The Convivialist Manifesto (2013), 22 pp (tags)
We are bound to each other like the waves of the sea (Norbert Elias, German cultural and social historian)
Iran to Get Upgraded Russian S-300 Missiles (tags)
Iran
Video: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (tags)
The technical approach often ignores political realities and normative rights of the poor. Principles are engines of social rights. First, agreement on principles and then operationalization of the principles. Freedom or autocracy is the bigger discussion.
BTL:Palestinian Women's Center Faces Many Obstacles to Provide Technical Training to Those (tags)
Interview with Jihan Nasser, women's center computer technology trainer, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Globalization and Media (tags)
Media theory starts from the idea that a changed media technology changes society and builds new communities. For the first time, the reader or recipient can also be a sender. The net opens up the horizon of democracy beyond constitutional and representative democracy.
Uncoupling Happiness and Consumption (tags)
The promised happiness is not possible through more and more consumption. We tinker with a reality-construction, a "reality of the second order" that represses the "reality of the first order." The "good life" can be very well organized.
Breakdown in the Technosphere (tags)
The power failure in August 2003 was due to the investment behavior of the electricity supplier. Economic deregulation, competition and profit fixation prevented modernization of the infrastructure.
Full Speed Against the Wind (tags)
"Whoever believes in continous growth in a finite world is either mad or an economist." (Kenneth E. Boulding)
UC Research and Technical Workers Set to Strike on May 26th (tags)
UC Research and Technical Workers Set to Strike on May 26th
Stepan Workers Organize with UE in Anaheim, (tags)
FIELDSBORO, N.J.
Technical Expert Confirms It: Bush is Wired (tags)
The Bush campaign still is claiming Bush isn’t wearing anything, and that he just has unusually large and oddly shaped wrinkles on the back of his clothes, but an expert says otherwise. He’s been wearing a high-tech earpiece at the debates.
Eco-effective design: a tree (tags)
We have great things to regenerate.
21st Century design: a tree (tags)
We have a great many things to regenerate.
Design for the 21st Century: A Tree (tags)
Time for revolution.