Unless something zany happens in the next couple of days -always a possibility in 2018- this week’s newsletter will inevitably be about the Eurozone. Also, this week’s podcast is of a piece in terms o
Our goal: Social rights — global and concrete What is our goal in criticising growth, and why do we think it necessary in principle to sketch lines of flight for a degrowth economy at this juncture? O
An interesting piece by Praphul Chandra on CryptoEconomics: Once you move past the speculative pricing of cryptocurrencies and ICOs, Blockchains are fundamentally a way to create economies. The abilit
3 Ways Design Professors Are Using Kickstarter to Teach Entrepreneurship School's out, but many design students are still at work on the crowdfunding campaigns they started in these courses By - May 1
Until fairly recently, artificial intelligence didn’t learn. To create a machine that learns to think more efficiently was a big challenge. In the same sense, one of the things that I wonder about is
The CSS Grid module is a fantastic tool for creating mockups of websites. It allows you to experiment with the layout faster than any other system I’ve tried. In this article, I’ll teach you how. I’ve
Garry cringed, like someone just spit in his breakfast. Pawn to f5. Blue remained silent, like it just spit in someone else’s breakfast. Rook to e7: taking Garry’s queen. This was Game 6, but Garry ha
I’ve just read an excellent paper that succinctly, eloquently, and wisely summarised the current predicament of our highly interconnected, global, complex adaptive system (i.e., our environment). If y
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THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman aka Joreen The earliest version of this article was given as a talk at a conference called by the Southern Female Rights Union, held in Beulah, Mississip
I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an explicitly municipalist platform of building
Last year, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical
Environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken has edited a book called Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming which lists "the 100 most substantive solutions to
Award-winning journalist Barrett Brown was re-arrested and taken into custody Thursday, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed for a PBS documentary. Brown quickly became a symbol of the at
Taking lessons from maroon societies, it’s time to reimagine and transform how we view prison abolition ON February 1, 2017, news broke that inmates in the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrn
Ellsworth Kelly, White Relief Over Black , 2012 The New World is constantly creating new economies that are driven by Black demise; Black America has to adapt to the technological advances and grim vi
This is a guest post by Harry Pottash . Post-enlightenment culture has almost completely conquered Western cities, leaving them swimming in a rich and diverse memetic soup. From within this soup a new
Eli Zaretsky: This is Eli Zaretsky, a fellow at the Post-Wachstums-Kolleg (Center for Advanced Study) in Jena, Germany, and I’m here with Hartmut Rosa, who is a former professor of Sociology at The Ne
We are being seen with ever greater resolution, even while the systems around us increasingly disappear into the background. ON November 7, 2016, the day before the US Presidential election, the New I
Andrew Kelly TPX/Reuters Protesters outside Trump Tower the day after the election, New York City, November 9, 2016 “Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this i
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