by Jason Prado // The internet has become highly centralised due to its role as a site of capital accumulation. Challenging capital requires revisiting the internet’s architecture.
Sustainable alternatives often come about through prototypes, from DIY electronics repair to ecohousing, agricultural tools to digital knowledge platforms. Prototypes are often small (at least to begin with) and local, but they can yield surprising results – sometimes becoming mainstream technolog…
Source: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927). Source: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
by Aaron Vansintjan
For the past little while I’ve been involved with a group in Barcelona, which studies and advocates ‘degrowth’: the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable s…
Image: Pixabay
by Rut Elliot Blomqvist
Ideas about the importance of the imagination in an age of political and ecological crisis are popping up everywhere: in the arts, in activism and other forms of politics, and in a wide range of academic disciplines and fields. This blog is one example.
In addi…
Municipalism
by the Symbiosis Research Collective Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local democracy is – perhaps counter-intuitively – the best chance we’ve got.
Throughout this series, we’ve argued t…
The programme will be amended and expanded upon right up until the key weekend, so please check back for the latest…currently a work in progress!! FRIDAY 19TH OCTOBER 7pm @ Housmans Bookshop
Peace News present:
‘Nonviolent Anarchism/Nonviolent Revolution’ with Milan Rai
Entry £3 redeemable ag…
By the end of this century, sea level rises alone could displace 13m people. Many states will have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground. But, as one expert says, ‘No state is unaffected by this’
