VSJF 2025

Speaker: Jan Groos

Abstract

Envisioning Alternative Governmentality

The talk proposes alternative governmentality as a theoretical framework for imagining and constructing post-capitalist futures. It combines perspectives from governmentality studies with contemporary debates about democratic economic planning, alternative organisation studies, and critical scholarship on alternatives to capitalism in order to develop a positive notion of governmentality beyond neoliberalism.

Short bio

Name

Dr. Jan Goos

Position

Lecturer

Affiliation

Universität Kiel

Research focus

critical political economy, the intersections of technology and governance, and the future of economic systems beyond capitalism, particularly in the context of distributed and planned economies

relevant Publications

Groos, Jan and Christoph Sorg (eds.). (2025, forthcoming). Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and beyond. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Groos, Jan. 2025 (forthcoming). “Planning as an Art of Government”, Groos, Jan and Christoph Sorg (eds.). (2025, forthcoming). Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and beyond. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Groos, Jan (2024): “Rethinking economic planning”, Competition & Change. DOI: 10.1177/10245294241273954. [Online first]. (with Sorg, Christoph)

Groos, Jan. 2021. „Distributed Planned Economies in the Age of their Technical Feasibility.“ BEHEMOTH. A Journal on Civilisation, 14(2): Futures of Critique, 15–33.

Groos, Jan. 2021. „Freie Planwirtschaft – Ökonomische Zukünfte jenseits des Kapitalismus.“ [Free planned economy – economic futures beyond capitalism.”] Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 36(3): Utopisieren, 47–58.
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