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Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.

Shownotes Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:

https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty 

Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9781400828654/html

Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/596640 

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures ‘A Second Decline of the West?’ at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/ 

on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/ 

Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html

on Frantz Fanon:

https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/de/third-mission/wissenschaftskommunikation/jahr100wissen/2025/freiheitskaempfer-frantz-fanon/ 

on Francis Fukuyama:

https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama 

on the metabolic rift:

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/metabolic-rift-and-political-economy-of-environmental-crises 

Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.

https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024

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

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life?srsltid=AfmBOorZp80RtsBGkBSF7TG7CLMRaihO5UTnsFE9V2XALwQ4tIE6mD6r 

Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature. 

https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2/

Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm 

on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:

https://jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit/ 

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020224 

Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.

https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/ 

on Subaltern studies:

Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subaltern-studies-9780195052893?cc=at&lang=en& 

Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small_History_of_Subaltern_Studies 

on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:

https://polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-historic-bloc-base-superstructure/

Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age/ 

Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:

https://iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/ 

Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307?lang=en&cc=nl 

Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.

https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract

Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476 

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA 

Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition. 

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.html

on Habermas on the colonization of the lifeworld by instrumental rationality:

Silva, F. G. (2019). Colonization of the Lifeworld. In A. Allen & E. Mendieta (Eds.), The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (pp. 36–39). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-habermas-lexicon/colonization-of-the-lifeworld/36E8421628B4E1914F7E675B31977ADC 

Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.

https://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANETARY-PROPORTIONS.pdf

Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.

https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/ 

Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.

https://philarchive.org/rec/HAFTXX

Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/ 

Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press. 

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986/ 

Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019

Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic-crisis-fr-9783518128237

Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary

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Sascha Dickel und Marc Mölders zu Zukünften der Gesellschaft. 

Shownotes Sascha Dickel und Marc Mölders

Univ. Prof. Sascha Dickel an der Universität Mainz:

https://medien-gesellschaft.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/universitaetsprofessor-dr-sascha-dickel/ 

Prof. Dr. Marc Mölders an der Universität Mainz:

https://medien-gesellschaft.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/marc-moelders/

zum 43. DGS Kongress 2026 ‘Zukünfte der Gesellschaft’:

https://kongress2026.soziologie.de/aktuelles 

zum Themenpapier des 43. DGS Kongresses ‘Zukünfte der Gesellschaft’:

https://kongress2026.soziologie.de/thema

zu Alfred Schütz über Handlungsentwürfe:

Krieg, R. (2020). Vom Entwurf zur Handlung. ZTS Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, 1, 32-68. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/zts/article/download/4213/4292

zu Niklas Luhmanns ‘gegenwärtige Zukünfte’:

https://www.philosophie.ch/2016-12-22-graf

zu Philipp Staab über ‘Utopie des Stillstands’:

Staab, P. (2025). Systemkrise: Legitimationsprobleme im grünen Kapitalismus| Warum die grüne Transformation zu scheitern droht. Suhrkamp Verlag. 

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-systemkrise-t-9783518128237 

zu Zohran Mamdanis Politik:

https://communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamdani-zeigt-wie-es-geht/

zu Fortschritt und Regression nach Rahel Jaeggi:

Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140

https://www.fes.de/asd/buch-essenz/jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression

zu ‘Misstrauensgemeinschaften’ nach El-Mafaalani:

El-Mafaalani, A. (2025). Misstrauensgemeinschaften. Zur Anziehungskraft von Populismus und Verschwörungsideologien. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 

https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/aladin-el-mafaalani-misstrauensgemeinschaften-9783462014570 

https://taz.de/Gemeinsam-gegen-Staat-und-Standards/!vn6165575/

zur ‘Californian Ideology’:

Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1996). The californian ideology. Science as culture, 6(1), 44-72.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_ideology 

https://www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years-on-the-californian-ideology-is-alive-and-well/ 

zum Zitat von Sam Altman über die Zerstörungsmacht von KI:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHQfSu_ukOJ/?hl=de&img_index=2 

zum Widerstand gegen Rechenzentren in den USA:

https://www.akweb.de/politik/opferzonen-der-ki-der-widerstand-gegen-rechenzentren-waechst/

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/ 

zu Felix Simons Arbeiten zu KI:

https://www.felixsimon.net/publications.html

zu Tesla in Brandenburg:

https://www.fluter.de/protest-gegen-tesla-in-brandenburg 

https://taz.de/Industrie-und-Grundwasser-in-Brandenburg/!6030046/ 

zu KI-infrastruktureller Abhängigkeit:

https://taz.de/Digitale-Abhaengigkeit-von-den-USA/!6129800/

https://taz.de/Abhaengigkeit-von-Big-Tech/!6147038/

zu Piratenpartei zu ‘liquid democracy’:

https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/149620/fluessige-betriebssysteme-liquid-democracy-als-demokratische-machttechnologie/ 

zur Partei des Fortschritts:

https://www.bpb.de/themen/parteien/wer-steht-zur-wahl/bundestagswahl-2025/558936/partei-des-fortschritts/ 

zu Mark Zuckerbergs ‘The Future is for Everyone’:

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/ 

zum Fehlen der Kollektivität und ‘AI Individualismus’ bei Zuckerbergs ‘The Future is for Everyone’:

https://www.techpolicy.press/no-zuckerberg-the-future-is-not-just-for-individuals/ 

Dickel, S. (2019) Prototyping Society. Zur vorauseilenden Technologisierung der Zukunft. Transcript Verlag.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4736-5/prototyping-society-zur-vorauseilenden-technologisierung-der-zukunft/

zur Mont-Pélerin-Society und die Durchsetzung des Neoliberalismus:

https://www.awblog.at/Soziales/thurnher-wie-der-neoliberalismus-die-hegemonie-erlangte 

zum Akzelerationistischen Manifest:

https://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/beschleunigungsmanifest.pdf 

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/philosophie-das-akzelerationistische-manifest-100.html

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S03E53 | Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise und den Legitimitätsproblemen im grünen Kapitalismus

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Episode Keywords

#SaschaDickel, #MarcMoelders #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #Zukunft, #Gesellschaft, #Soziologie, #DGS, #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence, #Progress, #FuturesOfSociety, #AI, #KI

Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea 

Launch of the Future Histories LAB - a Space for Radical Imagination and Postcapitalist Construction. 

Find us on: www.futurehistories-lab.com 

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Shownotes Jonathan White

Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white

White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.

https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/ 

Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.

https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534

Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:

White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072

White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.1341

the Great Replacement Theory:

https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrative

on Brexit:

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

on Lexit:

https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexi

on Otto Bauer:

https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolution-book-review/

https://jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit/

Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019

on atomic bombings:

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

on John Stuart Mill:

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

on the ‘too late’ narrative: 

Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOoo_4whHho3ZrpGFZrLclb06yfTMCwMCDuQiPTBpfSwMDjWE2-y-

https://www.isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-little-too-late-scientists-warn

on tipping points:

https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/

on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:

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

on Extinction Rebellion:

https://rebellion.global/about-us/

on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/rftw/how-ideas-of-the-future-can-help-us-find-time-for-democracy.pdf

Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sleepwalkers-christopher-clark

on climate change adaptation:

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

https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial

Amorim-Maia, A. T., & Olazabal, M. (2025). Beyond adjustment: A new paradigm for climate change adaptation in a complex world. Global Environmental Change, 93, 103027.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000640

on collapse and climate movements:

https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/

https://www.collapseclub.com/about/

on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burnham-keir-starmer-leadership-styles-compare 

on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:

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

on democratic planning:

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire. 

https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction

on participatory budgeting:

Sintomer, Y., Herzberg, C., & Röcke, A. (2008). Participatory budgeting in Europe: Potentials and challenges. International journal of urban and regional research, 32(1), 164-178.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00777.x

on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:

https://communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamdani-zeigt-wie-es-geht/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd782pjgq3o 

on Liberalism:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#Bib

on economic Liberalism:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/economic-liberalism

on the critique of trickle-down economics:

https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/joseph-stiglitz-trickle-down-economics-is-absolute/

on ‘promissory legitimacy’:

Beckert, J. (2020). The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(3), 318–330.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867

on Post-liberalism:

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

the Corbin Campaign in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labour_Party_leadership_campaign

on Gaza solidarity protests:

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

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Episode Keywords

#JonathanWhite #JanGroos, #Interview, #LSE, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #Future, #PoliticalIdeas, #Liberalism, #Capitalism, #Democracy, #ClimateCrisis, #Postliberalism, #DesirableFutures, #Neoliberalism, #DemocraticPlanning, #AlternativeFutures

Christine Hentschel zu Sicherheit und Aktivismus in katastrophischen Zeiten

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Shownotes Christine Hentschel

Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel an der Universität Hamburg:

https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/professuren/hentschel/team/hentschel-christine.html

DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”:

https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de

zur DFG-Forschungsgruppe "The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times“:

https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/welcome.html

Nina Perkowski zu Reimagining Security:

Perkowski, N. (2025). Radical Imagination and Vernacular Security: Creating Spaces for Alternative Security Futures, International Political Sociology, Volume 19, Issue 4. 

https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/19/4/olaf033/8255613

Garcés, M. (2024). Versprechen Können. Turia + Kant. 

https://www.turia.at/titel/garces3.html

zu Tadzio Müller und solidarischem Preppen:

Müller, T. (2024) Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben. Mandelbaum.

https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/

https://www.collapseclub.com/blog/five-elements-of-solidarity-prepping/

zur Letzten Generation:

https://letztegeneration.org/

zu Just Stop Oil:

https://juststopoil.org/

zu ‘Dernière Rénovation’ (Riposte Alimentaire):

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

Christine Hentschel zu Endzeitaktivismus und Edgework: 

Hentschel, C. (2023). Edgework in post/apokalyptischen Zeiten. Soziopolis. 

https://www.soziopolis.de/edgework-in-post-apokalyptischen-zeiten.html

zur Kollapsbewegung:

https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/

zu Heat Strike:

https://heatstrike.uk/

zu Les Soulèvements de la Terre:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Soul%C3%A8vements_de_la_Terre

Bröckling, U. (2026). Invertierte Zukunft. Konturen der Zuspätmoderne. WestEnd, 23(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.5771/1860-2177-2026-1-3

https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/dd3d743d-12ac-3db9-8d17-af67ddb150ba?page=1&toc=5916333

Reckwitz, A. (2024). Verlust: Ein Grundproblem der Moderne. Suhrkamp Verlag.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/andreas-reckwitz-verlust-t-9783518588222

Folkers, A. (2022). Nach der Nachhaltigkeit: Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne. Leviathan 50, 239–262. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-0425-2022-2-239

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27295246?seq=1

zu Mutual Aid:

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

Christine Hentschel und Susanne Krasmann über gegenwärtige „Collapse Awareness“:

Hentschel, C., & Krasmann, S. (2024). Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide. Critical Studies on Security, 14(1), 2–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2024.2403795

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2024.2403795

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel „Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps“ in der Ringvorlesung “Am Scheidepunkt: Zur Krise der Demokratie” in Frankfurt (22.01.2026):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmn7g3vJPKg

Marina Garcés zur postumen Kondition und Metapher der Nachspielzeit:

Garcés, M. (2019). Neue radikale Aufklärung. Verlag Turia+ Kant.

https://www.turia.at/titel/garces.html

zu postapokalyptischem Umweltaktivismus:

Cassegård, C., & Thörn, H. (2022). Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. palgrave macmillan. 

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13203-2

Anaïs Maurer zur postapokalyptischen Agency im Pazifik & ‘fighting for what’s left’:

Maurer, A. (2024). The ocean on fire: Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists. Duke University Press. 

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-ocean-on-fire

zu climate change mitigation:

https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-mitigation-and-why-it-urgent

Jacob Blumenfeld zu Managing Decline: 

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

https://www.academia.edu/121062536/Managing_Decline

zu Climate Barbarism:

Blumenfeld, J. (2023). Climate barbarism: Adapting to a wrong world. Constellations, 30, 162–178. 

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

zu Christine Hentschels und Ursula Schröders Forschungsprojekt „Infrastructures of Protection. Planning for Catastrophes to Come“:

https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/research-projects/rp2.html

zu Adaptation:

https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial

zum Forschungsprojekt „Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change“ im DFG-Exzellenzcluster CLICCS:

https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/research/projects-themes/projects/a4-extreme-adaptation.html

Lacbawan, M. (2025). Escaping the Climate Crisis: Speculative Wealth and the Selling of a Smart City. Journal of Business Anthropology, 14(2), 94-117.

https://www.fis.uni-hamburg.de/en/publikationen/detail.html?id=13f172b2-6f23-44cc-adc7-31b42fb376b4

Rothe, D., Boas, I., Farbotko, C., & Kitara, T. (2024). Digital Tuvalu: state sovereignty in a world of climate loss. International Affairs, 100(4), 1491-1509.

https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/4/1491/7710472

zu Muscular Adaptationism:

Carton, W. & Malm, A. (2025). The long heat: climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOort8KE2C2ggxjCJE1Q7GTyEoyzLypZO0Wd75hcCmJUTuuW0zGa6

Joshua KaewnetarasForschung zu Wiederaufbau nach der Flutkatastrophe in Valencia:

https://urban-future-making.hcu-hamburg.de/research/disrupted-mobilities

Solar Geo Engineering:

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/unberechenbare-risiken-solares-geoengineering-keine

Geoengineering:

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/geoengineering

zur Securitisation Theory:

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/31/key-concept-securitization-copenhagen-school/

Schröder, U. (2026). Schutz in Krisenzeiten. Piper.

https://www.piper.de/buecher/schutz-in-krisenzeiten-isbn-978-3-492-07396-7

zu Sicherheit im Anthropozän: 

Rothe, D., Hentschel, C., & Schröder, U. (2025). Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction. Geoforum, 159, 104195.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524002562

Von Redecker, E. (2023). Bleibefreiheit. S. Fischer Verlag.

https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/eva-von-redecker-bleibefreiheit-9783596711260

 

zum Begriff der Infrastrukturen in der Sicherheitsforschung:

Hentschel, C., Schröder, U., 2020. Democratising Security in Turbulent Times: An Infrastructural Lens. S+F 38, 191–194. https://doi.org/10.5771/0175-274X-2020-4-191

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27260104.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Abf575832edd748b4b77595527737cd25&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

zu Nina Perkowskis Forschungsprojekt zu „Counter-Communities' Protection Practices and Security Utopias in Catastrophic Times“:

https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/research-projects/rp8.html

Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp, Berlin.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797

Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.

https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534

Garcés, M. (2022). Critical Imagination. Artnodes. 

https://www.academia.edu/73676938/Critical_Imagination

zum Thüringen Projekt:

https://verfassungsblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Thueringen-Projekt_Abschlussbericht.pdf

zu Verwaltung für Demokratie:

https://verwaltung-fuer-demokratie.de/erste-hilfe-kit-demokratie/

zu Zukunftswerkstätten nach Robert Jungk:

https://www.sowi-online.de/praxis/methode/zukunftswerkstatt.html_2

zu climate change boredom:

Anderson, B. (2023). Boredom and the politics of climate change. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1–2), 133–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869

Christine Hentschel zu „Apokalypse-Indifferenz“ (Günther Anders) im Kontext der Klimakrise:

Hentschel, C. (2024). Im Angesicht der planetaren Zerstörung. Soziologische Perspektiven gegen die Indifferenz., in: Lessenich, S., Scheffer, T. (Eds.), Gesellschaften Unter Handlungszwang: Existenzielle Probleme, Normalität Und Kritik, IfS-Aus Der Reihe. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin, pp. 78–92.

https://bertz-fischer.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/bertz-fischer-ifs-02-gesellschaften-unter-handlungszwang-9783865056528.pdf

zu Verleugnung nach Alenka Zupančič:

Zupančič, A.(2024) Disavowal. Polity Books.

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=disavowal--9781509561193

Christine Hentschel zu affectiven investments in den Protesten gegen die Coronamaßnamen

Hentschel, C.(2021) »Das große Erwachen«: Affekt und Narrativ in der Bewegung gegen die Corona-Maßnahmen. Leviathan 49, 62–85. 

https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/1ed695c2-d459-32aa-a482-bf64a34a412c

zur mobilisierenden Kraft von Wut bei Audre Lorde:

Lorde, A. (1997). The uses of anger. Women's Studies Quarterly, 25(1/2), 278-285.

https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Lorde%20-%20The%20Uses%20of%20Anger.pdf

zu Everyone hates Elon:

https://www.everyonehateselon.com

zu strategischem Hass nach Seyda Kurt:

Kurt, S. (2023). Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls. HarperCollins.

https://www.harpercollins.de/products/hass-von-der-macht-eines-widerstandigen-gefuhls

zum Begriff des Prozesses nach Rahel Jaeggi:

https://www.fes.de/asd/buch-essenz/jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression

Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140

White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.

https://www.academia.edu/115206928/In_the_Long_Run_the_Future_as_a_Political_Idea_Profile_Books_2024_

Relevante Future Histories Folgen

S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e07-creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress/

S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e46-rahel-jaeggi-zur-krise-des-liberalismus-fortschritt-als-prozess-und-sozialistischem-utopisieren/

S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-tadzio-mueller-zu-solidarischem-preppen-im-kollaps/

S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/

S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/

S02E56 | Şeyda Kurt zu strategischem Hass

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e56-seyda-kurt-zu-strategischem-hass/

S02E38 | Eva von Redecker zu Bleibefreiheit und Demokratischer Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e38-eva-von-redecker-zu-bleibefreiheit-und-demokratischer-planung/

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Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy

Shownotes Orit Halpern

Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:

https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in

Orit Halpern’s website:

https://orithalpern.net/

Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data

Halpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-mandate/ 

Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.

https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hayek.pdf 

Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103 

on CERN:

https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/

on the Event Horizon Telescope:

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

on the IPCC:

https://www.ipcc.ch/

on critiques of the Enlightenment:

https://polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/critiques-enlightenment-modernity/

Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.

https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-enlightenment 

on Keynesianism:

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

on MAGA:

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

on the Frankfurt School:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School

on high modernism:

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

on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:

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

Friedrich Hayek:

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

on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:

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

on the Electoral College:

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about

on Stafford Beer:

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

https://www.kybernetik.ch/en/fs_beer.html 

on post-sovereign planning:

Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.

https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/book/9781529235142/ch014.xml

Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674948396 

on the cultural revolution:

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

on the Belt and Road initiative:

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

on Mao Zedong:

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

on Planetary Experiments:

https://orithalpern.net/planetaryexperiments

Halpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2c7ee53de3f756cfd6cbbc/t/65a808813c02ca697d90089a/1705511045522/planetarytestarticleZMK.pdf

Halpern, O. (2020). Planetary intelligence. In The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies (pp. 227-256). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56286-1_8

on Large Language Models (LLMs):

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

on Victor Papanek:

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

Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press.

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

on Terraforming:

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

on Geoengineering:

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

on NVIDIA Earth 2:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/high-performance-com

on Destination Earth:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Destination_Earth

on Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:

https://equitablegrowth.org/pareto-distribution-r-g/

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674430006 

the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22): 

https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/73aba255-56d2-4595-83b5-bfdad3740ffb/content

Against Catastrophes:

https://againstcatastrophe.net/

Orit Halpern on resilience:

Halpern, O. (2025). The geo-politics of resilience: On the historical convergence between ecology, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. new media & society, 27(8), 4581-4605.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251336420 

on Ground Truth:

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

on benchmark data:

https://brilliantfuture.se/en/glossaries/benchmark-data

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