Disrupting Capitalist Democracy
This article analyses how platform businesses disrupt industries and suggests how emerging technologies and ownership models are ushering in a fundamentally new, truly democratic economy.
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Eight Ways to Strengthen Our Democracy Beyond Voting
Throughout this trying election season, we’ve been told how much is at stake with our vote. But the success of any democracy depends on continuing to pay attention long after we cast our ballots.
Five Things Americans Don’t Understand about Politics
At the height of America’s most bizarre presidential election campaign in decades, a careening spectacle largely due to the nutcase ramblings of an epic uber-narcissist, a contemporary, real-world He Who Can’t Be Named, I’ve come to realize just how little the American people understand about politics in its nuts and bolts.
Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal
With characteristic insight, the great American philosopher, John Dewey, once wrote: ‘Every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself.’
State Power and Commoning: Transcending a Problematic Relationship
What changes in state power must occur for commoning to flourish as a legal form of self-provisioning and governance?
Fraternitas Mercatorum
Fraternity is a key Western value since the time of the Greeks… But how did it become the yearning of the urban masses to the point of forming a triad with freedom and equality?
Ireland in a Strange Time
My American friends and family will be interested to note that their country is not the only country having a bizarre election.
Sharing Power: The Crucial Challenge for Sharing Cities
The nature of sharing in the modern world is changing.
Delivering “People Power”: Lessons from Ancient Athens
Take a straw poll of nearly any Western country and you’ll soon notice that a lot of people are unhappy.
Bread, Circuses and Inequality – a Dishonest Bargain
Consumerist ideology treats society as a collection of individuals, each seeking to maximise their private consumption.
Debating Democracy in a European Debt Colony
Days after Syriza’s capitulation to the Troika, radicals from across the world gathered in Athens for a historic conference on the future of democracy.
We are all Greece
The cast of heroes and villains in Greece’s ongoing battle to save its economy varies depending on who’s telling the story.