Jochen Schmon

My article @JConstellations⁩ w/ Udeepta Chakravarty—part of forthcoming Special Issue on Oligarchy (w/ J. Cohen, A. Kalyvas, etc.)   We inquire the “essentially oligarchic character” of the US Constitution, making Trump its illiberal radicalization 1/10 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The New School has been a beacon of critical inquiry and social justice for over a century, thanks to the labor, talents, and dedication of its renown faculty, workers, and students. 
 
I strongly urge @TheNewSchool to immediately extend the deadline for faculty to consider proposed separation packages, to engage collaboratively and in good faith with its workers, to protect the courses and programs that make the New School a globally renowned institution and work to ensure that its legacy endures for decades to come.

New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽

In their rejection of slavery as a "private" matter, I argue that abolitionists inaugurated the true quarrel between the ancients and the moderns—making possible radical conceptions of patriarchy and capitalism as different, but interrelated forms of the "tyranny" of slavery

Here, I focus on 18th century abolitionist writings, theorizing them as acts of translating the Caribbean slave revolts into the imperial public spheres—the very sites of empire that would also become the discursive staging ground of radical feminist and proletarian movements

My @PolConcepts article "Abolition" is published: politicalconcepts.org/abolition-joch…—first sketch of my dissertation that explores the conceptual reverberations of the abolitionist movement in the philosophy of the Enlightenment as well as in early feminist and proletarian movements

Spanish translation of my @JHIdeas interview with @alybatt at @SinPermisoInfo: "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @PrincetonUPress sinpermiso.info/textos/la-prod…

Really enjoyed this conversation with @JochenSchmon at the @JHIdeas blog about naive materialism, environmental justice, capitalist unfreedom, political commitments, and other questions raised by Free Gifts jhiblog.org/2025/08/27/the…

Instead of “environmental side-effects” or the economy’s “external byproducts,” it is the “ability to impose pollution on others that is another aspect of class power—and the inability to refuse it a form of unfreedom in its own right”

I interviewed @alybatt on her new book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @PrincetonUPress for the JHI blog: “Class rule consists in the power to produce the environment itself." jhiblog.org/2025/08/27/the…

Against the "naïve materialism" that is so-called new materialism and the "moral naturalism" of much Marxist ecology & social reproduction theory - in favor of a critical denaturalization of social relations without "dematerializing" them

New on JHI Blog: interview with Alyssa Battistoni (@alybatt) on her new book Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature. @JochenSchmon asks about the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. jhiblog.org/2025/08/27/the…

Glad to see our @JHIdeas interview in its French translation!

Is the liberal-republican ‘common good’ not the good of the oligarchs, with the rich continuing to be rich & the poor continue to be poor? The good of democracy is not the good of all, for the poor's good is the wrong to all the other parts that are merely—and only—the rich 10/10

My article @JConstellations⁩ w/ Udeepta Chakravarty—part of forthcoming Special Issue on Oligarchy (w/ J. Cohen, A. Kalyvas, etc.)   We inquire the “essentially oligarchic character” of the US Constitution, making Trump its illiberal radicalization 1/10 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…