Against AI sensationalism
Yes, AI is scary, but it is ultimately a reflection of our current system, and it is the introduction of AI into an already repressive environment that we must question.
critiques of capitalism
The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis: Opportunities and Challenges
Politicians and economists may dismiss the commons with a wave of the hand, but commoners understand a deeper truth – that the presumptions of capitalist modernity are profoundly flawed, if not already collapsing.
The Global Energy Transition: A New Vision
Are we capable of reforming our relationships with each other as well as with the planet? Nothing short of that will suffice.
Review – Settler colonialism: An introduction
Through a compositional analysis of ongoing processes of settler colonialism, linked within a framework of capitalist dispossession and accumulation, Englert presents much food for thought on how struggle drives development and subjectivity.
Why the climate crisis is a care crisis – and how we can avert it
Expanding reliance on fossil fuels contains the signature of a system that prioritises profits for the perpetrators of planetary distress, over ensuring our collective well-being.
Can We Move Beyond Philanthrocapitalism?
While the many philanthropies of the world address social injustice, gender discrimination, and countless other issues, there is one topic that is off-limits to most of them: changing the capitalist system itself, the source of many problems that philanthropy aspires to solve.
Resisting cannibal capitalism
Capitalism in essence is a cannibal, primed to guzzle its own conditions of possibility.
It’s Getting to Look a Lot like Degrowth: Part 1
QED, civilization — as we know it today — cannot survive without economic growth. Ironically, that’s something pretty much everyone can agree on.
The ‘enshittification’ of the corporate world
In other words, the diagnosis of ‘enshittification’ is right on the money. But the disease is far more widespread, and goes far deeper, than Doctorow suggests.
Debunking “development”
It is imperative that a very different conception of development should be adopted as quickly as possible. It is not difficult to imagine a sane, sustainable, just and fulfilling alternative.
Dare to struggle, dare to win
To rebuild the trade union movement, to meaningfully defend the right to strike, and to begin a serious fightback against the imposition of the costs of capitalism’s crisis on the working class, we need to put our energy into workplace and community organising
That’s Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into: We Cannot Leave Energy to the Mercy of the Market
Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst energy crisis since the 1970s.