Defragmenting our selves
We all exist within networks, and through these networks move material goods, information, power. The stuff-info-power network is easy to explain. What is less easy is to discuss the ways that stuff, information and power interact with each other. Life is complicated. We should probably complicate it even further. I think the landscape of care…
The dangers of big data have by now become apparent to all. Objectification of humans can now take place on a scale unseen in human history. The only organisations that can afford the costs of collecting and process big data about our lives are governments and large corporations. This means your existence has a kind…
If you’re not having fun in life, is that because of something inside you, or something in the world outside? This is a discussion I and my therapist have had in various forms on numerous occasions. With an activist perspective I am prone to putting the blame for my distress on the outside world and…
An organisation I am part of – let’s call it The Process because I like it that the Spanish language uses that term for organising – held a large assembly last weekend. The Process is aiming to do ‘relational organising’, or perhaps another way of putting that is that we are trying to form a…