Elias
@eliaskoenig.bsky.social
Philosophy, climate justice, strikes, socialism
Utrecht, Berlin, Taipei
Utrecht, Berlin, Taipei
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Elias
@eliaskoenig.bsky.social
· Jun 4
My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...
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Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5
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US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.
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In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
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Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
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‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
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@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“Without structural conditions that enable alternative forms of land use, food production and nature generation, bottom-up initiatives risk remaining highly localised in their effects instead of aligning into a broader transformation of nature-society relations.”
The Ministry of Spatial Planning
An institution with real power to shape land use, relegated to a meme
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November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“Without structural conditions that enable alternative forms of land use, food production and nature generation, bottom-up initiatives risk remaining highly localised in their effects instead of aligning into a broader transformation of nature-society relations.”
Wrote this about the forgotten history of spatial planning in the Netherlands w/ my colleagues @adamcalo.bsky.social & Catherine :)
The defunct Ministry of Spatial Planning:
The Ministry of Spatial Planning
An institution with real power to shape land use, relegated to a meme
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Wrote this about the forgotten history of spatial planning in the Netherlands w/ my colleagues @adamcalo.bsky.social & Catherine :)
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BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
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My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common
This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen"
Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social
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Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social
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Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen, kritisiert Yossi Bartal
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October 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen"
Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social
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Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social
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“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...
International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’ - Inside Climate News
An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fo...
insideclimatenews.org
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...
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“The interests of working-class communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to collective flourishing.”
Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.
jacobin.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“The interests of working-class communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to collective flourishing.”
Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
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In ihrem ersten Interview seit ihrer Abschiebung aus einer israelischen Haftanstalt sprach die Medienkritikerin und jüngste Sumud-Aktivistin Judith Scheytt mit mir über ihre Beweggründe – und ihre Behandlung durch israelische Behörden. Online @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
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»Wir können unabhängig von unseren Regierungen handeln«
Judith Scheytt war Teil der Global Sumud Flotilla. Im Gespräch erklärt sie ihre Beweggründe, berichtet von den Bedingungen in israelischer Haft und teilt ihre Perspektive auf die Verfehlungen der Bund...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In ihrem ersten Interview seit ihrer Abschiebung aus einer israelischen Haftanstalt sprach die Medienkritikerin und jüngste Sumud-Aktivistin Judith Scheytt mit mir über ihre Beweggründe – und ihre Behandlung durch israelische Behörden. Online @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.de/artikel/sumu...
jacobin.de/artikel/sumu...
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Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly
All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.
jacobin.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly
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"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"
tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
October 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"
tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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*EXCLUSIVE*
This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚
Read now👇
www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚
Read now👇
www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
EXTRACT: The Long Heat
An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.
www.break-down.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
*EXCLUSIVE*
This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚
Read now👇
www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚
Read now👇
www.break-down.org/extract-the-...
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China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record.
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Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.
September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.
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Well well well turns out capital needs labor after all
New bill seeks 65,000 visas for migrant workers in US - Global Construction Review
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has joined a number of US national construction bodies throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill that would give visas to migrant workers in se...
www.globalconstructionreview.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Well well well turns out capital needs labor after all
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"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson
Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously
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September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The one piece jolly roger made it to Berlin
September 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The one piece jolly roger made it to Berlin
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Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.
September 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.
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Our @350.org response and analysis to #Chinas new #NDC:
Underwhelming yet transformative.
350.org/press-releas...
Underwhelming yet transformative.
350.org/press-releas...
350.org Responds to China’s New Climate Target with Analysis: “Underwhelming Yet Transformative”
New York/Beijing, 24 September 2025. Speaking at the UN Climate Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China’s updated national climate...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Our @350.org response and analysis to #Chinas new #NDC:
Underwhelming yet transformative.
350.org/press-releas...
Underwhelming yet transformative.
350.org/press-releas...
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An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
From the energy community on Reddit: Big oil’s shadow network pumped millions into Charlie Kirk’s culture war machine
Explore this post and more from the energy community
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September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.