In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.
Jeffrey Pomerantz & Jason Griffey | Mar 24
“The race of undesirables is simply the race of exploited people.”
Claire Fontaine | Mar 20
Art critic and publisher Isabelle Graw reflects on the tension between art as a commodity and its enduring physical and symbolic value within capitalist systems.
Isabelle Graw | Dec 13, 2024
E.F. Schumacher's classic 1968 essay shifted focus from capitalism to individual well-being, prioritizing holistic welfare over financial exchange systems.
Ernst Fritz Schumacher | Apr 30, 2024
"It would be a euphemism to say this book is not anthropocentric — it places humanity on another orbit."
Bruno Latour | Nov 9, 2023
The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy.
John Rieder | Jan 30, 2023
From homegrown furniture to fermented textiles to circular models of local material production.
Matthew Wizinsky | Oct 14, 2022
“What can’t go on won’t go on. Capitalism is breaking the system, meaning people’s lives and the biosphere.”
James Bradley | Oct 11, 2022
Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen.
Veronica Barassi | Jan 14, 2021
Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
Kerryn Higgs | Jan 11, 2021
