Degrowth, Denis Villeneuve and Alien Languages: A brief response to Eoin McLaughlin
Degrowth has been described even by its proponents as a ‘missile word’ – an idea so shocking and provocative that it is difficult to co-opt (though there are many who try). With the release of yet another poor critique of degrowth, this time authored by Eoin McLaughlin in The Conversation, it is clear that the knee-jerk hostility which faces degrowth is also a problem of understanding amidst uncertainty.
March 19, 2024
Romantic anti-capitalism: an interview with Michael Löwy
What is the “rational kernel” of the romantic world-view? It is a social and cultural protest against the modern industrial capitalist civilisation, in the name of past, pre-capitalist, pre-modern values.
March 18, 2024
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
March 15, 2024
The existential threat of artificial stupidity
Artificial intelligence, then, represents an existential threat to humanity not because of its newness, but because it perpetuates the corporate imperative which was already leading to ecological disaster and civilizational collapse.
March 15, 2024
What technology for degrowth?
Cosmolocal production, utilizing digital communication networks, connects local communities to minimize material and energy footprints.
March 13, 2024
How to start a mutual aid network
While the dominant U.S. economic system operates on this principle of persistent financial coercion, there is (and always have been) an alternative way to organize individuals into collectives providing essential services, without the need for coercion: mutual aid networks.
March 12, 2024
The Great Unwinding: The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
This thrusting of tens of millions of Americans out of the national healthcare system at a moment when healthcare outfits, pharmaceutical companies, and health insurance corporations are making record profits has been termed “the great unwinding.” And it couldn’t be more cruelly ironic.
March 11, 2024
Democracy Rising
A series of blog posts on deliberative democracy: what it is, why it’s powerful, why the time is right for it, how it works, and how to get it going in your community.