Critical Theory in Context

Rahel Jaeggi im Gespräch mit Christina Clemm, Tobias Singelnstein und Daniel Loick Christina Clemm arbeitet als Strafverteidigerin und als Nebenklagevertreterin von Opfern sexualisierter und rassistisch motivierter Gewalt. Sie ist Fachanwältin für Strafrecht und Familienrecht in Berlin und hat ein sehr wichtiges Buch über das Thema geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt geschrieben: "AktenEinsicht. Geschichten von Frauen und Gewalt". Tobias Singelnstein war Professor für Kriminologie an der Juristischen Fakultät der Ruhr Universität Bochum und lehrt seit diesem Jahr Kriminologie und Strafrecht in Frankfurt am Main. Er arbeitet zu Strafrecht und Strafprozessrecht und hat dieses Jahr (gemeinsam mit Bejamin Derin) eine kritische und wissenschaftlich fundierte Bestandsaufnahme zur Arbeit und Wirkung der Polizei in Deutschland veröffentlicht: "Die Polizei – Helfer, Gegner, Staatsgewalt. Inspektion einer mächtigen Organisation“. Daniel Loick lehrt politische und soziale Philosophie an der Universität von Amsterdam und ist assoziierter Wissenschaftler am Institut für Sozialforschung. Er arbeitet seit Jahren zu kritischen Theorien staatlicher Gewalt und den Möglichkeiten befreiender Gegenmacht subalterner Gemeinschaften. In seinen jüngsten Veröffentlichungen befasst er sich insbesondere mit den verschiedenen Funktionen der Polizei als staatliche Institution und den Auswirkungen ihres Gewaltmonopols, so in einem von ihm herausgegebenen Band "Kritik der Polizei" und dem gemeinsam mit Vanessa Thompson herausgegebenen, viel beachteten Reader zum Thema „Abolitionismus“. Den Benjamin Chair 2023 übernimmt Sally Haslanger. Im Rahmen des Jahresthemas des Centers for Social Critique "Radikaler sozialer Wandel" wird sie vom 14-16. Juni 2023 die Benjamin Lectures halten mit dem Titel "Agents of Possibility: The Complexity of Social Change." Für weitere Informationen: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/

Magali Bessone and César Cabezas in conversation with Robin Celikates Magali Bessone is Professor for Philosophy at Sorbonne University, Paris. Her research focuses on contemporary theories of justice in relation to critical theories of race and racism. For many years her work has been devoted to developing a philosophical perspective on anti-racism, anti-discrimination, and the responsibility for colonialism and slavery. She is the author of numerous books in French on these topics, including a book for the general public: Magali Bessone (2018) Les races, ça existe ou pas ?, Paris, Gallimard, collection “Philophile”. One of her most recent publications in English is an article entitled: Magali Bessone (2021) Race and Europe. Does a European philosophy of race mean anything ? », in Europe and Philosophy, D. Meacham et N. de Warren (eds.), Routledge, p. 310-322. César Cabezas is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. César did his PhD at Columbia on the notion of structural racism, in which he argues that the concept of structural racism is vital to anti-racist theory and practice because it helps us explain the durability of racial inequality and to ultimately challenge it. His current work is primarily focussed on the philosophy of race, social philosophy, and Latin American Thought – addressing core questions related to the concept of racism. One of his most recent articles is: César Cabezas (2021) “Racism: a Moral or Explanatory Concept?”, in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice volume 24, pages 651–659 Our next public and in-person event will be on May 13th, 2022 a debate between Nancy Fraser, Klaus Dörre and Raul Zelik on the question: “How green is socialism?”. On May 30 we will host a public roundtable with Nancy Fraser, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Manuela Bojadzijev und Bafta Sarbo on racial capitalism – stay tuned for details coming up on our website: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/home/ Nancy Fraser’s Benjamin Lectures have the title: “Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race and Class”, three consecutive lectures that will take place from 14th to 16th of June 2022.

Robin Celikates in conversation with Greg Yudin Greg is professor of political philosophy at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and a regular contributor to the online platform open democracy as well as to independent Russian media platforms such as Projekt (which has already been banned) and Republic (that has come under increasing pressure by the state apparatus). Two days before the invasion, on 22 February 2022, Greg predicted that Putin was "about to start the most senseless war in our history".

Robin Celikates im Gespräch mit Kristina Lepold und Marina Martinez Mateo Kristina Lepold ist Juniorprofessorin für Sozialphilosophie/Kritische Theorie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Marina Martinez Mateo ist Juniorprofessorin für Medien- und Technikphilosophie an der Akademie der bildenden Künste München. Im Dezember 2021 ist von ihnen bei Suhrkamp erschienen Critical Philosophy of Race. Ein Reader Weitere Publikationen: Lepold, Kristina und Mateo, Marina Martinez. "Schwerpunkt: Critical Philosophy of Race" Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 67, no. 4, 2019, pp. 572-588. https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2019-0044 Lepold, Kristina, Ambivalente Anerkennung (Frankfurter Beiträge zur Soziologie und Sozialphilosophie, 33), 2021, Frankfurt a.M., Campus. Mateo, Marina Martinez: Politik der Repräsentation. Zwischen Formierung und Abbildung, 2018, Wiesbaden: Springer. Weitere Veranstaltungen: Die Konvergenz der sozialen Kämpfe (In Context) mit Amna Akbar, Silke van Dyk, Manon Garcia und Romin Khan, moderiert von Robin Celikates und Rahel Jaeggi. Benjamin Lectures 2022 mit Nancy Fraser zum Thema: “Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender Race and Class.”

Mit einer Einführung von Rahel Jaeggi. Dirk Quadflieg, Kolja Möller und Titus Stahl im Gespräch mit Christian Schmidt. Weitere Informationen zum Inhalt und Programm des Workshops finden sich in der Veranstaltungsbeschreibung auf unserer Website. Iris Marion Young (1994) “Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective.” Signs, vol. 19, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, pp. 713–38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174775 In der nächsten Folge spricht Robin Celikates mit Kristina Lepold und Marina Martinez Mateo, über den von ihnen eingeleiteten und herausgegebenen Reader zu Critical Philosophy of Race, der 2021 bei Suhrkamp erschienen ist. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/critical-philosophy-of-race-t-9783518299449

Andreas Malm and Lise Benoist (Zetkin-Collective) in conversation with Christian Schmidt Guests are Andreas Malm and Lise Benoist from the Zetkin Collective. We are talking about their recently published book “White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism”, which came out with Verso in 2021. The history of fossil capital has been one of the central concerns of Andreas Malm’s work. In his book entitled “Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming”, which was published in 2016, Andreas Malm traces the historical rise of steam power and shows that the development of this technology can only be understood by taking into consideration the dynamics of class struggle. One of Andreas Malm’s other most recent books is entitled: “Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century”, translated into German as: “Klima|x”. Rahel Jaeggi talked about the main theses of this book in an online event we hosted in 2020 “Corona Capitalism: Struggles over Nature”. The ecological crisis has also been the topic of the first episode of our podcast series on "Climates of Capital", a conversation between Rahel Jaeggi and Nancy Fraser about the structural relation between ecological destruction and capitalism We recently published two videos from our Summer School on “Foundations of Solidarity”: Our Roundtable on Foundations of Solidarity, with Hauke Brunkhorst, Stefan Gosepath, Asad Haider, Sabine Hark, Serene Khader, Stefan Lessenich, and Frederick Neuhouser; and the résumé with excellent summaries by Lillian Cicerchia, Noemí Ancí Paredes and Marianna Poyares. We also continued our series „Conversations on Socialism“ with Christine Berry, Axel Honneth und Bhaskar Sunkara who discussed the contours of "A New Socialism for a New Century?" in another online event. We will present the three German online panels of the Global Forum on Democratizing Work. The online panels will take place on 5-7 October 2021. The campaign “#DemocratizingWork” was launched in May 2020 with the publication of the Manifesto: “WORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, DECARBONIZE”. We hosted a conversation between Rahel Jaeggi, Neera Chandhoke, Isabelle Ferreras, Lisa Herzog on the initiative in November 2020. Don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast, on all the all major platforms. And to stay up to date with all our events at the Humanities and Social Change Center in Berlin, sign up for our newsletter. For more information: www.criticaltheoryinberlin.de Original music composed by Anne Wellmer. Produced by Jonathan Klein.

Nancy Fraser in conversation with Rahel Jaeggi http://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/home/ Rahel Jaeggi is Professor of Practical Philosophy with an emphasis on Social and Political Philosophy and director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change Berlin at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She works on social and political theory, feminist theory, and contemporary French and German thought. In her work, Nancy Fraser has developed a theoretical framework that focuses on the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. In her recent article “Climates of Capital” (2021) she applies this expanded conception of capitalism to the question of ecological crisis. Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi co-authored the book (ed. by Brian Milstein): “Capitalism: A conversation in critical theory” (2018), translated into German as „Kapitalismus: Ein Gespräch über Kritische Theorie“ (2020) as well as Spanish (2019), Italian (2019), and Portuguese (2020). The Benjamin Lectures 2021 were held by Axel Honneth on “The Working Sovereign: A Democratic Theory of the Division of Labor”. Recordings of our events are available on our website as well as on our youtube.channel As part of our series “conversations on socialism”, on July 1st we are holding a roundtable entitled “A new socialism for the new century?”, with three of the internationally most prominent socialist theorists: Christine Berry, Axel Honneth and Bhaskar Sunkara. The event was hosted by Rahel Jaeggi and a recording will be available on our website and youtube channel. In the next episode of our podcast, we will be talking with Andreas Malm and Lise Besnoit from the Zetkin collective about their just published book: “White Skin, Black Fuel. On the Danger of Fossil Fascism” - the first comprehensive study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis. To stay up to date with all our events sign up to our Newsletter! And don’t forget to subscribe to “Critical Theory in Context” on any of the major platforms. Original music composed by Anne Wellmer.