Friday, 30 January 2026
9.30 am ET / 2.30 pm GMT / 8 pm IST
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This is a free, virtual lecture.
What are the roots of political rage today, and who profits from it?
In this talk, Joseph Vogl draws on his book Capital and Ressentiment to trace how finance and digital information have fused into a new kind of capitalism. He shows how large online platforms and markets for attention reward polarizing messages, blur the line between evidence and assertion, and split publics into hostile camps. The result is a climate where grievances are steered towards scapegoats rather than the structures that produced them, making today’s economic power harder to see and resist.
Joseph Vogl was Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is Regular Visiting Professor at Princeton University (since 2007).
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