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Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China. Shownotes Merle Groneweg M.A. M.Sc. Merle Groneweg an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/ostasien/mitarbeiter-innen/personal/merle-groneweg Merles Interview-Reihe bei Klimareporter.de zu Chinas Klima- und Umweltpolitik: https://klimareporter.de/tag/chinas-klima-und-umweltpolitik zur Konferenz ‘China und WIR: Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel’: https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite zu ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ unter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs zu Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan: https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/ zu CREA (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air): https://energyandcleanair.org/ zu CREAs Analyse zu Klimafolgen Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan: https://energyandcleanair.org/chinas-15th-five-year-plan-implications-for-climate-and-energy-transition/ zu ‘civil-military integration’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93civil_fusion zu ‘dual-use technology:’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology zum Bereich ‘Rohstoffpolitik’ von PowerShift e.V.: https://power-shift.de/themen/rohstoffpolitik-globale-gerechtigkeit-schaffen/ Fatheuer, T., Fuhr, L. & Unmüßig, B. (2015). Kritik der grünen Ökonomie. oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/kritik-der-gruenen-oekonomie-9783865817488 zu ‘the securitization of everything’ von MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies): https://merics.org/en/report/comprehensive-national-security-unleashed-how-xis-approach-shapes-chinas-policies-home-and Merles Interview mit Lifei Yi in der Klimareporter.de Serie: https://klimareporter.de/international/chinas-umweltpolitik-gibt-dem-staat-mehr-macht Yifei Li an der NYU Shanghai: https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/yifei-li zu den erwähnten Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr und Infrastruktur: https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw22-de-sondervermoegen-897614 https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/sondervermoegen-doku-1106000 zu ‘Special Economic Zones’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_China Xiangming, C. (2020). Change and Continuity in Special Economic Zones: A Reassessment and Lessons from China. International Corporations Journal 26(2). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623042 zur Recycling-Kampagne in Shanghai: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/recycling-muelltrennung-in-shanghai Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862 zum Vorschlag der IEA (International Energy Agency) zur Reduzierung der Autofahrten angesichts der Weltölkrise: https://www.iea.org/news/new-iea-report-highlights-options-to-ease-oil-price-pressures-on-consumers-in-response-to-middle-east-supply-disruptions zu Merles Interview mit Client Earth bei Klimareporter.de: https://klimareporter.de/international/china-hat-erhebliche-fortschritte-im-umweltrecht-gemacht zu Client Earth: https://www.clientearth.org/ zur European Union CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) Policy: https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism_en zu Zollpolitik zwischen China und dem ‘Globalen Süden’: Adachi, A. (2025). The Global South in the wake of China's economic surplus: Industrial challenges for developing countries and policy recommendations for the EU. BKHS Perspectives. https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/fileadmin/BKHS_Perspectives_25_09_The_Global_South_in_the_wake_of_China_s_economic_surplus.pdf zum Sprichwort ‘Frauen tragen die Hälfte des Himmels’: https://ostasieninstitut.com/bibliothek/sprichwoerter-ostasiens/frauen-tragen-die-haelfte-des-himmels-%E5%A5%B3%E4%BA%BA%E8%83%BD%E9%A1%B6%E5%8D%8A%E8%BE%B9%E5%A4%A9%E3%80%82-nuren-neng-ding-ban-biantian/ zu den UN Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen und zur Armutsbekämpfung in China: https://www.un.org/german/sites/default/files/2024-09/MDG%25202015%2520web.pdf https://progressive.international/blueprint/16a350d7-9d05-49d6-b855-5de756f52963-pro-poor-development-how-china-eradicated-poverty/de/ zum ‘New International Economic Order’ für die Reformierung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-new-international-economic-order-useful-history-for-a-multipolar-world zur Afrikanischen Gruppe (African Group) der United Nations: https://www.africanunion-un.org/africangroup zum GATT Abkommen 1947 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade): https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_e.htm zu Deng Xiaoping und seiner Öffnungspolitik : https://www.bpb.de/themen/asien/china/44262/portraet-deng-xiaoping/ zum IAA (Industrial Accelerator Act): https://ec.europa.eu

Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism. Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham: https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/ Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749 Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061 Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379514594_The_land_question_and_postcapitalist_countrysides_towards_a_town-country_synthesis on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx: Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3). https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/ Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35192/capital-by-karl-marx-intro-ernest-mandel-trans-ben-fowkes/9780140445688 Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058 Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655 on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’: Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291 Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/ on the Oskar-Lange-Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_model Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-reproduction/BE9B0DBDC89593F3284FE3F51D3B0418 on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’: Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-i/paper Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal?srsltid=AfmBOoqNKlXZJs9HrqEBU4BlAF7hbaxEzAOWD1oQCV6M_Kwtg5n9xOcO on Otto Neurath’s political economy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/political-economy.html on the quote by Otto Neurath: Otto Neurath in O'Neill, J. (2003) ‘Socialism, Associations and the Market’, Economy and Society 32(2): 184–206 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249006144_Socialism_associations_and_the_market on Friedrich Hayek’s argument against centralized planning: Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review 35(4), 519-530. https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hayek-opposes-centralized-economic-planning Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294231220690? Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press. https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books. https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosl

Felix Wemheuer zu Staatskapitalismus, Planwirtschaft und unserer Zukunft mit China. Shownotes Felix Wemheuer Prof. Dr. Felix Wemheuer (Lehrstuhl für Moderne China-Studien) an der Universität zu Köln: https://chinastudien.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/arbeitsbereiche/moderne-china-studien/personal/prof-dr-felix-wemheuer Fuchs, D., Klotzbücher, S., Riemenschnitter, A., Springer, L., & Wemheuer, F. (2023). Die Zukunft mit China denken. Mandelbaum. https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/daniel-fuchs-sascha-klotzbuecher-andrea-riemenschnitter-lena-springer-felix-wemheuer/die-zukunft-mit-china-denken/ Konferenz 'CHINA und WIR - Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel': https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/anmeldung Kritisches China Forum: https://kritisches-chinaforum.org/ Youtube Kanal ‘Studying Maoist China’: https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051 zum ‘Chinesischen Traum’: https://www.readingthechinadream.com/ Leese, D. & Ming, S. (2023). Chinesisches Denken der Gegenwart. Schlüsseltexte zu Politik und Gesellschaft. C. H. Beck. https://www.chbeck.de/leese-ming-chinesisches-denken-gegenwart/product/34659702 Fukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History? The National Interest. https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/courses/pdf/Fukuyama%20-%20End%20of%20History.pdf zu China als ‘Werkbank der Welt’: https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/izpb/china-337/275570/von-der-werkbank-der-welt-zur-innovationswirtschaft/ zu Authoritarian Resilience: Nathan, A. J. (2003). China’s Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience. Journal of Democracy 14(1), 6-17. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/chinas-changing-of-the-guard-authoritarian-resilience/ zu ‘Chimerica’: Ferguson, N., & Schularick, M. (2007). ‘Chimerica’ and the global asset market boom. International Finance, 10(3), 215-239. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2362.2007.00210.x Grundlagen zu Staatskapitalismus (in China): https://www.lpb-bw.de/china-wirtschaft https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatskapitalismus zu Mao Zedong: Wemheuer, F. (2021). Mao Zedong. Rowohlt Verlag. https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/felix-wemheuer-mao-zedong-9783644010192?srsltid=AfmBOopJE_AXx57LiheMHh9YOyy-Tl3MVKPkWznaGGKMUFlvtnj058-X zur Mao-Ära: Wemheuer, F. (2019). A Social History of Maoist China. Conflict and Change, 1949-76. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-history-of-maoist-china/6D2579E4BA68B4C8DACB08F8AAC9809A zur Wirtschaftsreform 1978 nach dem Tod Maos: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform-_und_%C3%96ffnungspolitik Weber, I. (2021). How China escaped shock therapy. The market reform debate. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493 zur erwähnten ‘Eisernen Reisschüssel’: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiserne_Reissch%C3%BCssel zum Zitat Engels: Engels, F. (1880). Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft. manifest. https://manifest-buecher.de/produkt/entwicklung-des-sozialismus-von-der-utopie-zur-wissenschaft/ zur Neuen Ökonomische Politik: Bergmann, T. & Schäfer, G. (1989). Liebling der Partei. VSA. https://www.zvab.com/Liebling-Partei-BergmannSch%C3%A4fer-Hg-Hamburg-VSA-Verl/30757362947/bd Wemheuer, F. (2021). Marktsozialismus. Eine kontroverse Debatte. Promedia. https://mediashop.at/buecher/marktsozialismus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205516/http:/www.mlwerke.de/le/le33/le33_453.htm zu den Kommandohöhen der Wirtschaft: Yergin, D. & Stanislaw, J. (1998). The Commanding Heights. The battle for the world economy. Simon & Schuster. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Commanding-Heights/Daniel-Yergin/9780684835693 zum Fall Jack Ma und Alibaba: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/interpol-red-notice-police-warrant-jack-ma/ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000125770730/kurssprung-von-alibaba-aufatmen-nach-rekordstrafe Einschätzung der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Chinas: Wemheuer, F. (2022). Chinas große Umwälzung. Soziale Konflikte und Aufstieg im Weltsystem. PapyRossa. https://shop.papyrossa.de/Wemheuer-Chinas-grosse-Umwaelzung zu Hartmut Elsenhans: https://hartmutelsenhans.net/ zu Hartmut Elsenhans’ Konzept der Staatsklassen: Elsenhans, H. (1997). Staatsklassen. In: Schulz, M. (eds) Entwicklung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-91011-0_9 Wallerstein, I. (1974 [2012]). The modern world-system I-IV. ProMedia Verlag. https://mediashop.at/buecher/das-moderne-weltsystem-i-iv/ zu den ‘Panama Papers’: https://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/ zu Xi Jinping: Rudd, K. (2024). On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist nationalism is shaping China and the world. Oxford Universtity Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/58156 Torigian, J. (2025). The Party’s interest come

Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation. Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/ You can also import the RSS feed to your favorite app: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml Shownotes Cédric at the University of Geneva (includes a list of his publications): https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand Cédric’s personal website: https://durandcedric.wordpress.com/ Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2026 forthcoming). Das Prinzip Verzweigung. Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dietz. https://dietzberlin.de/verlagsprogramm-fruehjahr-2026 Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2024). Comment bifurquer. Les principes de la planification écologique. La Découverte. https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/comment_bifurquer-9782355221910 Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., Schmelzer, M. (2024). Planning Beyond Growth. The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 437. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623045092?via%3Dihub Durand, C. & Keucheyan, R. (2022). Planning without Political Constraint imposed on Economic Actors is not real Planning. Verso Blog. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5469-planning-without-political-constraint-imposed-on-economic-actors-is-not-real-planning on Karl William Kapp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_William_Kapp on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek O’Neill, J. (2002). Socialist Calculation and Environmental Valuation. Money, Markets and Ecology. Science & Society, 66(1). http://gesd.free.fr/oneill.pdf on La Planification Ècologique in France: https://www.info.gouv.fr/grand-dossier/france-nation-verte the Secrétariat général à la planification écologique (SGPE): https://lannuaire.service-public.gouv.fr/gouvernement/6af2c8c4-bdf7-405c-bd9e-ed48dad83b96 Viennot, M. (2025). La planification écologique. La Découverte. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm Pisani-Ferry, J. & Mahfouz, S. (2023). The Economic Implications of Climate Action. A Repot to the French Prime Minister. France Stratégie. https://www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/en/publications/economic-implications-climate-action Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias on the Inflation Reduction Act: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act on the Developmental State concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_state Zhou, Z., Ou, J., Li, S. (2016). Ecological Accounting. A Research Review and Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Protection. 7. 643-655. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301270365_Ecological_Accounting_A_Research_Review_and_Conceptual_Framework on Citizen’s Assemblies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly on Michel Husson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Husson on the Commanding Heights of the Economy concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_heights_of_the_economy on the British Wartime Economy during the Second World War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_home_front_during_World_War_II on Economic Planning in France after the Second World War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning_in_France Ali, S. (1969). Economic Planning in France 1945–1965. A Brief Review. The Punjab University Economist, 7(1), 51–69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25821321 on Malthusianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism on Degrowth: https://degrowth.info on Jason Hickel: www.jasonhickel.org on Giorgos Kallis: https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17610/giorgos-kallis/ Jackson, T., Hickel, J., Kallis, G. (2024). Confronting the Dilemma of Growth. A Response to Warlenius (2023). Ecological Economics, Vol. 220. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180092300352X?via%3Dihub Zeug, W., Heyer, J., Lutosch, H. (2025). Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning & Holistic Accounting. An Economic Framework to Achieve Sustainable Societal Metabolisms. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393790658_Cybernetic_Democratic_Economic_Planning_Holistic_Accounting_-_An_Economic_Framework_to_Achieve_Sustainable_Societal_Metabolisms on the Holistic and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (HILCSA): https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=50083 on Ecosystem Services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F. et al. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability 1, 88–95. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4 Fehér, F., Heller, A., Márkus, G. (1983). Dictatorship Over Needs. Blackwell. https://archive.org/details/dictatorshipover0000fehe/page/n5/mode/2up Keucheyan, R. (2024). Ágnes Heller’s Theory of Need Is a Vital Political Tool. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2024/12/agnes-heller-philosophy-marxism-n

Anna-Verena Nosthoff zu Kybernetik und Kritik, digitaler Regierungskunst und der Rolle der Plattformen. Future Histories LIVE Das Gespräch mit Anna-Verena Nosthoff ist Teil des Formats ‚Future Histories LIVE‘. In unregelmäßigen Abständen werden hierbei einzelne Episoden live – soll heißen vor Publikum – aufgezeichnet. Diese Folge Future Histories ist am 26. Januar 2026 in Zusammenarbeit des Future Histories Lab mit dem Critical Data Lab entstanden und wurde im Medientheater an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aufgenommen. Shownotes Anna-Verena Nosthoff an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (inkl. Publikationsliste): https://uol.de/philosophie/mitarbeiterinnen/prof-dr-anna-verena-nosthoff das Critical Data Lab: https://www.criticaldatalab.org/anna-verena-nosthoff Nosthoff, A-V. (2026). Kybernetik und Kritik: Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungkunst. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-verena-nosthoff-kybernetik-und-kritik-t-9783518300794 Nosthoff, Anna-Verena und Felix Maschewski. 2019. Die Gesellschaft der Wearables. Berlin: Nicolai Publishung: https://nicolai-publishing.com/products/die-gesellschaft-der-wearables zu Shintaro Myazaki: https://medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prof-dr-shintaro-miyazaki/ Foucault, M. (1977-1979 [2006]). Geschichte der Gouvernementalität - Band I und II. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-geschichte-der-gouvernementalitaet-t-9783518068441 zu Erich Hörl: https://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam/personen/erich-hoerl.html zu Claus Pias: https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/zeit-der-kybernetik-eine-einstimmung-385 zu Benjamin Seibel: https://citylab-berlin.org/de/benjamin-seibel/ Seibel, B. (2016). Cybernetic Government: Informationstechnologie und Regierungsrationalität von 1943-1970. Springer-Verlag. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-12490-8 zu Norbert Wiener: https://monoskop.org/Norbert_Wiener Wiener, N. (1948 [1985]). Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. The M.I.T. Press. https://ia801003.us.archive.org/9/items/cybernetics-or-communication-and-control-in-the-animal-and-the-machine-norbert-wiene-ocr/Cybernetics%20or%20Communication%20and%20Control%20in%20the%20Animal%20and%20the%20Machine%20-%20Norbert%20Wiene_OCR.pdf Zuboff, S. (2018). Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus. campus. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wirtschaft-gesellschaft/wirtschaft/das_zeitalter_des_ueberwachungskapitalismus-15097.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqyy_ijK9Oex1CtRyQZwmE3BdQ30H2b_yc3-PlNDSxqwbXecaDb Lyotard, J-F. (1974 [1984]). Libidinöse Ökonomie. Diaphenes. https://www.diaphanes.de/titel/libidinoese-oekonomie-109 zu Claude Shannon: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon Shannon, C. E. & Weaver, W. (1964). The mathematical theory of communication. University of Illinois Press. https://monoskop.org/images/b/be/Shannon_Claude_E_Weaver_Warren_The_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication_1963.pdf Deutsch, K. W. (1969). Politische Kybernetik: Modelle und Perspektiven. Rombach Verlag. https://d-nb.info/456333991/04 zum Homeostat von William Ross Ashby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat zum Zitat von Steve Bannon ‘flood the zone with shit’: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/flood-the-zone-warum-trumps-flut-an-dekreten-und-provokationen-methode-hat-100.html zu Palantir: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies zu Jürgen Habermas: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas zu Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/explore zu Eric Schmidt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt Robins, K., & Webster, F. (1988). Cybernetic capitalism: Information, technology, everyday life. In V. Mosco & J. Wasko (eds.). The political economy of information. University of Wisconsin Press. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Robins-2/publication/282816878_cybernetic_capitalism_Information_technology_everyday_life/links/561d36c708aecade1acb365e/cybernetic-capitalism-Information-technology-everyday-life.pdf Baudrillard, J. (1983). Der symbolische Tausch und der Tod. Matthes & Seitz Berlin. https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/der-symbolische-tausch-und-der-tod.html zu Gilles Deleuze: https://brill.com/display/title/39900?language=de&srsltid=AfmBOoonpAe9aAERETg25wTxqOH2oWqf-8nHgpMSxX_iLoArUS_V3l8u zu Jaques Derrida: https://monoskop.org/Jacques_Derrida zu Stafford Beer: https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer zum erwähnten Projekt ‘Cybersyn’ in Chile: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/project-cybersyn-chiles-radical-experiment-in-cybernetic-socialism/ zum erwähnten ‘Laboria Cuboniks’-Kollektiv: https://monoskop.org/Laboria_Cuboniks Gebru, T., & Torres, Émile P. (2024). The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence. First Monday, 29(4). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636 zu Stewart Brand: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand zu Slava Gerovitch: https://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/gerovitch-cv.html Klaus, G. (1973). Kyb

Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons. Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/ You can also import the RSS feed to your favorite app: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml Shownotes Yanis’ website: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/ Raphael’s website: https://rarar.com/ Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/ Hirad’s website: https://hiradsab.com/ the Monetary Commons website: https://monetarycommons.com/ Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095 Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/ on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.html on Wolfgang Schäuble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House. https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf on IOU’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU on the Money Market Multiplier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/ on the Digital Renminbi in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi on Universal Basic Income (UBI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdf on fiat money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money. https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/ on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html on the distributed ledger technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578 on citizen’s assemblies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly on the International Monetary Fund (IMF): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund on the Digital Euro: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ on the Meidner Plan: https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-plan on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-economic-and-policy-experts-think-about-the-u-s-governments-stake-in-intel on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book): https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980 on Ursula K. Le Guin: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin the speech including the mentioned quote by her: https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2E on the 1973 Coup in Chile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory on Fernando Haddad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddad on pix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system) on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics S3E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/ S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/ S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/ S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturen https://www.futurehistories.

Ankündigung Future Histories LIVE in Berlin! Am 26.1. spreche ich mit der großartigen Anna-Verena Nosthoff über ihr neues Buch "Kybernetik und Kritik" (Suhrkamp Verlag) im Medientheater der Humboldt-Universität. Beginn: 18:30 Ort: Georgenstraße 47, Berlin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miriam Lang zu Systemalternativen jenseits des Entwicklungsparadigmas. Shownotes Miriam Lang an der Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar: https://www.uasb.edu.ec/docente/miriam-lang-id907/ Global Working Group Beyond Development: https://beyonddevelopment.net/ Pacto EcoSocial e Intercultural del Sur: https://pactoecosocialdelsur.com/ Lang, M., Manahan, M. A., & Bringel, B. (Hrsg.). (2025). Grüner Kolonialismus. Zwischen Energiewende und globaler Gerechtigkeit. oekom Verlag. https://www.oekom.de/buch/gruener-kolonialismus-9783987261671 Hoffman, O. (2025). Polykrise. Anatomie eines globalen Zusammenbruchs. Warum alle Krisen zusammenhängen - und was das für unsere Zukunft bedeutet. Königshausen & Neumann. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826093883-polykrise/ zu Intersektionalität: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersektionalit%C3%A4t Acosta, A. (2015). Buen vivir. Vom Recht auf ein gutes Leben. oekom Verlag. https://www.oekom.de/buch/buen-vivir-9783865817051 zum „Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialismus_des_21._Jahrhunderts Peters, S. (2019). Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts in Venezuela. Aufstieg und Fall der Bolivarischen Revolution von Hugo Chávez. Schmetterling Verlag. https://schmetterling-verlag.de/produkt/sozialismus-des-21-jahrhunderts-in-venezuela/ zur Gesamtamerikanischen Freihandelszone ALCA: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische_Freihandelszone zum zapatistischen Aufstand in Chiapas: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas-Konflikt zur CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONAIE zu BRICS: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS zur UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_S%C3%BCdamerikanischer_Nationen zu Hugo Chávez: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez zu Rafael Correa: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Correa zu Álvaro García Linera: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Garc%C3%ADa_Linera zu Evo Morales: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales Barié, C. G. (2022). Representation of Indigenous Peoples in Times of Progressive Governments. Lessons Learned from Bolivia. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 17(2), 167–192. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17442222.2020.1839225 zum Ministerium der Kultur, Dekolonialisierung und Depatriarchalisierung in Bolivien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Cultures_(Bolivia) zu Extraktivismus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraktivismus Riofrancos, T. (2025). Extraction. The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. W.W. Norton. https://www.theariofrancos.com/extraction zur PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Socialista_Unido_de_Venezuela de Sousa Santos, B. (2018). Epistemologien des Südens. Gegen die Hegemonie des westlichen Denkens. Unrast Verlag. https://www.isbn.de/buch/9783897712423/epistemologien-des-suedens zu Daniel Noboa: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Noboa zum Schuldenaudit in Ecuador in 2007: https://www.debtforclimate.org/post/8-2008-ecuador-buys-back-its-own-debt-after-audit zur Bank des Südens: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_des_S%C3%BCdens zur ALBA (Bolivarianische Allianz für die Völker unseres Amerika – Handelsvertrag der Völker): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianische_Allianz_f%C3%BCr_Amerika zum Consejo Nacional para la Igualdad de Género (Nationaler Rat für Geschlechtergleichstellung): https://www.igualdadgenero.gob.ec/ Amin, S. (1990). Delinking. Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/delinking-9780862328030/ zum informellen Sektor der Wirtschaft: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informelle_Wirtschaft zu Commoning: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoning Aguilar, R. G. (2024). In Defense of Common Life. The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Common Notions. https://www.commonnotions.org/in-defense-of-common-life Kothari. A. et al. (Hrsg.). (2024). Pluriversum. Ein Lexikon des Guten Lebens für alle. AG SPAK Bücher. https://www.agspak.de/pluriversum/ zu J.K. Gibson Graham, Community Economies und Diverse Economies: https://www.communityeconomies.org/people/jk-gibson-graham zu Ashish Kothari: https://ashishkothari.in/ zu demokratischem Konföderalismus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokratischer_Konf%C3%B6deralismus Gibson-Graham, J.K. & Dombroski, K. (Hrsg.). (2020). The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Edward Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition. https://w

Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Real Utopian Futures. Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/ You can also import the RSS feed to your favorite app: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml Shownotes The reference page on Kim Stanley Robinson, his works, interviews, talks, etc. (including a discussion forum): https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/ Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books. https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780356508863/ Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit Books. https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/new-york-2140/9780356508788/ Robinson, K. S. (1988). The Gold Coast. Macmillan. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312890377/thegoldcoast/ Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3. https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate Barbarism. Adapting to a wrong World. Constellations, 30, 162–178. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12596 the quoted Kohei Saito video: https://youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=SdfPftKOCJM6MS9j the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”: https://youtu.be/HpzXkpx29S4?si=PVlOE53Hj5-BZR5B reporting on and summary of the talk: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/the-war-on-science-is-here-kim-stanley-robinson-says-its-just-the-beginning/ Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750500108237 for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/ on Anna Kornbluh: http://www.annakornbluh.com/ on Mass Extinction Events: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink. https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal: https://www.cop28.com/en/thought-leadership/The-30x30-Biodiversity-Goal-at-COP28 the International Maritime Organization: https://www.imo.org/ on the ‘Half-Earth Project’: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/ Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492525 Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2650-half-earth-socialism one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times: https://youtu.be/p1wNhc46xjE?si=hOdKuwRQhef-9tLs on the Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left: Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26). https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110365481.20/html on Keynesianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ascendancy-of-finance--9781509509294 Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House. https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf on Thomas Piketty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty on Gabriel Zucman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman on the ‘Zucman tax’: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2025/09/23/zucman-tax-what-the-proposed-wealth-tax-would-mean-for-france_6745653_8.html on Carbon Taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578 Sarkar, S. (2024). The Carbon Coin. An Eco-Speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Green Letters, 28(4), 297–310. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2025.2483998 A policy proposal on ‘Carbon Reward’ from the same researcher whose earlier policy work inspired the ‘Carbon Coin’ idea in The Ministry for the Future: https://deltonchen.substack.com/p/new-economic-blueprint-for-resolving see also: https://globalcarbonreward.org/newsletters/carbon-coin/ on Quantitative Easing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing on Carbon Drawdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration on Nicolas Stern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentf