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Veit Braun
@toteraltermann.bsky.social
Property, biology & stuff. All opinions someone else's.

Out now: AT THE END OF PROPERTY @BrisUniPress.bsky.social
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/at-the-end-of-property
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Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I
An open-access grant application in German and English
wondrousmachine.substack.com
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Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.

Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social

Send them your abstracts!
📣 Call for Abstracts!

Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.

🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.

s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Unsere neueste Ausgabe mit dem Titel Macht und Eigentum ist erschienen. Wir danken allen Einreichungen, die dieses Heft möglich gemacht haben
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/soziologiema...
Soziologiemagazin
Das Soziologiemagazin ist unsere Hauptpublikation. Das Soziologiemagazin erscheint seit 2009 und seit 2011 immer halbjährlich Mitte und Ende des Jahres. Es handelt sich um eine Open Access-Publikation...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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In seiner wissenschaftssoziologischen Analyse richtet Marc Strotmann den Blick auf die Zwischenräume, in denen sich die Neurotechnologie-Forscher:innen bewegen, und betrachtet deren komplexes Zusammenspiel in einer emergenten Wissenschaft.

📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...

#velbrückwissenschaft
In Zwischenräumen von Marc Strotmann
Seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten wird mittlerweile an Neurotechnologien mit dem Ziel geforscht, das zentrale Nervensystem des Menschen mit technischen Systemen zu verbinden. In seiner wissenschaftssozio...
www.velbrueck.de
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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What do academic degrowthers work on - a lot of stuff.

Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.

Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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My personal view on how the EU could address the concerns about patents in the proposed regulation on NGT plants:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The breeder's exemption as the route to agreement in the EU debate on NGT plants
The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
ipkitten.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This 👇

Railways are large capital intensive infrastructure with very significant market failures - few things manage to be both natural monopolies and public goods with extensive externalities.

Ownership doesn't really change the fundamentals. Private monopolies and public monopolies same same..
Essentially the best way to run a railway is for it to be owned by a development corporation, and then frankly whether that corporation is state owned or privately owned is sort of a much of a muchness:
The missing piece in Labour’s rail renationalisation scheme
Whether trains are public or private is not the deal-breaker for a well-functioning service — it is about a better delivery model
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Ich habe mitbekommen, dass es nun schon zwei Lesekreise zu „Totalität“ @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social gibt. Das freut mich selbstredend sehr. Sagt gern Bescheid, wenn Diskussionsbedarf besteht, ich komme gern vorbei!
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read!
research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/

Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
yawak.jp
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Is the world granular or smooth? Is the universe a raster or vector file? Will history be repeated, and if so will the second performance be a comedy? Will the fascism of tomorrow once more don the brown shirts and eagles or will it introduce itself as anti-fascism? It seems the jury is still out.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I have an analysis (in German) of the Dutch election campaign and results for the Zentrum Liberale Moderne
libmod.de/liberaler-si...
Liberaler Sieg in Zeiten der Krise - Was die niederländische Wahl für den europäischen Liberalismus bedeutet
Die niederländischen Wahlen brachten der linksliberalen D66 einen historischen Sieg – doch dahinter steht ein Land im Spannungsfeld zwischen nativistischen Tendenzen, geschwächter Linker und einer unt...
libmod.de
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Out now! Die Soziologinnen Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb und Susanne Lettow haben einen Sammelband über eigentumsbezogene Probleme in reproduktiven Ökonomien herausgegeben. Eine Vorschau auf die Beiträge ist anbei. Als Paperback und frei verfügbar unter:
www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Nächsten Dienstag, am 18. November, zeigen wir im Rahmen unserer Filmreihe den Animefilm »Prinzessin Mononoke«. Die Einführung erfolgt durch unser SFB-Mitglied Nadia Abd El Hafez, Soziologin an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt im Bereich Allgemeine Soziologie/ Soziologische Theorie.
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic"

My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
Here is the recording of the first ISHTIP online seminar of the series: "After Patent Republic".

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Currently reading Serres (Hermes I) and realising the vast depth of knowledge some people I encountered earlier on in my career must have possessed; years, decades before me—and how it is all the more horrifying to have learned in the mean time what rotten people they became.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🚨new publication🚨

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆

in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.

Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nach über 30 Jahren immer noch so aktuell wie damals:

(aus Becker, E., Jahn, T., & Wehling, P. (1992). Revolutionäre Inszenierungen—Konzepttransfer und Wissenschaftsdynamik. @prokla.bsky.social. Zeitschrift Für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 22(88), 434–450. doi.org/10.32387/pro...)
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I feel like there was a lot of crtiticism in the discourse of the Reitter translation of Capital for being depoliticized and overly Marxological, but I can't really find any now.

Does anybody have any examples of such criticism? Prefarably something more than Twitter posts!
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The precious moment when you find an economics paper and it feels like an economist has spent time doing exactly what you would hope for them to be doing.
Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.

It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!

publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
Bubble or Nothing
Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...
publicenterprise.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Some shameless self promo here. Cybernetic Capitalism now available with 25% discount and free shipping thanks to University Press Week! #UPWeek
fordhampress.com/cybernetic-c...
Cybernetic Capitalism - Jan Overwijk
Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total co...
fordhampress.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM