Mitja Stefancic
Tiziana Terranova’s book, “After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common” is a collection of essays representing the author’s own intellectual evolution, theorizing the crucial developments on digital networking and inter-networking over the last two decades. …
Carlos Tornel
“In times of civilizational collapse, the preservation of dignity can only come from below.”*
In conversations ranging from coffee shops to university classrooms, the language and notion of “civilizational collapse” is becoming increasingly common. The disaffection …
Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Natalie Holmes
Susu is a centuries-old financial system in Ghana. A type of rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), it’s one of a number of informal, collective financial institutions practiced across West Africa. For their study, …
Christine Dann
“Nous sommes des habitant·es en lutte attachés à leur territoire.”
Les Soulèvements de la Terre [2023] *
“We are inhabitants in struggle attached to their territory.”
“One common factor is the territorialization of the movements – that is, …
Neema Pathak Broome and Akshay Chettri
With looming ecological calamities and the failure of the current systems and measures to conserve biodiversity, the need for alternative transformative pathways is being felt acutely and being discussed widely – alternatives to address …
Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende
Introduction
Mainstream governance and development models – characterized by seemingly democratic but inherently centralized and top-down governance systems and extractive, commercially motivated, capitalist economic policies – have failed to achieve minimum levels …
Review of Hope in Hopeless Times by John Holloway, Pluto Press, October 2022 – https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347363/hope-in-hopeless-times/
Anitra Nelson
Two books arguing that we need to go beyond money to achieve postcapitalism were published by Pluto Press last year (2022). The most …
Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling
This history is well-known: Supported by the Club of Rome, a group of MIT scholars published ‘The Limits to Growth’ (LtG) in 1972(PDF). Immensely successful, the book was also intensely critiqued.
One important …
Mitja Stefancic
In the recently held elections in Italy, a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni of the Brothers Of Italy party gained a convincing majority in the country’s Parliament. This takeover of power by a group described by many …
Aaditeshwar Seth
The world faces large and intersecting challenges of environmental collapse, inequality, exploitation, health, and poverty, among others. Technologies, especially those emerging from information and communication tools (ICTs) are often projected as ideal solutions to address these challenges – …
Christian Stalberg
Today, there exists what in my estimation is an unprecedented moment for altering the course of human history. The hopes and dreams for a more equitable, peaceful, just and livable world now have an opening for their realization …
Arturo Escobar
Transitions and transition design have been an active focus of research and practice for me since Designs for the Pluriverse (2018, but published in Spanish in 2016), particularly through transition- related projects in Colombia and, more recently, in …