I want to talk a little about techno-political theories of change, and outline where the paths of Julian Assange and I diverged. Although I don’t talk about it very much, I was a cypherpunk in the 1990s. I contributed a little to a software project to protect human rights workers in China. I collaborated with [...]
Read more →I have decided to do something to prevent the abuse of chemical weapons by police. If I was a lawyer I might sue. I’m an engineer: I design. So I am presenting a simple plan for a chemical weapons protection system which is suitable for construction by peaceful protesters. I am aware this is a [...]
Read more →I have been written up on Armed with Science, a Department of Defense web site. Vinay Gupta probably did not expect to serve as an inspiration for a DoD research project. As a programmer, master of Nepalese magic, editorial staff-member at the Rocky Mountain Institute and, most recently, the founder of the Hexayurt Project – [...]
Read more →My life makes even less sense than usual. Remember when I was settled in Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Ireland, putting my feet up and hunkering down for the apocalypse? Yeah, me neither. I was offered a role at Hub Westminster to “do something amazing with nights and weekends” and so I did. So I’m now back [...]
Read more →This piece appears to form the foundation of Adbusters Tactical Briefing 18, which gets the basics but misses two important points. Hexayurt Encampment at Burning Ice, Brussels. Click for video of the winter camp. I’ve been getting a couple of pings a day about providing infrastructural support for #Occupy. I get pinged by email, on [...]
Read more →Once in a while, life gets complicated. That’s not usually good news, but this time is an exception. I’ll try and keep the near-infinite complexity of the situation down to a few key core facts. * I left Ireland for a quick trip to visit the KaosPilots with Dougald (of Dark Mountain) and Barbora (of [...]
Read more →or, unpicking workshop design to create genuinely open exchange So I’ve been experimenting with various formats for a workshop here in Cloughjordan. I’ve been trying to find something that people were interested enough in doing, and that would get the work out there. But I realized, after somewhat lukewarm response, that I was thinking too [...]
Read more →Apocalypse I have reached for the sword. I can’t or won’t tell you how or when. Let me then make the argument. 1) We are at seven billion humans now, expected to rise to at least nine billion. 2) If everybody lived like an American, we would need about eight planets. For Europeans the number [...]
Read more →Soundtrack: It’s hard to know what started it. It was ongoing when I left London for Cloughjordan. It might have started when Bembo Davies showed me that what I was doing was terrible theater, just did not work. It might be an impending 40th birthday. More than anything, it might be my work starting to [...]
Read more →My Templars of Earth statement seems to have ruffled quite a lot of feathers. These feathers seem to be in three general categories. People who don’t like the militarism. People who think its a secret society People who don’t get the esotericism It’s Templar because it deals with life-and-death struggles, albeit not armed ones, and [...]
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