Tag: Hartmut Rosa

• May 16, 2026

  Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories

  One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…

• April 18, 2026

  Hartmut Rosa’s Lecture: Emotions and Human Agency

  Yesterday I had the chance to attend a lecture by Hartmut Rosa in Copenhagen, invited by the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. The talk was titled The Atrophy of Discretion: A Plea for Human Agency, and it focused on a question that stayed with me long after the lecture ended: what happens…