Future Histories International

Holly Jean Buck on fossil fuels, development, and the role of emerging technologies in managing decline.

Shownotes Holly Jean Buck

Holly Jean Buck at the Department of Environment and Sustainability, University of Buffalo:

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/environment-sustainability/faculty/faculty-directory/holly-buck.html

Buck, H. J. (2019). After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/722-after-geoengineering?srsltid=AU7gw4VOJyfFgECAE3NBDqiZwF4f6SQH5kFFRsRuihTjTt-21k1R_xru

Buck, H. J. (2019). Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2735-ending-fossil-fuels?srsltid=AU7gw4XFB6D-SqvF6-aHiL3V_OmVH0ACItWQ4Y1gQ3mDnrlUirsyJZxf

on the term ‘assholocene’ used by German climate activist Tadzio Müller:   

Müller, T. (2024). Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben. 

https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/

on degrowth: 

https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/

White, J. (2024). In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. Profile Books.

https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/

Holly’s essay in Compact Magazine: 

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-long-slow-death-of-development/

Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140

Huber, M. (2013). Lifeblood. Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. University of Minnesota Press. 

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816677856/lifeblood/

Daggett, C. (2018). Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305829818775817

on Orphaned Wells: 

https://www.doi.gov/orphanedwells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_wells_in_the_United_States

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acdae7/meta

Blumenfeld, J. (2024a). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

on Athropic’s IPO (initial public offering): 

https://www.anthropic.com/

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/05/business/anthropic-ipo-stock-market

on long-term climate strategies: 

Buck, H. J., Carton, W., Lund, J. F., & Markusson, N. (2023). Countries’ long-term climate strategies fail to define residual emissions. Nature climate change, 13(4), 317-319. 

https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publications/countries-long-term-climate-strategies-fail-to-define-residual-em/

on Cecilia Rikae’s work on a digital stack: 

Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming digital sovereignty: A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet. Available at: 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/Reclaiming-Digital-Sovereignty

Relevant Future Histories Episodes

S04E11 | Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e11-jonathan-white-on-the-future-as-a-political-idea/

S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e46-rahel-jaeggi-zur-krise-des-liberalismus-fortschritt-als-prozess-und-sozialistischem-utopisieren/

S03E34 | Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e34-cecilia-rikap-on-intellectual-monopoly-capitalism-and-corporate-power-in-the-age-of-ai/

S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/

S02E26 | Andrea Vetter zu Degrowth und Technologie

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e26-andrea-vetter-zu-degrowth-und-technologie/

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Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.

Shownotes Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:

https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty 

Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9781400828654/html

Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/596640 

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures ‘A Second Decline of the West?’ at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/ 

on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/ 

Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html

on Frantz Fanon:

https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/de/third-mission/wissenschaftskommunikation/jahr100wissen/2025/freiheitskaempfer-frantz-fanon/ 

on Francis Fukuyama:

https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama 

on the metabolic rift:

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/metabolic-rift-and-political-economy-of-environmental-crises 

Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.

https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024

Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life?srsltid=AfmBOorZp80RtsBGkBSF7TG7CLMRaihO5UTnsFE9V2XALwQ4tIE6mD6r 

Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature. 

https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2/

Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm 

on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:

https://jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit/ 

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020224 

Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.

https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/ 

on Subaltern studies:

Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subaltern-studies-9780195052893?cc=at&lang=en& 

Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small_History_of_Subaltern_Studies 

on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:

https://polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-historic-bloc-base-superstructure/

Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age/ 

Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:

https://iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/ 

Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307?lang=en&cc=nl 

Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.

https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract

Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476 

Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA 

Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition. 

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.htmlon Habermas on the colonization of the lifeworld by instrumental rationality:

Silva, F. G. (2019). Colonization of the Lifeworld. In A. Allen & E. Mendieta (Eds.), The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (pp. 36–39). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-habermas-lexicon/colonization-of-the-lifeworld/36E8421628B4E1914F7E675B31977ADC 

Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.

https://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANETARY-PROPORTIONS.pdf

Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.

https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/ 

Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.

https://philarchive.org/rec/HAFTXX

Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/ 

Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press. 

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986/ 

Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019

Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic-crisis-fr-9783518128237

Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary

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S04E11 | Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e11-jonathan-white-on-the-future-as-a-political-idea/

S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e07-creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress/

S04E03 | Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation

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S03E53 | Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise

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S03E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life

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S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren

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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries

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S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ 

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Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea 

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Shownotes Jonathan White

Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white

White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.

https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/ 

Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.

https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534

Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:

White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072

White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.1341

the Great Replacement Theory:

https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrative

on Brexit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit

on Lexit:

https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexi

on Otto Bauer:

https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolution-book-review/

https://jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit/

Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019

on atomic bombings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

on John Stuart Mill:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

on the ‘too late’ narrative: 

Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOoo_4whHho3ZrpGFZrLclb06yfTMCwMCDuQiPTBpfSwMDjWE2-y-

https://www.isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-little-too-late-scientists-warn

on tipping points:

https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/

on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation

on Extinction Rebellion:

https://rebellion.global/about-us/

on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/rftw/how-ideas-of-the-future-can-help-us-find-time-for-democracy.pdf

Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sleepwalkers-christopher-clarkon climate change adaptation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation

https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial

Amorim-Maia, A. T., & Olazabal, M. (2025). Beyond adjustment: A new paradigm for climate change adaptation in a complex world. Global Environmental Change, 93, 103027.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000640

on collapse and climate movements:

https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/

https://www.collapseclub.com/about/

on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burnham-keir-starmer-leadership-styles-compare 

on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation

on democratic planning:

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire. 

https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction

on participatory budgeting:

Sintomer, Y., Herzberg, C., & Röcke, A. (2008). Participatory budgeting in Europe: Potentials and challenges. International journal of urban and regional research, 32(1), 164-178.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00777.x

on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:

https://communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamdani-zeigt-wie-es-geht/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd782pjgq3o 

on Liberalism:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#Bib

on economic Liberalism:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/economic-liberalism

on the critique of trickle-down economics:

https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/joseph-stiglitz-trickle-down-economics-is-absolute/

on ‘promissory legitimacy’:

Beckert, J. (2020). The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(3), 318–330.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867

on Post-liberalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliberalism 

the Corbin Campaign in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labour_Party_leadership_campaign

on Gaza solidarity protests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests

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S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress

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S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown

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Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy

Shownotes Orit Halpern

Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:

https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in

Orit Halpern’s website:

https://orithalpern.net/

Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data

Halpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-mandate/ 

Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.

https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hayek.pdf 

Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103 

on CERN:

https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/

on the Event Horizon Telescope:

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

on the IPCC:

https://www.ipcc.ch/

on critiques of the Enlightenment:

https://polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/critiques-enlightenment-modernity/

Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.

https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-enlightenment 

on Keynesianism:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus

on MAGA:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again 

on the Frankfurt School:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School

on high modernism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernism

on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism

Friedrich Hayek:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek 

on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionism

on the Electoral College:

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about

on Stafford Beer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer

https://www.kybernetik.ch/en/fs_beer.html 

on post-sovereign planning:

Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.

https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/book/9781529235142/ch014.xml

Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674948396 

on the cultural revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

on the Belt and Road initiative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

on Mao Zedong:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

on Planetary Experiments:

https://orithalpern.net/planetaryexperiments

Halpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2c7ee53de3f756cfd6cbbc/t/65a808813c02ca697d90089a/1705511045522/planetarytestarticleZMK.pdf

Halpern, O. (2020). Planetary intelligence. In The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies (pp. 227-256). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56286-1_8

on Large Language Models (LLMs):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Language_Model 

on Victor Papanek:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek

Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction 

on Terraforming:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming

on Geoengineering:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering

on NVIDIA Earth 2:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/high-performance-com

on Destination Earth:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Destination_Earth

on Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:

https://equitablegrowth.org/pareto-distribution-r-g/

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674430006 

the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22): 

https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/73aba255-56d2-4595-83b5-bfdad3740ffb/content

Against Catastrophes:

https://againstcatastrophe.net/

Orit Halpern on resilience:

Halpern, O. (2025). The geo-politics of resilience: On the historical convergence between ecology, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. new media & society, 27(8), 4581-4605.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251336420 

on Ground Truth:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Truth 

on benchmark data:

https://brilliantfuture.se/en/glossaries/benchmark-data

Related Episodes of Future Histories

S03E34 | Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e34-cecilia-rikap-on-intellectual-monopoly-capitalism-and-corporate-power-in-the-age-of-ai/

S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/

S02E43 | Samia Mohammed zur Zukunft jenseits des Marktes

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e43-samia-mohammed-zur-zukunft-jenseits-des-marktes/

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Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discuss democratic planning in the 21st century. 

Future Histories LIVE.

This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recorded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode is the live recording of a book launch and discussion event that took place on June 11, 2026 at the NACHTASYL Hamburg: 

https://www.thalia-theater.de/de/stuecke/creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress-democratic-planning-in-the-21st-century/361

The video recording of the event can be found on our Youtube-Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw

Shownotes 

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire. 

https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction

Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.

https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534

NACHTASYL Hamburg and Thalia Theater: 

http://nachtasyl.de/

https://www.thalia-theater.de/de

on Friedrich von Hayek:  

https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/personen/friedrich-august-von-hayek

Saito, K. (2023). Systemsturz. dtv.    

https://www.dtv.de/buch/systemsturz-28369

Cédric Durand at the University of Geneva: 

https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand

Philipp Staab at Humboldt University Berlin: 

https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/zukunftarbeit/mitarbeiter_innen/pstaab

Jacob Blumenfeld with Critical Theory in Berlin: 

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/jacob-blumenfeld/

on the Dark Enlightenment (or Neo-Reactionary) movement: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/dark-enlightenment/

Curtis Yarvin coined the term as Blogger under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Nick Land summarised Yarvin's theories in a book: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land

Linus Westheuser and ‘climate populism’:

https://linuswestheuser.com/

Westheuser, L. & Siebert, J. (2025). Warum wir Klimapopulismus brauchen. Surplus.  

https://www.surplusmagazin.de/warum-wir-einen-klimapopulismus-brauchen/

For the chapters on ‘models’ by Jakob Heyer, Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti see: 

https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction

on Karl Polanyi: 

International Karl Polanyi Institute (2019). Karl Polanyi. Life and Works of an Epochal Thinker. Falter. 

https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/

Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism I-II. New Left Review. 

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2

Herrmann, U. (2024). Das Ende des Kapitalismus. Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 

https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/ulrike-herrmann-das-ende-des-kapitalismus-9783462007015

Neckel, S. (2022). Infrastruktursozialismus: Die Bedeutung der Fundamentalökonomie. In Kapitalismus und Nachhaltigkeit (Ed. S. Neckel, P. Degens, S. Lenz). Campus. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362107108_Infrastruktursozialismus_Die_Bedeutung_der_Fundamentalokonomie

on Claus Offe and the 'legitimation crisis':

Offe, C. (1986). Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates: Aufsätze zur Politischen Soziologie. Suhrkamp.

https://www.amazon.de/Strukturprobleme-kapitalistischen-Staates-Politischen-Soziologie/dp/3518105493

Krippner, G. R. (2012). Capitalizing on Crisis. The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674066199

Menon, N. (2024). Planning Democracy. How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India. Penguin India.  

https://www.penguin.co.in/book/planning-democracy/

Blumenfeld, J. P. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail (3). 

https://www.academia.edu/121062536/Managing_Decline

Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion?srsltid=AfmBOooxWbwMWcWT7UUqrlpAT2yXYPK6B5TSR59_IAoxYR_lp_wpSTgf

Struwe, A. (2025). Totalität. Marx, Adorno und das Problem kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie. Verbrecher Verlag. 

https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/totalitaet/

on Nancy Fraser and the question on ‘demos’ (exemplary): 

Fraser, N. (2005). Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World. New Left Review. 

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii36/articles/nancy-fraser-reframing-justice-in-a-globalizing-world

Rikap, C. (2025). A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty. Policy Brief. FEPS. 

https://feps-europe.eu/publication/a-progressive-roadmap-for-expanding-european-digital-sovereignty/

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S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/

S03E53 | Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise  

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e53-philipp-staab-zur-systemkrise/

S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Teil 2)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/

S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Teil 1)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/

S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/

S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/

S02E58 | Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e58-soren-mau-on-planning-and-freedom/

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Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China.

Shownotes Ho-fung Hung

Prof. Ho-fung Hung at the Johns Hopkins University:

https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/ho-fung-hung/

The Conference ‘China and Us: Perspectives on Peace, Human Rights and Socio-Ecological Transformation’:

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite

Ho-fung, H. (2015). The China Boom. Why China Will Not Rule the World. Columbia University Press.    

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-china-boom/9780231540223/

on Citic Press: 

https://www.group.citic/en/Diversified_Portfolio/New_Consumption/Citic_Publish/

on the 1989 protests in China: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

on the fiscal reform in China in 1994: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-Sharing_Reform_of_China_in_1994

on Carl Schmitt:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt

https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/archiv/537943/ortung-und-ordnung-carl-schmitt-im-nationalsozialismus/

on Benito Mussolini: 

https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/benito-mussolini

https://nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2023/09/benito-mussolini-aufstieg-und-fall-eines-faschistischen-diktators/

the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China: 

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.html

on Foucault's ‘Regime of Truth’: 

Lorenzini, D. (2015). What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?. Le foucaldien 1(1). 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317961938_What_is_a_Regime_of_Truth

the mentioned article by Ho-fung Hung in the Jacobin: 

Ho-fung, H. (2023). Mussolini in Beijing. Jacobin. 

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/mussolini-in-beijing

on China’s falling CO2 emissions: 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/

on renewable energy in China: 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-5-february-2026-clean-energys-share-of-economy-record-renewables-thawing-relations-with-uk/

Ho-fung, H. (2026). The China Question. Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear. Cambridge University Press. 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/china-question/C15B207366F98DC034ED279435A8CCCA

on the case of Solyndra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra

on the economic policy of Mao Zedong and China’s relationship to the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer’s youtube channel ‘Studying Maoist China’ is recommended: 

https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051

on Chile during the Cold War: 

Lockhart, J. (2016). Reimagining Chile’s Cold War Experience: From the Conflict’s Origins to Salvador Allende’s Inauguration. University of Arizona. 

https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620841

on Salvador Allende: 

www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Allende

on the Paris Commune:

Badiou, A. (2021). The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow. Monthly Review 73(1). 

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-paris-commune-marx-mao-tomorrow/

Weber, I. M. (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

the mentioned publication on i.a. guerilla policymaking: 

Heilmann, S. & Perry, E. J. (2011). Mao’s Invisible Hand. The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard University Press. 

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674060630

the quote ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’ is commonly attributed to Frederic Jameson: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson

on Wolfgang Streeck: 

https://www.mpifg.de/457994/Streeck

on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election

Relevant Episodes of Future Histories 

S04E02 | Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e02-merle-groneweg-zu-staatskapitalismus-oekologie-und-klimapolitik-in-china/

S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/

S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/

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Rodrigo Nunes on ecologies of organization and democratic transformation.  

Shownotes Rodrigo Nunes

Dr. Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes at the University of Essex:

https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/NUNES97805/Rodrigo-Guimaraes%20Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio):

http://www.fil.puc-rio.br/o-departamento/corpo-docente/rodrigo-guimaraes-nunes/

Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

Nunes, R. (forthcoming, October 2026). Anatomy of Disintegration. What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right. HaymarketBooks. 

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2881-anatomy-of-disintegration

on ‘fidelity’ by Alain Badiou: 

Badious, A. (1988-2022). Being and Event I-III. 

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/being-and-event-9781472511065/

on the Russian revolution:   

https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution

on Democracia Real Ya!:

http://www.democraciarealya.org.es/

on Juventud Sin Futuro: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/JuventudSINFuturo/videos

on Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamic Systems:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/complexity-theory

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/chaos-theory

Lorenz, E. N. (1975). Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas? 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSIvtZQaoMHrKUImVBH5gqn303JX0M5n/view?usp=sharing

Italian Communist Party ‘Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI):’ 

https://ilpartitocomunista.it/

on Circolo ARCI:

https://www.arci.it/

further reading on (Italian) communist history: 

Magri, L. (2019). The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2211-the-tailor-of-ulm?srsltid=AfmBOor6D6hcoIOngJTTcfkoWSV8uvd9Ej3goiOtBlD6rkgWEqs3Zkcg

on ‘Autonomia Operaia’ and the Autonomist movement in Italy in the 70s: 

Wright, S. (2017). Storming Heaven. Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism. 

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/storming-heaven/

on potentia/potestas see Chapter 1 ‘Towards a Theory of Political Organisation’ of Rodrigo’s book: 

Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

on Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Continua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potere_Operaio

on Partito Democratico: 

https://partitodemocratico.it/

Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press. 

https://www.abebooks.com/9780816612253/Anti-Oedipus-Capitalism-Schizophrenia-Deleuze-Gilles-0816612250/plp

Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books. 

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias?srsltid=AfmBOooibKTSQ_s7NTVZJ1Bvex4_8PNRx1KiVQV6nq6nEKRQZ6XA9PXP

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S04E01 | Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e01-yousaf-nishat-botero-on-ecologies-of-planning-and-metabolic-municipalism/

S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/

S03E52 | Alexander Neupert-Doppler zu Kairos und Verbindender Organisation 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e52-alexander-neupert-doppler-zu-kairos-und-verbindender-organisation/

S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/

S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/

S03E42 | Rüdiger Haude und Thomas Wagner zu Herrschaftsfreien Institutionen

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e42-ruediger-haude-und-thomas-wagner-zu-herrschaftsfreien-institutionen/

S03E40 | Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e40-jan-overwijk-on-cybernetic-capitalism-and-critical-systems-theory/

S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/

S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/

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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. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1

Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning

Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980

Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva. 

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429

on Barcelona En Comú:

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/

on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1

on the Socialist party of Catalonia: 

https://www.socialistes.cat/

on the airport expansion in Barcelona:

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain

on the paper by Union Populaire: 

https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/

on the quote from Mike Davis:

Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz?srsltid=AfmBOor1VtvQMJu_87qS8EDz0EcwP9KABUrajgH5LX2pdFNXWVC5Su6B

Future Histories Folgen

S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/

S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/

S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/

S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/

S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/

S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/

—

If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

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

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

—

Future Histories Contact & Support

If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories

Contact: [email protected]

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Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories

English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com

Episode Keywords

#YousafNishat-Botero, #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofBirmingham, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #DemocraticPlanning, #Planning, #EconomicPlanning, #Ecology, #Socialization, #Organization, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Municipalism, #Metabolism, #PlanetaryCrisis, #Nature, #Barcelona

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. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1

Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning

Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980

Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva. 

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429

on Barcelona En Comú:

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/

on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1

on the Socialist party of Catalonia: 

https://www.socialistes.cat/

on the airport expansion in Barcelona:

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain

on the paper by Union Populaire: 

https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/

on the quote from Mike Davis:

Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz?srsltid=AfmBOor1VtvQMJu_87qS8EDz0EcwP9KABUrajgH5LX2pdFNXWVC5Su6B

Future Histories Folgen

S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/

S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/

S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/

S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/

S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/

S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/

—

If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

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

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

—

Future Histories Contact & Support

If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories

Contact: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/

Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories

English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com

Episode Keywords

#YousafNishat-Botero, #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofBirmingham, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #DemocraticPlanning, #Planning, #EconomicPlanning, #Ecology, #Socialization, #Organization, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Municipalism, #Metabolism, #PlanetaryCrisis, #Nature, #Barcelona

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. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1

Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning

Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980

Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva. 

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429

on Barcelona En Comú:

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/

on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1

on the Socialist party of Catalonia: 

https://www.socialistes.cat/

on the airport expansion in Barcelona:

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain

on the paper by Union Populaire: 

https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/

on the quote from Mike Davis:

Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz?srsltid=AfmBOor1VtvQMJu_87qS8EDz0EcwP9KABUrajgH5LX2pdFNXWVC5Su6B

Future Histories Folgen

S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/

S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/

S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/

S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/

S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/

S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/

—

If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

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

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

—

Future Histories Contact & Support

If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories

Contact: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/

Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories

English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com

Episode Keywords

#YousafNishat-Botero, #JanGroos, #Interview, #UniversityofBirmingham, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #DemocraticPlanning, #Planning, #EconomicPlanning, #Ecology, #Socialization, #Organization, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Municipalism, #Metabolism, #PlanetaryCrisis, #Nature, #Barcelona