On Saturday 14 March @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com will discuss their forthcoming book 'Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed' at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social.
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🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
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On Saturday March 14th, two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right, @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com, will join us at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social to discuss their upcoming book ‘Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed’.
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🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
📲 dedependance.eu/events/muskism-playbook-for-a-postliberal-age/
Together, they will unpack their new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. In this highly anticipated work they examine Elon Musk not as an individual, but as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age. Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system.
📡 Muskism: Playbook for a postliberal age with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com.
Orain argued that the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth is dead, the world and its resources are now perceived as finite and capitalism shifts into violent mode. He calls this mode “Finitude Capitalism” with new examples showing up around the world every day.
Feb. 12, we welcomed two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist and one of the sharpest observers of European politics and the state of the liberal order.
Heads up: tickets for our upcoming talk with Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter on ‘Finitude Capitalism’ are moving fast. There won’t be ticket sales at the door, so make sure to secure your seat in time.
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Together they will explore how this shift from liberal to predatory capitalism emerged, who stands to gain – and who loses – in this zero-sum landscape, and what the implications are for Europe’s economic and geopolitical future.
On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian, and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist.
⚙️ Finitude Capitalism: Neoliberalism’s Predatory Turn w/ Arnaud Orain & Caroline de Gruyter
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In this groundbreaking work – with a preface by de Gruyter – Orain argues that while the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth has faded, capitalism itself remains very much alive.
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On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals, Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter, to Rotterdam on occasion of the Dutch translation of Orain’s new book, ‘The Finitude of the World: Boundless Capitalism from the Seventeenth Century to Today’.
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🗓️ Thursday 12 February
⏰ Talk at 20:00h
🍸 Drinks from 19:30h
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They will speak on the pervasiveness of 'Finitude Capitalism', which we can see in the privatisation and militarisation of the seas, the rise of monopolistic and rentier trade, and in the encroachment of massive private companies claiming quasi-sovereign control over physical and digital space.
On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking public intellectuals: @arnaudorain.bsky.social and @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social.
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Two new podcasts up for listening! Head to your platform of choice for engaging conversations on:
🔮 Indignity and the fragility of truth w/ @leaypi.bsky.social and Nuria Ribas Costa
🦅 Vulture capitalism w/ @graceblakeley.substack.com and Hani Salih
👉 dedependance.eu/podcasts
Together, they will unpack their new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. In this highly anticipated work they examine Elon Musk not as an individual, but as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age. Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system.
👉 dedependance.eu/events/muski...
On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek’s Bastards) and @bentarnoff.com (Internet for the People, Voices from the Valley).
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Callard - in full Socratic attire (👖) - took us on a journey through the radical heart of Socratic philosophy, reminding us that the good life isn’t about having all the answers, but about being open to change, to conversation, and to the tranformative power of thinking together.
📸 Aad Hoogendoorn
🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us last Monday at Debatpodium Arminius for our talk with philosopher and public intellectual Agnes Callard on The Case for a Philosophical Life.
Our latest podcast episode with Nikole Hannah-Jones is up!
Together with moderator Hani Salih, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks the struggle over narrative, the power of memory, and what it takes to defend democracy when its core ideals are under siege.
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Coming up next:
💭 Monday 20 October: The Case for a Philosophical Life w/ Agnes Callard
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