The decisions made in the design of networked technologies—from Snapchat to Tinder—constitute a coherent ideology. Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, argues that few of us recognise that, let alone question where it comes from and what it means.
An extract from Ann Pettifor's The Production of Money, examining the inner workings and the value of bitcoin.
We present a reading list of titles that examine our current economic state, including political economist Ann Pettifor's look at the history of the money system, The Production of Money, and an introduction to Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty First Century.
In these videos, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield urges us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.
Investigative journalist Sterling Seagrave has died at the age of 80.
Written upon the initiative of Media Palestine, this collective piece was produced in reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s commemoration of the Vel d’Hiv round-up and first published in Mediapart. The authors denounce the position taken by the French president: "Macron is here following in the footsteps of all those who want to criminalise the struggles fighting for justice in Palestine and for Palestinians’ rights."
In this excerpt from his memoir, Juan Goytisolo reflects on the early months of his exile from Franco's Spain in France and his encounters with French intellectuals and PCF militants in his effort to launch a Spanish-language political and cultural journal.
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Charting the development of capitalism as a “world-ecology,” understood as a system of power, capital, and nature, Moore shows how the planetary crisis today cannot be adequately understood as a conflict of “humans” and “nature.”
After November 8, 2016, invoking the "white working class" suddenly seemed to explain everything.
How does race relate to class in capitalism? Is it intrinsic and essential to the reproduction of capital, or merely an accidental feature of particular capitals? In this recent essay by Richard Seymour, and originally published on his Patreon, Seymour considers a debate within Marxism on the relationship between class, race and capitalism.
In this recent essay, by Richard Seymour and originally published on his Patreon reflects on Hélène Rytman, the wife of Louis Althusser, and the place of her killing in the reception of Althusser's life and work.
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