A new episode of Future Histories Live!
This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.
Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.
Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
this is so sad … Asad was such an incisive thinker & wonderful human being. he joined us for the 2021 Summer School in Critical Theory on solidarity & our discussions on Stuart Hall still echo in my mind. a video of the public panel with him is here:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fou...
Being digitally alone, then, is not merely a social condition but a method of relating to oneself. In conversation with a chatbot, loneliness becomes visible as this existential condition is translated into text and archived, interaction after interaction. For some, this aids in the unfurling of patterns they could not otherwise name; it might surface feelings they would rather keep private. Technology mediates a fundamental, familiar act: talking to oneself via another. And what begins as a private exchange soon reveals itself as a social system, reflecting both the self as well as the architectures of isolation that shape us all.
not clear if the loneliness becomes visible to the chatbot user, though it certainly becomes visible to tech companies, who have incentive to perpetuate it
datasociety.net/points/all-t...
Oh shit, it's already 1 December here in Australia. Best get writing!
Great looking event with @robin-c.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social and Teresa Koloma Beck at diffrakt for @blnreview.bsky.social, discussing Dirk’s piece on critical theory (vor allem in Deutschland?) after Gaza
blnreview.de/events/educa...
CfA for our next summer school is now online on our website. Our Benjamin Chair Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lillian Cicerchia, Maeve Cooke & Massimiliano Tomba will join us to discuss concepts of history and human agency.
More information and application form: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
Save the date: I am very excited to be part of this roundtable with some amazing colleagues — on February 16 at HU Berlin, Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social and yours truly will discuss our perspectives on the «Critique of AI», moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld
Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
Learned so much from my exchange with Rosaura Martinez Ruiz on surplus populations and authoritarianism - the first of our transnational and transconceptual dialogues on the Emergencies of Authoritarianism
@eoaproject.bsky.social
There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge
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fantastic book, now in English
divided.online/all-books/bo...
It was more sociological. Reconstructed from Wright Mills, then through some ecohumanities work.
I feel like there was a queer theory thing with lichens a few years ago; a parallel track to the mushroom obsession. currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cu...
Interesting topic! Funnily enough, I had an honours student write a thesis this year on the idea of 'milieu' and Bresson's final films, including L'Argent
The next post is the real kicker bsky.app/profile/miri...
The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on. Two academics have questioned the relevance of citations of their work in the new report, raising concerns that Deloitte merely substituted out false references to works that don’t exist in favour of real works with no or very limited relevance to welfare compliance, which was the subject of the report.
archive.md/EgUkg
"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
I remember reading that; great essay. (Redundant statement where the byline is M Dolar.)
Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...
Jonathan Lear has died. I had the pleasure to work with him in Chicago a couple of years ago.
We had fruitful disputes about philosophy and psychoanalysis as well as about the need to appreciate the silent presence of negativity in both.
What a devastating loss.
Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.
Or Andrew Arato. That guy does not hold back in a review. Also a constitution guy.
Always interesting to see some Flusser get a run.
“The far-right AfD, now the 2nd largest party, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy that they are the product of incestuous unions between immigrants. Prejudice against disabled people & racial minorities is being whipped up once more.“
See the post before my repost of your post ;)
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