De Dépendance

19/03/2026

06/03/2026

One week to go until Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian will discuss their forthcoming book ‘Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed’ at .

👉 Tickets are moving fast. Secure your seat via our website.

28/02/2026

On Saturday March 14th, two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, will join us at to discuss their upcoming book ‘Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed’.

If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His rockets run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future, but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s libertarian but state-fed, pro-natalist but anti-immigrant, futurist but reactionary.

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🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
📲 Info and tickets on our website

21/02/2026

🐦 Muskism: Playbook for a Postliberal Age with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek’s Bastards) and Ben Tarnoff (Internet for the People, Voices from the Valley). Together, they will unpack their new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. In this highly anticipated work they examine Elon Musk not as an individual, but as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age. Musk isn’t a glitch in the system — he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect, the more he owns you.

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🗓️ Saturday 14 March
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
📲 Info and tickets on our website

16/02/2026

On Thursday, February 12, we welcomed two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking public intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian whose work reshapes our understanding of capitalism’s evolution, and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist and one of the sharpest observers of European politics and the state of the liberal order.

They spoke on the occasion of the Dutch translation of Orain’s new book, The Finitude of the World: Boundless Capitalism from the Seventeenth Century to Today. In this groundbreaking work – prefaced by De Gruyter – Orain argued that while the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth has faded, capitalism itself remains very much alive. Its current phase is not unprecedented but part of a recurring historical dynamic: when the world is perceived as finite and its resources limited, capitalism shifts into a violent mode of rapid capture and exploitation. We now see this “Finitude Capitalism” at work in the privatisation and militarisation of the seas, in the rise of monopolistic and rentier trade, and in the encroachment of massive private companies claiming quasi-sovereign control over physical and digital space.

We hope to welcome you at one of our forthcoming events.
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📸: Aad Hoogendoorn

06/02/2026

Heads up: tickets for our upcoming talk with Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter on ‘Finitude Capitalism’ are moving fast. There won’t be ticket sales at the door, so make sure to secure your seat in time.

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🗓️ Thursday 12 February
⏰ Talk at 20:00h
🍸 Drinks from 19:30h
📲 Final tickets on our website

26/01/2026

⚙️ Finitude Capitalism: Neoliberalism’s Predatory Turn w/ Arnaud Orain & Caroline de Gruyter

On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential and thought-provoking public intellectuals: Arnaud Orain, renowned economic historian whose work reshapes our understanding of capitalism’s evolution, and Caroline de Gruyter, award-winning journalist and one of the sharpest observers of European politics and the state of the liberal order. Together they will explore how this shift from liberal to predatory capitalism emerged, who stands to gain – and who loses – in this zero-sum landscape, and what the implications are for Europe’s economic and geopolitical future.

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🗓️ Thursday 12 February
⏰ 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
📲 Info and tickets on our website

15/01/2026

On Thursday, February 12, we welcome two of Europe’s most influential public intellectuals, Arnaud Orain and Caroline de Gruyter, to Rotterdam on occasion of the Dutch translation of Orain’s new book, ‘The Finitude of the World: Boundless Capitalism from the Seventeenth Century to Today’.

In this groundbreaking work – with a preface by de Gruyter – Orain argues that while the neoliberal dream of uninterrupted growth has faded, capitalism itself remains very much alive. Its current phase is not unprecedented but part of a recurring historical dynamic: when the world is perceived as finite and its resources limited, capitalism shifts into a violent mode of rapid capture and exploitation. We now see this “Finitude Capitalism” at work in the privatisation and militarisation of the seas, in the rise of monopolistic and rentier trade, and in the encroachment of massive private companies claiming quasi-sovereign control over physical and digital space.

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🗓️ Thursday 12 February
⏰ Talk at 20:00h
🍸 Drinks from 19:30h
📲 Info and tickets on our website

09/01/2026

We’re introducing something new for 2026: a five-event pass for our most engaged visitors (you!). For € 50,- you’ll get acces to five events for the price of four.

Our memberships are valid for two years, giving you the flexibility to use them as your schedule allows. This offer is for for those who value consistent access to and would like to support important conversations. If that’s you, we think you’ll find it worthwhile.

24/12/2025

As we wrap up 2025, we wanted to pause and say thank you. Thank you for attending and for being part of the conversations that matter.

We’re taking a moment to rest and recharge, and we hope you are too. We can’t wait to welcome you all back in 2026.