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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
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“Antisemitism” after terrorism in Boulder
The change that has come over the word “antisemitism” is itself unspeakable. My latest at Flaming Hydra: https://flaminghydra.com/issue-336/#antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable
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Tenure and antisemitism
Last week, I was granted tenure by my university. This moment, combined with the terrorist attack in Boulder, has had me thinking about the limits of what is unspeakable today, especially around the word “antisemitism.” https://nathanschneider.info/2025/06/antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable/