The Brave New World of Work Armin MedoschThe Next Layer
This text is a first draft, trying to identify key topics for an inquiry into the new organisation of labour. It starts with a historic analysis and then explores the notion of Post-Fordism.Specific sections are devoted to cognitive capitalism, the creative industries, informational capitalism and the split between manual and mental labour. It ends with a modest proposal for an alternative path of development.
Why Carbon Offsetting Will Not Save the PlanetMayfly Books
Upsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques from around the world, showing how the scam of carbon markets affects the lives of communities. But the book doesn’t stop there. It also presents a number of alternatives to carbon markets which enable communities to live in real low-carbon futures. Read the press release dated 1 December 2009.
Turbulence 5 'And Now For Something Completely Different' Released
Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ‘quack’ and a ‘crank’, as lacking the most basic understanding of the functioning of a ‘complex, globalised world’. The grip of ‘orthodoxy’ disqualified the idea, and many more, without the need even to offer a counter-argument.
We Want the Full Loaf (not just a child support grant) Mnikelo Ndabankulu
[Presentation at the Development Action Group Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa, 18 November 2009]
The Slums Act
The Slums Act first came to our ears as a Bill in 2006. The information about this Bill came to us indirectly through our sources.
The Decade to Come Brian Holmes
Building a Mass Movement Save the Planet, Fight Racism Anonymous Comrade
The Edu-factory Project: Inside and Against the Transformation of the Knowledge Production. Struggles and the Common within the Crisis. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University 7 December, 2009 Speakers: Paolo Do, Ned Rossiter, Jon Solomon
2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit Fears Green Christiania Squat NearbyStefanie Marsh
The Danish government will be cracking down on the Christiania squatter camp despite its green credentials
Less than two weeks before the start of the UN’s climate summit in Copenhagen, a counter-cultural enclave in the heart of the capital has again been attracting the attention of the Danish authorities.
Chto Delat, or self-organization as method: London December 1st Make art/knowledge politically Dmitry Vilensky & Alexei Penzin Chto delat/What is to be done? Lecture: Tuesday December 1st at 6.00pm Small Hall / Cinema (to the side of Loafers) Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
"Eyes Closed and Covered:" The "Internationalist" Blockade in GermanyVolker Weiss
[The long-standing conflicts inside the Left in Germany on the issue of nationalism emerged again a few weeks ago in Hamburg when some activists violently blockaded the showing of the film "Why Israel?" by former Jewish anti-fascist partisan Claude Lanzmann. This text analyzes the incident, and attempts to contextualize it within a broader political and historical framework.]
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