Corona Capitalism: Struggles over Nature

• Mai 27, 2020
• online

with Andreas Malm

In his recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming with Verso books) Andreas Malm argues that the origin and proliferation of this plague are tightly intertwined with global capitalist production that destroys natural habitats, consumes land and wildlife, trades commodities around the globe, and moves people from one side of the planet to the other at a speed unprecedented in history.

Benjamin Lectures

• June 16th-18th, 2021
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Vom 16. – 18. Juni 2021 wird unter dem Namen Walter Benjamin Lectures zum zweiten Mal die hochkarätige Vorlesungsreihe des Humanities and Social Change Center Berlin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin stattfinden. Der Sozialphilosoph Axel Honneth wird die Lectures halten. Mehr Informationen über das Veranstaltungsformat der finden Sie in der Rubrik Benjamin Lectures auf unserer …

International Summer School

• July 5th–10th, 2020
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Despite a widespread diagnosis that solidarity is in crisis, appeals to solidarity are ubiquitous today. We encounter them on the level of personal and professional relations but also with regard to institutions and systems of social security and welfare. They gain a dramatic character when human lives are in danger, e.g. when refugees have to …

50 Years On: New Readings of Adorno

• December 5th/6th 2019

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Adorno’s death in 2019, we organized an international workshop that brought together representatives of new readings of Adorno. Together we discussed how, by going back to Adorno, we can deepen contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, moral and social philosophy.

Buchvorstellung: Exodus oder dialektische Negation

• Februar 13, 2019
• 6:00 pm » 8:00 pm
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, R. 1070

Anlässlich der Publikation seiner Dissertation stellte Victor Kempf seine Überlegungen zur zeitgenössischen Kapitalismuskritik zur Diskussion. (Kommentar von Eva von Redecker. Moderiert von Daniel Loick) Der “Exodus” aus den Vermittlungsfiguren der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft ist zu einem populären Ansatz der radikalen Kapitalismuskritik geworden. Doch wodurch ist diese Fundamentalzurückweisung einer immanenten Einklagung der Freiheits- und Gleichheitsversprechen des modernen …

Problems of Property

• December 17th/18th 2018
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Senatssaal

Property is a key institution both in the capitalist economy and in liberal political orders. Property law regulates access to material goods as well as symbolic status, it is seen as the foundation for personal liberty and political legitimacy, and it mediates our relation to the world of objects. While many critical discussions concern the …