I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years ago, in 1987, on an explicitly municipalist platform of building
Last year, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical
Environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken has edited a book called Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming which lists "the 100 most substantive solutions to
Award-winning journalist Barrett Brown was re-arrested and taken into custody Thursday, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed for a PBS documentary. Brown quickly became a symbol of the at
Taking lessons from maroon societies, it’s time to reimagine and transform how we view prison abolition ON February 1, 2017, news broke that inmates in the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrn
Ellsworth Kelly, White Relief Over Black , 2012 The New World is constantly creating new economies that are driven by Black demise; Black America has to adapt to the technological advances and grim vi
This is a guest post by Harry Pottash . Post-enlightenment culture has almost completely conquered Western cities, leaving them swimming in a rich and diverse memetic soup. From within this soup a new
Eli Zaretsky: This is Eli Zaretsky, a fellow at the Post-Wachstums-Kolleg (Center for Advanced Study) in Jena, Germany, and I’m here with Hartmut Rosa, who is a former professor of Sociology at The Ne
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Andrew Kelly TPX/Reuters Protesters outside Trump Tower the day after the election, New York City, November 9, 2016 “Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this i
Editors’ Forum Theorizing the Contemporary From the Series: Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen Photo by H. Heyerlein . January 21, 2016 Cite As: Howe, Cymene, and Anand Pandian. 2016."Introduction
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We talked with Alexandra Elbakyan from Sci-Hub about open access, the future of copyright & the money policy of Elsevier etc. Inhalt We asked Alexandra Elbakyan, the spokesman of the illegal e-book we
We all need journalists and publishing platforms to consider carefully how they publish sensitive information, whether it has been leaked or hacked from an institution, scraped from public websites or
Ten years ago I found myself standing outside the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan. I looked out over acres of glinting windshields in a packed parking lot. I’d reached this spot by drivi
This profile is an interview with Matthew Bair, founder and worker-owner of People’s Ride, a rideshare worker cooperative start-up in Grand Rapids, MI. This profile is an interview with Matthew Bair,
The materiality of digital devices is strictly disciplinary down to the chemical level of electronic transmission[1], from sensors to memory to processors to pixels. Microscopic views of computational