16 Aug 2026 01:00
S04E11 - Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Launch of the Future Histories LAB - a Space for Radical Imagination and Postcapitalist Construction.
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Shownotes Jonathan White
Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white
White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/
Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.
https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534
Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:
White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072
White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.1341
the Great Replacement Theory:
https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrative
on Brexit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
on Lexit:
https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexi
on Otto Bauer:
https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolution-book-review/
https://jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit/
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
on atomic bombings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
on John Stuart Mill:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
on the ‘too late’ narrative:
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.
https://www.isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-little-too-late-scientists-warn
on tipping points:
https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on Extinction Rebellion:
