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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 2h

Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).

26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 2h

When reading management literature on introducing AI at work, Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man is still convincing. Management scholars value worker constructive critique to optimize AI implementation (“co-design” is the buzzword), but the question of whether to have AI at all is unimaginable.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 23h

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Chris O’Kane @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 23h

oh man, it's real!

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Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre

"Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre" published on 26 Mar 2026 by Brill.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

love this piece

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

“Perhaps we can leave some of the existing equipment standing here and there for archaeological purposes, some masterpieces of the bourgeois epoch, so those… after the world revolutionary explosion, can remember them.” libcom.org/article/huma...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

essential reading

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 1d

New article on facistisation/Faschisierung, published in somewhat hostile territory

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On Fascistisation and Impoverished Languages - ONCURATING

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

Wenn ich Žižek hier richtig verstehe, waren die 68er zu schamlos und die «Woken» zu totalitär, es ist kompliziert, aber auf jeden Fall sind die Linken schuld an Trump, die Liberalen aber auch, und die Antwort wäre, sich mehr um traditionelle Familienwerte zu bemühen? www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Slavoj Žižek: "Trump ist ein Faschist, aber ein libertärer Faschist"

Der Philosoph Slavoj Žižek sieht MAGA auf dem Weg in eine totalitäre Bewegung. Hier spricht er über die Zukunft des Westens – und Fehler der Linken.

www.zeit.de

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 13d

What is the land question about? Come find out!

Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 14d

Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

definitely a fun little book to argue with!

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

SOCIETY

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

making a syllabus with 500 pages of reading every week, that’s normal right?

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool!

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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 2d

🗓️ Berlin | 24.-26.10.2025
18. #MarxHerbstschule: Aspekte einer Kritik des Staats bei Marx 👇
http://marxherbstsch...

Plakat mit den Veranstaltungsdaten (als Text auf der verlinkten Webseite)

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

the only flag I’ll defend

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 2d

Postman is well known for his book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) in which he argued that television reduces complex ideas to easily digestible visual content, diminishing important topics like politics to nothing more than simplistic entertainment.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

write a review!

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

be careful what you wish for!

Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

finished

Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Apr 3

Good inspiration for me to finally finish my Fichte paper on economic planning!

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 2d

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 4d

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

www.noemamag.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘They are the most educated generation in history, but they are living through an economic slump following decades of high-speed growth. The vision of upward mobility has waned, replaced by the rat race.’

Yun Sheng on China’s Gen Z:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z

A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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