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In two weeks, @hettieobrien.bsky.social will be joined in conversation by financial economist and @ftm.nl journalist Thomas Bollen, author of ‘Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou’, which explores how our financial system distributes wealth and power. 🎟️ urlr.me/5EV84S

Thank you for joining us last Tuesday for our talk on ‘How to Be a Dissident’ with @galbeckerman.bsky.social and Núria Ribas Costa!

In search for the right way to rebel, Beckerman guided us along a range of questions: what characterises great dissidents? How does dissidence differ from activism? And what distinguishes ‘good’ from ‘bad’ dissidents? (hint: collective liberation beats individual freedom) 📸 Aad Hoogendoorn

On 20 January, French philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social joins us at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social to discuss 'Living with Men', her reflections on sexual violence and masculinity in the wake of the Pelicot trial. Info and tickets 👉 dedependance.eu/events/livin...

Last Wednesday historian @fromtga.bsky.social smashed the glass of the European alarm. He argued that Europe and its values are under attack on multiple fronts: politically (from the US), geographically (from Russia) and economically (from China).

Tue 3 Nov: we welcome acclaimed Guardian journalist @hettieobrien.bsky.social, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. In the book, she takes readers on a thrilling, eye-opening investigation into this secretive wing of the finance industry.

Tue 6 Oct: Atlantic staff writer @galbeckerman.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book, How to Be a Dissident — part philosophy, part history, part manual for living with integrity in an age of authoritarian drift. 🧵

We have two new events lined up. 1/2 
 🕵️‍♂️ How to Be a Dissident w/ Gal Beckerman Is there a right way to rebel? What can we do when we face a moral dilemma and are uncertain how to act?

 Tue 6 Oct At Arminius dedependance.eu/events/how-t...

Thank you for attending our talk with Anna Tsing on 28 May. We explored 'The Patchy Anthropocene': how dominant economic structures exhaust ecosystems, communities, and forms of life, but also how human and more-than-human actors can develop new ways of coexistence in damaged environments.

Tickets are now on sale 👇 🍄 Anna Tsing On the Patchy Anthropocene How do we continue living in a world that is already broken? On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us at Nieuwe Instituut for a conversation on landscapes shaped by extraction, capitalist logic and ecological crisis.

We'll explore how dominant economic structures exhaust ecosystems and communities, but also how human and more-than-human actors find new ways of coexistence in damaged environments. Moderated by journalist Nuria Ribas Costa.

🍄 Anna Tsing on the Patchy Anthropocene How do we live in a world already broken? On May 28, anthropologist Anna Tsing joins us to explore fragmented landscapes shaped by extraction and ecological crises, and how new forms of coexistence emerge in damaged environments.

🫶🏽 Thank you for joining us last Saturday at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social for our talk with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Together they made the case that Elon Musk isn't just a polarising figure but a mirror held up to our times. 📸 Aad Hoogendoorn

On Tuesday, May 19, we welcome Nobel Prize laureate @pkrugman.bsky.social 🎙️ In a world of rising geopolitical tensions and trade disruptions, he will explore the forces reshaping the global economic order. How vulnerable is the global economy - and what's at stake for Europe?

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’.

📡 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.

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.

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.

⚙️ Finitude Capitalism: Neoliberalism’s Predatory Turn w/ Arnaud Orain & Caroline de Gruyter 👉 dedependance.eu/events/finit...

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.

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’.

Membership: The Gift of Reflection 💭 Don’t know what to get your loved ones this season? Here’s a suggestion. We all feel it: the holidays have become too commercial. You don't feel like supporting yet another big retail chain. Why not give something that truly lasts?

With a De Dépendance membership, you give someone you care about access to five inspiring evenings with important conversations. It's a gift that invites reflection and connection. For € 50,- you get five events for the price of four, plus extra perks throughout the year.