Christoph Sorg
@christophsorg.bsky.social
Social scientist at Humboldt University Berlin | research project "capitalist planned economies" | interested in political economy and economic sociology | planning, (post-)capitalism, social movements, social reproduction, digitalization, debt+finance
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Cringy self-promotion alert, but since I struggle to summarize my work when asked here's a summary:
Together with Jan Groos I have edited a special issue of Competition&Change on Rethinking Economic Planning. Intro here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Together with Jan Groos I have edited a special issue of Competition&Change on Rethinking Economic Planning. Intro here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Only Green Planning Can Address the Twin Crises of Climate and Cost of Living
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining challenges.
www.common-wealth.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today!
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
🚨 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.
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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 1:20 PM
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today!
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
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Here is @christophsorg.bsky.social giving a brilliant talk on economic planning.
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Here is @christophsorg.bsky.social giving a brilliant talk on economic planning.
I'm in Berkeley/Santa Barbara most of winter semester for a couple of presentations and field work. Any suggestions for academics and activists appreciated. Also: The great @itsmccarthy.bsky.social has put together this event at UC Santa Cruz I'm really looking forward to.
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I'm in Berkeley/Santa Barbara most of winter semester for a couple of presentations and field work. Any suggestions for academics and activists appreciated. Also: The great @itsmccarthy.bsky.social has put together this event at UC Santa Cruz I'm really looking forward to.
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New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History.
bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5...
@campolis.bsky.social
bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5...
@campolis.bsky.social
/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not ju…
bungacast.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History.
bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5...
@campolis.bsky.social
bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5...
@campolis.bsky.social
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🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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She has a back cover now, too! Would be so grateful if you’d preorder, request your library to acquire it, tell your friends, etc. Officially out in November.
August 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
She has a back cover now, too! Would be so grateful if you’d preorder, request your library to acquire it, tell your friends, etc. Officially out in November.
I'm so disappointed my book (funded by public money) was purchased by a rentier capitalist plattform registered in a tax haven. Open access file is not available anymore since today, but I uploaded it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm so disappointed my book (funded by public money) was purchased by a rentier capitalist plattform registered in a tax haven. Open access file is not available anymore since today, but I uploaded it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Today with @itsmccarthy.bsky.social at Humboldt University main building, details on zoom in quoted post for Non-Berliners :)
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Today with @itsmccarthy.bsky.social at Humboldt University main building, details on zoom in quoted post for Non-Berliners :)
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Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social
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Vielen Dank an @surplusmagazin.bsky.social für die Übersetzung unseres Artikels @benbraun.bsky.social
www.surplusmagazin.de/usa-trump-fi...
www.surplusmagazin.de/usa-trump-fi...
August 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Vielen Dank an @surplusmagazin.bsky.social für die Übersetzung unseres Artikels @benbraun.bsky.social
www.surplusmagazin.de/usa-trump-fi...
www.surplusmagazin.de/usa-trump-fi...
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Andreessen: “Fälle, in denen mehrere Unternehmen … das Gefühl hatten, dass sie nur noch Stunden von gewalttätigen Unruhen auf ihrem eigenen Campus und durch ihre eigenen Angestellten entfernt waren.” 🤡
Wochenendlektüre? 👉 @cedricdurand.bsky.social & yours truly im neuen @surplusmagazin.bsky.social.
Wochenendlektüre? 👉 @cedricdurand.bsky.social & yours truly im neuen @surplusmagazin.bsky.social.
August 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Andreessen: “Fälle, in denen mehrere Unternehmen … das Gefühl hatten, dass sie nur noch Stunden von gewalttätigen Unruhen auf ihrem eigenen Campus und durch ihre eigenen Angestellten entfernt waren.” 🤡
Wochenendlektüre? 👉 @cedricdurand.bsky.social & yours truly im neuen @surplusmagazin.bsky.social.
Wochenendlektüre? 👉 @cedricdurand.bsky.social & yours truly im neuen @surplusmagazin.bsky.social.
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In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
I received a four-year grant to be an Einstein Independent Researcher and continue my work on planning, very excited :)
Einstein Postdoctoral Grant: Mit dem Projekt Heterodox Planning will @christophsorg.bsky.social, WissMit / @humboldtuni.bsky.social, alternative Formen wirtschaftlicher Planung erforschen, um partizipativere, sozial inklusivere und nachhaltigere Ansätze zu entwickeln. (8/9)
August 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I received a four-year grant to be an Einstein Independent Researcher and continue my work on planning, very excited :)
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Eine neue Folge Future Histories!
Diesmal spreche ich mit Steen Thorsson (@steenthorsson.bsky.social) über sein Buch "Burn Baby Burn. Kapitalismus als Ursache der Klimakrise und die Psychopathologien ihrer Leugnung".
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories
Diesmal spreche ich mit Steen Thorsson (@steenthorsson.bsky.social) über sein Buch "Burn Baby Burn. Kapitalismus als Ursache der Klimakrise und die Psychopathologien ihrer Leugnung".
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories
July 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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...
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this talk was so good holy shit
Excited to invite you to a hybrid talk with Kirstin Munro titled "Marxist Feminism Beyond Women". The talk will be followed by a brief (offline-only) workshop that discusses post-capitalist social reproduction. Details below, registration for offline participation here: shorturl.at/m4a4Q
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June 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
this talk was so good holy shit
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This is tomorrow 11am CET in-person and online. Come be with me, the world is a disaster. This is new work I’m continuing to develop as the result of many helpful conversations with my New Institute buds who I’m not tagging to not be annoying, thank you 🙏
Excited to invite you to a hybrid talk with Kirstin Munro titled "Marxist Feminism Beyond Women". The talk will be followed by a brief (offline-only) workshop that discusses post-capitalist social reproduction. Details below, registration for offline participation here: shorturl.at/m4a4Q
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June 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is tomorrow 11am CET in-person and online. Come be with me, the world is a disaster. This is new work I’m continuing to develop as the result of many helpful conversations with my New Institute buds who I’m not tagging to not be annoying, thank you 🙏
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Eine neue Folge Future Histories!
Diesmal spreche ich mit Hannes Kuch (@goetheuni.bsky.social; @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) über sein Verständnis von liberalem Sozialismus, die Notwendigkeit eines Ethos demokratischer Gerechtigkeit uvm..
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
Diesmal spreche ich mit Hannes Kuch (@goetheuni.bsky.social; @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) über sein Verständnis von liberalem Sozialismus, die Notwendigkeit eines Ethos demokratischer Gerechtigkeit uvm..
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
June 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Eine neue Folge Future Histories!
Diesmal spreche ich mit Hannes Kuch (@goetheuni.bsky.social; @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) über sein Verständnis von liberalem Sozialismus, die Notwendigkeit eines Ethos demokratischer Gerechtigkeit uvm..
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
Diesmal spreche ich mit Hannes Kuch (@goetheuni.bsky.social; @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) über sein Verständnis von liberalem Sozialismus, die Notwendigkeit eines Ethos demokratischer Gerechtigkeit uvm..
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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At the end of this month @versobooks.bsky.social will publish my book Freedom for Capital, Not People.
Here's a blog that give some background - a conversation with Andrew Anastasi from @hpe-project.bsky.social and Joshua Rahtz
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Here's a blog that give some background - a conversation with Andrew Anastasi from @hpe-project.bsky.social and Joshua Rahtz
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Capital’s Regime Change and the Neoliberal Monetary Debate
The Mont Pèlerin Society, founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, transformed the world economy. As Matthias Schmelzer argues in Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and...
www.versobooks.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
At the end of this month @versobooks.bsky.social will publish my book Freedom for Capital, Not People.
Here's a blog that give some background - a conversation with Andrew Anastasi from @hpe-project.bsky.social and Joshua Rahtz
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Here's a blog that give some background - a conversation with Andrew Anastasi from @hpe-project.bsky.social and Joshua Rahtz
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
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.@futurehistories.bsky.social. Jan Gross zeigt auf, wie wir Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft jenseits des Kapitalismus denken können. Der Interview-Podcasts sticht mit einer grandiosen Auswahl von Gäst:innen und einer anregenden Themenauswahl hervor! (1/16)
www.futurehistories.today
www.futurehistories.today
Future Histories Podcast
Der Podcast zur Erweiterung unserer Vorstellung von Zukunft.
www.futurehistories.today
May 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
.@futurehistories.bsky.social. Jan Gross zeigt auf, wie wir Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft jenseits des Kapitalismus denken können. Der Interview-Podcasts sticht mit einer grandiosen Auswahl von Gäst:innen und einer anregenden Themenauswahl hervor! (1/16)
www.futurehistories.today
www.futurehistories.today
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jan Overwijk (@jloverwijk.bsky.social @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) about his new book ‘Cybernetic Capitalism’ (out with @fordhampress.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Jan Overwijk (@jloverwijk.bsky.social @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) about his new book ‘Cybernetic Capitalism’ (out with @fordhampress.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
June 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jan Overwijk (@jloverwijk.bsky.social @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) about his new book ‘Cybernetic Capitalism’ (out with @fordhampress.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Jan Overwijk (@jloverwijk.bsky.social @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social) about his new book ‘Cybernetic Capitalism’ (out with @fordhampress.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
I published my first book "Social Movements and the Politics of Debt" with Amsterdam University Press so that the rights wouldn't belong to a for-profit institution...only to now have been informed that AUP's academic book programme (including my book) have been sold to Taylor&Francis :/
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I published my first book "Social Movements and the Politics of Debt" with Amsterdam University Press so that the rights wouldn't belong to a for-profit institution...only to now have been informed that AUP's academic book programme (including my book) have been sold to Taylor&Francis :/
This is on the top of my to-read list for the next month, very happy to see this debate unfold
🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author,
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This is on the top of my to-read list for the next month, very happy to see this debate unfold