Orlov on the Soviet Collapse in one slide
by Vinay Gupta • September 14, 2010 • 0 Comments
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Through the Looking Glass dry run at 6PM Thursday 16th September, London
by Vinay Gupta • September 14, 2010 • 0 Comments
Hi everybody, I’m going to be doing a dry run of the Through the Looking Glass talk on societal fragility, peak oil and responses to these risks in London on Thursday at 6PM at the School of Everything offices in 18A Victoria Park Square London E29PF, 2 minutes from the Bethnal Green tube. The talk [...]
Read more →State failure and Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
by Vinay Gupta • September 13, 2010 • 1 Comment
Here’s the trailer for my talks in Ireland. Here’s a first draft of my slides for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland from September 26th to September 28th of 2010. Please let me know what you think of them! Thanks to ASPO Ireland, FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Stability), [...]
Read more →The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
by Vinay Gupta • September 12, 2010 • 1 Comment
“Returning Risks”
by Vinay Gupta • September 9, 2010 • 0 Comments
From a brief presentation that I did as a “range finder” for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland towards the end of September 2010.
Read more →The Future We Deserve – one week to go for submissions
by Vinay Gupta • September 6, 2010 • 0 Comments
The Future We Deserve is going great! As you can see, we’ve raised the $2000 on Kickstarter, and now we’re pushing to get the 100 pieces written. The 40 or so pieces we have so far are wonderful. The sense of a faceted future, each person with their own broad perspective on it, the profusion [...]
Read more →The real economic impact of the internet has not been felt yet
by Vinay Gupta • September 6, 2010 • 0 Comments
From the archives, an excerpt from an old blog post on miniconsulting on decision-making as a transformation in our economy. The basic thrust of this piece was quite simple. What is the economic benefit of having the best person in the world make each decision? That seems like the real economic impact of the internet [...]
Read more →Institute for Collapsonomics tour of Ireland
by Vinay Gupta • September 1, 2010 • 1 Comment
I’ll be doing a series of events in Ireland around the 26th of September, 2010. That’s the first one posted. Many thanks to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas who are organizing and hosting. I won’t be focused extensively on the threat model; I believe that terrain is better covered by [...]
Read more →What is the State?
by Vinay Gupta • August 30, 2010 • 0 Comments
Max Weber’s definition was that something is “a ‘state’ if and insofar as its administrative staff successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in the enforcement of its order.” I’ve found this definition not to aid my thinking about conflict areas and state failure, where monopolies of any kind [...]
Read more →We can’t have nice things because Hakim Bey and the Pope will molest your children
by Vinay Gupta • August 30, 2010 • 2 Comments
The problem at the heart of all edgy political movements is that the government is doing the wrong thing, but ignoring the government has three worse consequences: the government will punch you in the head, other, evil groups (racists, say) will also ignore the government, and often simply being free is not enough, you want [...]
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