Category: Videos

The recording of our recent online talk with Kyle Thompson and James Macumber on “Lessons of Cybernetics for Democratic Economic Planning” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. This online talk was part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. You can watch it here or below.

The recording of our recent online talk with Paul Adler on “What Socialist Planning can Learn from Business Management” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

In two new episodes of the German-language podcast Wohlstand für Alle, hosts Wolfgang M. Schmitt and Ole Nymoen discuss Aaron Benanav’s essay Beyond Capitalism about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can listen to the first episode here and the second episode here.You can read Aaron Benanav’s two papers,…

The talks from the “Economic Planning in the Anthropocene – Institutional design for needs satisfaction within boundaries” conference in Geneva this September have been uploaded to a website. You can also find the slideshows of the talks linked as pdfs there. Here are the panels that were featured in the conference: Introduction – by Cédric…

The recorded talks of a workshop called “CYBERPLAN: Does the Economy fit into a Matrix or Tensor? Interrogating Cybernetic Planning Proposals”, which was held at the 2023 edition of the annual festival of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, have been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find a playlist with all the uploaded talks…

The recording of our recent INDEP online Talk with Dennis Yao on Political, Theoretical, and Computational Models of Social Worlds has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch the recording here or below.

In a recent lecture in Hannover, Germany, political scientist Samia Mohammed presents the history of the economic planning debate and reasons for a revival of democratic economic planning after capitalism. She also addresses blind spots in the debate such as feminist critiques or a sometimes over-simplified picture of human-nature relations. The lecture is in German…

The recording of our recent online talk with Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on their new book “Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

The recording of our recent online talk with CibCom on Cybernetics, Planning and Democracy has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

The recording of our recent online talk with Al Campbell on “Protagonistic Planned Socialism (PROPLASO) and Human Development” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below. For Al Campbell’s personal website, which has an overview of all his publications, click here.