Online talk by Rhiannon Firth & John Preston on their new book Utopia in the Factory. Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics. Find the link to the respective Zoom call here, or on the event’s website. The description is taken from the event’s website: The idea that automation, AI and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for […]

In this event CibCom (acronym for Cibercomunismo), an interdisciplinary research group from the Spanish speaking world, will introduce themselves and their work. They argue that the idea of the market as the best possible resource allocator has long been surpassed by advances in digital technology. Corporations already plan their production and distribution on a global […]

The event description is copied from the event’s eventbrite page, please register there to attend. The event will be in English. “Green Planning Commission Launch by Common Wealth in London. Building a new era of green democratic planning A panel discussion and reception to launch the Common Wealth Green Planning Commission. —- Common Wealth is […]

The description is taken from the website of the event. “Opening Reception Saturday, November 1, 5-8 pm Open Hours Sat-Sun 12-5 pm drop in or by appointment Email info@carnationcontemporary.com to schedule a visit EXHIBITION In Planning, Raphael Arar extends his research-based art practice into the terrain of collective decision-making. The exhibition moves between earnest proposals […]

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Through this system’s relentless pursuit of profits, we have been put on a collision course with social and ecological limits that can no longer be ignored. We need an alternative. […]

This talk considers the role of politics in the construction of systems of democratic planning. The thesis is that planning systems are downstream of theoretical models of society, and theoretical models are downstream of politics. But what makes a political question different from a theoretical one? The definition of a good model may change as […]

Jason Moore offers a critique of capitalism as a way of organizing planetary life. We would like to have a prospective discussion on how planetary life could be organized after capitalism. The conclusion of “L’écologie-monde du capitalisme” is entitled “Vers le Prolétarocène”; what form could this new relationship with our planet take? What would its […]

Dieser Workshop findet als Teil der “Kritischen Einführungstage Freiburg” statt. Die Beschreibung des Workshops ist aus dem Programm entnommen: “In dem Workshop werden wir auf aktuelle Ansätze zu einer Alternative zum fossilen Kapitalismus eingehen. Wir möchten anschließend gemeinsam mit euch Fragen der Ökologie, der  Reichtumsverteilung und eines erstrebenswerten politischen Systems, diskutieren. Es wird Snacks geben. […]

Description in English: On November 20th at 19:00 CET, Cibcom has organized a reading club (in Spanish) to discuss the political economy of North Korea during its first period (centralized planning, the Ch’ŏllima movement, and the Taean system), using the first chapter of Phillip Park’s “History of Economic Management in North Korea” as a basis. […]

The description is taken from the organizer’s website: With keynotes by John O’Neill (University of Manchester) and Aaron Benanav (Cornell University) and contributions by Rabea Berfelde, Jacob Blumenfeld, Lillian Cicerchia, Solveig Degen, Jan Groos, Max Grünberg, Jakob Heyer, Christian Schmidt, Sandra Sieron and Gabriel Wollner   Topic What does it mean to plan an economy […]

Join us for this year’s INDEP online Christmas party! This is going to be an informal get-together without an agenda to just talk, share and look back at the year together. To join, please register here.

The event will be in German The description and program are from the flyer of the event: “Care work and production are currently organized on the basis of domination and separated ownership, leading to unnecessary suffering, environmental disasters, and the climate crisis. Under what circumstances can we plan and organize care work and production in […]