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26/06/25
 
Radical Futures
For classical anti-capitalist theory, social struggles arise from social contradictions. Analyzing these contradictions and articulating ways to overcome them is central even for social movements that are not explicitly anti-capitalist. Hence, the question of overcoming is entangled with the question of the possibility of imagining a radical outside. However, we can observe how practices and […]
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Jannik Schritt
28/09/25
The Futures of Deliberative Democracy
Citizens’ Assemblies as Technocratic Population Management
Introduction[1] Citizens’ assemblies, planning cells, consensus conferences etc.: Over the past decade these “deliberative mini-publics” have been promoted as the fix for the so-called “crisis of democracy” (Dryzek et al. 2019). The promise is simple and seductive: randomly select a diverse group of people, give them balanced information, facilitate respectful discussion, and out comes a […]
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