📍 Het Nieuwe Instituut
🗓️ Thursday 28 May
⏰ Exhibition from 17:00 (free) · Talk at 19:30
The exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers (curated by Anna Tsing & Feifei Zhou) is open to visit for free before the talk.
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We'll explore how dominant economic structures exhaust ecosystems and communities, but also how human and more-than-human actors find new ways of coexistence in damaged environments.
Moderated by journalist Nuria Ribas Costa.
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🍄 Anna Tsing On the Patchy Anthropocene
How do we continue living in a world that is already broken?
On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us at Nieuwe Instituut for a conversation on landscapes shaped by extraction, capitalist logic and ecological crisis.
Prior to the talk you can visit the exhibition 'FUNGI: Anarchist Designers' (curated by Tsing & Feifei Zhou), which opens at 17.00h.
📍 @nieuweinstituut.nl
🗓️ Thu 28 May
⏰ Talk at 19.30h
🍄 Exhibition from 17.00h
🚨 Ticket sales start Wednesday 8 april at 12:00
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🍄 Anna Tsing on the Patchy Anthropocene
How do we live in a world already broken? On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us to explore fragmented landscapes shaped by extraction and ecological crises, and how new forms of coexistence emerge in damaged environments.
The conversation was sharp, surprising, and at moments uncomfortably recognisable.
We loved having a full house for this one. See you at the next one. 🙏
🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us last Saturday at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social for our talk with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
Together they made the case that Elon Musk isn't just a polarising figure but a mirror held up to our times.
📸 Aad Hoogendoorn
Can Europe's democratic institutions withstand economic and geopolitical turmoil? And what role will the Global South play in a more multipolar world?
📍 Aula - Erasmus Building, @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️ Tuesday 19 May
⏰ Talk at 19:30h
🚪 Doors from 19:00h
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On Tuesday, May 19, we welcome Nobel Prize laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social 🎙️
In a world of rising geopolitical tensions and trade disruptions, he will explore the forces reshaping the global economic order. How vulnerable is the global economy - and what's at stake for Europe?
On Saturday 14 March @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com will discuss their forthcoming book 'Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed' at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social.
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🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
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On Saturday March 14th, two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right, @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com, will join us at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social to discuss their upcoming book ‘Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed’.
📍@arminiusdebat.bsky.social
🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
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Together, they will unpack their new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. In this highly anticipated work they examine Elon Musk not as an individual, but as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age. Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system.
📡 Muskism: Playbook for a postliberal age with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com.
Orain argued that the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth is dead, the world and its resources are now perceived as finite and capitalism shifts into violent mode. He calls this mode “Finitude Capitalism” with new examples showing up around the world every day.
Feb. 12, we welcomed two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist and one of the sharpest observers of European politics and the state of the liberal order.
Heads up: tickets for our upcoming talk with Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter on ‘Finitude Capitalism’ are moving fast. There won’t be ticket sales at the door, so make sure to secure your seat in time.
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Together they will explore how this shift from liberal to predatory capitalism emerged, who stands to gain – and who loses – in this zero-sum landscape, and what the implications are for Europe’s economic and geopolitical future.
On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian, and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist.
⚙️ Finitude Capitalism: Neoliberalism’s Predatory Turn w/ Arnaud Orain & Caroline de Gruyter
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In this groundbreaking work – with a preface by de Gruyter – Orain argues that while the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth has faded, capitalism itself remains very much alive.
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On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals, Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter, to Rotterdam on occasion of the Dutch translation of Orain’s new book, ‘The Finitude of the World: Boundless Capitalism from the Seventeenth Century to Today’.
As we wrap up 2025, we wanted to pause and say thank you. Thank you for attending and for being part of the conversations that matter.
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📍 Debatpodium Arminius
🗓️ Thursday 12 February
⏰ Talk at 20:00h
🍸 Drinks from 19:30h
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They will speak on the pervasiveness of 'Finitude Capitalism', which we can see in the privatisation and militarisation of the seas, the rise of monopolistic and rentier trade, and in the encroachment of massive private companies claiming quasi-sovereign control over physical and digital space.
On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking public intellectuals: @arnaudorain.bsky.social and @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social.
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