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Ivan Illich’s grave
Today, a last-minute pilgrimage in Bremen to the resting place of Ivan Illich, my guide for so many years. In a cemetery full of stone markers and manicured flowers, his is a simple wood cross in a patch of vernacular herbs.
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Tenure
It has been the honor of my work life to serve the people of Colorado as a professor at CU Boulder, and to have my colleagues’ support—today, with a medal recognizing tenure. I’m wearing a sweater from my grandfather, an earlier Prof. Schneider.
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“Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies”
Is it possible, or even desirable, to actively participate in collective governance across many arenas of our lives? I’m excited to share a preprint of a long-in-the-works paper with team Metagov, exploring the intersection of online governance and attention economies. I hope it’s useful! https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/cdrmp_v1
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The Californian Ideology is back
Thirty years ago, this week, an article diagnosing the “Californian Ideology” of Silicon Valley was published. This scathing critique has become a badge of honor for the new tech right. As I argue today in Tech Policy Press, it has never been more relevant: https://www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years-on-the-californian-ideology-is-alive-and-well/
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AI special issue call
Once again, Andreas Hepp and I are teaming up to edit a special issue of the Int’l Journal of Communication—this time, you guessed it, on AI. Come map the emerging imaginative minefield around this eerie tech: https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-2
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Behind the Startup review
Just posted, at last: A review of one of my favorite recent books, Benjamin Shestakovsky’s “Behind the Startup”—the most rigorous and precise account I’ve seen of how the dominant startup model produces inequality: muse.jhu.edu/article/968586
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Two ways to celebrate Other Networks!
I am so, so excited to help launch my colleague Lori Emerson’s extraordinary new book, Other Networks. We’ve got two events coming up—mark your calendars! In Boulder (9/10): https://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14949129 Online (10/8): https://lu.ma/4kfjgd6a
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Big Tech’s turn to Trump is not mysterious
Leading figures across greater Silicon Valley have turned right for the same reason business elites always have: they want more power over their workers. https://lpeproject.org/blog/techs-turn-to-trump-was-a-labor-story-and-the-response-should-be-too/
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Consider assigning Beautiful Solutions
Are you teaching a course on social change? Please consider assigning material from this powerful new book I’ve had the opportunity to co-edit, Beautiful Solutions—full of tales from solidarity economies around the world, designed to be taught: https://beautifultrouble.org/beautifulsolutions
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Financing shared ownership
What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the Democracy Policy Network, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil: https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-economy/financing-shared-ownership