Zucman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman
on the ‘Zucman tax’: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2025/09/23/zucman-tax-what-the-proposed-wealth-tax-would-mean-for-france_6745653_8.html
on Carbon Taxes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
Sarkar, S. (2024). The Carbon Coin. An Eco-Speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Green Letters, 28(4), 297–310.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2025.2483998
A policy proposal on ‘Carbon Reward’ from the same researcher whose earlier policy work inspired the ‘Carbon Coin’ idea in The Ministry for the Future:
https://deltonchen.substack.com/p/new-economic-blueprint-for-resolving
see also:
https://globalcarbonreward.org/newsletters/carbon-coin/
on Quantitative Easing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
on Carbon Drawdown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
on Nicolas Stern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentford
on the Democratic Socialists of America:
the Network for Greening the Financial System:
on COP30 in Belém:
Solnit, R. (2022). Orwell’s Roses. Penguin.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607057/orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit/
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S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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55 min
Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation
Season 3, Episode 54
Show notes
Rabea Berfelde discusses socialisation, its history and current socialisation movements.
Future Histories LIVE.
This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recoded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode was recorded on August 6th, during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland, titled “Economics as Resistance. Heterodox Strategies on Housing, Energy, and Agriculture against the New Right”.
Shownotes
Rabea at the Center for Social Critique of the Humboldt University Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/rabea-berfelde/
the Socialization in Theory and Practice research project:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/projects/socialization-in-theory-and-practice/
the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2025). (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction. In J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.), Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Berfelde, R. et al. (2024). Für eine Linke mit Plan. Luxemburg. Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxis. 1/2024.
https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/fuer-eine-linke-mit-plan/
Berfelde, R. & Heeg, S. (2024). Struggling with and through Knowledge Production: The Campaign ‘Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.’s’ Attempt at Housing Definancialisation in Berlin. Critical Housing Analysis 11 (1): 105-114.
https://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/struggling-with-and-through-knowledge-productio
Berfelde, R., & Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Von der Vergesellschaftung zur Planung und wieder zurück: Über alte und neue Debatten um Wirtschaftsplanung und Vergesellschaftung. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 54 (215), 177–193.
https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2119
Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2023). Radikaldemokratische Planung der Wohnraumversorgung? Das Vergesellschaftungskonzept von »Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen«. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 53 (212), 561–577.
https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2049
on the Bavarian Soviet/Council Republic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic
on the German revolution of 1918-19:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919
Backhaus, J., Chaloupek, G., & Frambach, H. A. (2019). The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization. Springer.
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
Chaloupek, G. (2007). Otto Neurath's Concepts of Socialization and Economic Calculation and his Socialist Critics. In: Nemeth, E., Schmitz, S.W., Uebel, T.E. (eds.) Otto Neurath's Economics in Context. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 13. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_4
on Karl Korsch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Korsch
on Otto Bauer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Bauer
Meyer, N. (2023). Otto Bauer on the Long Transition to Socialism. Left Notes.
https://www.left-notes.com/p/otto-bauer-long-transition-to-socialism
on Karl Kautsky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kautsky
Vrousalis, N. (2018). Council Democracy and the Socialisation Dilemma. In: Muldoon, J. (ed.) Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Routledge.
Blumenfeld, J. (2023). What was socialization? A look back.
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/
Critical Theory Network et al. (2024). 11 Theses on Socialisation.
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/interventions/11-theses-on-socialisation/
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism – 1. New Left Review. 153 May-June 2025.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism – 2. New Left Review. 154 July-August 2025.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Muldoon, J. (ed.) (2018). Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351205634/council-democracy-james-muldoon
on Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen (the Berlin Housing Campagin):
Hoffrogge, R. (2024). Commons and Constitution: historical and legal roots of the German socialization movement:
for projects on socialization in different sectors see also:
communia (2024). Socialising Energy. Lessons from radical housing campaigns in Germany. In: Buxton, N. (ed.) (2024). Energy, Power and Transition. Transnational Institute.
https://www.tni.org/files/2024-03/State%20of%20Power%202024-web.pdf
on the legal assessment of socialising the energy sector in Germany:
https://communia.de/energiekonzerne-enteignen-das-geht/
article 15 in the constitution of Germany:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_15.html
for the draft of the socialisation law by the Berlin Housing Campaign see here:
https://dwenteignen.de/en/material
the Ackersyndikat:
RWE & Co Enteignen:
Hamburg Enteignet:
the socialist calculation debate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate
the first socialisation conference 2022:
https://communia.de/en/project/socialization-conference-october-2022/
the second socialisation conference 2024:
https://communia.de/en/project/lets-socialize-socialization-for-climate-justice/
on anti-fascist economics:
https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/anti-fascist-economics/
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S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E10 | Katharina Keil zu Vergesellschaftung und Transformation
S02E57 | Jenny Stupka zum Kampf um Vergesellschaftung
S02E57 | Jenny Stupka zum Kampf um Vergesellschaftung
S02E48 | Heide Lutosch, Christoph Sorg und Stefan Meretz zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Planung
S02E29 | Max und Lemon von communia zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Wirtschaft
S02E23 | Nina Scholz zu den wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co.
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#RabeaBerfelde, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesLive #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism #BerlinHousingCampaign, #DWE, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #OttoNeurath, #AaronBenanav, #Transition
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2 hr 7 min
Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism II
Season 3, Episode 51
Show notes
Aaron Benanav discusses the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.
Shownotes
Aaron at Cornell University:
https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav
Aaron’s personal website:
Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers
Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.
on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Moore, J.W. & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx
on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728
Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376
on the Pareto Optimum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
on Rational Choice Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model
on Behavioral Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism
on Joseph Raz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz
on Utilitarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach
on the Human Development Index (HDI):
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI
on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):
on Multi-Objective Optimization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization
Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.
on Neoclassical Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics
on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:
https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/
on John Stuart Mill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0
McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php
on Degrowth:
on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:
https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0
on Left Accelerationism:
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso
on Oskar R. Lange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange
on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory
Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21
on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.
https://academic.oup.com/book/1464
Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773
on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function
on Adam Smith:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Lutosch, H. (2025). Embracing the Small Stuff. Caring for Children in a Liberated Society. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Hahnel, R. (2021). Democratic Economic Planning. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
Cockshott, P. & Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism. Spokesman.
https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
on Universal Basic Services (UBS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services
https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/
Fraser, N. & Sorg, C. (2025). Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Milton Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
on John Maynard Keynes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Aaron on what to learn from radical Keynesianism for a transitionary Program:
Benanav, A. & Henwood, D. (2025). Behind the News. Beyond the Capitalist Economy w/ Aaron Benanav.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx
on Socializing Finance:
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/
S03E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)
S02E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)
---
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
---
Future Histories Contact & Support
If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:
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Episode Keywords
#AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #Transition, #DemocraticPlanning, #Keynes, #Efficiency, #Economics, #NeoclassicalEconomics, #NeoclassicalSocialism, #OttoNeurath, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #Investment, #Degrowth, #UniversalBasicServices, #CareWork
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56 min
Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism I
Season 3, Episode 50
Show notes
Aaron Benanav discusses the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.
SASE - Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics:
SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism (including CfP):
https://sase.org/networks/i-alternatives-to-capitalism/
Shownotes
Aaron at Cornell University:
https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav
Aaron’s personal website:
Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers
Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.
on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Moore, J.W. & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx
on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728
Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376
on the Pareto Optimum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
on Rational Choice Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model
on Behavioral Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism
on Joseph Raz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz
on Utilitarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach
on the Human Development Index (HDI):
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI
on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):
on Multi-Objective Optimization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization
Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.
on Neoclassical Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics
on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:
https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/
on John Stuart Mill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0
McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php
on Degrowth:
on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:
https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0
on Left Accelerationism:
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso
on Oskar R. Lange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange
on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory
Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21
on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.
https://academic.oup.com/book/1464
Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773
on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function
on Adam Smith:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Lutosch, H. (2025). Embracing the Small Stuff. Caring for Children in a Liberated Society. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Hahnel, R. (2021). Democratic Economic Planning. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
Cockshott, P. & Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism. Spokesman.
https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
on Universal Basic Services (UBS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services
https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/
Fraser, N. & Sorg, C. (2025). Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Milton Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
on John Maynard Keynes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Aaron on what to learn from radical Keynesianism for a transitionary Program:
Benanav, A. & Henwood, D. (2025). Behind the News. Beyond the Capitalist Economy w/ Aaron Benanav.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx
on Socializing Finance:
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/
S03E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)
S02E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)
---
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
---
Future Histories Contact & Support
If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:
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Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories
English webpage:
https://futurehistories-international.com/
Episode Keywords
#AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #Transition, #DemocraticPlanning, #Keynes, #Efficiency, #Economics, #NeoclassicalEconomics, #NeoclassicalSocialism, #OttoNeurath, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #Investment, #Degrowth, #UniversalBasicServices, #CareWork
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1 hr 50 min
Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance
Season 3, Episode 48
Show notes
Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships.
Shownotes
Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/
Kai Heron at Lancaster University:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron
Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:
https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/
Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:
https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell
Abundance (the collective):
on Marta Harnecker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker
on Michael A. Lebowitz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz
Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.
https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/
on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky
Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
on Public-Commons Partnerships:
https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership
for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:
https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies
on Public-Private Partnerships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership
on council farms in the UK:
https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/
Common Wealth (the organization):
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:
https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home
on Che Guevara:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
on Stuart Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
on Hugo Chávez:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.
https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/
on agroecology:
https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/
SCOP-TI:
the Berlin Housing Campaign:
on the Wards Corner Market:
https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner
Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/
on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States
on marronage communities and their role in slave rebellions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons
on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars
on the Black Panther Party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
on SYRIZA and their development:
on Erik Olin Wright’s “Transition Troughs” concept, see chapter 9 and 10 of:
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias
the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK:
https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts
on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors:
van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.
https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/
van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528-545.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
on municipalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism
Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming)
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-municipalism
on the Occupy Movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement
on Climateflation:
on hernani burujabe (the tripartite economic planning system in the city of Hernani):
https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/
Egia-Olaizola, A., Villalba-Eguiluz, U. and Gainza, X. (2025), Beyond the New Municipalism. Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe. Antipode, 57: 1448-1469.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70030
on the Commons (concept):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
on Evergreening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
Klein, E. & Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. Avid Reader Press.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488
on Marx’s concept of the realm of necessity and freedom:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/capital/vol3-ch48.htm
on David Graeber:
Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper. Games, Life and Utopia. Broadview Press.
https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Bernard%20Suits%20-%20The%20Grasshopper.pdf
on the socialist ecomodernism and degrowth debate:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-23/ecomodernism-on-its-own-terms/
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Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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1 hr 49 min
Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
Season 3, Episode 47
Show notes
Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.
Shownotes
Jason’s personal website:
Jason at Binghamtom University:
https://www.binghamton.edu/sociology/faculty/profile.html?id=jwmoore
The World-Ecology Research Collective:
https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/lab/World-Ecology-Research-Collective-Jason-W-Moore
Moore, J. W., & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life. Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
for an overview of different approaches to conceptualizing society/capitalism and nature:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/
on Andreas Malm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Malm
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital
Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the Witch. Autonomedia.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
on Ernst Haeckel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel
see also the chapter on Haeckel and the German Monist League in:
Gasman, D. (2017). The scientific Origins of National Socialism. Routledge.
on Actor-Network Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory
on Bruno Latour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
on John Bellamy Foster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellamy_Foster
Bellamy, J. F. (2000) Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature. Monthly Review Press.
https://ia904504.us.archive.org/9/items/526394/John%20Bellamy%20Foster.%20Marx%27s%20Ecology..pdf
on Kohei Saito:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei_Saito
on Pietro Verri:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Verri
Marx, K. (1976). Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume One. Penguin.
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.%201%20Penguin.pdf
Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
Marx’s and Engel’s German Ideology:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
Marx’s Capital Vol. 3.:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/
Marx’s On The Jewish Question:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
on Alfred Sohn-Rethel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sohn-Rethel
Machado, C. & Miguel, N. (2013). The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities. The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel.
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48961/1/MPRA_paper_48961.pdf
on Donna Haraway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
on the “Special Period” in Cuba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
on James Lovelock:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock
Lovelock, J. (1979). Gaia. A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaia-9780198784883?cc=de&lang=en
on “Social metabolism”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_metabolism
on Raymond Williams:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams
Smele, J. D. (2016). The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Ten Years that Shook the World. Hurst.
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-russian-civil-wars-1916-1926/
Engel-Di Mauro, S. (2021). Socialist States and the Environment. Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures. Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-and-the-environment/
Amin, S. (1990). Delinking. Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/delinking-9780862328030/
on material and energy flow accounting:
see the chapter on that topic in:
Bartelmus, P. (2008). Quantitative Eco-nomics. How sustainable are our economies. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6966-6
Zeug, W. (2025). INDEP talk with Walther Zeug: Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting.
https://youtu.be/I4_8_lDfwEw?si=J-kdRzjIehZqPgs0
Kula, W. (2016). Measures and Men. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691639079/measures-and-men
Echterhölter, A. M. (2019). Quantification as Conflict. Witold Kula’s Political Metrology and Its Reception in the West . Historyka : studia metodologiczne, 49, 117-141 . Article 9.
https://journals.pan.pl/Content/114031/PDF/7%20ECHTERH%C3%96LTER.pdf
on Max Weber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
on Double-entry bookkeeping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
on “proletarian science”:
Moore, J.W. (2025). Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life. Dialectical Anthropology. 49, 149–167.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-025-09775-x
on Ecosystem services:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service
on the “Ecological footprint” concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint
on Thomas Müntzer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer
on the Royal Botanic Gardens/Kew Gardens:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens_(Kew)
on the Stakhanovite movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
on Cybernetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
on Earth systems science:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_system_science
Selcer, P. (2018). The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment. How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-postwar-origins-of-the-global-environment/9780231166485/
Medina, E. (2014). Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. MIT Press.
https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Eden_Medina_Cybernetic_Revolutionaries.pdf
on Cybernetics in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Union
on the Transitional demand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_demand
see also:
Trotsky’s The Transitional Program:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
on the Green New Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
on the European Green Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Deal
on Geoengineering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
on Johan Rockström:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Rockstr%C3%B6m
on Planetary boundaries:
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
Klein, N. (2015). This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate. Penguin.
https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
Kushi, S., & Toft, M. D. (2022). Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(4), 752-779.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221117546
on Allen Dulles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
on Reinhard Gehlen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen
Talbot, D. (2016). The Devil’s Chessboard. Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. Harper Collins.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-devils-chessboard-david-talbot?variant=32207669559330
on the concept of the Deep State:
Scott, P. D. (1996). Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/deep-politics-and-the-death-of-jfk/paper
Scott, P. D. (2017). The American Deep State. Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy. Rowman & Littlefield.
https://archive.org/details/americandeepstat0000scot/page/n5/mode/2up
Good, A. (2022). American Exception. Empire and the Deep State. Skyhorse Publishing.
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769144/american-exception/
on the origin of the concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_car_crash
recently released files relating to the assassination of JFK on the website of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA):
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025
on the current state of knowledge on the Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion:
on the Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion releasing massive Amounts of Methane:
https://youtu.be/7KBsf7bX9Nc?si=tDIxlFFF2ThO6Aeb
on Systems Dynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
the ‘Limits to Growth’ Report, commissioned by the Club of Rome:
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
the Club of Rome:
on Jay Wright Forrester:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
on the concept of the Anthropocene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
on James C. Scott:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott
Mies, M. & Bennholdt-Thomsen, V. (1999). The Subsistence Perspective. Beyond the Globalised Economy. Zed Books.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/subsistence-perspective-9781856497763/
on the New Economic Policy (NEP):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
on the Belt and Road Initiative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Nachmani, A. (1990). Civil War and Foreign Intervention in Greece: 1946-49. Journal of Contemporary History, 25(4), 489–522.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/260759
on the “Soft Coup against the Wilson Labour Government”:
https://www.declassifieduk.org/a-possible-coup-against-the-labour-government/
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/history/the-cold-war/the-wilson-plot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/comment.labour1
on the actions of the US against North Korea in the Korean War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Korean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War
on the Cultural Revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
on Mao’s concept of the Mass Line:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch11.htm
on Jung’s concept of the Collective unconscious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
on (Neo-)Malthusianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
Ehrlich, P. R. (1971). The Population Bomb. Ballantine Books.
http://pinguet.free.fr/ehrlich68.pdf
Tainter, J. A. (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/Joseph-A-Tainter-The-collapse-of-complex-societies.pdf
on Millenarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
Enzensberger, H. M. (1978). Two Notes on the End of the World. New Left Review. I/110.
Hansen, J. (2010). Storms of my Grandchildren. The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/storms-of-my-grandchildren-9781408807460/
Sweezy, P.M. (1990). Monopoly Capitalism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds) Marxian Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_44
on Technofeudalism:
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Penguin.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Durand, C. (2024). How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism. The Making of the Digital Economy. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2790-how-silicon-valley-unleashed-techno-feudalism
Culture, Power and Politics Podcast episode on the debate around the concept “Technofeudalism”:
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/07/04/is-capitalism-over-the-technofeudalism-debate/
Conservation International:
Earth League International:
https://earthleagueinternational.org/
Rockström, J. et al. (2024). The Planetary Commons. A new Paradigm for Safeguarding Earth-regulating Systems in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301531121
the Trilateral Commission:
the Earth Commission:
Johan Rockström’s interview in the Guardian:
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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1 hr
Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
Season 3, Episode 44
Show notes
Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.
Events (from the introduction):
at the Zollo Collective:
https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=enat La Band Varga:
https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102
Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
Shownotes
Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):
Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:
https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/
Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism
Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire
Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.
https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism
Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html
Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs
https://www.alexispauline.com/
her essay on the Maui wildfires:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/
on climate fiction (cli-fi):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction
Rebecca Saltzman:
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
on the genre of the Heist film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film
on “Logan Lucky”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky
Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/
Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:
https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/
on climate/eco-anxiety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety
Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty
explanation “hypersititon”:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition
on Kim Stanley Robinson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140
on the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
on the Green New Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
website of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):
Climate & Community Institute:
https://climateandcommunity.org/
“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:
https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL
Aronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win
Klein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.
on the Zohran Mamdani campaign:
on Social Realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism
on Brandon Taylor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)
his website:
on Colson Whitehead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead
his website:
https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/
on “Succession”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)
on “Somebody Somewhere”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)
on public luxury:
https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/
https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:
Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.
https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalism
Boston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/
on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
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S3E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/
S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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1 hr 53 min
Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
Season 3, Episode 40
Show notes
Jan Overwijk discusses critical systems theory, sociologies of closure and openness, and cybernetic capitalism.
Shownotes
Jan Overwijk at the Frankfurt University Institute for Social Research:
https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/personendetails/jan-overwijk.html
Jan at the University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht:
Overwijk, J. (2025). Cybernetic Capitalism. A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. Fordham University Press.
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on the website of the distributor outside of North America you can order the book with a 30% discount with the code “FFF24”:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on Niklas Luhmann:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
Baraldi, C., Corsi, G., & Esposito, E. (2021). Unlocking Luhmann. A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory. transcript.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5674-9/unlocking-luhmann/
Fischer-Lescano, A. (2011). Critical Systems Theory. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 38(1), 3–23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453711421600
Möller, K., & Siri, J. (2023). Niklas Luhmann and Critical Systems Theory. In: R. Rogowski (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann (pp. 141–154).
on Critical Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
on Cybernetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Future Histories explanation video on cybernetics (in German):
https://youtu.be/QBKC9mM8-so?si=64v0OgBKV3xjXvLl
on Humberto Matuarana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana
on Francisco Varela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1992). Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala.
https://uranos.ch/research/references/Maturana1988/maturana-h-1987-tree-of-knowledge-bkmrk.pdf
on Ferdinand de Saussure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
on Post-Structuralism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
on the differentiation of society into subsystems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)
on Jaques Derrida:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
Bob Jessop on Luhmann and the concept of “ecological dominance”:
Jessop, B. (2010). From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism. In: K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.). Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 171–187). Zed Books.
on Surplus Value in Marx and Marxism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
on Louis Althusser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser
Althusser, L. (2014). On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Verso.
https://legalform.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/althusser-on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism.pdf
on Stuart Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
on Capital Strikes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
on the concept of “rationalization” in sociology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(sociology)
on Max Weber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
Weber, M. (2005). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Routledge.
https://gpde.direito.ufmg.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAX-WEBER.pdf
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
on Surveillance Capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
on Herbert Marcuse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
Marcuse, H. (2002). One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Routledge.
on Jürgen Habermas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
on Jean-François Lyotard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard
Lyotard, J.-F. (1988). The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816616114/differend/
on Thermodynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics
on the Technocracy Movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid Modernity. Polity.
https://giuseppecapograssi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf
on New Materialism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_materialism
on Gilles Deleuze:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
on Bruno Latour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
on Donna Haraway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
for criticisms of new materialism and associated tendencies and authors:
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
Brown, W. (2019). In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Columbia University Press.
Hendrikse, R. (2018). Neo-illiberalism. Geoforum, 95, 169–172.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718518302057
on N. Katherine Hayles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. October. Vol. 59. (Winter 1992), 3-7.
https://cidadeinseguranca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
Brenner, R., Glick, M. (1991). The Regulation Approach. Theory and History. New Left Review. 1/188.
on the “Regulation School”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_school
Chiapello, E., & Boltanski, L. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
Hardt, M., & Negri, A. (2000). Empire. Harvard University Press.
https://monoskop.org/images/9/95/Hardt_Michael_Negri_Antonio_Empire.pdf
on the Tierra Artificial Life Program:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
on Gilbert Simondon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon
on Karen Barad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad
on Post-Fordism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Fordism
on Taylorism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Polity.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platform-capitalism--9781509504862
Hayek, F. A. (2014). The Constitution of Liberty. Routledge.
van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528–545.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
on Rosa Luxemburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
on Luxemburg’s thought on imperialism:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/44096/rosa-luxemburgs-heterodox-view-of-the-global-south
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism. How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
on Mariarosa Dalla Costa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariarosa_Dalla_Costa
on the “Wages for Housework” Campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_Housework
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
on Stafford Beer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
Pickering, A. (2010). The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8169881.html
Foucualt’s quote on socialist governmentality is from this book:
Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf
Groos, J. (2025). Planning as an Art of Government. In: J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond (pp. 115-132). Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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1 hr 32 min
Jasper Bernes on Workers' Councils, Labor Time Calculation and the Future of Revolution
Season 3, Episode 39
Show notes
Jasper Bernes discusses worker self-organization, labor time accounting and the revolutionary potential of workers' councils.
Shownotes
Jasper’s personal website:
Jasper at UC Berkeley:
https://english.berkeley.edu/people/jasper-bernes
Commune Magazine:
Bernes, J. (2025). The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution
Bernes, J. (2020). Planning and Anarchy. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(1), 53–73.
https://jasperbernes.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1190053.pdf
on Worker’s councils:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council
on Council communism:
https://libcom.org/article/council-communism-introduction
on the Paris Commune:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
on Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/43964/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-political-mass-strike
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Find the quote “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” at the end of Chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
Group of International Communists (1990) [German original 1930] Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
second, revised edition from 1935, published in English in 2020:
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/files/2023/04/GIC-Fundamental-Principles-2.-Ed.1935-1.pdf
on Jan Appel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Appel
on Labor Time Calculation/Accounting:
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/en-GB/basics/
Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
on Communization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communization
Noys, B. (Ed.). (2012). Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles. Minor Compositions.
on Gilles Dauvé:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Dauv%C3%A9
on the law of Value in Marx:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_value
on Paul Mattick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mattick
Roth, G. (2014). Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick. BRILL.
Mattick’s introduction to the 1970 reprint of the German first edition of “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution”:
https://www.leftcommunism.org/spip.php?article359
on the Communist Party of Germany, founded in 1919:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany
on Amadeo Bordiga:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Bordiga
Bordiga on the distinction between the city and the countryside:
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bordiga-humansearth.pdf
Raekstad, P. R., & Gradin, S. S. (2019). Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today. Polity.
the Endnotes Journal:
on the German strand of the “Commons” debate and movement:
https://commons-institut.org/theorie/was-sind-commons/
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1993). Waiting for the Revolution, or How to Smash Capitalism while Working at Home in Your Spare Time. Rethinking Marxism, 6(2), 10–24.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935699308658052
Purnell, D. (2021). Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2894-becoming-abolitionists
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
S02E58 | Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e58-soren-mau-on-planning-and-freedom/
S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination
S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#JasperBernes, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #PoliticalEconomy, #History, #Revolution, #Revolutions, #RosaLuxemburg, #CouncilCommunism, #LaborTimeAccounting, #LaborTimeCalculation, #Capitalism, #Economics, #CouncilCommunism, #WorkersCouncils, #WorkerSelfOrganisation, #PoliceAbolition, #Communisation, #ParisCommune, #GroupOfInternationalCommunists
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56 min
Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian Liberalism
Season 3, Episode 36
Show notes
Clara E. Mattei on the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.Clara's book is out in German! Find it here:
Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.
https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals
Shownotes
Clara E. Mattei’s website:
Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma:
https://sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/
CHE’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@CHE-tulsa
Mattei, C. E. (2022). The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html
the german translation:
Mattei, C. E. (2025). Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.
https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals
on „Derisking“:
Amarnath, S., Brusseler, M., Gabor, D., Lala, C., Mason, JW (2023). Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/
on “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency
on the new german “Sondervermögen” to invest in rearmament and infrastructure:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-spend-big-on-army-and-infrastructure/a-71834527
on the 1920 International Financial Conference in Brussels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_International_Financial_Conference_(1920)
on the 1922 Economic and Financial Conference in Genoa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Economic_and_Financial_Conference_(1922)
on Google’s contract with the IDF:
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349582/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza
Benanav, A. (2022). Socialist Investment, Dynamic Planning, and the Politics of Human Need. Rethinking Marxism, 34(2), 193–204.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2051375
Sirianni, C. J. (1980). Workers’ Control in the Era of World War I: A Comparative Analysis of the European Experience. Theory and Society, 9(1), 29–88.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/656823
on the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement
Braun, B. (2021) Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose. In: Fassin, D. and Fourcade, M. (eds.) Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. HAU Books, pp. 105–121.
https://benjaminbraun.org/assets/pubs/braun_central-bank-planning-public-purpose.pdf
on the “Phillips Curve”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
Arun K. Patnaik. (1988). Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense: Towards a Theory of Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony Processes. Economic and Political Weekly, 23(5).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4378042
Thomas, P.D. (2015). Gramsci’s Marxism: The ‘Philosophy of Praxis’. In: McNally, M. (eds.) Antonio Gramsci. Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137334183_6
on the US Solidarity Economy:
https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/
the US Solidarity Economy Network:
the US Solidarity Economy Map and Directory:
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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S03E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives
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Episode Keywords
#ClaraEMattei, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #Austerity, #CentralBanks, #Capitalism, #Fascism, #Economics, #NeoclassicalEconomics, #HeterodoxEconomics, #PluralEconomics, #State, #CapitalistState, #Markets, #History, #SolidarityEconomy, #AntonioGramsci, #Gramsci, #Investment, #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Derisking, #PoliticalEconomy, #EconomicHistory, #AuthoritarianLiberalism, #EconomicThought, #EconomicDemocracy
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