Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. Millions of debtors, isolated, are owned by the banks. But if you’re part of a collective that owes $14.15 trillion, you all […]
Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible
This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts […]
Perennial philosophy
Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right? When I was a teenager, I came across Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial […]
The Weakness of the Furies
Victim anger can be useful to the political struggle, but it can also become excessive and obsessive, deforming the self. We need to address the future, and for that we […]
Collaborators in creation
Our world is a system, in which physical and social technologies co-evolve. How can we shape a process we don’t control? This is a disorienting time. Disagreements are deep, factions […]
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