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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
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
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
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 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
May 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
March 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Organizing a workshop on the democratization of investment tomorrow: February 21 @ 3:30 pm – 6:15 pm UTC+1

Event link here: www.indep.network/event/indep-...

We're also a couple of people interested in forming a working group on the socialization of investment. PM or email me if interested.
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Highly recommended episode. It overlaps with the interview I conducted with Nancy Fraser for our book but focuses on different things. I'm trying to find the time to write a paper on Polanyian planning, because the overlaps of Karl Polanyi, Nancy Fraser and Pat Devine are amazing. 1/2
January 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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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January 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics published a small special issue on planning; ejpe.org/journal ejpe.org/journal ejpe.org/journal/arti...
December 11, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2024 at 7:24 AM
The intro to the special issue Rethinking Economic Planing of @CompChange Jan Groos from @FutureHpodcast and I are co-editing has now been published. It's a stand-alone article the provides context, history and overview for recent debates on economic planning. 1/2
December 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Bahn Karma: wenn dein Zug verspätet ist, der Anschluss aber noch verspäteter...
December 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Don't know what that poor jpg has been through but here's a better one...
December 7, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Happy that the @CADTM_int network has shared my book Social Movements and the Politics of Debt. CADTM has been doing incredible work for debt abolition for decades and is one of the networks I studied for this book (together with @eurodad and...
December 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Been following the state capitalism lit. with great interest for a while. I highly highly recommend 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' by @IliasAlami and @DrAdam_Dixon - not because of the much appreciated shout out to the planning literature, but because it's such a good read.
December 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Für unsere Planungsprokla habe ich einen Text zu Planung und Reproduktionsarbeit geschrieben: https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2122 Ich versuche darin, weitere Brücken zwischen Planungsdebatte und feministischen Perspektiven zu bauen. Zum Inhalt ein Thread: 🧵
December 7, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Für alle die Freitag-Samstag Berlin sind: toller Workshop zu Vergesellschaftung des Gesellschaftlichen morgen im Grimm Zentrum, ich präsentiere zur Vorstellung von Gesellschaft in der Planungsdebatte.

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/vergesselschaftung-des-gesellschaftlichen/
December 7, 2024 at 10:10 AM
My book "Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents" has been published by Amsterdam University Press as an open access book:
https://www.aup.nl/.../social-movements-and-the-politics...
December 7, 2024 at 10:25 AM