Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities – often considered the focal points of democratic deepening –…

Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building

Intuitively, reputation matters in daily life. Thus, it is unsurprising that scholars and statesmen have long held that reputation must also matter in international relations (IR) since Pericles. Yet, while reputation, especially reputation for resolve in (international) conflict, has enjoyed renewed attention in the past decade or so, few in-depth studies of reputation in (international)…

Upton Lecture 2023: Fake News: Learning from Spinoza

Tonight a touch of philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_James_(philosopher) I wonder what the is to learn from this, it’s my subject #openweb and the media. Upton Lecture 2023: Fake News: Learning from Spinoza Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. She has held faculty positions at the University of Connecticut and the University of…

Economics and National Security – The audience for this was the servants of power, good to understand what they are thinking

Going to this event to see what the #mainstreaming think about the upcoming political changes to economic is about.It was interesting, but the only agency was asking the servants of power to do make the needed change. This has been the same ansear for the last 5 seminars i have attended in Oxford. It is…

Talking about grassroots media as a step away from the current #techshit

Hamish Campbell, a veteran in radical media for the past 30 years, discusses the failure of current technology and mainstream culture. He highlights how the #dotcon boom commodified our data, resulting in closed technology silos like #Facebook and #Instagram that capture our attention and data for their own profit. Campbell argues that alternative technology built…

4opens review of NHSX track and trace app

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS? The app is from NHSX with contributions from Apple and Google obvs and Pivotal Labs and Uni of Oxford. All source code for front and backend on Github and open source. https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-ios-ag-public What is the actual polatics behind this? #4opens review. Think it duse 2 opens as…

Looking at the tech and organising of UK alt grassroots media

How meany sites link to another alt/grassroots media sits. From this list of 38 UK sites, only 2 link to another site. Many people find it hard to understand the underlining understandings that push projects based on flow and linking, such as #OMN and #openweb. Here is a short list of activism projects. Silo Is…

Good activist media

Published Date 4/1/13 6:04 PM Lets get positive for a moment What has worked in Alt/radical media? DRAFT – looking at two contrasting successful activist media strategys. When indymedia started in 2000 in the UK undercurrents the radical news organisation I was working for had played a role in its founding running a ALPHA build…

Backup of Couchsurfing profile

From LENALEIA  Bratislava, Slovakia Jul 20     Positive A great guy. From Kayte Fairfax  London, England May 24      Positive Hamish is a super energetic video activist who is totally committed to his ideals and seeing them enacted in the world. He’s also a damn good vegetarian cook who whips up culinary delights when you least expect it, and loves a good debate!…