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…
Month: June 2019
Nobody loves your data self
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…
Should distress lead to change of the interior or exterior world?
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…
The hard task of defragmenting ourselves
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…
One right to rule them all
We live in a time when the public discussion on rights often has a conservative hue to it. There are institutions that enforce rights, bodies that define them, campaign groups that attempt to expand them. Economic rights have however always been more controversial than the social rights laid out in most constitutions. The right to…