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April 13, 2016 10:30 AM
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When Will Greece Get its Money back from Germany? Reflections on Yanis Varoufakis’ New Book
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April 10, 2016 11:24 AM
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Stream 1288 - Paul Mason: Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Majority Report from desktop or your mobile device
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April 10, 2016 6:46 AM
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It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read.
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April 7, 2016 4:11 PM
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The digital version of our "Cocooners" half-yearly publication. Catch up about news, tools, thoughts, facts, people, work, future. Welcome to Cocooners.
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April 3, 2016 3:04 PM
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March 27, 2016 5:17 AM
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March 19, 2016 7:24 AM
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In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, and communities. The structure of local food supply chains, however, may not always be capable of generating these perceived benefits.
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March 13, 2016 1:25 PM
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Biology, which has made so many efforts to chase emotions from nature since the 19th century, is rediscovering feeling as the foundation of life.
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March 13, 2016 9:41 AM
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“We have the greatest technological knowledge of any civilization, but we have forgotten what it means to be alive in the world, to be alive in a living universe. Yet without this living connection…
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March 6, 2016 2:22 PM
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Srnicek & Williams “Inventing the Future” made quite a stir when it was released, as did their Accelerationist manifesto. As usual, when I hear such excitement I am concerned, concerned that a …
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March 5, 2016 6:38 AM
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February 28, 2016 12:15 PM
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In recent times I am finding myself caught between a sort of extreme techno-optimism inspired by new developments in technology which allow non-hierarchical organisation such as blockchain, Liquid Democracy or Loomio – and a kind of despair that the apocalypse is unfolding around us in the shape of the collapse of industrial civilisation and we... Continue reading →
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February 2, 2016 2:11 PM
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"Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal orthodoxies of Silicon Valley remains shocking and provocative. They question the cult of the dot-com entrepreneur, challenging the theory of technological determinism and refuting the myths of American history. Denounced as the work of ‘looney lefties’ by Silicon Valley’s boosters when it first appeared, The Californian Ideology has since been vindicated by the corporate take-over of the Net and the exposure of the NSA’s mass surveillance programmes. Published in 1999 at the peak of the dot-com bubble, Richard Barbrook’s Cyber-Communism offers an alternative vision of the shape of things to come, inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s paradoxical ‘thought probes’. With the Californian Ideology growing stronger, the Net was celebrated as the mechanical perfection of neoliberal economics. Barbrook shows how this futurist prophecy is borrowed from America’s defunct Cold War enemy: Stalinist Russia. Technological progress was the catalyst of social transformation.
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April 13, 2016 10:25 AM
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Marc J. Lane Wealth Group� offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to addressing legal and financial opportunities and problems. Our strengths lie in areas where legal and financial decisions intersect.
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April 10, 2016 9:47 AM
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"Digital Transitions explores the relationship between technological changes and the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts in which these changes occur. Digital technologies have moved into every corner of life and the classic separation between work and non-work has become obsolete. The digital economy has become indistinguishable from life in the digital age. This is a book about the merger of economy and life, about life in digital capitalism.
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April 7, 2016 4:26 PM
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The book Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance, Arjun Appadurai is published by University of Chicago Press.
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April 6, 2016 12:43 PM
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"As 2016 lengthens its stride, the ambivalent euphoria of the Paris agreements on climate change gives way to a sense of ‘where to from here?’ While the technicalities of the Kyoto Protocol were never easy fodder for inspiring collective action, the new terrain is arguably even more forbidding on that score."
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March 28, 2016 6:08 AM
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March 27, 2016 5:07 AM
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Apparently, Alec Ross has never met an “influencer” he didn’t want to quote or praise.
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March 16, 2016 4:37 PM
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Some enterprising commoners in Spain and Latinamerica have launched an crowdfunding campaign to translate and publish Think Like a Commoner in Spanish.
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March 13, 2016 12:40 PM
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ValueWeb: How FinTech firms are using bitcoin blockchain and mobile technologies to create the Internet of Value After months of writing and editing, I’m delighted to say that my new book ValueWeb …...
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March 8, 2016 3:22 PM
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In this age of peer production, new technologies allow students, teachers, and writing program administrators to talk to and write with one another and assess writing in transformative ways. Teaching and learning are changing, as learning transcends the classroom walls, facilitating new networks, connections, and collaborations.
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March 6, 2016 2:21 PM
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March 5, 2016 6:37 AM
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Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's new book offers insight into 'digital industrialism,' how humans have become invisible, and why the US needs to re-evaluate the goals of its current economic model.
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February 21, 2016 6:08 AM
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Coming soon: an update Michel Bauwen's 2005 seminal manifesto “P2P and Human Evolution” written by Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis
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