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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Aug 13

Deutschland droht eine Verwandlung von einer Leistungsgesellschaft hin zu einer Erfolgsgesellschaft. Mein Plädoyer für eine Vermögenssteuer anstelle immer höherer Abgaben auf Arbeitseinkommen @faznet.bsky.social

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Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaats: Warum wir eine Vermögenssteuer brauchen

Die Politik versucht, den Wohlfahrtsstaat durch höhere Abgaben auf Einkommen zu retten. Dabei wird das meiste Vermögen durch Aktien und Immobilien generiert – und sollte entsprechend besteuert werden....

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it :)

Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jul 31

A book on tech workers in Eastern Europe and Asia would be fascinating!

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jul 31

Valid question. It focuses on tech workers in the US and Germany

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · Jul 2

The anthropomorphising of AI and ourselves.

"That is the real risk: not that machines become people, but that we forget—we were never what we think we are."

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The Self That Never Was

We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary.

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The Professorship of Sociology (1985) at University of Cambridge

Apply for the The Professorship of Sociology (1985) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks 😊

Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jun 12

Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment

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Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment

This article enquires into the cosmetic procedures industry, a growing economic field which offers individuals a variety of professional services to aesthetically enhance their bodies. Expanding th...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jun 10

Sociology is mostly about choosing whether something is “structured”, “contingent”, or “performed”

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · Apr 25

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Apr 23

Excited to be in Manchester and to attend the annual conference of the British Sociological Association #britsoc25 @bsasocrel.bsky.social
At 3.30pm, I‘ll be giving a talk on the tech elite and how they entrepreneur legitimacy

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Apr 18

Interesting article on the upper-middle-class and how it has managed to end up under massive pressure in the post-liberal conjuncture

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The War on the Liberal Class - The Ideas Letter

Liberalism is under existential threat not only ideologically but materially, as the traditional liberal “New Class”—comprising professionals in academia, media, government, and culture—is systematica...

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Apr 14

Very important issue! Looking forward to reading your new article

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Apr 14

To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class?

This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy

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Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · Apr 10

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read

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‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

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Bruno Cousin @brunocousin.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks a lot to @simonkuper.bsky.social & the @financialtimes.com for this close reading of our research article on the economic elites of 16 countries, and for jump-starting the public discussion about it! The paper @bjsociology.bsky.social is avaisble here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Apr 9

Truly fascinating talk by Michèle Lamont today across the issues of recognition, class and social change. Great to have such an inspiring sociologist visiting our department @mlamont.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Apr 3

Our blog – LSE Inequalities – covers all aspects of inequalities and dividing lines such as class, race and gender. We just published our 100th post 🎉 – @norawaitkus.bsky.social on wealth inequality from a class perspective #LSEInequalitiesBlog

How to think about wealth inequality from a class perspective

What can class analysis tell us about wealth inequality? Insights from Marx, Weber and Bourdieu can help us think about wealth inequality in a more nuanced way.

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech

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Julian Heide @julianheide.bsky.social · Mar 29

CfP: Veränderungspioniere und Veränderungserschöpfte. Zur Wahrnehmung sozialen Wandels.

Auf dem Soziologiekongress im September wollen wir uns mit Wahrnehmungen sozialen Wandels beschäftigten. Einreichungen sind bis 30.04. herzlich willkommen!

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 my paper on ratings and reviews in the gig economy is out in Ethics and Information Technology. I study the ethics of Airbnb’s rating system and how it coordinates trust & power-relations between workers, consumers and the platform itself.

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fantastic, multi-faceted special issue on the phenomenon of tech work and the underexplored segment of high-paid workers in digital capitalism @vni.bsky.social #techworkers

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Trouble in paradise? : Tech work and its discontents

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1374469e145">Introducing this special issue, this article gives an overview of recent debates around tech workers i...

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · Mar 25

(Nearly) new: Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs - @robertdorschel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs

Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also the very composition of the economic field. So-called ‘green tech firms’ are successfully claiming new jurisdictional task areas related to...

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