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Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle
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senior lecturer WU Wien | evolutionary political economy | agent-based modelling | EAEPE // sci-fi | jazz | hip-hop | electronic music

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christophsorg.bsky.social
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:

hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441

registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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rbaernthaler.bsky.social
New review article out in @climate-policy.bsky.social

@envleeds.bsky.social

- with @ernestaigner.bsky.social (@leuphana.bsky.social), Nathan Barlow (@degrowthvienna.bsky.social) & Andreas Novy (@wuvienna.bsky.social, @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social)

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Conceptualizing transformative climate action: insights from sufficiency research
This synthesis article conceptualizes transformative climate actions (TCAs) by reviewing social-science-based climate and transformation research, with a particular focus on (Western) sufficiency l...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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tspbackground.bsky.social
Europa & Deutschland müssen ihre Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen #Big-Tech-Unternehmen brechen, so lautet das Credo der Stunde. Doch #BuyEuropean & nationale Champions sind nicht die Lösung, schreiben @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Aline Blankertz 👉 is.gd/TVEGyN
Titel des Standpunkts von Cecilia Rikap (University College London) und Aline Blankertz (Rebalance Now): "Demokratisch kontrollierte Alternativen gegen technologische Abhängigkeit" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Digitalisierung & KI.
March 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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futurehistories.bsky.social
A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social (@iipp-ucl.bsky.social) about how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership. Recorded at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social!

tinyurl.com/FH-Rikap
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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kpolanyisociety.bsky.social
Were you unable to attend our expert workshop on democratic economic planning last November? No problem! The full recordings of all three public events are now online! ▶️View them here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DEP #planning #transformation #WUVienna (1/3)
Democratic Economic Planning Workshop - YouTube
This expert workshop on "Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises", which took place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from...
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February 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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solveigdegen.bsky.social
The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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momentum-institut.at
Europa hat ein neues progressives Netzwerk: SET-NET (Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network). Der Zusammenschluss europäischer Thinktanks fokussiert sich auf Klimapolitik & präsentiert eine neue Studie über den Verkehrssektor: Race2Paris – Shifting Gears for Climate Action. Ein 🧵 1/
Cover der englischen Studie „Race2Paris: Shifting Gears for Climate Action: Transforming Europe’s Transportation“, veröffentlicht vom Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network (SET-NET). Cover der Studie „Race2Paris Österreich: Wirksame Klimapolitik bleibt in Österreich auf der Strecke“, veröffentlicht vom Momentum Institut.
January 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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scifiart.bsky.social
Weekend viewing
#davidlynch
January 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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scifiart.bsky.social
Goodbye David Lynch and thanks for the beautiful weirdness 🖤🖤🖤🖤
January 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
Remembering how William Gibson described the "jackpot":
As twenty-second-century Wilf Netherton explains to twenty-first-century Flynne Fisher, the jackpot was “no one thing”: “multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end. More a climate than an event, so not the way apocalypse stories liked to have a big event, after which everybody ran around with guns . . . or else were eaten alive by something caused by the big event. Not like that.” Triggered mainly by climate change, the jackpot included: nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves. Over forty years, 80 percent of the human population died; the surviving 20 percent, meanwhile, benefited from the technologies that developed as the slaughterhouse of history unfolded: “cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before, nanotechnology that was more than just car paint that healed itself or camo crawling on a ball cap.” Also, of course, the rich got richer, “there being fewer to own whatever there was.”
January 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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futurehistories.bsky.social
It's here! The Competition & Change special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg.bsky.social and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full!

Find it here:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

Please share and spread the word! Thx!
Competition & Change - Volume 29, Number 1, Jan 01, 2025
Table of contents for Competition & Change, 29, 1, Jan 01, 2025
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December 28, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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abenanav.bsky.social
Important new white paper on how to fight back against big tech and democratize the internet!

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Reclaiming digital sovereignty
Authored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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parismarx.com
After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies.

I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty
A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future
disconnect.blog
December 3, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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cedricdurand.bsky.social
The case for a public digital stack NOW !
paologerbaudo.bsky.social Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Dec 3
I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
mschock.bsky.social
#RegainDigitalSovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #AgainstBigTech #DemocraticeAI
paologerbaudo.bsky.social Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Dec 3
I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!
December 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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paologerbaudo.bsky.social
I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!
December 3, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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solveigdegen.bsky.social
Excited to share a few highlights from our expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning” (DEP) in Vienna last weekend! Over 2 days, we explored how democratic economic planning can reshape our economy. Here is a short summary of what we discussed 🧵👇(1/9) #DemocraticPlanning #DEP
December 3, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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cedricdurand.bsky.social
Let's talk about "Ecological Planning And the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"on Friday, 29th November, 6-7:30pm.
Thanks to the Institut für Räumliche und Sozial-Ökologische Transformationen at Vienna University for the invitation!
kpolanyisociety.bsky.social International Karl Polanyi Society @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social · Nov 20
We are co-organising an expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” WU November 29-30, 2024! Join us for three public events at WU Vienna Nov 29-30th! Register here!👉 wu.ac.at/institut-fue... @cedricdurand.bsky.social @wu.ac.at.web.brid.gy #democraticplanning
November 21, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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kpolanyisociety.bsky.social
We are co-organising an expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” WU November 29-30, 2024! Join us for three public events at WU Vienna Nov 29-30th! Register here!👉 wu.ac.at/institut-fue... @cedricdurand.bsky.social @wu.ac.at.web.brid.gy #democraticplanning
November 20, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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futurehistories.bsky.social
Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal spreche ich mit Jens Schröter und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) über Computerspiele als transformationskritische Medien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Gaming #GamingUtopia
Jens Schröter und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zu Computerspielen als transformationskritischen Medien | Future Histories Podcast
Wie können Computerspiele soziale Utopien simulieren und so virtuell erfahrbar machen? Jens Schröter und Manuel…
www.futurehistories.today
May 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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futurehistories.bsky.social
Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal Teil II des Gesprächs mit Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) zum Simulieren von Utopien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Utopie
Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien (Teil 2) | Future Histories Podcast
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes "Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld" wurde eine agentenbasierte Simulation des…
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March 3, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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futurehistories.bsky.social
Eine neue Folge Future Histories!

Diesmal spreche ich mit Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (@mschock.bsky.social) über das Simulieren von Utopien.

Zu finden hier:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast #Utopie
Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien | Future Histories Podcast
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes "Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld" wurde eine agentenbasierte Simulation des…
www.futurehistories.today
February 18, 2024 at 9:23 AM
mschock.bsky.social
Happy to announce publication of our special issue on “Envisioning Post-Capitalist Utopias via Simulation” in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
 
link.springer.com/journal/4325...
 
Editors: Hanno Pahl, @mschock.bsky.social, Jens Schröter
 
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Review of Evolutionary Political Economy | Volume 4, issue 3
Volume 4, issue 3 articles listing for Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
link.springer.com
December 21, 2023 at 9:18 AM
mschock.bsky.social
Welcome to COMMONSIM, an agent-based simulation of COMMONISM.
open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
open source: doi.org/10.25937/jzk...

L Gerdes, @ernestaigner.bsky.social, St Meretz, H Pahl, A Schlemm, @mschock.bsky.social, J Schröter & S Sutterlütti
November 20, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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algorhythm.bsky.social
In times of tumult, we need new ways of computing the future, new forms of AI, REAL INTELLIGENCE! I tried to articulate this and more for heterodox economists (+ heterodox economics) from my perspective and I called playfully called it "heterodox modeling", doi.org/10.1007/s432...
Heterodox modeling: practicing well-tuned provisioning or commoning with networked multi-agent envir...
Market-driven, profit-oriented, mainstream neoclassical economics is increasingly being challenged by alternative approaches such as heterodox economics. This article contributes to broader discussion...
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October 24, 2023 at 7:44 PM