Jan Overwijk
Capitalism and Ecology, Eco-Marxism, Ecological Economics, Theories of Value, Cybernetics
From 2015 to 2020: PhD in Social Philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. From 2020 to 2023: Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University. Since 2023: NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Researcher on the two-year project »Turning the Priceless into Price« at the Institute for Social Research, funded by the Dutch Research Council. Editor at Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy.
Overwijk, Jan 2025: Cybernetic Capitalism. A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. New York: Fordham University Press.
Overwijk, Jan and Daniël de Zeeuw 2023: The New Clarity: Awakening in the Post-Truth Era, in: New Formations.
Overwijk, Jan 2021: Paradoxes of Rationalisation: Openness and Control in Critical Theory and Luhmann’s Systems Theory, in: Theory, Culture & Society 38(1).
Overwijk, Jan and Anton Jäger 2021: Measure or Misery: Hardt and Negri and the Multitude Twenty Years On, in: Boundary2: An Online Journal.
Overwijk, Jan 2020: Autopoietic System, in: Philosophy Today 63(4).
»Turning the Priceless into Price«, NWO Rubicon project, 2023-2025. This project studies how value is constituted at the intersection of economy and ecology by developing a critical theory of externalities. It aims to do so by staging an encounter between eco-Marxism and ecological economics.
