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People are means of production
Patriarchal control of women’s bodies is frequently explained as an issue of property ownership. Not just the women themselves but also any offspring were considered assets to be disposed of and...
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Objective cruelty
“The socialist society must therefore guard against taking over from science too much of scientific abstraction, scientific statistical ruthlessness, and scientific detachment from the individual.” –...
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Radical science
“When capital enlists science in her service, the refactory hand of labour will always be taught docility.” – Andrew Ure, 1835i The problems with the scientific community were hardly news to...
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The Intelligentsia
People think that our sole object is to amass gold. No one believes what we say. Like insolvent tradesmen we are without credit. – Pope Pius II, 1460i The very justified resentment against science as a...
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Mastodon, Getgee and the decentralized data movement
From Diaspora and GNU Social to Cimba and Mastodon, increasingly sophisticated alternatives keep offering to move the public off of the data harvesting platforms that manipulate people and sell their...
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The evolution of democracy
Transcript (more or less) from The evolution of democracy: Explaining Trump, Brexit and the Colombia peace deal, a keynote at Inteligencia Colectiva para la Democracia’ in Madrid, 2016. My name is...
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We have free software. We need free databases.
Transcript (more or less) of keynote at RMLL 2017: We have free software. We need free databases. Discussing how to create a software ecosystem by decoupling information from applications with a...
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In your opinion, which criteria should be used to define fake news for the purposes of scoping the problem? A simpler method would be to define non-fake news. Non-fake news is that which emanates from...
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An interview with Dr. Alex Lambert of Monash University for an academic research project “combining interviews with alternative social media developers with the managers of alternative urban creative...
View ArticleWikileaks, Data Justice and a New Internet
An interview with Julian von Bargen of York University for an academic research project in the data justice field on the “origins, growth and transformation of the information freedom movement”. Julian...
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