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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...
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
“It’s called fasching, not fascism, dad”
February 17, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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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:

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February 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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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
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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...
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
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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...
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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this afternoon!
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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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
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"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks
one of the best things I ever found online
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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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.
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Am Montag hier!
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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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
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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...
Beyond Capitalism
<p>&nbsp;</p> <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
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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...
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
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Weekend reading
February 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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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...
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
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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.

#AnDiesemTag 🧵
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
I didn’t consent to this
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing,” Amelia Miller writes about A.I. researchers. “They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools.”
Opinion | We’re All in a Throuple With A.I.
What happens when the people building a new technology don’t want to use it?
nyti.ms
February 14, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Ich durfte für den @unrastverlag.bsky.social einen Comic übersetzen (ein großes Vergnügen!). 11 Geschichten über antifaschistischen Widerstand während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Gibt's ab heute hier (oder in der Buchhandlung eures Vertrauens):

unrast-verlag.de/produkt/part...

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February 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Really surprised how an entirely predictable question could sink the entire Berlinale jury.
"We have to stay out of politics" (Wim Wenders) could have been said in any authoritarian regime, where artists often are political. Here it was disgraceful.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Berlinale Immediately Gets Heated at Jury Presser as President Wim Wenders Asserts “We Have to Stay Out of Politics”
"We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press confe...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Henrike Kohpeiß's new book Bourgeois Coldness

www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
Fever Pitch: On Bourgeois Coldness by Henrike Kohpeiß - Notes - e-flux
Thomas Waller reviews a new philosophy book that seeks to adapt Adorno and Horkheimer for the modern era.
www.e-flux.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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...
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Excellent piece by my colleague @cominsitu.bsky.social for our Fascism&Liberalism blog!

📖A must-read!
𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

In this incisive new article, @cominsitu.bsky.social argues that liberal property rights don’t just allocate resources but that they prime societies - both owners and non-owners - with authoritarian desire

👉but there is a remedy
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 10:18 AM
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𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

In this incisive new article, @cominsitu.bsky.social argues that liberal property rights don’t just allocate resources but that they prime societies - both owners and non-owners - with authoritarian desire

👉but there is a remedy
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 10:13 AM