Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discuss democratic planning in the 21st century.  Future Histories LIVE. This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recorded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode is the live recording of a book launch and discussion event that took place on June 11, 2026 at the NACHTASYL Hamburg:  https://www.thalia-theater.de/de/stuecke/creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress-democratic-planning-in-the-21st-century/361 The video recording of the event can be found on our Youtube-Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw Shownotes  Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.  https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv. https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534 NACHTASYL Hamburg and Thalia Theater:  http://nachtasyl.de/ https://www.thalia-theater.de/de on Friedrich von Hayek:   https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/personen/friedrich-august-von-hayek Saito, K. (2023). Systemsturz. dtv.     https://www.dtv.de/buch/systemsturz-28369 Cédric Durand at the University of Geneva:  https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/cedric-durand Philipp Staab at Humboldt University Berlin:  https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/zukunftarbeit/mitarbeiter_innen/pstaab Jacob Blumenfeld with Critical Theory in Berlin:  https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/jacob-blumenfeld/ on the Dark Enlightenment (or Neo-Reactionary) movement:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/dark-enlightenment/ Curtis Yarvin coined the term as Blogger under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin Nick Land summarised Yarvin's theories in a book:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land Linus Westheuser and ‘climate populism’: https://linuswestheuser.com/ Westheuser, L. & Siebert, J. (2025). Warum wir Klimapopulismus brauchen. Surplus.   https://www.surplusmagazin.de/warum-wir-einen-klimapopulismus-brauchen/ For the chapters on ‘models’ by Jakob Heyer, Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti see:  https://brumaireverlag.