Aaron Benanav
@abenanav.bsky.social
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso, currently: fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
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Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️
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Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql
Must read!
Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3
Must read!
Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql
Must read!
Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3
Must read!
Find the two episodes here:
Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT
Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3
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no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
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The reduction of collective life by both capitalist and state-socialist economies to a single criterion excludes the possibility of addressing human needs. Our podcast of the week instead theorizes a "multicriterial economy."
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/uiwiVoa
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/uiwiVoa
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The reduction of collective life by both capitalist and state-socialist economies to a single criterion excludes the possibility of addressing human needs. Our podcast of the week instead theorizes a "multicriterial economy."
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/uiwiVoa
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/uiwiVoa
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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"People really need to be freed from insecurities - material, social and psychological - in order to be able to participate fully in a democratic economy that's making these choices."
Beautiful words @abenanav.bsky.social.
Beautiful words @abenanav.bsky.social.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"People really need to be freed from insecurities - material, social and psychological - in order to be able to participate fully in a democratic economy that's making these choices."
Beautiful words @abenanav.bsky.social.
Beautiful words @abenanav.bsky.social.
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Just saying, over on @techwontsave.us I discussed why this would be the case with @abenanav.bsky.social back in **March 2023**
Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...
Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just saying, over on @techwontsave.us I discussed why this would be the case with @abenanav.bsky.social back in **March 2023**
Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...
Episode here: techwontsave.us/episode/164_...
A strange feature of modern life is receiving birthday wishes from dentists, optometrists, and other assorted professionals and tradespeople in cities you haven't lived in for a decade.
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A strange feature of modern life is receiving birthday wishes from dentists, optometrists, and other assorted professionals and tradespeople in cities you haven't lived in for a decade.
I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...
New Left Review 154 Launch
Aaron Benanav will be discussing his framework for a post-capitalist social order with Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...
Reading the ultra wealthy complain about a French wealth tax proposal (“It’s collectivism, it’s communism . . . it’s a fundamental attack on my freedom and right to property.”) brings a little warmth and joy to my otherwise cold and sad heart.
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reading the ultra wealthy complain about a French wealth tax proposal (“It’s collectivism, it’s communism . . . it’s a fundamental attack on my freedom and right to property.”) brings a little warmth and joy to my otherwise cold and sad heart.
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I really enjoyed reading @abenanav.bsky.social’s vision for a new kind of economic system — one where we have more authority over production and more freedom in our lives.
It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.
It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.
The technologies we have are shaped by our society and the economic incentives that drive their development.
This week @abenanav.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss his vision for a more democratic, equitable economy and what it means for tech.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/293_...
This week @abenanav.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss his vision for a more democratic, equitable economy and what it means for tech.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/293_...
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I really enjoyed reading @abenanav.bsky.social’s vision for a new kind of economic system — one where we have more authority over production and more freedom in our lives.
It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.
It entails using technology in a very different want, and by extension building it much differently too.
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fresh audio product:
• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
fresh audio product:
• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
I really feel like this—wartime level government spending—plus the continuation of out and out elite plunder, is the main thing going on in the US economy these days.
August 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I really feel like this—wartime level government spending—plus the continuation of out and out elite plunder, is the main thing going on in the US economy these days.
On my way to Montreal for SASE 2025. We’ll have a running theme, throughout the conference, of new thinking about economics after the end of capitalism.
I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there!
newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there!
newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
On my way to Montreal for SASE 2025. We’ll have a running theme, throughout the conference, of new thinking about economics after the end of capitalism.
I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there!
newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
I’m excited to present my new work and to debate with others. See you there!
newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
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What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
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“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...
www.versobooks.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.” — @abenanav.bsky.social
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@abenanav.bsky.social punctures the AI hype.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@abenanav.bsky.social punctures the AI hype.
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Check out @abenanav.bsky.social on AI for @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...
www.versobooks.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Check out @abenanav.bsky.social on AI for @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
Liberate Los Angeles!
June 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Liberate Los Angeles!
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800 UK legal experts, including former Supreme Court justices, demand the government sanction Israel and suspend it from UN to meet “fundamental international legal obligations.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
800 UK legal experts, including former Supreme Court justices, demand the government sanction Israel and suspend it from UN to meet “fundamental international legal obligations.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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What is happening in Gaza is horror. The killing of innocent children there should rip our hearts straight from our chests. I am deeply shameful that my government supports this and that my society has allowed our elites to use Palestinian lives like pawn pieces in domestic and foreign politics.
May 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What is happening in Gaza is horror. The killing of innocent children there should rip our hearts straight from our chests. I am deeply shameful that my government supports this and that my society has allowed our elites to use Palestinian lives like pawn pieces in domestic and foreign politics.
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without social media. Me too.
I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without social media. Me too.
I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I would pay good money to not have an email address or better to live in a world without email!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The taco trade is winning big: “Trump always chickens out.” What a loser! Sad.
May 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The taco trade is winning big: “Trump always chickens out.” What a loser! Sad.