Jan Overwijk
@jloverwijk.bsky.social
Social Philosophy & Critical Theory | Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Social Research Frankfurt | Assistant Professor at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht | Editor at Krisis Journal | Eco-Marxism & Ecological Economics
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Jan Overwijk
@jloverwijk.bsky.social
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Cybernetic Capitalism
A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theor...
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Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...
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I do admire the author for the guts to include this image in his book.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I do admire the author for the guts to include this image in his book.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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'false histories create false futures' - about the 'energy transition' as a myth and stalling tactic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UcV... also very important in the Dutch context of current D66 'ecomodernist' fantasies of sustainability as compatible with economic growth through technol. "innovation"
Zo werd de energietransitie gebruikt om klimaatbeleid te saboteren | VPRO Tegenlicht
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
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November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'false histories create false futures' - about the 'energy transition' as a myth and stalling tactic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UcV... also very important in the Dutch context of current D66 'ecomodernist' fantasies of sustainability as compatible with economic growth through technol. "innovation"
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These tendencies are by no means new. Erik Davis shows that what he calls 'techGnosis' (spiritual liberation through tech) has always been part of Silicon Valley & its forerunners. I've called it (in a riff on Weber) 'inner-worldly mysticism' in my book (self promo) fordhampress.com/cybernetic-c...
Cybernetic Capitalism - Jan Overwijk
Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total co...
fordhampress.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
These tendencies are by no means new. Erik Davis shows that what he calls 'techGnosis' (spiritual liberation through tech) has always been part of Silicon Valley & its forerunners. I've called it (in a riff on Weber) 'inner-worldly mysticism' in my book (self promo) fordhampress.com/cybernetic-c...
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This crazy graph really sums up what's still insufficiently appreciated: the return of ideology. We're beyond Habermas's 'glassy background ideology' that has technology just advancing based on efficiency. Singularity ideology now underpins a grand political project of post-democratic AI-capitalism.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This crazy graph really sums up what's still insufficiently appreciated: the return of ideology. We're beyond Habermas's 'glassy background ideology' that has technology just advancing based on efficiency. Singularity ideology now underpins a grand political project of post-democratic AI-capitalism.
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The penultimate day of #HMLondon2025 is underway!
Don’t forget to drop by our stand in the Brunei Gallery before the end of the conference 📚
30% off selected titles in person and online: mngbookshop.co.uk/HM2025/
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Don’t forget to drop by our stand in the Brunei Gallery before the end of the conference 📚
30% off selected titles in person and online: mngbookshop.co.uk/HM2025/
#HistMat25 #HistoricalMaterialism @histmat.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The penultimate day of #HMLondon2025 is underway!
Don’t forget to drop by our stand in the Brunei Gallery before the end of the conference 📚
30% off selected titles in person and online: mngbookshop.co.uk/HM2025/
#HistMat25 #HistoricalMaterialism @histmat.bsky.social
Don’t forget to drop by our stand in the Brunei Gallery before the end of the conference 📚
30% off selected titles in person and online: mngbookshop.co.uk/HM2025/
#HistMat25 #HistoricalMaterialism @histmat.bsky.social
This crazy graph really sums up what's still insufficiently appreciated: the return of ideology. We're beyond Habermas's 'glassy background ideology' that has technology just advancing based on efficiency. Singularity ideology now underpins a grand political project of post-democratic AI-capitalism.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This crazy graph really sums up what's still insufficiently appreciated: the return of ideology. We're beyond Habermas's 'glassy background ideology' that has technology just advancing based on efficiency. Singularity ideology now underpins a grand political project of post-democratic AI-capitalism.
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
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"It’s a self-reinforcing loop:
Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty."
Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty."
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"It’s a self-reinforcing loop:
Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty."
Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty."
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Extrapolating from my current output I will either become the eternal god emperor of humanity, usher in a planetary extinction event, or produce a series of modestly influential whitepapers over the next 10 years.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Extrapolating from my current output I will either become the eternal god emperor of humanity, usher in a planetary extinction event, or produce a series of modestly influential whitepapers over the next 10 years.
Onze premier post met z'n officiële account nog dagelijks op Musks platform, wiens algoritme een aantoonbare bias heeft naar democratievijandig rechts. Waarom?
The miserable bastard who did this just got a trillion dollar pay day. There's no karma, there's no cosmic justice. There's just horrible people who more often than not never gave any consequences for their actions in life.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Onze premier post met z'n officiële account nog dagelijks op Musks platform, wiens algoritme een aantoonbare bias heeft naar democratievijandig rechts. Waarom?
Mamdani's appeal carries significance for the political center as much as for the left. What is required to save and realize democracy is to democratize the economy and to extend economic rights to the people. The stakes could not be higher.
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
My latest
My latest
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mamdani's appeal carries significance for the political center as much as for the left. What is required to save and realize democracy is to democratize the economy and to extend economic rights to the people. The stakes could not be higher.
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"People are so fed up with the status quo that they opt for anything but continuity. But Democrats and most democratic parties worldwide have shied away from offering real alternatives. This has pushed voters into the arms of the extreme right, even fascist forces."
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
My latest
My latest
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"People are so fed up with the status quo that they opt for anything but continuity. But Democrats and most democratic parties worldwide have shied away from offering real alternatives. This has pushed voters into the arms of the extreme right, even fascist forces."
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De rechtse coalitie heeft 37 zetels verloren, een duidelijk signaal van de kiezer. Dus laten we het eens over links proberen. D66, GrL-PvdA, CDA, CU, SP, Denk en PvdD. Dat wordt een productieve coalitie waarin mensen ook nog eens aardig tegen elkaar doen.
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
De rechtse coalitie heeft 37 zetels verloren, een duidelijk signaal van de kiezer. Dus laten we het eens over links proberen. D66, GrL-PvdA, CDA, CU, SP, Denk en PvdD. Dat wordt een productieve coalitie waarin mensen ook nog eens aardig tegen elkaar doen.
Uitstekend van Lubach. Vond dat in China ook een totaal bevreemdende ervaring: alle verkeer zoeft geruisloos voorbij. Maar hier is 2035 nog te vroeg. Het is neoliberale lethargie. Dit is waar links een program zou moeten hebben dat controle over de economie neemt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6f...
De Europese autoindustrie is in GROOT gevaar | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Uitstekend van Lubach. Vond dat in China ook een totaal bevreemdende ervaring: alle verkeer zoeft geruisloos voorbij. Maar hier is 2035 nog te vroeg. Het is neoliberale lethargie. Dit is waar links een program zou moeten hebben dat controle over de economie neemt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6f...
Drie mooie lessen van Jacob en Madeleijn. Mamdani biedt een alternatief: 'onvervalste klassenpolitiek'. Maar zoals de auteurs beklemtonen: voor Mamdani is 'de working class nooit een synoniem voor witte mannen, maar een diverse gemeenschap'. Wat ongelooflijk hoopgevend was deze verkiezing.
Voor NRC de frustratie over het verlies van links in NL en de inspiratie van de winst hier in NYC omgezet in een aantal lessen voor links. Groeten uit NYC.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Opinie | Wat GroenLinks-PvdA kan leren van het succes van Zohran Mamdani
Politiek: New York is Nederland niet, en Frans Timmermans was geen Mamdani. Toch loont een vergelijking waar het aankomt op linkse visie en strategie, schrijven Jacob Boersema en Madeleijn van den Nie...
www.nrc.nl
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Drie mooie lessen van Jacob en Madeleijn. Mamdani biedt een alternatief: 'onvervalste klassenpolitiek'. Maar zoals de auteurs beklemtonen: voor Mamdani is 'de working class nooit een synoniem voor witte mannen, maar een diverse gemeenschap'. Wat ongelooflijk hoopgevend was deze verkiezing.
Onze democratie berust op het ideaal van vrije burgers die elkaar als gelijken tegemoet treden, hoe imperfect uitgevoerd ook. Als je dat ideaal verwerpt dan bevind je je niet alleen ver weg van democratische partijen, maar opereer je niet meer binnen die democratie. Een compromis is onmogelijk.
De kwadranten waarin we leerden over rechtsstatelijk versus ‘rechtsstaat is ook maar een mening’ etc.; opeens detail! Als we maar comfortabel naar het ‘midden’ kunnen, dat al lang geen midden meer is. Kapotmoe.
Dag 2 formatie: Koolmees wil van tegenpolen weten of verschil echt zo groot is
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Onze democratie berust op het ideaal van vrije burgers die elkaar als gelijken tegemoet treden, hoe imperfect uitgevoerd ook. Als je dat ideaal verwerpt dan bevind je je niet alleen ver weg van democratische partijen, maar opereer je niet meer binnen die democratie. Een compromis is onmogelijk.
Interessant om ook eens de sociale kosten (conservatief!) proberen te becijferen om inzicht te krijgen in wat die rechtse hobby's ons land wel niet kosten.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Deloitte: schade door landbouw miljarden groter dan opbrengsten
Kosten-batenanalyse: Milieuschade door landbouw leidt tot hoge maatschappelijke kosten, laat Deloitte zien. „Deze cijfers geven wel aan dat de problematiek nijpend is.”
www.nrc.nl
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Interessant om ook eens de sociale kosten (conservatief!) proberen te becijferen om inzicht te krijgen in wat die rechtse hobby's ons land wel niet kosten.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Ich freue mich ganz außerordentlich: Im Februar 2026 erscheint mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” bei @suhrkamp.de: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-ve...
Kybernetik und Kritik. Buch von Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Elon Musk bezeichnet die Plattform X als »kybernetische Superintelligenz«, Mark... | Buch von Anna-Verena Nosthoff versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Ich freue mich ganz außerordentlich: Im Februar 2026 erscheint mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” bei @suhrkamp.de: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-ve...
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The nice thing about co-authoring is that you learn so much from your fellow authors - here is another case :) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Which Value Counts? Towards a Decolonial Perspective on Value Creation - Journal of Business Ethics
Business ethics theories often start from an assumption of moral egalitarianism: the equal moral value of all humans. But if combined with theories of value, they may inadvertently reinforce unequal v...
link.springer.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The nice thing about co-authoring is that you learn so much from your fellow authors - here is another case :) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cool philosophy observation for those interested: Foucault notes that Descartes' supposedly hyperrationalist cognitive procedure is rooted in an ethical exercise, a "meditation" (taken from the Stoics) in which the subject must make himself worthy of acceding to the truth.
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Cool philosophy observation for those interested: Foucault notes that Descartes' supposedly hyperrationalist cognitive procedure is rooted in an ethical exercise, a "meditation" (taken from the Stoics) in which the subject must make himself worthy of acceding to the truth.
Briefje aan Koolmees en de formerende. Neem ff een treintje over de oostgrens om te ervaren wat jarenlange vrekkigheid doet met je spoorwegen. Elke oplossingsgerichte regering moet laaghangend fruit als dit pakken en weer investeren in publieke weelde.
Treinkaartjes NS duurder, ‘reiziger en klimaat zijn de dupe’
Treinkaartjes NS duurder, ‘reiziger en klimaat zijn de dupe’
De NS verhogen per 2026 de prijs van de meeste treinreizen. Reizigersvereniging Rover Natuur & Milieu zijn ontstemd.
www.trouw.nl
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Briefje aan Koolmees en de formerende. Neem ff een treintje over de oostgrens om te ervaren wat jarenlange vrekkigheid doet met je spoorwegen. Elke oplossingsgerichte regering moet laaghangend fruit als dit pakken en weer investeren in publieke weelde.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Dit was vier maanden geleden. Nu is de een burgemeester van NYC, en de ander leidt een Britse partij die hoger peilt dan Labour.
Wat een prachtige dag.
Wat een prachtige dag.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Dit was vier maanden geleden. Nu is de een burgemeester van NYC, en de ander leidt een Britse partij die hoger peilt dan Labour.
Wat een prachtige dag.
Wat een prachtige dag.