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· Dec 27
Umkämpftes Eigentum. Buch von Niklas Angebauer, Jacob Blumenfeld, Tilo Wesche (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Vom Klimaschutz über die Vergesellschaftung großer Immobilienkonzerne bis zum Recht... | Buch von Niklas Angebauer, Jacob Blumenfeld, Tilo Wesche versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
www.suhrkamp.de
1. Umkämpftes Eigentum: Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte (Suhrkamp), edited along with N. Angebauer & T. Wesche.
with over 20 new essays on property theory, history and conflicts (in German)
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaemp...
with over 20 new essays on property theory, history and conflicts (in German)
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaemp...
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"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
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less than 90 days! you can pre-order this four-century odyssey of labor relations, philosophy, and struggle now though should you like
www.versobooks.com/products/312...
www.versobooks.com/products/312...
Control Science
Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seventeenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so...
www.versobooks.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
less than 90 days! you can pre-order this four-century odyssey of labor relations, philosophy, and struggle now though should you like
www.versobooks.com/products/312...
www.versobooks.com/products/312...
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Reviewed in today's @faznet.bsky.social which (somewhat oddly) for a bourgeois paper comes to the defence of petty bourgeois proper
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
February 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Reviewed in today's @faznet.bsky.social which (somewhat oddly) for a bourgeois paper comes to the defence of petty bourgeois proper
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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colleagues do not despair if you missed the "digital humanities" train. these ones are still up for grabs and sure to attract tons of funding
1. the corporate humanities
2. the scalable humanities
3. the crypto humanities
4. the agile humanities
5. the consultancy humanities
1. the corporate humanities
2. the scalable humanities
3. the crypto humanities
4. the agile humanities
5. the consultancy humanities
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
colleagues do not despair if you missed the "digital humanities" train. these ones are still up for grabs and sure to attract tons of funding
1. the corporate humanities
2. the scalable humanities
3. the crypto humanities
4. the agile humanities
5. the consultancy humanities
1. the corporate humanities
2. the scalable humanities
3. the crypto humanities
4. the agile humanities
5. the consultancy humanities
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So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.
Super worth reading and sharing around.
Super worth reading and sharing around.
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax – Ketan Joshi
A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change
ketanjoshi.co
February 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.
Super worth reading and sharing around.
Super worth reading and sharing around.
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Neues Essay "Warten auf die Superintelligenz" bzw. den "technologischen Godot" im @surplusmagazin.de – wir freuen uns!
"Wir müssen nur noch etwas mehr glauben, noch mehr KI und ihre Agenten einsetzen, noch mehr Energie reinstecken, vor allem mehr investieren – und alles wird super." Yeah ;)
"Wir müssen nur noch etwas mehr glauben, noch mehr KI und ihre Agenten einsetzen, noch mehr Energie reinstecken, vor allem mehr investieren – und alles wird super." Yeah ;)
February 17, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Neues Essay "Warten auf die Superintelligenz" bzw. den "technologischen Godot" im @surplusmagazin.de – wir freuen uns!
"Wir müssen nur noch etwas mehr glauben, noch mehr KI und ihre Agenten einsetzen, noch mehr Energie reinstecken, vor allem mehr investieren – und alles wird super." Yeah ;)
"Wir müssen nur noch etwas mehr glauben, noch mehr KI und ihre Agenten einsetzen, noch mehr Energie reinstecken, vor allem mehr investieren – und alles wird super." Yeah ;)
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
“It’s called fasching, not fascism, dad”
February 17, 2026 at 7:14 AM
“It’s called fasching, not fascism, dad”
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This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...
The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History
by Jonathon Catlin
This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
www.jhiblog.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...
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Full house at the critique of AI workshop today! ⚡️
organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social
Some of the discussion points/statements below:
1/2
organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social
Some of the discussion points/statements below:
1/2
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Full house at the critique of AI workshop today! ⚡️
organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social
Some of the discussion points/statements below:
1/2
organized by @cominsitu.bsky.social and @ktbberlin.bsky.social
Some of the discussion points/statements below:
1/2
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Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.
February 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.
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I'm working on a reader (in both English and German) to collect literature critical of the employment of generative AI technologies within academic contexts.
Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Critique of AI Reader
Reader: Critique of ‘AI’ Technologies Within Academia English Reader Please feel free to add suitable titles below the respective chapter (Research Articles, Books, Chapters in Ed. Vol.). You may ...
docs.google.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I'm working on a reader (in both English and German) to collect literature critical of the employment of generative AI technologies within academic contexts.
Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Does owning property make you more fascist? Or does not owning property? I wrote a short piece for @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social trying to figure it out. Read on for the absolutely correct answer!
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Does owning property make you more fascist? Or does not owning property? I wrote a short piece for @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social trying to figure it out. Read on for the absolutely correct answer!
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
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Reviews like this make writing worth it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...
The End of Cinema? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Reviews like this make writing worth it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...
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"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks
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How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1
Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader
As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime
www.nybooks.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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Am Montag hier!
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Am Montag hier!
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Jetzt online: Mit Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social sprach ich über mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik” (@suhrkamp.de) – es ging u.A. um digitale Regierungskünste, die technikfaschistische Wende im Silicon Valley und Alternativen zum kybernetischen Kapitalismus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hM...
February 15, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Jetzt online: Mit Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social sprach ich über mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik” (@suhrkamp.de) – es ging u.A. um digitale Regierungskünste, die technikfaschistische Wende im Silicon Valley und Alternativen zum kybernetischen Kapitalismus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hM...
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On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share!
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
Beyond Capitalism
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<p>We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion w...
events.columbia.edu
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share!
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
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‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Guns, Money and Opium
There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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"Liberalism is founded on the right to private property, but private property is also what breaks liberalism. For what better way than owning property is there for learning how to be a dictator?"
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
F&L Blog - Property Damages - International Karl Polanyi Society
Property Damages by Jacob Blumenfeld 13.02.2026 Does private property secure freedom, or train us for domination? In this article, philosopher Jacob Blumenfeld traces how liberal ownership rights shap...
www.karlpolanyisociety.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
"Liberalism is founded on the right to private property, but private property is also what breaks liberalism. For what better way than owning property is there for learning how to be a dictator?"
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
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Max Horkheimer fand erst spät zu seiner Berufung. Der am 14. Februar 1895 in Stuttgart Geborene wächst in einer jüdischen Fabrikantenfamilie auf. Im Familienunternehmen macht er eine Ausbildung und wird Prokurist.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Max Horkheimer fand erst spät zu seiner Berufung. Der am 14. Februar 1895 in Stuttgart Geborene wächst in einer jüdischen Fabrikantenfamilie auf. Im Familienunternehmen macht er eine Ausbildung und wird Prokurist.
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