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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Kai Heron\, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance
DESCRIPTION: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. We need radical abundance. A world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production. But radical abundance can’t just be voted into existence through parliamentary means\, it must be made by taking control of our collective reproduction in the here and now.\nRadical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future examines what a transition to a world of radical abundance looks like and lays out a concrete strategy for achieving it. Join the authors Kai Heron\, Keir Milburn\, and Bertie Russell as they discuss their book and their attempts to build democratic economic planning from below. \nThe event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-kai-heron-keir-milburn-and-bertie-russell-on-radical-abundance/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition "Planning" by Raphael Arar
DESCRIPTION:The description is taken from the website of the event. \n“Opening Reception\nSaturday\, November 1\, 5-8 pm \nOpen Hours\nSat-Sun 12-5 pm\ndrop in or by appointment \nEmail info@carnationcontemporary.com\nto schedule a visit \nEXHIBITION\nIn Planning\, Raphael Arar extends his research-based art practice into the terrain of collective decision-making. The exhibition moves between earnest proposals and playful provocations\, between technical schemas and poetic operations. Each piece navigates the design challenges of organizing ourselves differently\, treating economic coordination as both practical problem and aesthetic proposition. The works assemble fragments of other possibilities\, leaving open the question of what democratic economic planning might look like.  \n  \nARTIST\nRaphael Arar works at the nexus of complex systems\, transdisciplinary design and arts-based research. His work highlights the social\, political and economic implications of technological acceleration and human-to-machine interaction. His artwork has been exhibited at venues internationally including the ZKM | Center for Art and Media\, The Science Gallery\, Moscow Museum of Applied Art\, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)\, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\, Gamble House Museum\, Boston Cyberarts Gallery\, and Athens Video Art Festival. Notable commissions include Noema Magazine\, Goethe Institut\, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts\, Intel Labs and IBM Research. Commercially\, his design work has been featured in publications including Forbes\, TED\, Inc. Magazine\, FastCompany\, Wired and others.”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/art-exhibition-planning-by-raphael-arar/
LOCATION:Carnation Contemporary\, 8371 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97217\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carnation Contemporary":MAILTO:Info@carnationcontemporary.com
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SUMMARY:Launch of Common Wealth's "Green Planning Commission"
DESCRIPTION:The event description is copied from the event’s eventbrite page\, please register there to attend. \nThe event will be in English. \n\n\n\n\n\n“Green Planning Commission Launch by Common Wealth in London.\nBuilding a new era of green democratic planning \nA panel discussion and reception to launch the Common Wealth Green Planning Commission. \n—- \nCommon Wealth is launching a transatlantic Green Planning Commission to rethink the politics and practice of planning to recover a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age. \nJoin us in London on Thursday 30th of October to discuss on the state of decarbonisation in domestic and global context\, the changing frontiers of climate action\, and how green democratic planning can underpin a decisive progressive consensus\, programme\, and winning coalition. \n—- \nChaired by Sarah Nankivell\, Common Wealth \nFeaturing: \n\nCarolina Alves\, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose\nMelanie Brusseler\, Common Wealth\nRichard Kozul-Wright\, SOAS\nMathew Lawrence\, Common Wealth\n\nLocation: The October Gallery\, \n24 Old Gloucester St\, London WC1N 3AL \nTime: 19:00 – 21:30 \n19:00 – 20:00: Panel Discussion \n20:00-21:30: Drinks Reception \n—- \nPlease register in advance as we have limited capacity.”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/launch-of-common-wealths-green-planning-commission/
LOCATION:October Gallery\, 24 Old Gloucester Street\, London\, WC1N 3AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251027T190000
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with CibCom on Cybernetics\, Planning and Democracy
DESCRIPTION: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 scale through cybernetic systems processing vast amounts of data in real time. The only remaining question is in whose service economic planning is done – Planning in the hands of the oligarchy\, and thus based on private profit? Or democratic planning addressing social needs? They claim that for the first time\, the tools exist to make the latter real: a global cybernetic system for the people\, coordinating the production process based on real-time feedback. \nThe event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register through this link. \nPlease note that this event will take place after daylight savings in european timezones.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-cibcom-on-cybernetics-planning-and-democracy/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Talk - Utopia in the Factory - Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website: \n\n\n\n\nThe idea that automation\, AI and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. \nThe paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing enables the seamless production of goods (and services) and ‘lights out’ factories where machines and robots effortlessly produce for our future needs and wants are powerful drivers of a capitalist\, free market cybertopia. For some radicals\, technology and automation produce the conditions for a Fully Automated Luxury Communism\, drawing on an interpretation of Marx\, where human work would be replaced by a life of leisure and abundance for all. For others\, an earlier discourse – cybernetics – and the use of AI and social media in communication and co-ordination enable forms of radical organisation through ‘anarchist cybernetics’. \nThis book questions that technological optimism – particularly cybernetics\, automation and AI – through a critique of these technologies and organisational forms. Cybernetics and corresponding technologies and forms (particularly Industry 4.0) can never capture human forms of creativity and working practices. Furthermore\, there are similar problems with the ‘cybernetic paradigm’ as a radical form of organisation or social movement in terms of human autonomy\, creativity\, desire and social prefiguration. \nAs counterpoint the book shows\, through empirical evidence and drawing on interviews with workers or activists in a variety of organizational forms\, that tacit knowledge and autonomous and spontaneous human projects (what the authors define as ‘hobbying’) are critical in the physical act of making and co-operating. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\nRhiannon Firth is Lecturer in Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education\, University College London. She is interested in anti-authoritarian organising within\, against and beyond the crises of capitalism. Her research focuses on grassroots utopias\, mutual aid and the pedagogical and prefigurative practices of radical social movements. \nJohn Preston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He has pioneered an original stream of research in the sociology of disasters and existential threats. His work also explores the sociology of education and\, most recently\, skills and AI.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/online-talk-utopia-in-the-factory-prefigurative-knowledge-against-cybernetics/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER) at University of Essex":MAILTO:coveres@essex.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Is Democratic Socialist Planning Possible? - A Conversation with Christoph Sorg
DESCRIPTION:This description is copied from the event flyer: \nThis talk explores the resurgence of economic planning debates\, arguing that planning has expanded under capitalism rather than declined. It revisits the socialist calculation debate and reviews three planning models: Keynesian\, Neurathian\, and Polanyian. Emaphasizing Polanyian planning\, Sorg highlights its potential for democratizing surplus allocation\, decommodifying essential goods\, and advancing digital-ecological approaches to price-setting. \nChristoph Sorg is a social scientist at Humboldt University Berlin and guest researcher at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on capitalism\, economic planning\, and social reproduction\, combining insights from economic sociology and political economy. He recently co-edited Rethinking Economic Planning (Competition & Change) and Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century (Bristol University Press).
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/is-democratic-socialist-planning-possible-a-conversation-with-christoph-sorg/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz\, Rachel Carson Red Room\, Student Commons\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251017T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20251001T081703Z
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SUMMARY:Introductory Talk on Labour Time Accounting by IDA
DESCRIPTION:The IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative democratic Labour Time Accounting) is giving two introductory talks on the concept of democratic Labour Time Accounting in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany. Both events will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/introductory-talk-on-labour-time-accounting-by-ida-2/
LOCATION:Black Pigeon Dortmund\, Scharnhorststr. 50\, Dortmund\, North Rhine-Westphalia\, 44147\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung)":MAILTO:gruppe_arbeitszeit@riseup.net
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251016T190000
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CREATED:20251001T081302Z
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SUMMARY:Introductory Talk on Labour Time Accounting by IDA
DESCRIPTION:The IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative democratic Labour Time Accounting) is giving two introductory talks on the concept of democratic Labour Time Accounting in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany. Both events will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/introductory-talk-on-labour-time-accounting-by-ida/
LOCATION:AZ Mühlheim\, Auerstr. 51\, Mülheim an der Ruhr\, North Rhine-Westphalia\, 45468\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung)":MAILTO:gruppe_arbeitszeit@riseup.net
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell on Protagonistic Planned Socialism (PROPLASO) and Human Development
DESCRIPTION:Social discontent with the existing world capitalist system is high and increasing. Many people look for major reforms of the capitalist system (some progressive\, quite a few reactionary). A major part of those who to the contrary think capitalism must be replaced with an alternative system\, consider themselves in favor of some type of socialism or communism. The ideas about what constitutes socialism or communism vary greatly\, with some general consensus on some core ideas and a broad spectrum of different ideas about other issues (hence the need for ongoing social discussions and experiments concerning these).\nIn this talk Al Campbell will very briefly discuss 1) the question of why society should replace capitalism\, 2) the historical relation of pre-figurative visions of alternative systems to what exists to the development of such alternatives\, 3) the Goldilocks dilemma for visions of an alternative society from the point of human development\, 4) the DPS (Democratic Planned Socialism) family of vision (and its importance as a family)\, and 5) the three pillars of PROPLASO (Protagonistic Planned Socialism). At least the following six issues about which there is much ongoing discussions and debates among advocates of socialism will be discussed in the course of discussing the above 5 points – a) capitalist exploitation without wage labor\, b) the nature of wages in a socialist system\, c) consumer councils\, d) the possibility of simple commodity production and producers in a socialist system\, e) the possibility of required socialist planning if the system has markets\, and f) money in a socialist system (and beyond that\, whatever else hopefully comes up in the questions). \nThis event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-al-campbell-on-protagonistic-planned-socialism-proplaso-and-human-development/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250929T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250929T143000
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná on "Reclaiming Digital Sovereignity"
DESCRIPTION:Digital sovereignty has become an urgent question in contemporary policy debates\, due to the way in which digital platforms have become a crucial instrument of influence and infrastructural power. World regions such as Europe and Latin America that – compared to China and the US – have little domestic capacity in key digital technologies such as semiconductors\, software\, cloud services\, and more\, are now drafting policies to reclaim control over digital technology. But to what extent are these digital sovereignty agendas realistic given the enormous dominant positions of Big Tech platforms? What should the priorities for those wanted to expand digital sovereignty in a democratic\, people-centred way that respects planetary boundaries? These questions have become more urgent in the face of strong integration between the state and Big Tech in the US under the presidency of Donald Trump\, and the way the US is using the global reach of its digital platforms as a geopolitical club. In this talk\, Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná will present the basics of a report that they co-authored with other colleagues that aims at developing an alternative to Big Tech that at the same time advances concrete forms of democratic planning. \nThe event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-cecilia-rikap-and-edemilson-parana-on-reclaiming-digital-sovereignity/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Launch of the Green Planning Commission
DESCRIPTION:Important: The event has already sold out. We are sharing it here for informative purposes nevertheless. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website: \n“Climate Week with Common Wealth\, The BREAK—DOWN\, and Phenomenal World \nBuilding a new era of green democratic planning from the collapse of Bidenomics \nA panel discussion and reception to launch the Common Wealth Green Planning Commission and to celebrate Issue II of The BREAK—DOWN\, Frontiers. \n—- \nDecarbonization and progressive politics are at an impasse following the collapse of Bidenomics into Trump’s more aggressive second term. The left has an opportunity to lead a new political coalition by defining a forward transformative program with concrete vision and institutional demands. Common Wealth is launching a two-year transatlantic Green Planning Commission to chart concrete and deliverable suite of policies to drive a new era of democratic planning and non-market economic coordination necessary deliver a comprehensive progressive agenda of ambitious decarbonization and the guarantee of fundamental economic rights necessary to address the overlapping economic emergencies of our age. \nThe BREAK—DOWN publishes new writing on the political economy of climate and ecological crisis. The magazine’s first issue\, published May 2025\, explored the rightward turn of global politics and backlash to climate action. Issue II\, Frontiers\, launches September 2025 with contributions focused on the new frontiers of climate struggle\, from migration and geoengineering to data centres and extractive industry. \nTo mark the launch of the GPC\, Common Wealth\, The BREAK—DOWN\, and Phenomenal World are convening a panel discussion on the future of climate and progressive politics from the ruins of Trump 2.0 and Bidenomics. \nJoin us during Climate Week in New York City for a conversation on the state of decarbonization in domestic and global context; the changing frontiers of climate action; and how green democratic planning can underpin a decisive progressive consensus\, program\, and winning coalition. \n—- \nChaired by Adrienne Buller\, the BREAK—DOWN \nFeaturing: \n\nDavid Wallace-Wells\, The New York Times\n\n\nTim Sahay\, Johns Hopkins Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab\n\n\nMelanie Brusseler\, Common Wealth\n\n\nBatul Hassan\, Climate and Community Institute\n\nDrinks Reception after the Panel Discussion \nLocation: Gerald D. Hines Gallery\, AIA New York\, \nCenter for Architecture\, 536 LaGuardia Place\, New York \nTime: 18:00 – 20:00 \n18:00 – 19:15: Panel Discussion \n19:15-20:00: Drinks Reception \nAfter Drinks: TBD”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/launch-of-the-green-planning-commission/
LOCATION:AIA New York\, Center for Architecture\, 536 LaGuardia Place\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250924T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250926T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250827T122707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T142459Z
UID:2724-1758722400-1758915000@www.indep.network
SUMMARY:Conference: Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - Institutional design for needs satisfaction within boundaries
DESCRIPTION:The description is taken from the program of the event website: \n“With growing ecological concerns and mounting scientific evidence of rapid environmental degradation\, governments have created multiple institutions\, engaged in a vast array of policies and supported business initiatives. However\, and despite some limited success in specific dimensions\, the balance of five decades of activism is unambiguous: governments and businesses have failed to transform our economy in order to accommodate the ecological limits (Pestre 2020).\nThis failure calls for significant revisions in the way policymaking addresses the society-nature metabolism and\, more specifically\, the approach of institutional design regarding the economy. The return of industrial policies (Criscuolo et al. 2022) and the acknowledgment that climate action must be primarily driven by public policies (Pisani-Ferry and Mahfouz 2023) echoes a renewed interest for economic planning as a way to engage the ecological bifurcation (Durand\, Hofferberth\, and Schmelzer 2024; Durand and Keucheyan 2024).\nThis workshop ambitions to mark a milestone in that direction. It will gather leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and from various disciplinary backgrounds (political economy\, sociology\, economic history\, law\, accounting…) whose research could inform the design of\necological planning institutions in the short to medium term. The core of the conference (tentative program below) will favor in-depth engagement with the various communications with a dedicated moment (assessment roundtables) to take stock of the substance of the\nexchanges and clarify the complementary and tensions between contributions. Two side events will take place. On the eve of the conference a Ph-D workshop will be organized with the support of the EU MSCA-funded EPOG-DN (Economic Policies for the Global bifurcation – Doctoral Network). The last day of the conference\, a forum will be organized with policymakers\, including representatives from various international institutions (UNCTAD\, ILO\, UNDP…)” \nYou can sign up for the conference (for free) until September 19th here. \nYou can view the find the full program\, including abstracts of the talks on the event’s website. \nFor further information\, please contact: francois-xavier.hutteau-unige.ch \nProgram: \nWednesday September 24 \n14h-18h\nYoung scholar seminar with the participation and support of the EPOG Doctoral Network \n\nThursday September 25\n\n8.45\nWelcoming coffee \n9.00\nIntroductory address – Cédric Durand (UNIGE\, Switzerland) \n9.15-11.00\nClimate vs. Neoliberalism: causes of inaction and the call for planning – Julia Steinberger (UNIL\, Switzerland)\nThe Great Transformation of markets: Lessons from the history of market design – Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College\, United States of America) \n11.00\nCoffee break \n11.15\nNeeds\, institutions\, and coalitions: how would democratic ecological planning look like? – Razmig Keucheyan (Université Paris Cité\, France)\nBetween calculation and deliberation: Rethinking needs in planning frameworks – Silvia Rief (University of Innnsbruck\, Austria) \n13.00\nLunch break \n14.30\nThe Role of Input-Output Analysis in Modeling Sustainability Transitions – Julien Lefevre (CIRED\, France)\nAccounting for national and corporate environmental liabilities: a steering tool towards a sustainable economy – Clément Surun (CIRED\, France) \n16.30\nTea break \n16.45-18.00\nAssessment Roundtable – Louison Cahen-Fourot (Roskilde University\, Denmark) & Elena Hofferberth (UNIL\, Switzerland) and speakers of the day \n20.00\nDinner \n\nFriday September 26 \n9.00\nWelcoming coffee \n9.15\nState Capacity for Decarbonization: From Investable Transitions to Green Transformations – Rosie Collington (Copenhagen Business School\, Denmark)\nBig tech capabilities as planning devices – Cecilia Rikap (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose\, United Kingdom). \n11.00\nCoffee break \n11.15\nPrice Controls to Implement Green Transformation Policy – Tom Krebs (University of Manheim\, Germany)\nMacrofinancial conditions for a green transformative state – Daniela Gabor (University of the West of England\, UK) \n13.00\nLunch break \n14.30\nThe State\, the territory and the infrastructure legacy- Nelo Magalhães (EHESS\, France)\nWhen Marx Met Schumpeter: Planning and Cleantech Dominance in China – Cornel Ban (Copenhagen Business School\, Denmark) \n16.30\nTea break \n16.45-18.15\nForum with policymakers – Edouard Morena (University of London in Paris\, France) \n18.45\nCocktail Dinner
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/conference-economic-planning-in-the-anthropocene-institutional-design-for-needs-satisfaction-within-boundaries/
LOCATION:MR030 Uni-Mail\, Université de Genève\, Bd du Pont-d'Arve 40\, Genève\, 1205\, Switzerland
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Economic History%2C University of Geneva":MAILTO:francois-xavier.hutteau@unige.ch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250918T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250916T090920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T090920Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on "AI\, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Economic Planning for a good life for all in Planetary Boundaries"
DESCRIPTION:Note: There are two versions of the description of this workshop. On the official website of the Informatik Festival 2025 you can find the older\, German description\, on Johannes Buchner (one of the co-organizers of the workshop) you can find the updated\, English description. We share the updated\, English one below: \nIf the workshop will be held in German or in English will be decided spontaneously\, depending on the audience. \n“In this workshop\, we will discuss how AI\, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)\, and cybernetic economic planning can contribute to the socio-ecological transformation towards a circular economy within planetary boundaries. Four short scientific presentations will be followed by an interactive programming session. The range of discussion stretches from possible reforms of the current economic system to its (potentially disruptive) transformation towards a completely different economic mode of production. As social and ecological crises worsen\, fundamental doubt arises if the structural logic of capitalism makes it possible to overcome these crises. \nAt the same time\, AI\, cybernetics\, system models\, and socio-ecological databases open up possibilities to address questions of a complex\, fully circular economy directly. In recent years\, debates on abstract and concrete drafts of economic democratization based on decentralized democratic economic planning (DEP) have gained momentum. Identifying workable ways in which resources can be used through economic\, technological\, and social practices to meet human needs within ecological limits is a challenge which could be solved by linking these innovative approaches. \nOn the basis of recent modeling approaches\, databases and still unanswered questions\, we would like to invite you to a discussion and further development of such ideas for a democratic economic system respecting planetary boundaries. \nSpeakers and Topics of the Talks\n\nManuel Gambert: How we plan at the moment – and why\nBartolomeus Häussling Löwgren: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)\, brightway and Planning\nWalther Zeug: Planning\, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and openLCA\nJohannes Buchner: Reinforcement Learning\, Circular Economy and the Strategic Triangle of AI for Sustainability\, partly based on the article Reinforcement Learning and Life Cycle Assessment for a Circular Economy – Towards Absolute Sustainability\n\nOrganising Team\n\nJohannes Buchner\, IPE Berlin and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science\, FU Berlin\nManuel Gambert\, Computer Scientist and Economist\, PRODATO Integration Technology GmbH\, Nürnberg\nBartolomeus Häussling Löwgren\, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)\, Leiden University\, Leiden\, the Netherlands\nEric Meier\, INDEP – International Network for Democratic Economic Planning\, Bonn\nImmanuel Thoke\, Department for Statistical Learning\, Leipzig University\nWalther Zeug\, Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research – UFZ\, Leipzig\n\nAdditional information\nIn the workshop\, we aim to bring together scientists working on Postcapitalist Economic Systems with a wider audience of critical computer scientists. To get an impression of the field and the topics that will be discussed at the workshop\, see e.g. the podcast episode on Postcapitalist Economic Systems (in German).
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/workshop-on-ai-life-cycle-assessment-lca-and-economic-planning-for-a-good-life-for-all-in-planetary-boundaries/
LOCATION:Seminarraum S14\, Universität Potsdam am Campus III – Griebnitzsee\, Haus 6\, August-Bebel-Str. 89\, Potsdam\, Brandenburg\, 14482\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250907T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250907T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250903T111135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T111135Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion on Completing Marx's Reproduction Schema on Econophysics Discord Server
DESCRIPTION:This coming Sunday\, September 7 at 5pm-7pm UTC (1pm-3pm EDT/7pm-9pm CET)\, Leone and Alex Creiner will host a public discussion on the Econophysics discord server about Alex’s upcoming paper\, Completing Marx’s Reproduction Schema. The paper discusses Marx’s intent with capital\, social reproduction and extensions to Marx’s reproduction schema\, disproportionality crises\, and blindness induced by the money form. Come on by and hang out and we’ll have a good time discussing all this together!
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/discussion-on-completing-marxs-reproduction-schema-on-econophysics-discord-server/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250905T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250905T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250902T100336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T100336Z
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SUMMARY:IDA presents Labour Time Accounting at FAU Hamburg
DESCRIPTION:The IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour Time Accounting) is going to be presenting Labour Time Accounting at the coming “Kollektivfreitag” of the FAU (Freie Arbeiter*innen Union) Hamburg. The FAU is an independent grass-roots union which is organized in a federation across Germany. \nThe event will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/ida-presents-labour-time-accounting-at-fau-hamburg/
LOCATION:Schwarze Katze\, Fettstr. 23\, Hamburg\, Hamburg\, 20357\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250905T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250905T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250731T153040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T114826Z
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SUMMARY:Democratizing Finance: A hybrid mini-workshop with Michael A. McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:To participate in person\, please register on the website of the event. \nFor online Participation\, here’s the link and meeting login data:\nWorkshop participation via Zoom:\nhttps://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69695476478?pwd=Rh0ZIZevxZoqXZiH9pea42lHTVbq8j.1\nMeeting ID: 696 9547 6478\nPasscode: 800441 \nThe description is taken from the organizer’s website: \n“Co-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Solveig Degen from the „Socialization in Theory and Practice“ Research Project. \n\n\nTopic:\nWhy is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) \, Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today\, finance guides and constrains our politics\, but there is no reason why this must be so. In this workshop\, McCarthy will develop a political and social theory of institutional transformation rooted in the interconnectedness of finance and democracy. Inspired by ancient Athens\, where small groups chosen by lottery were used to ensure democratic participation\, he shows how democracy and working-class power can be strengthened by introducing new forms of financial governance\, focusing on the inclusion of historically excluded groups. His proposals for democratic financial institutions point the way to imbuing finance with a socio-environmental purpose and the funding of a just green transition\, social housing\, and other necessary public goods. And these financial institutions might be the first step toward a whole new kind of economy. \nBackground reading:\nSorg\, Finance as a form of economic planning\nMcCarthy\, Politics of Democratizing finance” \nProgram: \n\nShort welcome from the organizers\n45 min presentation of the book by Micheal A. McCarthy\n10-15 min break\n90 min comments and open discussion
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/democratizing-finance-a-mini-workshop-with-michael-a-mccarthy/
LOCATION:Humboldt University Berlin\, Room 3071\, Unter den Linden 6\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250821T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250821T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250813T102011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T113145Z
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk - Roger Arevalo - The Management Consultant's Guide to Seizing the Means of Production
DESCRIPTION:When Marx and Engels said capitalism creates its own gravediggers\, they probably weren’t thinking of the most innovative capitalist managers. But in one of the great ironies of history\, they accidentally created a group of methods that perfect- ly fit both how to seize the means of production\, and what to do with it once we have. The best from high risk industries\, services\, manufacturing\, and megaprojects – Crew Resource Management\, Vanguard Method\, Toyota Production System\, the Theory of Constraints\, and Critical Chain Project Management – show us the way. Roger Arevalo is going to tell us how they support democracy and mass participation\, deny the bullies and bureaucrats anywhere to dig in and fester\, and show how a demand-driven economy not only solves\, but dissolves\, most of the problems of economic planning. \nThe event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-roger-arevalo-the-management-consultants-guide-to-seizing-the-means-of-production/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250805T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250805T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250731T150355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250731T150355Z
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Event - Retrospective on the First INDEP Conference in Montreal
DESCRIPTION:In this event a roster of INDEP members are going to give their own personal impression and highlights from the first INDEP conference in Montreal. Through this kaleidoscopic view we hope to capture the bigger image of the conference. A Q&A/discussion section will follow afterwards. \nPlease register for the event here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-event-retrospective-on-the-first-indep-conference-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250718T134500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250718T194500
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250702T095020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T095020Z
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SUMMARY:"Politics\, Valorization and Technology in the High-Tech Bioeconomy" with session on "Democratic Planning in the Anthropocene"
DESCRIPTION:The event will take place online and in English. \nThe description is taken from the event organizer’s website: \nTo conclude the activities of the BioMaterialities research group\, we warmly invite you to a one-day online workshop that brings together central themes of our collaborative research: technology\, valorization\, and politics in the context of the high-tech bioeconomy. In conversation with scholars who have inspired our work\, this event offers a space for open\, critical reflection on how our group’s research contributes to ongoing debates in political ecology\, political economy\, and science and technology studies. \nThe program is structured into three thematic sessions\, each featuring two short presentations\, a response by a discussant\, and an open discussion with participants. \nNo registration is required. You can join the event directly via Zoom: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/64276821368 \nWe look forward to your participation. \nProgram Overview\n13:45–14:00\nWelcome and Introduction\nMiriam Boyer & Sarah Hackfort\n“Technology\, Valorization and Politics in the High-Tech Bioeconomy” \nSession 1: Politics | Democratic Planning in the Anthropocene\n14:00–15:30 CET \nThis session explores democratic economic planning as a vital response to the polycrises of the Anthropocene. It critically addresses the limitations of market-based bioeconomy strategies and examines how participatory planning might align economic activity with ecological boundaries and social needs. \n14:00–14:15\nDrew Pendergrass (Duke University)\n“Every Cook Can Plan: Economic Democracy Against Catastrophe” \n14:15–14:30\nJohannes Fehrle (HU Berlin) & Anna Saave (University of Freiburg)\n“Feminist and Eco-Marxist Politics for the Democratic Planning Debate” \n14:30–14:45\nRemarks: Marius Bickhardt (Sciences Po / Centre Marc Bloch) \n14:45–15:30\nOpen discussion \nSession 2: Valorization | Financialization\, Venture Capital\, and Start-Up Economies\n16:00–17:30 CET \nThis session examines how venture capital and broader financial structures shape the high-tech bioeconomy. Focusing on start-ups and their entanglements with corporate and financial actors\, the session explores how sustainability is reconfigured through valuation practices—and with what consequences. \n16:00–16:15\nSarah Ruth Sippel (University of Münster)\n“Techno-finance Fixes: Financializing Agri-Food Through Start-Ups and Venture Capital” \n16:15–16:30\nCornelius Heimstädt (HU Berlin)\n“Pitching Sustainability: Integrating Environmental Concerns into a Carrier of Venture Capitalization” \n16:30–16:45\nRemarks: Peter Feindt (HU Berlin) \n16:45–17:30\nOpen discussion \nSession 3: Technology | Why and How Should We Engage with the Materiality of Technology?\n18:00–19:30 CET \nMoving beyond artifact-centered analyses\, this session focuses on the materiality of technological processes in economic systems. We explore critical approaches to modeling and interpreting these processes through theories of ecologically unequal exchange and input-output economics. \n18:00–18:15\nAlf Hornborg (Lund University)\n“The Materiality of Trade and Development” \n18:15–18:30\nMiriam Boyer (HU Berlin) & Carlos López (El Colegio de México)\n“Critically Assessing Technological Processes: A Multiscale Approach Using Input-Output Economics” \n18:30–18:45\nRemarks: Walther Zeug (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research\, Leipzig) \n18:45–19:30\nOpen discussion \n19:30–19:45\nFinal Wrap-Up
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/politics-valorization-and-technology-in-the-high-tech-bioeconomy-with-session-on-democratic-planning-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250629T092439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250629T092439Z
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SUMMARY:Cooperation Jackson Livestream on Building Social Digital Commons with Raphael Arar
DESCRIPTION:On July 8th Cooperation Jackson will be hosting a livestream with INDEP member Raphael Arar to talk about how to build autonomous social digital commons. This event is part of Cooperation Jackson’s “Build and Fight Formula” event series\, which takes place on the second Tuesday of every month. You can find past livestreams of this series on their YoutTube channel. \nYou can find the livestream here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/cooperation-jackson-livestream-on-building-social-digital-commons-with-raphael-arar/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cooperation Jackson":MAILTO:CooperationJackson@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250703T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250703T113000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250629T113159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T133946Z
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SUMMARY:Online Sessions of the First INDEP Conference – Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World
DESCRIPTION:INDEP’s first conference will be held during SASE 2025: online on July 3rd and in person in Montréal\, Québec\, from July 9th to July 12th (see the full schedule). The conference will feature 14 panels and 39 presenters. INDEP’s first conference is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \nBelow is the schedule of the virtual sessions of the INDEP’s conference; a PDF version is available at the end of the page. If you want to see the full SASE schedule\, please visit this site. \nTo get the Zoom link for the virtual sessions please register here. \nThursday\, July 3rd\, 2025 – Virtual session\n10 AM to 11:30 AM – Online\nThree visions of democratic economic planning \n\nStefan Meretz – Dimensions of Planning in Commonism\nRaphael Arar – How to Plan an Economy: Speculative Tools for Democratic Economic Planning\nAntoine Jourdan: Democratic Economic Planning: Lessons from the French Post-War Experience\n\nModerator: Simon Tremblay-Pepin
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/first-indep-conference-democratic-economic-planning-for-the-real-world-virtual-sessions/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250626T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250610T120018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T120018Z
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk - the IDA presents their Labor Time Accounting App
DESCRIPTION:When a few council communists in the 1920s imagined how a communist economy could work\, they imagined a moneyless economy using labour time as its unit of exchange\, with a corresponding bookkeeping system. 100 years later\, we can implement this system digitally with databases and the Web. \nThe goal is still the same: a society based on self-management\, overcoming exploitation and oppression. \nMembers of IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative Democratic Labour Time Accounting) will briefly introduce the concept of a labour time economy before presenting their current projects: a Web app (Arbeitszeitapp)\, intended for networks of cooperatives that want to create a shared economy today\, as well as a project to simulate a full-scaled labour time economy for tomorrow. \nThe event will be held in English. \nTo participate in the event\, please register here. \nSource code of the Arbeitszeitapp \nDemo instance of the Arbeitszeitapp (in German\, English and Spanish)
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-the-ida-presents-their-labor-time-accounting-app/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250611T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250530T044628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T044628Z
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SUMMARY:Presentation of Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector
DESCRIPTION:The event will be held in German\, there will be no online participation. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website: \n“Vorstellung eines juristischen Gutachtens mit Dr. Johannes Franke (Kanzlei Rechtsanwälte Günther Hamburg)\, kommentiert durch Rabea Berfelde und Solveig Degen\, moderiert von Justus Henze (communia) \nVeranstaltung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekt „Socialization in Theory and Practice. Democratizing Access to Land and Energy“ unter der Leitung von Jacob Blumenfeld und Rabea Berfelde\, gefördert durch die Gerda Henkel Stiftung. \nWährend die Diskussion um die juristische Machbarkeit der Vergesellschaftung von Wohnraum – angestoßen durch die Kampagne Deutsche Wohnen&Co Enteignen– bereits weit vorangeschritten ist\, beginnt die Diskussion um Vergesellschaftungsperspektiven für den Energiesektor erst. \nIn dem Projekt „Demokratische Energiewende statt Klimakatastrophe“ arbeitet der Think Tank communia an Strategien und Konzepten für eine demokratische\, gemeinwohlorientierte und ökologische Energieversorgung. Im Rahmen dieses Projekts hat communia bei der renommierten Kanzlei Rechtsanwälte Günther Hamburg ein umfassendes juristisches Gutachten in Auftrag gegeben. Zentrales Ziel dabei war die Beantwortung der Frage: Ist die Vergesellschaftung von Energieinfrastruktur trotz des europäischen Binnenmarkts und liberalem EU-Recht machbar? \nAm 11. Juni stellen wir die Ergebnisse dieser Studie in Diskussion mit den beteiligten Rechtsanwälten vor. Das Gutachten zeigt\, dass eine Vergesellschaftung von Energiekonzernen juristisch möglich ist und eröffnet somit neue Perspektiven für eine sozialere und klimaneutrale Energieversorgung.”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/presentation-of-legal-evaluation-on-the-socialization-of-the-energy-sector/
LOCATION:Humboldt University Berlin\, Room 1066E\, Unter den Linden 6\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250606T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250606T183000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250506T150921Z
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Michael Hicks on his Game "Dissent on Mars" and Simulating Postcapitalist Economies
DESCRIPTION:Dissent on Mars is a new simulation game that lets players design dozens of different economies to live in\, including a democratically planned economy. During this event\, developer Michael Hicks will talk about his inspirations for the game\, how democratic planning is simulated\, the challenges he faced during development\, and future plans for the game. A Q&A session will follow the talk. \nThe event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-michael-hicks-on-his-game-dissent-on-mars-and-simulating-postcapitalist-economies/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250605T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250605T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250602T092657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T093153Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Markets and Alternative Production Coordination
DESCRIPTION:The Récri\, a seminar in critical political economy that is held regularly in Paris\, will present its thirteenth session on the theme: Markets and Alternative Production Coordination. The seminar will be in person at the MSH Paris Nord\, but also live on their YouTube channel. One presentation will be in English\, the others will be in French. They will later be available on YouTube. \nHere is the program: \n\nHannah Bensussan (Act!\, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) : “Antagonistic and organic: the two sides of ‘control’ under digital capitalism” (FR)\nElena Hofferberth (CliMacro\, Université de Lausanne / projet REAL) : “Planifier la décroissance pour faire face aux crises sociales et écologiques” (ENG)\nAmbroise Joulin (Diplab\, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) : “L’abolition de l’économie de marché dans le projet politique du Mouvement Technocratique” (FR)\nTarek Fahim (Act!\, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) : “Les fondements microéconomiques de la macroéconomie ou le projet fondateur de l’économie politique” (FR)
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/seminar-markets-and-alternative-production-coordination/
LOCATION:MSH Paris Nord\, 20 Av. George Sand\, Saint-Denis\, 93210\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250604T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250530T045248Z
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SUMMARY:The De-Socialization of Electricity: Unbundling the Public Utility Model in the United States - with Matt Huber
DESCRIPTION:The event will be in English. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website: \n“One of Marx’s key arguments in Capital is that capital lays the material conditions for socialism through the socialization of production (harnessing the cooperative powers of the collective workers and the social powers of science and technology). But he probably did not foresee the capacity of capital to arrest this process by breaking apart heavily socialized production systems – that is\, de-socialization. Electricity represents socialized production par excellence – a physical grid infrastructure requiring socialized investment and central planning by its very nature. In the early 20th century United States\, electricity was partially socialized through ‘progressive era’ public utility law and policy. Yet\, starting in the 1970s\, this model was demolished in favor of competition and markets – increasingly fragmenting grid governance into a dispersed and overlapping set of byzantine institutions. Where does this leave socialist electricity politics today (particularly in relation to the climate crisis and the centrality of electricity decarbonization)? I suggest the first step must be re-socialization. \nPart of the Socialization in Theory and Practice research project led by Rabea Berfelde and Jacob Blumenfeld\, funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.”
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/the-de-socialization-of-electricity-unbundling-the-public-utility-model-in-the-united-states-with-matt-huber/
LOCATION:Humboldt University\, Room 2249A\, Unter den Linden 6\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250515T113737Z
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SUMMARY:The Great Transition: Reviving post-capitalist solidarities in Montréal
DESCRIPTION:The world is burning. Forest fires\, droughts\, and floods are multiplying across the globe. The Israeli state is massacring the Palestinian population with the complicity of Western powers\, putting the region at risk. Inequalities are on the rise all over the planet. People are being evicted from their homes\, and others are struggling to pay the rent\, while landlords are getting richer. Grocery is becoming ever more expensive\, while large food retailers are making record profits. Migrants drown crossing the Rio Grande and the Mediterranean\, while their brothers and sisters are exploited and underpaid in the fields\, warehouses\, and hospitals of the Global North. \nIt’s becoming increasingly urgent to implement radical left solutions: socialize the means of production; create worker and consumer cooperatives; de-asphalt and revitalize our living environments; develop non-market housing; decentralize power; collectively share care work; demilitarize our societies. These measures are the bare minimum to create the conditions of a decent life for all. There is an undeniable need to dismantle capitalism\, patriarchy\, and colonialism. \nYou can get the full schedule here: https://thegreattransition.net/schedule/
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/the-great-transition-reviving-post-capitalist-solidarities-in-montreal/
LOCATION:UQAM\, 400 Rue Sainte-Catherine E\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2L 2C5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250520T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250430T203904Z
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SUMMARY:A conference on planning\, degrowth and social reproduction in Paris and online
DESCRIPTION:Paul Guillibert\, Frédéric Monferrand\, Alexis Cukier\, Davide Gallo Lassere are organizing an event in French entitled Planning\, degrowth\, and social reproduction: the political relevance of ecomarxism. The event can be joined on May 20\, 2025\, in Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne or online via this link. \nThe hypothesis underlying this event is that eco-Marxism is currently entering a new phase in its history. Henceforth\, it is not only ecological catastrophes\, but also the political means of averting them that occupy attention. In other words\, it is no longer only the theoretical critique of capitalism\, but also the strategic perspectives once explored by Marxism that are now seeking renewal. In this respect\, we see three major proposals taking shape\, representing three ways of imagining a democratization of socio-economic life in the age of the Anthropocene: ecosocialist planning\, degrowth\, and the invention of autonomous\, localized forms of eco-social reproduction. This event aims to explore and compare these three proposals. \nFull schedule and details here: https://isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/planification-decroissance-reproduction-actualite-politique-lecomarxisme
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/a-conference-on-planning-degrowth-and-social-reproduction-in-paris-and-online/
LOCATION:Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne\, 1 rue de la Glacière\, Paris\, 75013\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250519T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250519T193000
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CREATED:20250515T084209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T151531Z
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk - Rethinking Expertise in Democratic Economic Planning - with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin
DESCRIPTION:One of the main goals of postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) is to thoroughly democratize economic decision making. Yet\, the technical nature of economic expertise intended to advocate for and support DEP could inadvertently lead to the rise of a new elite with outsized influence on economic decisions. Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin will discuss this problematic and possible counter-measures like capacities in institutional and subjective oversight. They will also go into why this might not be sufficient to avoid antidemocratic possibilities and propose reconsidering economic expertise as a way to alleviate this tension. \nThe event will be based on a recently published paper by Ellen and Simon. \nThis event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register via this link.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-rethinking-expertise-in-democratic-economic-planning-with-ellen-d-russell-and-simon-tremblay-pepin/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250516T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250516T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T163826
CREATED:20250515T092439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T092439Z
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SUMMARY:Talk by La Banda Vaga on the Necessity of a Planned Economy in the Climate Catastrophe
DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of a larger series of talks about democratic economic planning in times of the climate catastrophe\, hosted by the german council-communist-anarchist group La Banda Vaga in Freiburg\, Germany. They have previously published an article calling for an anti-authoritarian councilist planned economy. \nYou can find the other talks in this series via this link. We will also post them as events as their date approaches. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website and translated into english: \n“The climate crisis is omnipresent. However\, neither the state nor the market are in a position to counteract the climate catastrophe. On the contrary\, it is precisely their actions that are escalating the situation. In contrast\, in recent years voices have become louder calling for rational economic planning. In our lecture\, we want to present a critique of the market-based attempt to deal with the climate catastrophe and a sketch of a democratically planned economy that could actually do something to counter today’s challenges.” \nThe talk will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-by-la-banda-vaga-on-the-necessity-of-a-planned-economy-in-the-climate-catastrophe/
LOCATION:Susi Café\, Vauban-Allee 2a\, Freiburg im Breisgrau\, Baden-Württemberg\, 79100\, Germany
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