Jean Lievens: Tamara Vision for a Culture without Fear – Dreaming Beyond Capitalism

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: A Culture Without Fear First Nation tribes from North America coined a term to describe the ‘disease of the white man’ – wetiko. In their understanding, wetiko consists of two essential characteristics: chronic inability for empathy and an egoistic fixation on ones own personal benefit and profit. The First Peoples used this …

Jean Lievens: Open-Source Toolkit for Home Building Cheap, Easy, and Green from Marcin Jacubowski and Catarina Mota

Open-Source Toolkit Aims to Make Home Building Cheap, Easy and Green As open source advocates and newlyweds, Marcin Jakubowski and Catarina Mota decided to reinvent the home-building wheel a few years back. In the process, they have been developing an entirely open-source toolkit that makes the design and construction of eco-friendly, off-grid modular housing easier, cheaper, and faster through use of modular designs, …

Jean Lievens: Matthieu Lietaert Interviews Trebor Scholz on Platform Co-Op

Bringing the Platform Co-op “Rebel Cities” Together: An Interview with Trebor Scholz Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor for Culture & Media at the New School and author of the book Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016). He is currently touring European cities to …

Jean Lievens: What if…public libraries could anchor a platform cooperative?

What if…public libraries could anchor a platform cooperative? Supporting the disrupted going forward…. We recently published our submission to the Libraries Taskforce consultation about its draft strategy – Libraries Deliver: An Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-21. Today, we want to say a bit more about our having called upon the Taskforce to explore …

Jean Lievens: The Left Has Folded

The Podemos surge is a wake-up call for the European left From Spain to the UK, traditional leftwing parties are in decline. It’s time for them to ditch austerity and free market economics, and get radical

Jean Lievens: World Economy in Deep Trouble

Don’t listen to the ruling elite: the world economy is in real trouble Andy Xie says those attending the G20, Davos and other wasteful meetings are wrong to try to pin the blame for the turmoil on people’s psychology; all signs point to a prolonged period of global stagnation and instability