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SUMMARY:Book launch for "Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond"
DESCRIPTION:On the 4th March\, 7pm CET at the “Aquarium am Südblock” in Berlin there will be a book launch event for “Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century“. The event will include a conversation and discussion about the book with the book’s editors Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg with Joanna Klick. Afterwards there will drinks and snacks. \nTo participate\, please register via this link. \nThe event will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/book-launch-for-creative-construction-democratic-planning-in-the-21st-century-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Aquarium am Südblock\, Skalitzer Straße 6\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10999\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Socializing Big Tech. A Mini-Workshop with Cecilia Rikap
DESCRIPTION:(Description copied from the event’s website here) \n\nTo register\, please sign up here \nModerated by Friederike Karla Hildebrandt from communia \nCo-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Nils Rochowicz (TU Chemnitz). Part of „Socialization in Theory and Practice” Research Project led by Jacob Blumenfeld and Rabea Berfelde \n  \n\n\n\nTopic\nIn this workshop\, Cecilia Rikap will join us to discuss the problems and prospect of socializing big tech monopolies and reclaiming digital sovereignty. The goal is to both understand the monopoly power of big tech and learn how to fight against it. With big tech companies openly embracing reactionary politics in the USA and elsewhere\, a window of opportunity is opening to rethink digital futures beyond monopoly power. What does a democratic alternative to big tech look like\, and what steps can be made to build it? What role should the public sector play\, and which infrastructures are needed for this project? Is socialisation of the digital means of production possible? We will discuss these questions and others in a small and focused setting. For background\, please read the jointly authored report from December 2024: Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty. \n\n\nCecilia Rikap\nCecilia Rikap is the head of research of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose\, and Associate Professor at University College London (UCL). She is one of the leading critics of Big Tech and how these companies act as intellectual monopolies\, appropriating rents from ecosystems of research and development. Her recent book published with Routledge is Capitalism\, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered. She has also worked on corporate planning of global production and innovation systems\, and the relationship between tech giants and the state. Her new book with Verso will be forthcoming in November 2025. \n\nBackground reading can be found here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/socializing-big-tech-a-mini-workshop-with-cecilia-rikap/
LOCATION:seminar room 2249A\, Humboldt University main building\, Unter den Linden 6\, Berlin
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SUMMARY:Future Histories Podcast LIVE recording with Prof. Cecilia Rikap
DESCRIPTION:This description is taken from the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation: \n“We are excited to host a LIVE episode recording of the Future Histories Podcast with Jan Groos featuring Prof. Cecilia Rikap. The live episode will discuss the intellectual monopoly of big technology companies\, how these companies plan innovation and production beyond their company boundaries\, and how they appropriate knowledge rents from smaller companies\, universities\, and government research labs. Rikap will share insights from her upcoming book with Verso on how democratic alternatives to big tech monopolies could look like\, and what concrete steps can be taken to limit their power.  The live episode recording will be followed by Q&A with the speakers and a reception with the opportunity for more discussions” \nThe language of the event will be English. If you plan on attending\, please register before via mail with: eva.voelpel@rosalux.org
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/future-histories-podcast-live-recording-with-prof-cecilia-rikap/
LOCATION:Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Library\, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A\, Berlin\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Simon Hannah on his introductory Book on Ecosocialism and Democratic Economic Planning
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Simon Hannah will give an overview of his recently published book “Reclaiming the Future. A Beginner’s Guide to Planning the Economy”. The book aims to introduce a general audience to the ideas of and necessity for ecosocialism and democratic economic planning for combatting the unfolding climate catastrophe. We will also discuss the role of introductory books like it in the literature ecosystem on democratic economic planning\, which remains largely dominated by specialist academic research. What role do they play in popularizing these ideas among the wider public and the left? What challenges come with that and how can they be tackled effectively? \nPlease register for the event using the following link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/bQt_JgiuTxqK8g18Dc-wrw \nThe event be held in English.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-simon-hannah-on-his-introductory-book-on-ecosocialism-and-democratic-economic-planning/
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SUMMARY:Reading Group on Democratic Economic Planning Bonn - Introduction to Labour Time Calculation
DESCRIPTION:After gaining an overview of various theories on democratic planned economies last year\, this year we want to delve deeper into the topic of economic planning with labor time accounting. To this end\, we will start with an intro to working time accounting at this meeting. After that\, we will work more in the sense of a reading circle in the coming sessions. \nThe basis for this session will be this interview by the IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) and this video by them. \nThe event will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/reading-group-on-democratic-economic-planning-bonn-introduction-to-labour-time-calculation/
LOCATION:Buchladen LeSabot\, Breite Str. 76\, Bonn\, 53111\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Workshop "Degrowth\, Planning\, Transformation"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this is a closed event. \nIn the face of growing multiple crises\, especially the climate crisis\, it is becoming increasingly clear that the economies and societies of the Global North must not only be fundamentally restructured\, but in many areas deconstructed. \nThis implies not only overcoming capitalist structures and practices and a completely different model of prosperity\, but also comprehensive planning processes\, which are playing an increasingly important role in the degrowth debate. But many questions remain unanswered: The relationship between democracy and planning\, the governance of innovation and investment\, the coordination of production and consumption patterns\, the relationship between labor needs\, skills and individual freedom to choose one’s life path. \nThe workshop will take up current debates and go beyond them in exemplary ways. The aim is to specify important questions for policy practice and further research. \nThe workshop is a joint project of the DFG Research Group “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg and THE NEW INSTITUTE. \nPreparation: Alex Demirović\, Kohei Saito und Ulich Brand \nThis event will be held in German. \n\n 
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/workshop-degrowth-planning-transformation/
LOCATION:Room of the DFG Research Group “Futures of Sustainability”\, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3\, Hamburg\, 20354\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Prof. Robin Hahnel on a Participatory Economy - an alternative to capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robin Hahnel is Professor Emeritus of economics at American University and has spent much of his career developing a “Participatory Economy” (also known as “Participatory Economics” or “Parecon”) as an alternative socioeconomic model to capitalism. The model of a Participatory Economy is based around democratic planning between federations of self-managing workers and consumers’ councils. In his talk\, Prof. Hahnel will introduce the concept and discuss its potential and the challenges it faces. \nHosted by the Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP)\, a student group set up post-2008 to explore heterodox approaches and interdisciplinary connections to economics. \nThis talk is available to watch online. Sign up to for the Zoom Link below: \nRegister to attend
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/prof-robin-hahnel-on-a-participatory-economy-an-alternative-to-capitalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250321T200000
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SUMMARY:Monthly open Pub Meetup of the IDA
DESCRIPTION:Every month the IDA (Initative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung – “Initative democratic labor time calculation”) is having an open pub meetup in the pub “Kleinod” in Neukoelln\, Berlin. This is an informal gathering to get to know each other and discuss a bit.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/monthly-open-pub-meetup-of-the-ida/
LOCATION:Kleinod\, Niemetzstraße 24\, Berlin\, 12055\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk - From Models to Modules: Rethinking Postcapitalist Political Economy - with Sophie Elias Pinsonnault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin
DESCRIPTION:Debates on democratic economic planning have hitherto revolved mainly around coherent\, abstract models. These all-in-one proposals compartmentalize discussions in technical jargon and hide the political and strategic debates that lie behind them. Sophie Elias Pinsonnault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin propose to bring the field to think about democratic planning through a modular approach. Conceiving post-capitalist proposals as assemblages of modules enables us to think about the plurality of possibilities and the different stages of transition. \nThis event will elaborate ideas first published in French in this article. \nThe event will be held in English. \nTo attend the event\, please register here. \n 
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-from-models-to-modules-rethinking-postcapitalist-political-economy-with-sophie-elias-pinsonnault-and-simon-tremblay-pepin/
LOCATION:Online
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