I am a philosopher and non-fiction writer based in rural Brandenburg. I currently work on an Essay collection about neo-fascism. I also slowly finish a long poem about coal, which was inspired by my time as the Brost foundation’s writer in residence in the Ruhr Area during 2024.

My latest book Bleibefreiheit (“The Freedom to Stay”) is a long essay about life, death, and barn swallows. Bleibefreiheit pursues the idea of understanding our notion of freedom in a temporal way – as enjoyment of fulfilled time. The book was shortlisted for the NDR-non-fiction award and chosen as recommended book of the year by the SPIEGEL magazine. You can listen to me discussing ecological freedom and temporal literacy here.

My previous book, Revolution for Life (S.Fischer 2020), is also out in French, Spanish, Korean, Greek, Czech; further translations into Dutch and Croatian are underway. I presented my critique of capitalist domination in the SystemShift Podcast; the short essay “Reproduction Rebellion” likewise captures some of Revolution for Life‘s core themes.

Praxis und Revolution, the book based on my PhD (supervised by Rahel Jaeggi and Raymond Geuss), is available in English translation by Lucy Duggan from Columbia University Press. Lucy and I chat about the book and its language here; a deeper take on its content can be found in the New Books Network podcast. My scholarly work on property and authoritarianism – in part pursued during an ERC-funded Marie-Słodowska-Curie fellowship at Verona University – builds on my 2020 article “Ownership’s Shadow“. During my time in academia, I mostly worked at the Humboldt University, Berlin, but also spent some time as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the New School, New York.

In Hamburg, at the studio stage of the German Theatre, I host the talk series “Machine Room of the Future”. The show aims at interrupting dystopian trends however momentarily. It also stars a little solarpunk ChatBot which has been programmed and trained with minimal resource and data use.

I write a regular column for the Philosophy Magazine; my op-eds and literary essay have appeared in The Guardian, Die ZEIT and Le monde diplomatique.

My next events can be found here. Please contact Paula Döring (paula@pd-pr.de) if you wish to invite me; foreign rights inquiries should be directed to foreignrights@fischerverlage.de. All other requests reach me via Fulvia Modica (contact@evredecker.net).