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Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias
Read more: Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopiasThe CRITS, a research center on social innovation and transformation and one of INDEP’s partner organizations, is announcing a colloquium in Ottawa on November 6-7, 2025. The title is “Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias.” They have posted a call for proposals that mentions “Post-capitalist societies” as a potential theme for…
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John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Read more: John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political TheoryAt this year’s Graduate Conference in Political Theory of the LSE Department of Government John O’Neill of the University of Manchester will be giving a keynote. O’Neill is a well known and long-time contributor to the debate around democratic economic planning with publications such as “Who won the socialist calculation debate? (1996)“, “Knowledge, planning, and…
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New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic PlanningRecently a special issue on Democratic Economic Planning has been published by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Here is a list of the included papers, which are all open access:
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Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic in Call for Papers for a Conference by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory
Read more: Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic in Call for Papers for a Conference by the European Culture and Technology LaboratoryThe European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+) is organizing a conference on “Knowledge in the Age of Digital Re-/Production: Responsible Epistemologies?” on the 4th and 5th June in Darmstadt, Germany. The CfP can be found in full below, but it also includes questions of digital technologies’ potential to enable economic planning and systemic alternatives…
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INDEP online event with Simon Hannah postponed
Read more: INDEP online event with Simon Hannah postponedWe are sorry to inform you that today’s INDEP online event with Simon Hannah on his book “Reclaiming the Future. A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy” has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. The event has been delisted from our events page and those that have already signed up have been informed via email.…
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Democratic Planning included in question of Call for abstracts of the ISEE Degrowth conference 2025
Read more: Democratic Planning included in question of Call for abstracts of the ISEE Degrowth conference 2025Democratic economic planning is included in a question of the call for abstracts of a session of this year’s ISEE Degrowth conference with the theme “Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action”. The session is “Social-ecological work: shifting from productivist and destructive to sufficient, just and democratic work“. The conference will take…
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Special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of “Competition & Change” Journal officially fully published
Read more: Special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of “Competition & Change” Journal officially fully publishedThe special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of the Journal “Competition & Change” has recently officially been published in full. This issue is edited by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos. The articles of the issue were published a while back, but so far only had indiviual links. Now they are all easily accesible under this one…
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Cecilia Rikap calling for democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure on “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcast
Read more: Cecilia Rikap calling for democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure on “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcastIn a recent episode of the “Tech Won’t Save Us” Podcast, hosted by Paris Marx, Cecilia Rikap ended her interview with calling for the democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure, especially by countries in the global south. This section of the interview starts at 42:29 of the podcast episode. The episode can be…
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Article in e-flux criticizing recent socialist and economic planning games
Read more: Article in e-flux criticizing recent socialist and economic planning gamesRecently an article by Max Grünberg has been published in the art magazine e-flux Journal. The article critiques the widespread “negation of ludic violence”, the competitive dimension amongst players, in cooperative political and recent economic planning games like “Soviet Republic: Workers & Resources” and the Half-Earth Socialism game. “Against the shallow utopianism of cooperative games,…
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Interview with IDA on labor time calculation in publication of an association of laywers for democracy and human rights
Read more: Interview with IDA on labor time calculation in publication of an association of laywers for democracy and human rightsRecently the IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) did an interview with the RAV (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein) on their model of labor time calculation. This interview has been published in the “Utopia” issue of the “InfoBrief” publication of the RAV. The interview, which is in german, can be found here. The RAV is a political organization…
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Thea Riofrancos on the tension between economic planning and the uncertainty of democratic elections
Read more: Thea Riofrancos on the tension between economic planning and the uncertainty of democratic electionsIn a recently published paper by Thea Riofrancos on the relation between regime types and climate action, she goes into the possible tensions between the necessary consistency required for economic planning and the “bounded uncertainty” of democratic elections. She also suggests that building widespread popular support for climate action is key to tackle this tension…
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Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Reflecting on Postcapitalist Panels at Historical Materialism Conference”
Read more: Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Reflecting on Postcapitalist Panels at Historical Materialism Conference”The recording of the INDEP online event “Reflecting on Postcapitalist Panels at Historical Materialism Conference” from the 26th November 2024 has been uploaded to the INDEP Youtube channel. You can also find the video below.
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