Wright’s description of the “strategic logics of anticapitalism” offers a valuable framework. Wright uses a two-by-two matrix to identify four loci of “anticapitalist” activity, with an axis for the location of the strategy (state or civil society) and an axis for the goal of the strategy (neutralizing harms or transcending structures).26 Wright de

The industrial economy has given way, partially but not fully, to a postindustrial economy in which information, knowledge, and services are fundamental economic drivers.

Capitalism can exist only with constant growth, so it constantly creates needs.

This kind of designing follows some basic presuppositions: every community practices the design of itself; every design activity begins with recognition that people are practitioners of their own knowledge; what the community designs is an inquiry or learning system about itself; every design process involves a statement of problems and possibiliti

Importantly, this shift to a circular economy is not about reducing the negative impacts of a linear economy based on the production and disposal of goods but about implementing an entire systemic shift that “builds long-term resilience, generates business and economic opportunities, and provides environmental and societal benefits.”

the Scandinavian method of “cooperative design” was a democratic means of engaging nonexperts in the process of designing software systems.

[E]conomists usually assume (1) that the urgency of consumption needs will decline as the level of consumption increases (this is known as a declining marginal utility of consumption), (2) that people prefer to face less rather than more risk in their consumption (people are risk-averse), and (3) that unavoidable uncertainty in future income genera

This rejection of capitalocentrism is significant for designers because it provides a framework to assess other models of design practices—institutions in themselves—that already have, currently do, or might in the future coexist with capitalism.

as innovation pessimism*: a growing sense that the technological achievements of our era are of decreasing significance.