A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds in

Revolutions transform how we live and work, junking ossified practices in favor of brighter futures. They generate an energy and change that drive us forward collectively, in a world where wealth and privilege might otherwise prefer slothful stasis.

These three forces—technology, economics, identity—together almost always generate backlash that produces a new politics. Human beings can absorb only so much change so fast. The old politics, inherited from a prior era, often cannot keep pace. Politicians scramble to adjust, modifying their views and finding new coalitions. The result is reform an

Il existe pourtant un épisode de l’histoire de France qui pourrait donner une idée de l’entreprise : l’écriture des cahiers de doléances, de janvier à mai 1789, avant que le tournant révolutionnaire ne transforme la description des plaintes en une question de changement de régime — monarchique ou républicain. Avant justement que ne s’agrègent toute