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. […]

The event will be held in German, there will be no online participation. The description is taken from the event’s website: “Vorstellung eines juristischen Gutachtens mit Dr. Johannes Franke (Kanzlei Rechtsanwälte Günther Hamburg), kommentiert durch Rabea Berfelde und Solveig Degen, moderiert von Justus Henze (communia) Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekt „Socialization in Theory and Practice. […]

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. The goal is still the same: a society […]

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 […]

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 […]

The event will take place online and in English. The description is taken from the event organizer’s website: To 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 […]

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. Please register for the event here.

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 […]

To participate in person, please register on the website of the event. For online Participation, here’s the link and meeting login data: Workshop participation via Zoom: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69695476478?pwd=Rh0ZIZevxZoqXZiH9pea42lHTVbq8j.1 Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 The description is taken from the organizer’s website: “Co-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Solveig Degen from the „Socialization in […]

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. The event will be in German.

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 […]

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: If the workshop will […]