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The Modern Renascence
by F. Melian Stawell
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Technological Sovereignty (P. Riemens)
“Who has not yet realized, after “Snowden” and his revelations, that our dear “cyberspace” is no longer in the hands of its users and, alas, has not been for a long time, but that it has become a high-risk space under heavy surveillance?” (P. Riemens)
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The missing sector (Rowe and Bollier)
“One of the signal failures of market culture is the inability to declare what is not for sale. On the whole, as a society we reject the idea that babies, votes, or body parts should be bought and sold like soybeans. But these are aberrations from the general rule that everything is legitimately for sale. One principle of a commons-based society, by contrast, is that certain things are off limits to the market — the air we breathe, the languages we speak, and the genetic information of which our bodies are composed, to name a few.” (Rowe and Bollier)
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On homo economicus and the commons (J. Rowe)
“What is called ‘economics’ is really psychology on steroids…”
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Are Celebrities Real People? (MIL/Sociology on youtube)
“PlasticPills is a channel featuring critical theory and philosophical analyses of pop culture…” (From YouTube)
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Remarks on the ideas of Amartya Sen (T. Rogan)
“Moral economies are not neutral, given, unvarying or universal. They are contested and evolving. Each person is more than a cold calculator of rational utility. Societies aren’t just engines of prosperity. The challenge is to make non-economic norms affecting market conduct legible, to bring the moral economies amid which market economies and administrative states function into focus…” (T. Rogan)
