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Critical Theory in Context

Centre for Social Critique in Berlin
Krisen Des Rationalen
Multi-Criterial Economy
Artificial Intelligence
Gegengemeinschaften
Demokratie
Thomas More
Karl Marx
Daniel Loick
Frankfurter Schule
Kapitalismus
Klimakrise
Wissensproduktion
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Edward Bellamy
William Morris
Investment
Rahel Jaeggi

What are the crucial conflicts of our time? What hopes and wishes for a better future are expressed within these conflicts? The podcast Critical Theory in Context combines analysis of the present with perspectives on societal transformation. We host conversations with theorists and activists about social crises and the possibilities of their emancipatory overcoming.

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Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates

What time is it? What world are we living in? Is it continuous with the world of the 19th and 20th centuries, or has there been a radical break? This episode is devoted to these q... more

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Introduced by Jacob Blumenfeld and Robin Celikates

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Critique of AI event

Matteo Pasquinelli

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff

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Daniel Loick. Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen. Eine Theorie der Gegengemeinschaften. Suhrkamp 2024.

Mit besonderem Dank an Lane Hots (Aufnahme, Schnitt, redaktionelle Betreuung, Mixing, Mastering).

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Recent Guests

Matteo Pasquinelli
Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science
Cafosari University (Venice)
Episode: Critique of AI: with Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff
Anna-Verena Nosthoff
Junior Professor of Ethics of Digitalization
Karl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; Critical Data Lab (Humboldt University & University of Oldenburg)
Episode: Critique of AI: with Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff
Roland Meyer
DADH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts
University of Zurich; Zurich University of the Arts
Episode: Critique of AI: with Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff
Rainer Mühlhoff
Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
University of Osnabrück; Einstein Center Digital Futures (Berlin)
Episode: Critique of AI: with Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff
Rahel Jaeggi
Philosophin, Direktorin des Centers for Social Critique
Center for Social Critique, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Episode: Gegengemeinschaften: Neue revolutionäre Subjekte?
Thomas Seibert
Philosoph
Medico International (former), speaker on Gegengemeinschaften concept
Episode: Gegengemeinschaften: Neue revolutionäre Subjekte?
Daniel Loick
Professor of Political Philosophy
University of Amsterdam
Episode: Gegengemeinschaften: Neue revolutionäre Subjekte?
Aaron Benanav
Author and scholar focused on automation, development, and alternative economies
Cornell University
Episode: The Grounds of Planning PART II: Aaron Benanav on Utopia, Socialism, and Rationality
Aaron Beninov
Guest speaker mentioned as part of the workshop lineup
Workshop participants at Humboldt
Episode: The Grounds of Planning PART I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate

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Jacob Blumenfeld
Host and researcher focused on social critique, governance, and political philosophy.

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 36 ratings
  • This is so good. It is such a hard thing to explain, how all of these extremely important aspect of life tie together - but when people don't have this understanding, that this is the situation, there is then really no way they can understand what we are talking about... and this explains it so well. I'm going to emulate this starting point to bring people into understanding.

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  • This is it. They tie everything together so well.

    This is so good. It is such a hard thing to explain, how all of these extremely important aspect of life tie together - but when people don't have this understanding, that this is the situation, there is then really no way they can understand what we are talking about... and this explains it so well. I'm going to emulate this starting point to bring people into understanding.

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    Samantha M Hyde
    United States5 years ago

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The Grounds of Planning PART I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate
Q: How does Neurath's view on in-kind calculation differ from a purely monetary approach?
Neurath argues for a pluralistic set of measures based on physical flows and social minima, not a single monetary price; this allows consideration of sustainability, human needs, and diverse modes of life beyond market prices.
The Grounds of Planning PART I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate
Q: Why is a single monetary metric seen as insufficient for planning a complex economy?
Because human needs and well-being are multidimensional, intergenerational, and ecologically dependent; there are incommensurable values that cannot be captured by one unit like money, leading to the need for plural measures and deliberative processes.
The Grounds of Planning PART I: John O’Neill on the Socialist Calculation Debate
Q: So, what is the socialist calculation debate, and who were the main figures involved?
O'Neill outlines an early trajectory from Neurath's in-kind planning to Mises' monetary critique, with Lange representing a market-socialist synthesis, Hayek emphasizing the limits of centralized knowledge, and later developments stressing value pluralism and ecological considerations.

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A roundtable and expert-led discussions explore how critical theory engages with emerging technologies, political economy, and social organization. Topics across recent episodes center on artificial intelligence as an ideological and infrastructural force, theories of revolutionary subjectivity, and proposals for democratic planning and emancipatory futures. Guests bring perspectives from philosophy, ethics of digitalization, labor analysis, and political theory to critique technocracy, platform capitalism, and state or communal responses, often tying debates to issues of labor, inclusion, and governance. The conversations tend to connect dense theoretical frameworks with practical questions about resistance, policy reform, education, and g... more

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