Category: Posts
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Conversation with Jenny Odell
Last month, I had the privilege of a live conversation with the artist and writer Jenny Odell in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was a DELIGHT. I just noticed that the video is now up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ8USTRSJV8
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Post-election solutions
The events of the past few days make me all the more grateful to have helped put together this book, full of the BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS we can build whether state power is with us or not. https://beautifultrouble.org/beautifulsolutions
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Now out: “Innovation amnesia”
Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how innovation events train us to forget: “Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics” https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13668
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Election financialization is one-sided
A vote for Donald Trump, among other things, is a vote for the speculative casino as the engine of our political future. https://nathanschneider.info/2024/11/the-age-of-campaign-financialization-is-here/
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The Age of Campaign Financialization is Here
What matters more, your vote or your bet on a prediction market? A campaign contribution or a stock purchase? It has long been common practice to worry about “campaign finance.” But even since the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision further unleashed dark money, that kind of finance was relatively straightforward: contributions to support the…
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RCV debate
TOMORROW, come to the Metagov Seminar for a debate with leading thinkers on ranked choice voting, which is on the ballot in multiple states, including Colorado. Join us, and bring your questions: https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/226/
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Ownership Economy Summit
I’m really looking forward to speaking at the #OwnershipEconomySummit on December 4th in NYC! This is a chance to strategize about the tools and policy we need to make shared ownership the new normal. Register 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-ownership-economy-summit-registration-920820347447 Discount code EXCLUSIVE20 for 20% off #OE2024
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Democratizing AI
The Collective Intelligence Project has been doing incredible work lately with bringing democratic practices to AI, incl. w/ OpenAI and Anthropic. I’ve joined them to take this work one step further: bringing democracy into companies themselves. Read here: https://www.cip.org/blog/shared-code
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USDA Webinar
On October 29, come join me and some leading co-op builders from Colorado and Puerto Rico at a US Dept. of Agriculture webinar: “Cooperative Ecosystems: Transformations in Worker Ownership, Housing, Community Development, and Agriculture” Register here: https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_UTyOzugwRnqXIy7ojzuXpA#/registration
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Spicer book event
How Has Structural Racism Held Back the Co-op Movement? Join MEDLab and the E2C Collective for an event on an important new book on the co-op legacy and racial capitalism. Learn more and register here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/07/how-has-structural-racism-held-back-co-op-movement