Critical Theory in Berlin
@ktbberlin.bsky.social
The Bluesky representation of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
Pinned
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...
The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
Prof. Isabel Feichtner: "Land, Sea, Moon: From territoriality to becoming terrestrial"
YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin
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November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
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The video of the online conversation "Living in Authoritarian Times" that we co-organized with the April Institute and Critup is now online: Rahul Bhatia, Volkan Çidam, Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, and Joseph Howley, moderated by Zeynep Gambetti.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...
Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics
YouTube video by April Institute
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November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The video of the online conversation "Living in Authoritarian Times" that we co-organized with the April Institute and Critup is now online: Rahul Bhatia, Volkan Çidam, Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, and Joseph Howley, moderated by Zeynep Gambetti.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...
Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
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 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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...
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Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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There has been a slight change: The event will take place at 6.00 pm central European time, which is 1.00 pm East Coast time. Please register for the webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There has been a slight change: The event will take place at 6.00 pm central European time, which is 1.00 pm East Coast time. Please register for the webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Next Thursday! Check out our programme for details on all the panels discussing different aspects of the land question: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Next Thursday! Check out our programme for details on all the panels discussing different aspects of the land question: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
We are excited to officially announce Dipesh Chakrabarty as our next Benjamin Chair in 2026. Chakrabarty, leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, will join us as Benjamin Chair in Berlin next summer.
Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!
Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We are excited to officially announce Dipesh Chakrabarty as our next Benjamin Chair in 2026. Chakrabarty, leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, will join us as Benjamin Chair in Berlin next summer.
Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!
Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!
Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Save the Date: On Oct 30-31, our research project Socialization in Theory and Praxis will bring together a range of social, legal and historical scholars to analyze the question of land ownership and socialization.
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
Full programme now online on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...
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Eine neue Folge Future Histories!
Diesmal spreche ich mit Rahel Jaeggi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) über die Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistisches Utopisieren.
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
@suhrkamp.de
Diesmal spreche ich mit Rahel Jaeggi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) über die Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistisches Utopisieren.
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
@suhrkamp.de
August 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Eine neue Folge Future Histories!
Diesmal spreche ich mit Rahel Jaeggi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) über die Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistisches Utopisieren.
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
@suhrkamp.de
Diesmal spreche ich mit Rahel Jaeggi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) über die Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistisches Utopisieren.
Zu finden hier:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
@suhrkamp.de
Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)".
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
August 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)".
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
To wrap up the Benjamin Lectures that Tommie Shelby held this semester, we have published two texts reporting on the three evenings - in English (by Mara Cayarga & Marvin Ester) & in German (by Hanna Hoffman-Richter).
Go to Report/Veranstaltungsbericht here:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...
Go to Report/Veranstaltungsbericht here:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...
August 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To wrap up the Benjamin Lectures that Tommie Shelby held this semester, we have published two texts reporting on the three evenings - in English (by Mara Cayarga & Marvin Ester) & in German (by Hanna Hoffman-Richter).
Go to Report/Veranstaltungsbericht here:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...
Go to Report/Veranstaltungsbericht here:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...
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In der 52. Folge von unserem Theorie-Podcast «tl;dr» geht es um den zweiten Band von «Das Kapital». Zu Gast bei Alex Demirović ist in dieser Sendung Christian Schmidt. Hört euch jetzt die neue Folge an, überall, wo es Podcasts gibt! 🎧
August 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
In der 52. Folge von unserem Theorie-Podcast «tl;dr» geht es um den zweiten Band von «Das Kapital». Zu Gast bei Alex Demirović ist in dieser Sendung Christian Schmidt. Hört euch jetzt die neue Folge an, überall, wo es Podcasts gibt! 🎧
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Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo...
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
Freedom Within the Limits of Nature - Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy
Talk by Kohei Saito, followed by a discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, and Thomas Khurana
cpkp.net
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo...
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
All three of Tommie Shelby's Benjamin Lectures can now be viewed on our youtube channel!
youtu.be/6MwKumpSai0?...
youtu.be/6MwKumpSai0?...
Tommie Shelby: Race and Class in the Political Ethics of the Oppressed, 1 Benjamin Lecture 18/06/25
YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin
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July 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
All three of Tommie Shelby's Benjamin Lectures can now be viewed on our youtube channel!
youtu.be/6MwKumpSai0?...
youtu.be/6MwKumpSai0?...
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Fanon Today.
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
July 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Fanon Today.
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
next week in Berlin!
program etc here:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
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Save the Date: On July 9, Kohei Saito will discuss his work on Marx's ecological critique of capitalism with Rahel Jaeggi & Thomas Khurana.
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
June 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Save the Date: On July 9, Kohei Saito will discuss his work on Marx's ecological critique of capitalism with Rahel Jaeggi & Thomas Khurana.
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
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Neues Buch:
Solidaritäten transformieren.
Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft
mit Texten v. Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Rahel Jaeggi, Sandro Mezzadra, Stephan Lessenich, Paul Mecheril u.v.m.
open access!
adocs.de/de/buecher/t...
Solidaritäten transformieren.
Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft
mit Texten v. Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Rahel Jaeggi, Sandro Mezzadra, Stephan Lessenich, Paul Mecheril u.v.m.
open access!
adocs.de/de/buecher/t...
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Neues Buch:
Solidaritäten transformieren.
Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft
mit Texten v. Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Rahel Jaeggi, Sandro Mezzadra, Stephan Lessenich, Paul Mecheril u.v.m.
open access!
adocs.de/de/buecher/t...
Solidaritäten transformieren.
Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft
mit Texten v. Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Rahel Jaeggi, Sandro Mezzadra, Stephan Lessenich, Paul Mecheril u.v.m.
open access!
adocs.de/de/buecher/t...
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Tonight at 6pm!
Save the Date: Next Wednesday, we will meet at Uferstudios to discuss the relation between capitalism and racism with Manuale Bojadžijev, R. Gooding-Williams, Tommie Shelby and Inés Valdez. More infos: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/racial...
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Tonight at 6pm!
Am 10.07. lädt das Forschungskonsortium Transforming Solidarities zur Buchvorstellung des neuen Sammelbandes "Solidaritäten transformieren. Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft" ein - Mehr Infos: transformingsolidarities.net/de/news/buch...
July 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Am 10.07. lädt das Forschungskonsortium Transforming Solidarities zur Buchvorstellung des neuen Sammelbandes "Solidaritäten transformieren. Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft" ein - Mehr Infos: transformingsolidarities.net/de/news/buch...
Save the Date: On July 9, Kohei Saito will discuss his work on Marx's ecological critique of capitalism with Rahel Jaeggi & Thomas Khurana.
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
June 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Save the Date: On July 9, Kohei Saito will discuss his work on Marx's ecological critique of capitalism with Rahel Jaeggi & Thomas Khurana.
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
Tickets available at Volksbühne: www.volksbuehne.berlin#/de/repertoi...
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/fre...
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Gibt es ein richtiges Leben im falschen? Bei den Walter-Benjamin-Lectures sprach Tommie Shelby über Solidarität und Protest – und darüber, wie man angesichts von Unterdrückung die eigene Würde bewahrt. Der Bericht von @jensbisky.bsky.social und Karsten Malowitz:
www.soziopolis.de/das-recht-au...
www.soziopolis.de/das-recht-au...
June 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Gibt es ein richtiges Leben im falschen? Bei den Walter-Benjamin-Lectures sprach Tommie Shelby über Solidarität und Protest – und darüber, wie man angesichts von Unterdrückung die eigene Würde bewahrt. Der Bericht von @jensbisky.bsky.social und Karsten Malowitz:
www.soziopolis.de/das-recht-au...
www.soziopolis.de/das-recht-au...