The event will take place in German. The description has been taken and translated from the event website. “An open society, grassroots democracy, and direct worker control over firms—in the midst of the Cold War, Yugoslav communists attempted to implement something that today sounds like a distant utopia. Yugoslavia’s “socialist democracy” sought to overcome both […]

The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) hosts an online-talk on “Planning and Autonomous Control: Reappraising the Cases for Economic Planning in Socialism” with the doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB, Sergey Steblev as part of their monthly public seminar series. If non-market socialists want to overcome commodity production, does it mean that a socialist […]

The description is taken from the event’s website and has been translated into English. The event will take place in English. “Troy Vettese in conversation with Dirk Baecker and Maike Weißpflug Moderation: Alexander Karschnia An important legacy of naturalist E.O. Wilson is his book “Half-Earth.” In it, he calls on us to leave half of […]

The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism. The discussion will be held in English. To participate, please register here. The description of the discussion has been taken from the event website: “We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. The polycrisis of economic inequality, climate change, and widespread political instability has lead to many looking for new and viable alternatives. The current political and economic order of capitalism […]

To participate, please register here. The deadline for registrations is February 18. Prices for participation are on a sliding scale, depending which services you choose to claim. For more detailed info, see the section “Preise & Informationen” on the event website. This conference will be in German. The description below has beeen taken and translated […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. When Stafford Beer invented the Viable System Model (VSM) for explaining complex social systems as self-organised neural networks, capable of consciously adapting to chaotic or changing environments, he was […]

This workshop is organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods and Effects) and INDEP. In order to participate, registration is mandatory. The registration form can be found here. The workshop will take place in English. The description and […]

The description of the event has been translated from the original German from the event’s website. This online talk will take place in German. You can find the Zoom link for the talk here. Even people who advocate for a democratically planned economy as an alternative to capitalism become somewhat hesitant when confronted with the […]

This event will take place in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Investment is a form of planning: it brings into existence what currently does not yet exist. Today, large-scale investment decisions are largely made either by […]

This event will take place in German. The description has been translated from the original German: The collapse of the Soviet Union was not only supposed to herald the victory of capitalism, but also to provide definitive proof that free markets are superior to the social planning of economic processes. In response, a new debate […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. This talk examines the essence of the Viable System Model as originally conceived by Stafford Beer and discusses the application of his approach to governance in business, politics, and […]