Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and violence, with widespread political exhaustion for the competing s
As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology an
Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership. Micromobility devices like electric scooters will be at every corner, and
Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to un
Géopolitique des petites puissances - Thibault Fouillet - Éditions La Découverte
: Comment comprendre la résistance inattendue à l'agression russe en Ukraine ? Pourquoi un micro-État comme Singapour est-il devenu une superpuissance financière ? Qu'est-ce qui permet aux monarchies du Golfe d'exercer autant d'influence ? Cette logique de David contre Goliath n'est pas nouvelle, elle est même une constante dans l'histoire des petites puissances. Celles-ci jouent un rôle souvent sous-estimé, que ce soit du point de vue militaire (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine), économique (Singapour, pays du Golfe) ou encore diplomatique (Forum des petits États de l'ONU).
L'intérêt de cet ouvrage est de se pencher sur ces acteurs, oubliés de l'analyse des relations internationales, alors que leur rôle géopolitique est plus important qu'on ne le soupçonne. Il porte sur cette réalité un regard d'autant plus actuel que ces pays sont au cœur des crises d'aujourd'hui et de demain (Ukraine, Taïwan, Haut-Karabagh, Yémen...).
Discover how to start a business and build a life you love. Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier. explores how to start and run a meaningful business. Alongside Courier magazine, this book profiles successful entrepreneurs and provides practical advice, insight and inspiration on how to follow in their footsteps.
Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth – book review
Kohei Saito’s Slow Down attempts to argue for a ‘degrowth communism’, but he misunderstands Marx, and sees no revolutionary role for the working class, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh
Slow Down is the English translation of Kohei Saito’s Japanese work Capital in the Anthropocene, which became an unlikely hit when it was published in 2020, selling half a million copies.
This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to apply ethnography to real-world challenges and commercial ventures. Building on the first edition, each chapter now includes a section focusing on practical advice to help readers activate key insights in their work. The book’s premise — that the thought processes and patterns ethnographers develop through their practice have strategic value beyond consumer insights — remai
From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trend
Amy Webb on LinkedIn: Jonathan Haidt has written the best introduction and argument I’ve read in…
Jonathan Haidt has written the best introduction and argument I’ve read in any book, ever. I’m already halfway though and I started this morning. This is a…
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control ou...
Things We Could Design by Ron Wakkary: 9780262542999 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, designers have privileged human values such that human-centered...
A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to developing interactive installations. All design is situated—carried...
Insurgent Planning Practice | Columbia University Press
This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how pla... | CUP
Attached: 1 image Petit mais costaud ! “Le nucléaire imaginé”, d’Ange Pottin, est un bouquin très réussi qui interroge et met en perspective les imaginaires socio-techniques derrière l’énergie nucléaire. L’enquête, issue d’une thèse rendue aussi synthétique qu’accessible, restitue avec acuité les récits des promoteurs historiques d’une industrie tentaculaire et souvent fragile, mais qui font valoir une forme d’hubris technophile : le nucléaire, c’est une révolution, la promesse d’abondance en cycle fermé,
Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg: 9780593315613 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I...
