Economy

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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

Solar panels in Oregon

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

Robot speech

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

Cosmolocalism

What technology for degrowth?

Cosmolocal production, utilizing digital communication networks, connects local communities to minimize material and energy footprints.

March 13, 2024

Look after each other graffiti

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

Poor People's March

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

Death rays

We Need Green Military Technology to Kill One Another Sustainably: Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray

Our political culture rolls the dice on climate change, with a strategy of doing (nearly) absolutely nothing, and ecomodernism provides the rhetorical inspiration for inaction.

March 11, 2024

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