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Ivan Illich was born 100 years ago today. This is a picture I took in April of the door to the house where he once lived. There is no better place to start getting to know him than this Lost Prophets podcast: https://www.lostprophets.org/p/4-ivan-illich-ft-david-cayley Or his smile: https://vimeo.com/66948476 Rest in glory.

Are you looking to deepen your thinking and practice in transforming media systems? Consider coming to grad school with me and my colleagues. Let me know if you have questions:) MA: https://www.colorado.edu/cmdi/mdst/maPhD: https://www.colorado.edu/cmdi/mdst/phd

Oh goodness, people are hosting gatherings to celebrate Ivan Illich around the world! I just signed up to host. https://aschoolcalledhome.org/illich-at-100/

You might remember that I co-edited a book, Beautiful Solutions, that tells stories of solidarity economies around the world. Well, now it is A FREE, ONLINE TOOLBOX, thanks to the good folks at Beautiful Trouble: https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/bsol Use this, share this, teach with this. I have long used BT’s website in my classes, and I love…

Next month, it will be 15 years since Occupy Wall Street took over Lower Manhattan and other bits of the world. I was anxious to revisit it, but I’ve really been appreciating this new podcast on the story from Future Hindsight: https://www.futurehindsight.com/occupy I also wrote a book on it:) https://nathanschneider.info/books/thank-you-anarchy/

The Conflict Systems zine, on designing online communities with conflict in mind, is NOW OUT. The digital version is here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2026/08/12/conflict-systems And there are still a few print copies available here! https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/s/4Ys2HkNo23WB9pBn2cX8kef7

MEDLab’s new Conflict Systems zine drops Wednesday—all about the need for building habits and tools for conflict into online spaces. Celebrate the launch: https://luma.com/vqlxb7dy Request a print copy: https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/s/4Ys2HkNo23WB9pBn2cX8kef7

What comes after Luddism? In a special free issue of the mighty co-op Flaming Hydra, I probe the limits of centering resistence to big tech around the lore of the Luddites: https://flaminghydra.com/issue-617/#beyond-luddism

For the past two years, my lab has been exploring how to create online spaces designed for a basic human activity: conflict. See what we’ve learned on August 12, when we release our new zine, Conflict Systems, at the Metagov Seminar: https://luma.com/vqlxb7dy