Marius Bickhardt
@mbickhardt.bsky.social
PhD political theory at Sciences Po Paris/Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Philosophy, environmental Malthusianism, ecological Marxism.
Research and direction of the Climate Denials Program @ diagrammes.fr
@diagrammes.bsky.social
Research and direction of the Climate Denials Program @ diagrammes.fr
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Marius Bickhardt
@mbickhardt.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s) : une histoire en cinq épisodes
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Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes"
Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor.
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Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor.
shs.cairn.info/revue-critiq...
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‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more.
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more.
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
"Entretien (par @reminoyon.bsky.social). Le philosophe Paul Guillibert est l’une des figures françaises de la pensée écomarxiste, qui connaît un regain d’intérêt à mesure que les températures augmentent et que s’éloignent les espoirs d’une transition énergétique tranquille."
« La débâcle climatique nous invite à lire des textes moins connus de Marx… »
Le philosophe Paul Guillibert est l’une des figures françaises de la pensée écomarxiste, qui connaît un regain d’intérêt à mesure que les températures augmentent et que s’éloignent les espoirs d’une t...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Entretien (par @reminoyon.bsky.social). Le philosophe Paul Guillibert est l’une des figures françaises de la pensée écomarxiste, qui connaît un regain d’intérêt à mesure que les températures augmentent et que s’éloignent les espoirs d’une transition énergétique tranquille."
At the Natural History Museum in London — the "cathedral of nature" and of "empire". As Kautsky remarked in 1910, on the decline of the American bison, the “extermination of animal species [is] caused by the pursuit of profit” — a capitalist 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘣𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
At the Natural History Museum in London — the "cathedral of nature" and of "empire". As Kautsky remarked in 1910, on the decline of the American bison, the “extermination of animal species [is] caused by the pursuit of profit” — a capitalist 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘣𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵.
At this year's HM conference, I will give a talk on Karl August Wittfogel's marxist critique of geopolitics as a naturalist ideology of the age of empire (Thursday morning) and will discuss Joel Wainwright's great new book on Marx and Darwin (Friday morning).
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
At this year's HM conference, I will give a talk on Karl August Wittfogel's marxist critique of geopolitics as a naturalist ideology of the age of empire (Thursday morning) and will discuss Joel Wainwright's great new book on Marx and Darwin (Friday morning).
Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm
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Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm
spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm
spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm
spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
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👋 Demain, 10h, ne manquez pas Aurélie Windels, journaliste et co-fondatrice de @diagrammes.bsky.social invitée au micro de @ostpolitik.bsky.social sur le live Twitch de @mediapart.fr.
⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct !
Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart
⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct !
Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
👋 Demain, 10h, ne manquez pas Aurélie Windels, journaliste et co-fondatrice de @diagrammes.bsky.social invitée au micro de @ostpolitik.bsky.social sur le live Twitch de @mediapart.fr.
⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct !
Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart
⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct !
Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart
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"Work, Bad Infinity, and Habit" is finally out! I’ve been thinking about some of these ideas since my dissertation, and had the pleasure of pursuing them further with Lisa Herzog during my postdoc. Here’s our take on Hegel as a helpful ecological thinker 🦉🌿
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Work, Bad Infinity and Habit: A Hegelian Approach to Sustainability and Freedom | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Work, Bad Infinity and Habit: A Hegelian Approach to Sustainability and Freedom
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Work, Bad Infinity, and Habit" is finally out! I’ve been thinking about some of these ideas since my dissertation, and had the pleasure of pursuing them further with Lisa Herzog during my postdoc. Here’s our take on Hegel as a helpful ecological thinker 🦉🌿
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
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🚨Workshop Announcement🚨
THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE
Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin
organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE
Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin
organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨Workshop Announcement🚨
THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE
Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin
organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE
Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin
organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
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essential reading
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
www.versobooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
essential reading
"uncanny combination of the intelligent and the stupid that is the mark of AI writing"
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"uncanny combination of the intelligent and the stupid that is the mark of AI writing"
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wow Italy
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
October 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
wow Italy
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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RIP Claus Offe 😔 He wrote a lot but this is by far one of the best texts written about trade unions, their structural position and limitations. www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...
www.hwiesenthal.de
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
RIP Claus Offe 😔 He wrote a lot but this is by far one of the best texts written about trade unions, their structural position and limitations. www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...
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Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
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September 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today!
www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...
www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...
EXTRACTIVISM, GREEN AND BROWN - DIAGRAMMES
"When I talk about green capitalism, it is kind of a mix of productive forces that are already deployed to produce certain products that at least are justified because they have some role in greening ...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today!
www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...
www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...
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My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...
June 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...
Aktueller Call
| PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft
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September 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Voici le lien www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202509...
Comment l’écologie a remis Karl Marx sur le tapis : « Il y a incompatibilité entre capitalisme et soutenabilité »
Le barbu est de retour ! Alors que la planète se réchauffe, le courant écomarxiste a le vent dans les voiles. Petit voyage dans ce champ de la pensée en ébullition.
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September 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Voici le lien www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202509...
@reminoyon.bsky.social dans le @nouvelobs.com à propos du renouveau écomarxiste en France, avec un clin d'oeil à @triofrancos.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, à l'ouvrage d'Alexis Cukier et de Paul Guillibert ainsi qu'à notre Repères sur Le marxisme écologique à paraître en 2026
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September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@reminoyon.bsky.social dans le @nouvelobs.com à propos du renouveau écomarxiste en France, avec un clin d'oeil à @triofrancos.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, à l'ouvrage d'Alexis Cukier et de Paul Guillibert ainsi qu'à notre Repères sur Le marxisme écologique à paraître en 2026
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Soviet economist T. S. Khachaturov, "Economic problems of ecology", 1978
"It must be taken into account that the increasing consumption of fossil fuels causes growing atmospheric pollution (with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dust), 1/
"It must be taken into account that the increasing consumption of fossil fuels causes growing atmospheric pollution (with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dust), 1/
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Soviet economist T. S. Khachaturov, "Economic problems of ecology", 1978
"It must be taken into account that the increasing consumption of fossil fuels causes growing atmospheric pollution (with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dust), 1/
"It must be taken into account that the increasing consumption of fossil fuels causes growing atmospheric pollution (with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dust), 1/
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Quel avenir nous réserve le solaire ?
Pour Bill McKibben, la révolution énergétique est en train d'advenir grâce à la chute des prix des panneaux solaires. Pour Thea Riofrancos, le marché du lithium permet de comprendre les dessous du capitalisme vert.
420ppm.substack.com/p/lavenir-se...
Pour Bill McKibben, la révolution énergétique est en train d'advenir grâce à la chute des prix des panneaux solaires. Pour Thea Riofrancos, le marché du lithium permet de comprendre les dessous du capitalisme vert.
420ppm.substack.com/p/lavenir-se...
L’avenir sera-t-il radieux ?
Verre d'eau mi-plein, verre d'eau mi-vide
420ppm.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Quel avenir nous réserve le solaire ?
Pour Bill McKibben, la révolution énergétique est en train d'advenir grâce à la chute des prix des panneaux solaires. Pour Thea Riofrancos, le marché du lithium permet de comprendre les dessous du capitalisme vert.
420ppm.substack.com/p/lavenir-se...
Pour Bill McKibben, la révolution énergétique est en train d'advenir grâce à la chute des prix des panneaux solaires. Pour Thea Riofrancos, le marché du lithium permet de comprendre les dessous du capitalisme vert.
420ppm.substack.com/p/lavenir-se...
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@histmat.bsky.social.
This summary of Kautsky's 1910 book on population builds on Marx (“every mode of production has its own population law”) and Spencer (“more complex organisms have lower fertility”) against Malthus’ universal law and its influence on Darwin.
@histmat.bsky.social.
This summary of Kautsky's 1910 book on population builds on Marx (“every mode of production has its own population law”) and Spencer (“more complex organisms have lower fertility”) against Malthus’ universal law and its influence on Darwin.
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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@histmat.bsky.social.
This summary of Kautsky's 1910 book on population builds on Marx (“every mode of production has its own population law”) and Spencer (“more complex organisms have lower fertility”) against Malthus’ universal law and its influence on Darwin.
@histmat.bsky.social.
This summary of Kautsky's 1910 book on population builds on Marx (“every mode of production has its own population law”) and Spencer (“more complex organisms have lower fertility”) against Malthus’ universal law and its influence on Darwin.