The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions.
Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.
“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”
excellent Note by ISRF Director @cnewf.bsky.social on our Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice project, in preparation for workshop on Coercing Finance, where we explore the macrofinance/political economy of credit and sketch futures of socialised investment
isrf.org/blog/coercin...
the Grounds of Planning Part 1: Interview with John O'Neill on Neurath, Hayek, the socialist calculation debate and more
tomorrow comes Part 2: interview with Aaron Benanav
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
There will be no clean break: oil and gas will not be easy to shake off. We are, however, beginning to see a challenge to the dominance of fossil capital, and a path toward a world dominated by electricity.
Ah sorry, thanks Jacob!
no, sadly not!
„We should not view AI merely as a tool“
„we should not only criticise it‘s impact but its logic“
„We should not americanise the problem“
„we don’t need to know the specifics of algorithms to criticise them“
Open question: what forms of criticism of AI can trigger emancipatory measures?
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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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„Es ist einfach durch nichts zu rechtfertigen, dass es Milliardäre gibt.”
Eva Völpel und Sabine Nuss sprechen darüber, wie und warum wir extremen Reichtum anders besteuern sollten - aber auch, warum das alleine nicht ausreicht, wenn man Ungleichheit bekämpfen will. Hört jetzt die neue Folge von Armutszeugnis 👉 www.rosalux.de/media...
#Vermögenssteuer
Critique of AI socialization socialization Februar 16, 2026 16:00 - 18:00 Senatssaaal, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6. 10117 Berlin Topic Speakers with Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg), Roland Meyer (University of Zurich & Zurich University of the Arts), Rainer Mühlhoff (University of Osnabrück), moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld (HU Berlin)
I look forward to the roundtable “Critique of AI” on Monday with @bildoperationen.bsky.social, Rainer Mühlhoff, Matteo Pasquinelli & @cominsitu.bsky.social. Perfect timing, as it's the release week of my book Kybernetik und Kritik 🎉(@suhrkamp.de): criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...
Militärisch aufrüsten, sozial abrüsten – das ist Bastard-Keynesianismus, sagt Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social. Warum dieses Gegeneinander-Ausspielen?
Excellent piece by my colleague @cominsitu.bsky.social for our Fascism&Liberalism blog!
📖A must-read!
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟬𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀?
In this timely article, Claus Thomasberger discusses the new book by #Palantir executives Karp & Zamiska drawing on insights from Polanyi and David Graeber
👉Read here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/01/29/f...
studying the history of electricity can lead to positive impacts on society
Daniela Russ - Working Nature
A History of the Energy Economy
À paraître en avril chez Verso
🚀Our research project launched its new website! check it out here:
socializationproject.de
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁?
👉 In this new F&L blog piece, Andreas Novy explains why both “green” and “de-” growth agendas have so far proved unsuccessful in meeting climate targets - and he outlines 4 cornerstones of an anti-fascist climate politics
An epidemic of workforce demoralization? "Intensive AI use is demotivating and deskilling, fuelling boredom and mediocrity. We could even see a reverse ‘productivity J-curve’: short-term productivity gains rapidly overwhelmed by a deterioration in labour quality" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Finally made it to bluesky, just to share my conversation with Jan Groos about socialisation as transformation strategy 🙂
4 Learnings about the interconnection of fascism and liberalism: A thread 🧵
To bring the year to an end, Maie Klingenberg, @solveigdegen.bsky.social and Andreas Novy wrote a summary of all F&L blog articles that were published this year. Here are the four learnings:
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Man könnte ja zur Erkenntnis kommen, dass Profitorientierung bei Grundbedürfnissen wie Energie (Wasser, Gesundheit) prinzipiell eine schlechte Idee sind - anstatt das Aktienrecht zu "korrigieren."
Ein liberalisierter Energiemarkt stellt weder leistbare Grundversorgung noch die Energiewende sicher.
John O’Neill on Neurath’s critique of pseudorationalism in the socialist calculate debate
Great piece by @proufos.bsky.social on the historical trajection of central bank independence! 🏦
👇Read below to understand why we should not defend it as the base of economic stability and democracy
Check out Ralf’s new paper on steel socialisation: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
had a great time at the labour environmentalism conference today at @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
- learned a lot from my fellow panellists Ralf Hoffrogge and Jary Koch in our panel discussion on socialisation struggles in the coal, steel and chemical industries! ⛏️🏔️🏭👩🔬✊
Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
First @histmat.bsky.social conference – but definitely not the last!
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
