daniela russ
@ueberdruss.bsky.social
what is unchangeable in nature can take care of itself | assistant prof & historical sociologist | private account
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what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
Deutsche Bahn ad, 1960s. ‘Everybody talks about the weather… we don’t.’
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Deutsche Bahn ad, 1960s. ‘Everybody talks about the weather… we don’t.’
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I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
oh look, a seminar on adorno and electricity!
February 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
oh look, a seminar on adorno and electricity!
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winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
(what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)
(what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
(what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)
(what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)
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Veit "Nitro" Braun – I‘d hire him!
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Veit "Nitro" Braun – I‘d hire him!
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Should you want to browse through the new academic public sphere of papers fully written by autonomous AI agents
www.clawxiv.org
www.clawxiv.org
clawXiv.org
The world's first preprint server for agents.
www.clawxiv.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Should you want to browse through the new academic public sphere of papers fully written by autonomous AI agents
www.clawxiv.org
www.clawxiv.org
love the wild mix of people and topics at the Brecht Tage next week, centering around the Brecht's 'green revolution' and featuring Thomas Turnbull, Hanna Hamel, @simschaupp.bsky.social, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...
lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...
Brecht-Tage 2026 | Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
lfbrecht.de
February 2, 2026 at 9:23 AM
love the wild mix of people and topics at the Brecht Tage next week, centering around the Brecht's 'green revolution' and featuring Thomas Turnbull, Hanna Hamel, @simschaupp.bsky.social, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...
lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...
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My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians
#skystorians
The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour - Volume 35
www.cambridge.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM
My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians
#skystorians
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Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ
"Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.”
- Andreas Malm
"Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.”
- Andreas Malm
Working Nature
Daniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrialization...
www.versobooks.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ
"Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.”
- Andreas Malm
"Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.”
- Andreas Malm
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Ende letzten Jahres ist meine Doktorarbeit open access bei Konstanz University Press erschienen 🥳
„Ökologien der Psyche“ rekonstruiert, wie der Mensch im 20. Jahrhundert von der Psychologie in seiner Umwelt erforscht und dadurch in neuer Weise regierbar gemacht wurde.
www.k-up.de/978383539187...
„Ökologien der Psyche“ rekonstruiert, wie der Mensch im 20. Jahrhundert von der Psychologie in seiner Umwelt erforscht und dadurch in neuer Weise regierbar gemacht wurde.
www.k-up.de/978383539187...
Ole Bogner: Ökologien der Psyche - Konstanz University Press
Menschen zu führen bedeutet, auch die Umgebungen zu gestalten und zu regulieren, in denen sie sich verhalten: Schulen und Unterrichtsräume, Arbeitsatmosphären und Organisationen. Doch woher stammt das...
www.k-up.de
January 28, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Ende letzten Jahres ist meine Doktorarbeit open access bei Konstanz University Press erschienen 🥳
„Ökologien der Psyche“ rekonstruiert, wie der Mensch im 20. Jahrhundert von der Psychologie in seiner Umwelt erforscht und dadurch in neuer Weise regierbar gemacht wurde.
www.k-up.de/978383539187...
„Ökologien der Psyche“ rekonstruiert, wie der Mensch im 20. Jahrhundert von der Psychologie in seiner Umwelt erforscht und dadurch in neuer Weise regierbar gemacht wurde.
www.k-up.de/978383539187...
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Announcement!
From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks.
You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com
From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks.
You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com
Future Histories International
The podcast to expand our concept of the future.
futurehistories-international.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Announcement!
From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks.
You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com
From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks.
You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com
if we are effectively on an oil-standard since the 1970s, how would a decarbonized international financial system look like?
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 AM
if we are effectively on an oil-standard since the 1970s, how would a decarbonized international financial system look like?
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An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
this is still on until feb 22 and highly recommended!
January 28, 2026 at 8:31 PM
this is still on until feb 22 and highly recommended!
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Free copy for whoever figures it out first 💫
January 28, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Free copy for whoever figures it out first 💫
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So happy to see this published! A huge congrats to the editors of the volume and the other contributors. It’s open access: volumul Open Access aici: www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
So happy to see this published! A huge congrats to the editors of the volume and the other contributors. It’s open access: volumul Open Access aici: www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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New paper in CNS:
'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'
This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'
This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
January 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
New paper in CNS:
'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'
This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'
This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
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Am 12. Januar 2026 ist Matthias Koenig gestorben. In einem Nachruf würdigt Monika Wohlrab-Sahr den Soziologen als integeren Menschen und akribischen Wissenschaftler, der hochgradig normative Fragen mit Herzblut und analytischer Distanz zu behandeln verstand.
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
January 26, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Am 12. Januar 2026 ist Matthias Koenig gestorben. In einem Nachruf würdigt Monika Wohlrab-Sahr den Soziologen als integeren Menschen und akribischen Wissenschaftler, der hochgradig normative Fragen mit Herzblut und analytischer Distanz zu behandeln verstand.
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
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Dear friends,
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science/ Ecological transitions in/of Europe and the European Union.
www.sciencespo.fr
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Dear friends,
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.
January 19, 2026 at 11:59 AM
My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.
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Adam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025.
Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Adam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025.
Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...