Valentin Niebler

Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism CfA for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): The spaces of sovereignty and the territories of capital and power are being radically redefined. Where is Empire produced an...

Call for Applications for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months):
Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism.

More information on our Website:
irgac.org/calls/rethin...

How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.

How did gig work gain foothold in the supposedly well-regulated and highly organized Nordic labor markets? @alfonsson.bsky.social, Stine Rasmussen, Jere Immonen and I have a piece in @jacobinmag.bsky.social arguing that this is much less of a puzzle than it might appear:

jacobin.com/2026/02/nord...

Why Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for Indians Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Priya* a 36-year-old woman from Pune, had spent nine years steadily building a career i

There has been a remarkable change in the ethnic and racial composition of Berlin's low wage workforce. In this piece with Sanam Roohi, I wrote about immigration procedures that claimed to recruit skilled workers, but became a pipeline to low wage work. www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...

Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.

Zohran Mamdani zwingt Uber Eats, Fantuan & Hungry Panda zu 4,6 Mio. Dollar Lohnnachzahlung an Kurierfahrer:innen.

Ausbeutung durch „Algorithmen“ ist kein Versehen, sondern ein Geschäftsmodell – und genau das wird hier lokal/realpolitisch angegangen.

futurism.com/future-socie...

New book out!!🎉💫 How do border regimes restructure life and labour for migrant workers? How do migrantized workers struggle for a better life against all odds - and in doing so, shape the world?
@gabriellaalberti.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/mig...

Finally made it to bluesky, just to share my conversation with Jan Groos about socialisation as transformation strategy 🙂

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights

Very cool to see the paper @js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social & I wrote in @nytimes.com by @noamscheiber.bsky.social. TLDR; worker voice matters.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Thx @ilrreview.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @techactions.bsky.social for making this possible!

@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026

CfP closes on 26 Jan 26

See you in Poznan!
#anthropology

@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social

Krise und kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit. Ein Gespräch zur Politik von Gegengemeinschaften - KTB Mit Daniel Loick, Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Seibert, moderiert von Charlie Ebert

22.1. in Aquarium Berlin: Krise und kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit. Ein Gespräch zur Politik von Gegengemeinschaften. Mit Daniel Loick, Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Seibert, moderiert von Charlie Ebert. @ktbberlin.bsky.social

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krise-...

Was ist Imperialismus? Wie sich der umkämpfte Begriff verändert hat und was er noch erklären kann

Durch die gegenwärtigen Konflikte und Kriege wird der Imperialismus-Begriff wieder geläufig. Doch was ist Imperialismus? @rheinze.myatproto.social

Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival

New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”

Wir machen diese tolle Veranstaltung Ende Januar! Ich freue mich schon sehr!

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism ‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

When higher ed is under attack by the twin forces of authoritarianism & austerity, institutions like the New School that have historically been bulwarks of critical education & anti-fascism should be strengthened rather than destroyed. What an utter failure of leadership & imagination

Building the Left in the Turkish Diaspora - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung A brief history of Turkish self-organization in the two Germanies before and after 1989

Murat Çakir‘s piece on the early self-organization of Turkish migrants in Germany – first published in my book «Der lange Marsch der Migration» – is now available in English. www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

Laut RBB-Inforadio will Bundesarbeitsministerin Bärbel Bas (SPD) Subunternehmen in der Lieferbranche verbieten. Ein entsprechendes Direktanstellungsgebot werde vor dem Hintergrund anhaltender Arbeitsrechtsvertöße geprüft, sagte Bas.

Inquiry and Co-Research Today In an age of platform capitalism, algorithmic management, and precarious subjectivity, how can social research maintain its transformative power? This groundbreaking collection opens vital conversatio...

'Inquiry and Co-Research Today: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives', edited by Emiliana Armano

Free download: www.teseopress.com/inquiryandco...

Vector for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century

hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]

Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London

In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy This book compares migrant labour in platform capitalism globally, revealing exploitation and resistance in the digital economy and gig work

Part of this promising new book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transversal Unionism: Resisting and Navigating a Neoliberal City Through Identity and Labour Power Digital labour platform (DLP) workers and migrant workers represent two distinct yet often intersecting categories of labour shaped by India’s rapid urbanization and replication of the Silicon V...

Interesting article about solidarity between software workers and gig workers in Bengaluru - shows in detail how shared migration experiences can serve as a ground for inter-class organizing. By @dipsitadhar.bsky.social, @ashiquealit.bsky.social, S. Bhattacharya: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself

"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.

Please spread the word!

(Link below)

Wir sind gewohnt, Menschen nach Geschlecht, Rasse, Alter oder Intelligenz zu unterscheiden. Doch diese Differenzierungen sind höchst ungewiss. Étienne Balibar zeigt, dass sie sich nie eindeutig bestimmen lassen und immer wieder institutionell festgeschrieben werden müssen. Out!

Angeworben und ausgebeutet: Wie junge Inder in Berlin zum Geschäft werden Shivam Kumar hatte einen Traum: einen deutschen Hochschulabschluss. 25.000 Euro waren vor Studienbeginn in Berlin fällig. Hier muss er aber nun vor allem in der Gastronomie arbeiten. Um sein Visum mus...

Für den @tagesspiegel.de habe ich Shivam Kumar portraitiert, der für ein Studium an einer Privatuni nach Berlin gekommen ist, der verschuldet ist, Probleme mit seinem Visum, seinem Job und seiner Wohnsituation hat. Er ist einer von tausenden Inder*innen, um die Deutschland in Indien geworben hat.

morgen 18–20 Uhr
Patrick Eiden-Offe:
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen
(hybrid)
infos hier:

krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/

📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social

@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)

ZDF-Beitrag über Lieferdienste Das Magazin WISO berichtet in einem spannenden Beitrag über die Arbeitsbedingungen bei Lieferdiensten wie Wolt, Valentin Niebler (BIM) wird als Experte dazu befragt. / The magazine WISO reports in an ...

„Das bringt dir Wolt.“ Hm, und wenn du ein*e Fahrer*in bist? Über #Lieferdienste und deren illegale Praktiken berichtet das #ZDF im Magazin #WISO. in einem spannenden Beitrag. Valentin #Niebler (BIM) spricht als Experte. Hier geht's zur Sendung und zum Paper: www.bim.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles...

🚨New article published:
How do #techworkers organize? JS Tan @mitiwer.bsky.social, Natalia Luka @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and Emily Mazo @columbiauniversity.bsky.social show how periods of workplace activism precede heightened labor activism for tech workers.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Cover unserer Neuerscheinung »Der Rest und der Westen. Kapital und Macht in einer multipolaren Welt« von Sandro Mezzadra & Brett Neilson

Die UN-Generaldebatte in der letzten Woche führte erneut zu Diskussionen über die Machtlosigkeit der Vereinten Nationen. Warum ist das so? Mezzadra & Neilson zeigen in ihrem Buch »Der Rest und der Westen«, dass die UN-Charta auf eine Weltordnung und Staaten zugeschnitten ist, /1

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Upends Lives: ‘My Dreams Were Shattered’

““Trump is here for a few years, Balaji is forever,” Mr. Rangarajan said.

In the meantime, there is Germany, Canada and other countries to explore.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...