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May 10, 2026

1 hr 21 min

Apr 26, 2026

S04E03 - Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation

Apr 26, 2026

2 hr 15 min

Rodrigo Nunes on ecologies of organization and democratic transformation.

Shownotes Rodrigo Nunes

Dr. Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes at the University of Essex:

https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/NUNES97805/Rodrigo-Guimaraes%20Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio):

http://www.fil.puc-rio.br/o-departamento/corpo-docente/rodrigo-guimaraes-nunes/

Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

Nunes, R. (forthcoming, October 2026). Anatomy of Disintegration. What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right. HaymarketBooks.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2881-anatomy-of-disintegration

on ‘fidelity’ by Alain Badiou:

Badious, A. (1988-2022). Being and Event I-III.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/being-and-event-9781472511065/

on the Russian revolution:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution

on Democracia Real Ya!:

http://www.democraciarealya.org.es/

on Juventud Sin Futuro:

https://www.youtube.com/user/JuventudSINFuturo/videos

on Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamic Systems:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/complexity-theory

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/chaos-theory

Lorenz, E. N. (1975). Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSIvtZQaoMHrKUImVBH5gqn303JX0M5n/view?usp=sharing

Italian Communist Party ‘Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI):’

https://ilpartitocomunista.it/

on Circolo ARCI:

https://www.arci.it/

further reading on (Italian) communist history:

Magri, L. (2019). The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2211-the-tailor-of-ulm?srsltid=AfmBOor6D6hcoIOngJTTcfkoWSV8uvd9Ej3goiOtBlD6rkgWEqs3Zkcg

on ‘Autonomia Operaia’ and the Autonomist movement in Italy in the 70s:

Wright, S. (2017). Storming Heaven. Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/storming-heaven/

on potentia/potestas see Chapter 1 ‘Towards a Theory of Political Organisation’ of Rodrigo’s book:

Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

on Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Continua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potere_Operaio

on Partito Democratico:

https://partitodemocratico.it/

Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780816612253/Anti-Oedipus-Capitalism-Schizophrenia-Deleuze-Gilles-0816612250/plp

Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias?srsltid=AfmBOooibKTSQ_s7NTVZJ1Bvex4_8PNRx1KiVQV6nq6nEKRQZ6XA9PXP

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S04E02 - Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China

Apr 12, 2026

1 hr 19 min

Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China.

Shownotes Merle Groneweg

M.A. M.Sc. Merle Groneweg an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/ostasien/mitarbeiter-innen/personal/merle-groneweg

Merles Interview-Reihe bei Klimareporter.de zu Chinas Klima- und Umweltpolitik:

https://klimareporter.de/tag/chinas-klima-und-umweltpolitik

zur Konferenz ‘China und WIR: Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel’:

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite

zu ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ unter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen:

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs

zu Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan:

https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/

zu CREA (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air):

https://energyandcleanair.org/

zu CREAs Analyse zu Klimafolgen Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan:

https://energyandcleanair.org/chinas-15th-five-year-plan-implications-for-climate-and-energy-transition/

zu ‘civil-military integration’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93civil_fusion

zu ‘dual-use technology:’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology

zum Bereich ‘Rohstoffpolitik’ von PowerShift e.V.:

https://power-shift.de/themen/rohstoffpolitik-globale-gerechtigkeit-schaffen/

Fatheuer, T., Fuhr, L. & Unmüßig, B. (2015). Kritik der grünen Ökonomie. oekom.

https://www.oekom.de/buch/kritik-der-gruenen-oekonomie-9783865817488

zu ‘the securitization of everything’ von MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies):

https://merics.org/en/report/comprehensive-national-security-unleashed-how-xis-approach-shapes-chinas-policies-home-and

Merles Interview mit Lifei Yi in der Klimareporter.de Serie:

https://klimareporter.de/international/chinas-umweltpolitik-gibt-dem-staat-mehr-macht

Yifei Li an der NYU Shanghai:

https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/yifei-li

zu den erwähnten Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr und Infrastruktur:

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw22-de-sondervermoegen-897614

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/sondervermoegen-doku-1106000

zu ‘Special Economic Zones’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_China

Xiangming, C. (2020). Change and Continuity in Special Economic Zones: A Reassessment and Lessons from China. International Corporations Journal 26(2).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623042

zur Recycling-Kampagne in Shanghai:

https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/recycling-muelltrennung-in-shanghai

Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862

zum Vorschlag der IEA (International Energy Agency) zur Reduzierung der Autofahrten angesichts der Weltölkrise:

https://www.iea.org/news/new-iea-report-highlights-options-to-ease-oil-price-pressures-on-consumers-in-response-to-middle-east-supply-disruptions

zu Merles Interview mit Client Earth bei Klimareporter.de:

https://klimareporter.de/international/china-hat-erhebliche-fortschritte-im-umweltrecht-gemacht

zu Client Earth:

https://www.clientearth.org/

zur European Union CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) Policy:

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism_en

zu Zollpolitik zwischen China und dem ‘Globalen Süden’:

Adachi, A. (2025). The Global South in the wake of China's economic surplus: Industrial challenges for developing countries and policy recommendations for the EU. BKHS Perspectives.

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/fileadmin/BKHS_Perspectives_25_09_The_Global_South_in_the_wake_of_China_s_economic_surplus.pdf

zum Sprichwort ‘Frauen tragen die Hälfte des Himmels’:

https://ostasieninstitut.com/bibliothek/sprichwoerter-ostasiens/frauen-tragen-die-haelfte-des-himmels-%E5%A5%B3%E4%BA%BA%E8%83%BD%E9%A1%B6%E5%8D%8A%E8%BE%B9%E5%A4%A9%E3%80%82-nuren-neng-ding-ban-biantian/

zu den UN Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen und zur Armutsbekämpfung in China:

https://www.un.org/german/sites/default/files/2024-09/MDG%25202015%2520web.pdf

https://progressive.international/blueprint/16a350d7-9d05-49d6-b855-5de756f52963-pro-poor-development-how-china-eradicated-poverty/de/

zum ‘New International Economic Order’ für die Reformierung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order

https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-new-international-economic-order-useful-history-for-a-multipolar-world

zur Afrikanischen Gruppe (African Group) der United Nations:

https://www.africanunion-un.org/africangroup

zum GATT Abkommen 1947 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade):

https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_e.htm

zu Deng Xiaoping und seiner Öffnungspolitik :

https://www.bpb.de/themen/asien/china/44262/portraet-deng-xiaoping/

zum IAA (Industrial Accelerator Act):

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/growth/items/928572/en

zum IRA (Inflation Reduction Act):

https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022

zum Third World Network-Africa:

https://www.twnafrica.org/

zur 14. WTO-Ministerkonferenz in Yaoundé, Kamerun:

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/576435/14-wto-ministerkonferenz-in-yaounde/

von Redecker, E. (2026). Dieser Drang nach Härte. Über den neuen Faschismus. S. Fischer.

https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240

der Newsletter 'China & Infrastruktur' von urgewald fasst seit 2020 alle Kenntnisse und neuen Entwicklungen in diesem Bereich zusammen:

https://www.urgewald.org/newsletter-china-infrastruktur

Merles Reise nach Shangai wurde u.a. ermöglicht durch das EU-China NGO Twinning Programm der Stiftung Asienhaus:

https://www.asienhaus.de/china/unsere-arbeit/projekt-eu-china-twinning

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Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism.

Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero

Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham:

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/

Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749

Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061

Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379514594_The_land_question_and_postcapitalist_countrysides_towards_a_town-country_synthesis

on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx:

Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3).

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/

Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35192/capital-by-karl-marx-intro-ernest-mandel-trans-ben-fowkes/9780140445688

Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058

Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655

on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’:

Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism

Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life

Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291

Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/

on the Oskar-Lange-Model:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_model

Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-reproduction/BE9B0DBDC89593F3284FE3F51D3B0418

on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’:

Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-i/paper

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal?srsltid=AfmBOoqNKlXZJs9HrqEBU4BlAF7hbaxEzAOWD1oQCV6M_Kwtg5n9xOcO

on Otto Neurath’s political economy:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/political-economy.html

on the quote by Otto Neurath:

Otto Neurath in O'Neill, J. (2003) ‘Socialism, Associations and the Market’, Economy and Society 32(2): 184–206

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249006144_Socialism_associations_and_the_market

on Friedrich Hayek’s argument against centralized planning:

Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review 35(4), 519-530.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hayek-opposes-centralized-economic-planning

Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294231220690?

Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press.

https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf

Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books.

https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute

Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1

Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning

Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980

Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva.

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429

on Barcelona En Comú:

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/

on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1

on the Socialist party of Catalonia:

https://www.socialistes.cat/

on the airport expansion in Barcelona:

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain

on the paper by Union Populaire:

https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/

on the quote from Mike Davis:

Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz?srsltid=AfmBOor1VtvQMJu_87qS8EDz0EcwP9KABUrajgH5LX2pdFNXWVC5Su6B

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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

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S03E60 - Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China

Mar 15, 2026

1 hr 57 min

Felix Wemheuer zu Staatskapitalismus, Planwirtschaft und unserer Zukunft mit China.

Shownotes Felix Wemheuer

Prof. Dr. Felix Wemheuer (Lehrstuhl für Moderne China-Studien) an der Universität zu Köln:

https://chinastudien.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/arbeitsbereiche/moderne-china-studien/personal/prof-dr-felix-wemheuer

Fuchs, D., Klotzbücher, S., Riemenschnitter, A., Springer, L., & Wemheuer, F. (2023). Die Zukunft mit China denken. Mandelbaum.

https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/daniel-fuchs-sascha-klotzbuecher-andrea-riemenschnitter-lena-springer-felix-wemheuer/die-zukunft-mit-china-denken/

Konferenz 'CHINA und WIR - Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel':

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/anmeldung

Kritisches China Forum:

https://kritisches-chinaforum.org/

Youtube Kanal ‘Studying Maoist China’:

https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051

zum ‘Chinesischen Traum’:

https://www.readingthechinadream.com/

Leese, D. & Ming, S. (2023). Chinesisches Denken der Gegenwart. Schlüsseltexte zu Politik und Gesellschaft. C. H. Beck.

https://www.chbeck.de/leese-ming-chinesisches-denken-gegenwart/product/34659702

Fukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History? The National Interest.

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/courses/pdf/Fukuyama%20-%20End%20of%20History.pdf

zu China als ‘Werkbank der Welt’:

https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/izpb/china-337/275570/von-der-werkbank-der-welt-zur-innovationswirtschaft/

zu Authoritarian Resilience:
Nathan, A. J. (2003). China’s Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience. Journal of Democracy 14(1), 6-17.

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/chinas-changing-of-the-guard-authoritarian-resilience/

zu ‘Chimerica’:
Ferguson, N., & Schularick, M. (2007). ‘Chimerica’ and the global asset market boom. International Finance, 10(3), 215-239.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2362.2007.00210.x

Grundlagen zu Staatskapitalismus (in China):

https://www.lpb-bw.de/china-wirtschaft

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatskapitalismus

zu Mao Zedong:
Wemheuer, F. (2021). Mao Zedong. Rowohlt Verlag.

https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/felix-wemheuer-mao-zedong-9783644010192?srsltid=AfmBOopJE_AXx57LiheMHh9YOyy-Tl3MVKPkWznaGGKMUFlvtnj058-X

zur Mao-Ära:
Wemheuer, F. (2019). A Social History of Maoist China. Conflict and Change, 1949-76. Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-history-of-maoist-china/6D2579E4BA68B4C8DACB08F8AAC9809A

zur Wirtschaftsreform 1978 nach dem Tod Maos:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform-_und_%C3%96ffnungspolitik

Weber, I. (2021). How China escaped shock therapy. The market reform debate. Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493

zur erwähnten ‘Eisernen Reisschüssel’:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiserne_Reissch%C3%BCssel

zum Zitat Engels:
Engels, F. (1880). Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft. manifest.

https://manifest-buecher.de/produkt/entwicklung-des-sozialismus-von-der-utopie-zur-wissenschaft/

zur Neuen Ökonomische Politik:
Bergmann, T. & Schäfer, G. (1989). Liebling der Partei. VSA.

https://www.zvab.com/Liebling-Partei-BergmannSch%C3%A4fer-Hg-Hamburg-VSA-Verl/30757362947/bd

Wemheuer, F. (2021). Marktsozialismus. Eine kontroverse Debatte. Promedia.

https://mediashop.at/buecher/marktsozialismus/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205516/http:/www.mlwerke.de/le/le33/le33_453.htm

zu den Kommandohöhen der Wirtschaft:
Yergin, D. & Stanislaw, J. (1998). The Commanding Heights. The battle for the world economy. Simon & Schuster.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Commanding-Heights/Daniel-Yergin/9780684835693

zum Fall Jack Ma und Alibaba:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma

https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/interpol-red-notice-police-warrant-jack-ma/

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000125770730/kurssprung-von-alibaba-aufatmen-nach-rekordstrafe

Einschätzung der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Chinas:
Wemheuer, F. (2022). Chinas große Umwälzung. Soziale Konflikte und Aufstieg im Weltsystem. PapyRossa.

https://shop.papyrossa.de/Wemheuer-Chinas-grosse-Umwaelzung

zu Hartmut Elsenhans:

https://hartmutelsenhans.net/

zu Hartmut Elsenhans’ Konzept der Staatsklassen:
Elsenhans, H. (1997). Staatsklassen. In: Schulz, M. (eds) Entwicklung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-91011-0_9

Wallerstein, I. (1974 [2012]). The modern world-system I-IV. ProMedia Verlag.

https://mediashop.at/buecher/das-moderne-weltsystem-i-iv/

zu den ‘Panama Papers’:

https://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/

zu Xi Jinping:
Rudd, K. (2024). On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist nationalism is shaping China and the world. Oxford Universtity Press.

https://academic.oup.com/book/58156

Torigian, J. (2025). The Party’s interest come first: The life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping. Stanford University Press.

https://www.sup.org/books/history/partys-interests-come-first

zum ‘Sozialismus mit chinesischer Besonderheit’:
Boer, R. (2021). Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Springer Singapore.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-1622-8

https://jungle.world/artikel/2017/44/der-kern-der-fuehrung

zu Wen Jiabao:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wen-Jiabao

zu den Reformen Yugoslawiens und Ungarns:

https://www.akweb.de/gesellschaft/planwirtschaft-und-marktmechanismen/

zu Josib Broz Tito:

https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/josip-broz-tito

zum Fünfjahresplan:

https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausland/china-fuenfjahresplan-kommunistische-partei-strategie-100.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China

zum Xi-thought:

https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/political-thought-xi-jinping

zu den Reichswerken Hermann Göring:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichswerke_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hitlers-holding-die-reichswerke-hermann-goering-100.html

zur Verstaatlichung Renaults in Frankreich:

https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1405644

zur Britischen Labour Regierung nach 1945:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britische_Unterhauswahl_1945

zu Hu Jintao:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hu-Jintao

zu Jiang Zemin:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jiang-Zemin

Überblick politisches System in China:

https://www.bpb.de/themen/asien/china/44270/charakteristika-des-politischen-systems/

Überblick chinesischer Führungskräfte:
Shambaugh, D. (2021). China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now. Polity Press.

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=chinas-leaders-from-mao-to-now--9781509546510

zu Neokonfuzianismus und der ‘neuen Linken’:

https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/10/solidaritaet-mit-wem

https://chinabooksreview.com/2024/05/16/how-chinas-new-left-embraced-the-state/

zu den Ereignissen in Xingjiang und Hongkong:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/china#d22098

zum erwähnten Spiegel-Artikel:

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/china-abschied-eines-korrespondenten-das-regime-steht-bombenfest-a-0b653e07-092a-41fc-a9c4-8edee76044c5

Xi, J. (2014-2025). The Governance of China I-V.

http://english.scio.gov.cn/featured/xigovernance/node_7248444.htm

zum Machtwechsel in Kuba:

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/264845/zehn-jahre-machtwechsel-in-kuba

zu Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algerien:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abdelaziz-Bouteflika

zur Kulturrevolution:

https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/228467/kulturrevolution-in-china/

zu den linksdissidentischen Strömungen der Kulturrevolution:
Wu, Y. (2019). Die andere Kulturrevolution. 1966-169: Der Anfang vom Ende des chinesischen Sozialismus. (R. Ruckus, Übers.). Mandelbaum Verlag.

https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/wu-yiching/die-andere-kulturrevolution/

Orwell, G. (1945 [2022]). Animal Farm.

zu Hu Yaobang:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hu-Yaobang

zur Institutionalisierung und Demokratiebewegung unter Hu Yaobang:

https://pekinger-fruehling.univie.ac.at/die-demokratiebewegung-1978-1981/hu-yaobang-und-die-demokratiebewegung/

zum ‘Fragend schreiten wir voran’ Motto der zapatistischen Bewegung:

https://www.suedwind-magazin.at/fragend-schreiten-wir-voran/

zur Debatte innerhalb der deutschen Linken:

https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/10/solidaritaet-mit-wem

zur Streikwelle 2010 in China:

https://www.bbc.com/news/10389762

zu Arbeitskämpfen in China:

https://www.gongchao.org/

zu den Bewegungen in Hongkong:

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/296970/massenproteste-in-hongkong/

Demirović, A. (2025). Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik. Dietz.

https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/marx-als-demokrat-oder-das-ende-der-politik/

zu Gramsi und ‘Hegemonialer Block’:
Cox, R. (1996). Gramsci, Hegemony, and International Relations. Approaches to World Order, 124-41.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03058298830120020701

zum Tiananmen Massaker:

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/taegliche-dosis-politik/549121/vor-35-jahren-tiananmen-massaker-in-peking/

zum geopolitischen Hintergrund Venezuela – China – USA:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly92dkxqvko

zur Iranischen Revolution (1979):

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

Zhao, T. (2025). Alles unter dem Himmel. Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Weltordnung. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zhao-tingyang-alles-unter-dem-himmel-t-9783518298824

Kang, Y. (1935 [2020]). Die große Gemeinschaft. Drachenhaus.

https://www.drachenhaus-verlag.com/products/die-grosse-gemeinschaft

Thematisch angrenzende Folgen

S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/

S02E54 | Alex Demirovic zu sozialistischer Gouvernementalität, (Re-)produktion und Rätedemokratie (Teil 2)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e54-alex-demirovic-zu-sozialistischer-gouvernementalitaet-re-produktion-und-raetedemokratie-teil-2/

S02E53 | Alex Demirovic zu sozialistischer Gouvernementalität, (Re-)produktion und Rätedemokratie (Teil 1)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e53-alex-demirovic-zu-sozialistischer-gouvernementalitaet-re-produktion-und-raetedemokratie-teil-1/

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Episode Keywords

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Mar 15, 2026

1 hr 57 min

Mar 1, 2026

S03E59 - Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning

Mar 1, 2026

1 hr 15 min

Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.

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Shownotes

Cédric at the University of Geneva (includes a list of his publications):

https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand

Cédric’s personal website:

https://durandcedric.wordpress.com/

Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2026 forthcoming). Das Prinzip Verzweigung. Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dietz.

https://dietzberlin.de/verlagsprogramm-fruehjahr-2026

Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2024). Comment bifurquer. Les principes de la planification écologique. La Découverte.

https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/comment_bifurquer-9782355221910

Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., Schmelzer, M. (2024). Planning Beyond Growth. The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 437.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623045092?via%3Dihub

Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2022). Planning without Political Constraint imposed on Economic Actors is not real Planning. Verso Blog.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5469-planning-without-political-constraint-imposed-on-economic-actors-is-not-real-planning

on Karl William Kapp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_William_Kapp

on Friedrich Hayek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

O’Neill, J. (2002). Socialist Calculation and Environmental Valuation. Money, Markets and Ecology. Science & Society, 66(1).

http://gesd.free.fr/oneill.pdf

on La Planification Ècologique in France:

https://www.info.gouv.fr/grand-dossier/france-nation-verte

the Secrétariat général à la planification écologique (SGPE):

https://lannuaire.service-public.gouv.fr/gouvernement/6af2c8c4-bdf7-405c-bd9e-ed48dad83b96

Viennot, M. (2025). La planification écologique. La Découverte.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm

Pisani-Ferry, J. & Mahfouz, S. (2023). The Economic Implications of Climate Action. A Repot to the French Prime Minister. France Stratégie.

https://www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/en/publications/economic-implications-climate-action

Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias

on the Inflation Reduction Act:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act

on the Developmental State concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_state

Zhou, Z., Ou, J., Li, S. (2016). Ecological Accounting. A Research Review and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Protection. 7. 643-655.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301270365_Ecological_Accounting_A_Research_Review_and_Conceptual_Framework

on Citizen’s Assemblies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly

on Michel Husson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Husson

on the Commanding Heights of the Economy concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_heights_of_the_economy

on the British Wartime Economy during the Second World War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_home_front_during_World_War_II

on Economic Planning in France after the Second World War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning_in_France

Ali, S. (1969). Economic Planning in France 1945–1965. A Brief Review. The Punjab University Economist, 7(1), 51–69.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25821321

on Malthusianism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

on Degrowth:

https://degrowth.info

on Jason Hickel:

www.jasonhickel.org

on Giorgos Kallis:

https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17610/giorgos-kallis/

Jackson, T., Hickel, J., Kallis, G. (2024). Confronting the Dilemma of Growth. A Response to Warlenius (2023). Ecological Economics, Vol. 220.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180092300352X?via%3Dihub

Zeug, W., Heyer, J., Lutosch, H. (2025). Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning & Holistic Accounting. An Economic Framework to Achieve Sustainable Societal Metabolisms.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393790658_Cybernetic_Democratic_Economic_Planning_Holistic_Accounting_-_An_Economic_Framework_to_Achieve_Sustainable_Societal_Metabolisms

on the Holistic and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (HILCSA):

https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=50083

on Ecosystem Services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service

O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F. et al. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability 1, 88–95.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4

Fehér, F., Heller, A., Márkus, G. (1983). Dictatorship Over Needs. Blackwell.

https://archive.org/details/dictatorshipover0000fehe/page/n5/mode/2up

Keucheyan, R. (2024). Ágnes Heller’s Theory of Need Is a Vital Political Tool. Jacobin.

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/agnes-heller-philosophy-marxism-needs

on Planetary Boundaries:

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html

on Wassily Leontief:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Leontief

on the Input-Output Model in Economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model

on the Berlin Housing Campaign for Socializing Housing owned by Big Real Estate Companies:

https://dwenteignen.de/en

on Socialization in the Energy Sector:

https://communia.de/en/energy-power-transformation/

on the New International Economic Order (NIEO):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order

on the Banque de France:

https://www.banque-france.fr/en

on the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE):

https://www.insee.fr/en/information/2107702

on the Direction Générale des Entreprises:

https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/

Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics

S3E55 | Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e55-kim-stanley-robinson-on-real-utopian-futures

S03E54 | Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e54-rabea-berfelde-on-socialisation/

S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/

S02E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e24-grace-blakeley-on-capitalist-planning-and-its-alternatives/

S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/

S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/

S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/

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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

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Episode Keywords

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Mar 1, 2026

1 hr 15 min

Feb 15, 2026

S03E58 - Anna-Verena Nosthoff zu Kybernetik und Kritik

Feb 15, 2026

1 hr 24 min

Anna-Verena Nosthoff zu Kybernetik und Kritik, digitaler Regierungskunst und der Rolle der Plattformen.

Future Histories LIVE

Das Gespräch mit Anna-Verena Nosthoff ist Teil des Formats ‚Future Histories LIVE‘. In unregelmäßigen Abständen werden hierbei einzelne Episoden live – soll heißen vor Publikum – aufgezeichnet. Diese Folge Future Histories ist am 26. Januar 2026 in Zusammenarbeit des Future Histories Lab mit dem Critical Data Lab entstanden und wurde im Medientheater an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aufgenommen.

Shownotes

Anna-Verena Nosthoff an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (inkl. Publikationsliste):

https://uol.de/philosophie/mitarbeiterinnen/prof-dr-anna-verena-nosthoff

das Critical Data Lab:

https://www.criticaldatalab.org/anna-verena-nosthoff

Nosthoff, A-V. (2026). Kybernetik und Kritik: Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungkunst. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-verena-nosthoff-kybernetik-und-kritik-t-9783518300794

Nosthoff, Anna-Verena und Felix Maschewski. 2019. Die Gesellschaft der Wearables. Berlin: Nicolai Publishung:

https://nicolai-publishing.com/products/die-gesellschaft-der-wearables

zu Shintaro Myazaki:

https://medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prof-dr-shintaro-miyazaki/

Foucault, M. (1977-1979 [2006]). Geschichte der Gouvernementalität - Band I und II. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-geschichte-der-gouvernementalitaet-t-9783518068441

zu Erich Hörl:

https://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam/personen/erich-hoerl.html

zu Claus Pias:

https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/zeit-der-kybernetik-eine-einstimmung-385

zu Benjamin Seibel:

https://citylab-berlin.org/de/benjamin-seibel/

Seibel, B. (2016). Cybernetic Government: Informationstechnologie und Regierungsrationalität von 1943-1970. Springer-Verlag.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-12490-8

zu Norbert Wiener:

https://monoskop.org/Norbert_Wiener

Wiener, N. (1948 [1985]). Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. The M.I.T. Press.

https://ia801003.us.archive.org/9/items/cybernetics-or-communication-and-control-in-the-animal-and-the-machine-norbert-wiene-ocr/Cybernetics%20or%20Communication%20and%20Control%20in%20the%20Animal%20and%20the%20Machine%20-%20Norbert%20Wiene_OCR.pdf

Zuboff, S. (2018). Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus. campus.

https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wirtschaft-gesellschaft/wirtschaft/das_zeitalter_des_ueberwachungskapitalismus-15097.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqyy_ijK9Oex1CtRyQZwmE3BdQ30H2b_yc3-PlNDSxqwbXecaDb

Lyotard, J-F. (1974 [1984]). Libidinöse Ökonomie. Diaphenes.

https://www.diaphanes.de/titel/libidinoese-oekonomie-109

zu Claude Shannon:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

Shannon, C. E. & Weaver, W. (1964). The mathematical theory of communication. University of Illinois Press.

https://monoskop.org/images/b/be/Shannon_Claude_E_Weaver_Warren_The_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication_1963.pdf

Deutsch, K. W. (1969). Politische Kybernetik: Modelle und Perspektiven. Rombach Verlag.

https://d-nb.info/456333991/04

zum Homeostat von William Ross Ashby:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat

zum Zitat von Steve Bannon ‘flood the zone with shit’:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/flood-the-zone-warum-trumps-flut-an-dekreten-und-provokationen-methode-hat-100.html

zu Palantir:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

zu Jürgen Habermas:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas

zu Mastodon:

https://mastodon.world/explore

zu Eric Schmidt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

Robins, K., & Webster, F. (1988). Cybernetic capitalism: Information, technology, everyday life. In V. Mosco & J. Wasko (eds.). The political economy of information. University of Wisconsin Press.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Robins-2/publication/282816878_cybernetic_capitalism_Information_technology_everyday_life/links/561d36c708aecade1acb365e/cybernetic-capitalism-Information-technology-everyday-life.pdf

Baudrillard, J. (1983). Der symbolische Tausch und der Tod. Matthes & Seitz Berlin.

https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/der-symbolische-tausch-und-der-tod.html

zu Gilles Deleuze:

https://brill.com/display/title/39900?language=de&srsltid=AfmBOoonpAe9aAERETg25wTxqOH2oWqf-8nHgpMSxX_iLoArUS_V3l8u

zu Jaques Derrida:

https://monoskop.org/Jacques_Derrida

zu Stafford Beer:

https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer

zum erwähnten Projekt ‘Cybersyn’ in Chile:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/project-cybersyn-chiles-radical-experiment-in-cybernetic-socialism/

zum erwähnten ‘Laboria Cuboniks’-Kollektiv:

https://monoskop.org/Laboria_Cuboniks

Gebru, T., & Torres, Émile P. (2024). The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence. First Monday, 29(4).

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636

zu Stewart Brand:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

zu Slava Gerovitch:

https://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/gerovitch-cv.html

Klaus, G. (1973). Kybernetik – eine neue Universalwissenschaft der Gesellschaft? Akademie-Verlag Berlin.
http://www.max-stirner-archiv-leipzig.de/dokumente/KlausKybernetik.pdf

zum Gesetz über digitale Dienste (DSA):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_%C3%BCber_digitale_Dienste

zu Salome Viljoen:

https://www.salomeviljoen.com/

Virilio, P. (2009). Der integrale Unfall. transcript.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839407219-001/pdf?licenseType=restricted&srsltid=AfmBOopKQ_tu9OPZ4VAcVzfGybsk3gwqub83XcQ-QYyJxxNWAmnlWU-c

Pentland, A. (2014). Social physics: how good ideas spread-the lessons from a new science. Penguin.

https://books.google.at/books/about/Social_Physics.html?id=KAL5AgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

Pentland, A. (2014a). Social physics: How social networks can make us smarter. Penguin.

https://archive.org/details/socialphysicshow0000pent

zu Felix Maschewski:

https://www.criticaldatalab.org/felix-maschewski

Thematisch angrenzende Folgen

S03E40 | Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory

https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e40-jan-overwijk-on-cybernetic-capitalism-and-critical-systems-theory/

S03E28 | Silke van Dyk zu alternativer Gouvernementalität

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e28-silke-van-dyk-zu-alternativer-gouvernementalitaet/

S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/

S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e22-anna-verena-nosthoff-und-felix-maschewski-zu-digitaler-verfuehrung-sozialer-kontrolle-und-der-gesellschaft-der-wearables/

S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/

S01E01 | Benjamin Seibel zu Kybernetik

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e01-benjamin-seibel-zu-kybernetik/

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Feb 15, 2026

1 hr 24 min

Feb 1, 2026

S03E57 - Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons

Feb 1, 2026

1 hr 8 min

Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.

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Shownotes

Yanis’ website:

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/

Raphael’s website:

https://rarar.com/

Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:

https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/

Hirad’s website:

https://hiradsab.com/

the Monetary Commons website:

https://monetarycommons.com/

Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095

Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/

on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:

https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.html

on Wolfgang Schäuble:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble

Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.

https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf

on IOU’s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU

on the Money Market Multiplier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier

on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/

on the Digital Renminbi in China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

on Universal Basic Income (UBI):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdf

on fiat money:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/

on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html

on the distributed ledger technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger

Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion

McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools

Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578

on citizen’s assemblies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly

on the International Monetary Fund (IMF):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund

on the Digital Euro:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html

the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/

on the Meidner Plan:

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-plan

on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-economic-and-policy-experts-think-about-the-u-s-governments-stake-in-intel

on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):

https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980

on Ursula K. Le Guin:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin

the speech including the mentioned quote by her:

https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2E

on the 1973 Coup in Chile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

on Fernando Haddad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddad

on pix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis

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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/

S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/

S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/

S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturen

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e34-tante-zu-crypto-imaginaries-und-alternativen-technologischen-infrastrukturen/

S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning System

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e28-marcus-meindel-zum-global-commoning-system/

S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismus

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/

S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e34-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-2/

S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e33-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-1/

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Feb 1, 2026

1 hr 8 min

Jan 18, 2026

S03E56 - Miriam Lang zu Systemalternativen jenseits des Entwicklungsparadigmas

Jan 18, 2026

2 hr 29 sec

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Future Histories LIVE in Berlin! Am 26.1. spreche ich mit der großartigen Anna-Verena Nosthoff über ihr neues Buch "Kybernetik und Kritik" (Suhrkamp Verlag) im Medientheater der Humboldt-Universität.

Beginn: 18:30
Ort: Georgenstraße 47, Berlin

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Miriam Lang zu Systemalternativen jenseits des Entwicklungsparadigmas.

Shownotes

Miriam Lang an der Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar:

https://www.uasb.edu.ec/docente/miriam-lang-id907/

Global Working Group Beyond Development:

https://beyonddevelopment.net/

Pacto EcoSocial e Intercultural del Sur:

https://pactoecosocialdelsur.com/

Lang, M., Manahan, M. A., & Bringel, B. (Hrsg.). (2025). Grüner Kolonialismus. Zwischen Energiewende und globaler Gerechtigkeit. oekom Verlag.

https://www.oekom.de/buch/gruener-kolonialismus-9783987261671

Hoffman, O. (2025). Polykrise. Anatomie eines globalen Zusammenbruchs. Warum alle Krisen zusammenhängen - und was das für unsere Zukunft bedeutet. Königshausen & Neumann.

https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826093883-polykrise/

zu Intersektionalität:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersektionalit%C3%A4t

Acosta, A. (2015). Buen vivir. Vom Recht auf ein gutes Leben. oekom Verlag.

https://www.oekom.de/buch/buen-vivir-9783865817051

zum „Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts“:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialismus_des_21._Jahrhunderts

Peters, S. (2019). Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts in Venezuela. Aufstieg und Fall der Bolivarischen Revolution von Hugo Chávez. Schmetterling Verlag.

https://schmetterling-verlag.de/produkt/sozialismus-des-21-jahrhunderts-in-venezuela/

zur Gesamtamerikanischen Freihandelszone ALCA:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische_Freihandelszone

zum zapatistischen Aufstand in Chiapas:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas-Konflikt

zur CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONAIE

zu BRICS:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

zur UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_S%C3%BCdamerikanischer_Nationen

zu Hugo Chávez:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez

zu Rafael Correa:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Correa

zu Álvaro García Linera:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Garc%C3%ADa_Linera

zu Evo Morales:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales

Barié, C. G. (2022). Representation of Indigenous Peoples in Times of Progressive Governments. Lessons Learned from Bolivia. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 17(2), 167–192.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17442222.2020.1839225

zum Ministerium der Kultur, Dekolonialisierung und Depatriarchalisierung in Bolivien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Cultures_(Bolivia)

zu Extraktivismus:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraktivismus

Riofrancos, T. (2025). Extraction. The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. W.W. Norton.

https://www.theariofrancos.com/extraction

zur PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Socialista_Unido_de_Venezuela

de Sousa Santos, B. (2018). Epistemologien des Südens. Gegen die Hegemonie des westlichen Denkens. Unrast Verlag.

https://www.isbn.de/buch/9783897712423/epistemologien-des-suedens

zu Daniel Noboa:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Noboa

zum Schuldenaudit in Ecuador in 2007:

https://www.debtforclimate.org/post/8-2008-ecuador-buys-back-its-own-debt-after-audit

zur Bank des Südens:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_des_S%C3%BCdens

zur ALBA (Bolivarianische Allianz für die Völker unseres Amerika – Handelsvertrag der Völker):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianische_Allianz_f%C3%BCr_Amerika

zum Consejo Nacional para la Igualdad de Género (Nationaler Rat für Geschlechtergleichstellung):

https://www.igualdadgenero.gob.ec/

Amin, S. (1990). Delinking. Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/delinking-9780862328030/

zum informellen Sektor der Wirtschaft:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informelle_Wirtschaft

zu Commoning:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoning

Aguilar, R. G. (2024). In Defense of Common Life. The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Common Notions.

https://www.commonnotions.org/in-defense-of-common-life

Kothari. A. et al. (Hrsg.). (2024). Pluriversum. Ein Lexikon des Guten Lebens für alle. AG SPAK Bücher.

https://www.agspak.de/pluriversum/

zu J.K. Gibson Graham, Community Economies und Diverse Economies:

https://www.communityeconomies.org/people/jk-gibson-graham

zu Ashish Kothari:

https://ashishkothari.in/

zu demokratischem Konföderalismus:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokratischer_Konf%C3%B6deralismus

Gibson-Graham, J.K. & Dombroski, K. (Hrsg.). (2020). The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Edward Elgar.

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html

van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.

https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/

London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group (1979). In and Against the State. Discussion Notes for Socialists. Pluto Press.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/in-and-against-the-state/

zu Public-Commons Partnerships:

https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership

zu Aníbal Quijano:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano

Krüger, T. (2024). Munizipalismus. In: Eckardt, F. (Hrsg.). Handbuch Stadtsoziologie. Springer VS.

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-658-42419-0_45-1

Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/

zum gescheiterten Staatsstreich in Venezuela in 2002:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_attempt

Fackler, M. (2023). Indigene Autonomie in Lateinamerika. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und staatlicher Kontrolle. transcipt.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5798-2/indigene-autonomie-in-lateinamerika/

zum Kooperativennetzwerk Cecosesola:

https://cecosesola.org/

zum Valley to Valley Projekt:

https://valleytovalley.org/

Bennholdt-Thomsen, V. & Mies, M. (1997). Eine Kuh für Hillary. Die Subsistenzperspektive. Verlag Frauenoffensive.

https://archive.org/details/Subsistenzperspektive/mode/2up

zu Bürgerräten in Deutschland:

https://www.buergerrat.de/buergerraete/bundesweite-buergerraete/

zur Mink'a:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minka_(communal_work)

Fressoz, J-B. (2025). More and More and More. An All Consuming History.Penguin.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145/more-and-more-and-more-by-fressoz-jean-baptiste/9781802067316

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S03E35 | Andreas Folkers zu Nachhaltigkeit, Resilienz und gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e35-andreas-folkers-zu-nachhaltigkeit-resilienz-und-gesellschaftlichen-naturverhaeltnissen/

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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/

S03E28 | Silke van Dyk zu alternativer Gouvernementalität

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e28-silke-van-dyk-zu-alternativer-gouvernementalitaet/

S03E18 | Indigo Drau und Jonna Klick zu Revolution als Commonisierung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e18-indigo-drau-und-jonna-klick-zu-revolution-als-commonisierung/

S03E16 | Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer Ökologie

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e16-daniela-russ-zu-energie-wirtschaft-und-produktivistischer-oekologie/

S02E49 | Elisa Loncón Antileo on Plurinational Constitutionalism

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e49-elisa-loncon-antileo-on-plurinational-constitutionalism/

S02E13 | Tine Haubner und Silke van Dyk zu Community-Kapitalismus

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e13-tine-haubner-und-silke-van-dyk-zu-community-kapitalismus/

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Jan 18, 2026

2 hr 29 sec

Jan 4, 2026

S03E55 - Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures

Jan 4, 2026

1 hr 8 min

Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Real Utopian Futures.

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Shownotes

The reference page on Kim Stanley Robinson, his works, interviews, talks, etc. (including a discussion forum):

https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/

Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books.

https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780356508863/

Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit Books.

https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/new-york-2140/9780356508788/

Robinson, K. S. (1988). The Gold Coast. Macmillan.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312890377/thegoldcoast/

Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate Barbarism. Adapting to a wrong World. Constellations, 30, 162–178.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12596

the quoted Kohei Saito video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=SdfPftKOCJM6MS9j

the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”:

https://youtu.be/HpzXkpx29S4?si=PVlOE53Hj5-BZR5B

reporting on and summary of the talk:

https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/the-war-on-science-is-here-kim-stanley-robinson-says-its-just-the-beginning/

Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750500108237

for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory:

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/

on Anna Kornbluh:

http://www.annakornbluh.com/

on Mass Extinction Events:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html

Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves

on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal:

https://www.cop28.com/en/thought-leadership/The-30x30-Biodiversity-Goal-at-COP28

the International Maritime Organization:

https://www.imo.org/

on the ‘Half-Earth Project’:

https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/

Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books.

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492525

Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2650-half-earth-socialism

one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times:

https://youtu.be/p1wNhc46xjE?si=hOdKuwRQhef-9tLs

on the Turing Test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left:

Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism

on Friedrich Hayek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110365481.20/html

on Keynesianism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics

Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press.

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ascendancy-of-finance--9781509509294

Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.

https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf

on Thomas Piketty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty

on Gabriel Zucman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman

on the ‘Zucman tax’: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2025/09/23/zucman-tax-what-the-proposed-wealth-tax-would-mean-for-france_6745653_8.html

on Carbon Taxes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax

Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578

Sarkar, S. (2024). The Carbon Coin. An Eco-Speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Green Letters, 28(4), 297–310.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2025.2483998

A policy proposal on ‘Carbon Reward’ from the same researcher whose earlier policy work inspired the ‘Carbon Coin’ idea in The Ministry for the Future:

https://deltonchen.substack.com/p/new-economic-blueprint-for-resolving