I Wanna Be a Livin’ Man
It’s clear that livin’ isn’t a solo act, for it involves at least a community of people consciously acting to create and sustain for themselves a total living community.
Society
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace it?
Episode 58 What Could Possibly Go Right?: John de Graaf
John de Graaf is an author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, speaker, and activist “with a mission to help create a happy, healthy and sustainable quality of life for America.” He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Land reform in the UK: Reporting from the mass trespass
The secret has been exposed, people have rediscovered the value of the countryside during the pandemic and the debate has become even more pressing as further restrictive measures are proposed for those who most rely on mobility and access in the countryside.
This Week on the Latest Episode of “Bubbles:” Cryptomania
Many have made millions on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—literally from nothing—but now things have started getting really kooky!
Institution Size as a Window into Cultural Evolution
In this essay, I explore the idea that the size composition of human institutions, as it exists today, provides a record of cultural evolution.
Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
Enclosure — the transformation of common resources into private property — was a fundamental feature of the rise of capitalism in early modern England. It involved not only new ways of using the land, but also, as both cause and effect, new ways of thinking about it.
The Fight Against Extinction Requires Biocultural Restoration
Now’s the moment for us to learn from our eco-civilizations of the past to ensure we can have a civilization in our future.
Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times
I believe commoning remains one of the more promising avenues that we have for addressing the profound structural challenges of contemporary politics, economics, and culture.
Talking Radical Imagination with Max Haiven
The radical imagination is something that emerges when, as I was mentioning, people come together to struggle against the reality that they’ve been forced into.
Nature in Cities and Cities in Nature
What is the current relationship of modern cities to nature? Cities are important to nature in a backhanded kind of way: without these relatively compact human settlements we would require a lot of more of what now comprises important open, resource lands on which to live.
How to achieve full decolonization
Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out.
