These are two pieces of documentation I’ve done for organizations which wanted to use video to draw communities together into collective action. The first is the Akvo Video Strategy (pdf) and supporting technical doc which from two years ago, February 2009. These two documents together express a vision of how to use video to draw [...]
Read more →11 meg compressed audio of mb 12 minutes of chatter and music from my new local pub. 400 mb 24/96 .WAV file of 12 minutes of chatter and music from my new local pub. You’ll need headphones to make any sense of what’s going on at all, it was a very loud and chaotic aural [...]
Read more →The “fading away of the state” is a long-held dream of many radical political ideologies. I never believed it was possible, and then I realized something. The Church and State were once peers. Over the past few centuries, the Church has basically vanished as a political force. Over the past 20 years the Vatican has [...]
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Read more →The Future We Deserve has been on hold. I’ve been in four countries this spring, and doing fascinating things in each. Belgium, doing a hexayurt village in Brussels and learning how to think like a European Berlin, learning about mesh networking, transferring the hexayurt to c-base and researching squat culture. The UK, building hexayurts with [...]
Read more →The Longest Road, Morgan Page / Lissie, Downtempo remix. Not the other mixes. I’ve tried to avoid writing this for some time. I’ve searched for another way, for a way of putting what’s inside of me – inside of all of us – into action without words. It’s not enough, I’m bursting at the seams. [...]
Read more →The air is thick with the stench of death and war today. Libya cannot end well, there are no good options on the table, and our countries – the “Torture Democracies” who run Guantanamo Bay, ship people to Egypt to be electrocuted by the secret police, and will not admit the invasion of Iraq was [...]
Read more →City States: If Italy collapsed as a nation state, but remained peaceful, Naples and Venice and so on could theoretically join the EU with very little in life changing. Rational Borders: The suburbs of Geneva are in France. If they were in the city state of Geneva, it would change very little. Matrix Government: If [...]
Read more →It doesn’t matter how brilliant and benign an authoritarian ruler is, having one person’s aesthetic judgment form the basis for a civilization is always going to be intensely restrictive, self-limiting and ugly. Nobody’s vision scales. This is a fundamental, non-negotiable reason we need a genuine pluralism in which many kinds of talent combine, on a [...]
Read more →Four brief points, A lot of the enthusiasm on Twitter is rooted in the simple fact that people are reassured by the revolts in other countries because it means they don’t have to get out on the streets here. There are some futures in which this is the beginning of a global economic collapse or [...]
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