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Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Season 4 · Episode 13
Sunday, September 13, 2026 • Duration
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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S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
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Season 4 · Episode 11
Sunday, August 16, 2026 • Duration 01:55:20
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Season 4 · Episode 9
Sunday, July 19, 2026 • Duration 01:28:20
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Sunday, June 21, 2026 • Duration 01:46:27
Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China
Season 4 · Episode 5
Sunday, May 24, 2026 • Duration 01:12:56
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Season 4 · Episode 3
Sunday, April 26, 2026 • Duration 02:15:05
Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism
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Sunday, March 29, 2026 • Duration 01:37:51
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/
Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
Season 3 · Episode 59
Sunday, March 1, 2026 • Duration 01:15:52
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.
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons
Season 3 · Episode 57
Sunday, February 1, 2026 • Duration 01:08:51
Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures
Season 3 · Episode 55
Sunday, January 4, 2026 • Duration 01:08:12
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.
the Great Replacement Theory:
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
on the ‘too late’ narrative:
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:
Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.
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.
on collapse and climate movements:
on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.
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.
on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:
on the critique of trickle-down economics:
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.
the Corbin Campaign in 2010:
on Gaza solidarity protests:
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on critiques of the Enlightenment:
Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.
on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:
on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:
on the Electoral College:
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.
Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.
on the cultural revolution:
on the Belt and Road initiative:
on Planetary Experiments:
Halpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10.
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.
on Large Language Models (LLMs):
Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press.
on Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22):
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.
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Saito, K. (2023). Systemsturz. dtv.
Cédric Durand at the University of Geneva:
Philipp Staab at Humboldt University Berlin:
Jacob Blumenfeld with Critical Theory in Berlin:
on the Dark Enlightenment (or Neo-Reactionary) movement:
Curtis Yarvin coined the term as Blogger under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug:
Nick Land summarised Yarvin's theories in a book:
Linus Westheuser and ‘climate populism’:
Westheuser, L. & Siebert, J. (2025). Warum wir Klimapopulismus brauchen. Surplus.
For the chapters on ‘models’ by Jakob Heyer, Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti see:
International Karl Polanyi Institute (2019). Karl Polanyi. Life and Works of an Epochal Thinker. Falter.
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism I-II. New Left Review.
Herrmann, U. (2024). Das Ende des Kapitalismus. Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden. Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
Neckel, S. (2022). Infrastruktursozialismus: Die Bedeutung der Fundamentalökonomie. In Kapitalismus und Nachhaltigkeit (Ed. S. Neckel, P. Degens, S. Lenz). Campus.
on Claus Offe and the 'legitimation crisis':
Offe, C. (1986). Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates: Aufsätze zur Politischen Soziologie. Suhrkamp.
Krippner, G. R. (2012). Capitalizing on Crisis. The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Harvard University Press.
Menon, N. (2024). Planning Democracy. How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India. Penguin India.
Blumenfeld, J. P. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail (3).
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
Struwe, A. (2025). Totalität. Marx, Adorno und das Problem kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie. Verbrecher Verlag.
on Nancy Fraser and the question on ‘demos’ (exemplary):
Fraser, N. (2005). Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World. New Left Review.
Rikap, C. (2025). A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty. Policy Brief. FEPS.
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S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Teil 1)
S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
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the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China:
on Foucault's ‘Regime of Truth’:
Lorenzini, D. (2015). What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?. Le foucaldien 1(1).
the mentioned article by Ho-fung Hung in the Jacobin:
Ho-fung, H. (2023). Mussolini in Beijing. Jacobin.
on China’s falling CO2 emissions:
on renewable energy in China:
Ho-fung, H. (2026). The China Question. Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear. Cambridge University Press.
on the economic policy of Mao Zedong and China’s relationship to the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer’s youtube channel ‘Studying Maoist China’ is recommended:
on Chile during the Cold War:
Lockhart, J. (2016). Reimagining Chile’s Cold War Experience: From the Conflict’s Origins to Salvador Allende’s Inauguration. University of Arizona.
Badiou, A. (2021). The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow. Monthly Review 73(1).
Weber, I. M. (2021). How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate. Routledge.
the mentioned publication on i.a. guerilla policymaking:
Heilmann, S. & Perry, E. J. (2011). Mao’s Invisible Hand. The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard University Press.
the quote ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’ is commonly attributed to Frederic Jameson:
on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election:
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on Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamic Systems:
Lorenz, E. N. (1975). Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?
Italian Communist Party ‘Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI):’
further reading on (Italian) communist history:
Magri, L. (2019). The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism. Verso.
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.
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.
on Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio:
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books.
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Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U
Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.
Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.
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.
Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications
Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.
on the Oskar-Lange-Model:
Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press.
on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’:
Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press.
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
on Otto Neurath’s political economy:
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
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.
Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117.
Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82.
Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press.
Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books.
Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.
Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.
Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva.
on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:
on the Socialist party of Catalonia:
on the airport expansion in Barcelona:
on the paper by Union Populaire:
on the quote from Mike Davis:
Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso.
S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 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]
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
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O’Neill, J. (2002). Socialist Calculation and Environmental Valuation. Money, Markets and Ecology. Science & Society, 66(1).
on La Planification Ècologique in France:
the Secrétariat général à la planification écologique (SGPE):
Viennot, M. (2025). La planification écologique. La Découverte.
Pisani-Ferry, J. & Mahfouz, S. (2023). The Economic Implications of Climate Action. A Repot to the French Prime Minister. France Stratégie.
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.
on the Inflation Reduction Act:
on the Developmental State concept:
Zhou, Z., Ou, J., Li, S. (2016). Ecological Accounting. A Research Review and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Protection. 7. 643-655.
on the Commanding Heights of the Economy concept:
on the British Wartime Economy during the Second World War:
on Economic Planning in France after the Second World War:
Ali, S. (1969). Economic Planning in France 1945–1965. A Brief Review. The Punjab University Economist, 7(1), 51–69.
Jackson, T., Hickel, J., Kallis, G. (2024). Confronting the Dilemma of Growth. A Response to Warlenius (2023). Ecological Economics, Vol. 220.
Zeug, W., Heyer, J., Lutosch, H. (2025). Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning & Holistic Accounting. An Economic Framework to Achieve Sustainable Societal Metabolisms.
on the Holistic and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (HILCSA):
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.
Fehér, F., Heller, A., Márkus, G. (1983). Dictatorship Over Needs. Blackwell.
Keucheyan, R. (2024). Ágnes Heller’s Theory of Need Is a Vital Political Tool. Jacobin.
on the Input-Output Model in Economics:
on the Berlin Housing Campaign for Socializing Housing owned by Big Real Estate Companies:
on Socialization in the Energy Sector:
on the New International Economic Order (NIEO):
on the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE):
on the Direction Générale des Entreprises:
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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S02E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 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]
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
Future Histories Contact & Support
If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:
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on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.
on the Money Market Multiplier:
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:
on the Digital Renminbi in China:
on Universal Basic Income (UBI):
Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.
Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.
on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:
on the distributed ledger technology:
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
on the International Monetary Fund (IMF):
the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:
on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:
on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):
the speech including the mentioned quote by her:
on the 1973 Coup in Chile:
on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):
on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:
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S3E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturen
S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning System
S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismus
S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)
S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)
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the quoted Kohei Saito video:
the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”:
reporting on and summary of the talk:
Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24.
for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory:
on Mass Extinction Events:
Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink.
on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal:
the International Maritime Organization:
on the ‘Half-Earth Project’:
Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books.
Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso.
one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times:
on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left:
Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26).
Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press.
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.
Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
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.
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:
on the Democratic Socialists of America:
the Network for Greening the Financial System:
Solnit, R. (2022). Orwell’s Roses. Penguin.
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S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 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 ]
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
Future Histories Contact & Support
If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:
#KimStanleyRobinson, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #Utopia, #RealUtopias, #DemocraticPlanning, #Keynes, #Dystopia, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism, #EcoSocialism, #Socialism, #GreenCapitalism, #Narratives, #ClimateCounterAesthetics, #Transition, #SocioEcologicalTransition, #SocialDemocracy, #ScienceFiction
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