
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions

Determining what a creative, positive freedom might be will be the task of the new world to come.
Alain Badiou • The True Life

The revaluation of value can be achieved only through a political transformation of the economy, which would allow us to recognize socially available free time as an end in itself. Such a transformation of the economy is at the center of what I am calling democratic socialism.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

It is about the push and pull between the past and the future. Since the sixteenth century, technological and economic change have produced enormous advances but also massive disruption. The disruption and the unequal distribution of its benefits stoke huge anxiety. Change and anxiety, in turn, leads to an identity revolution, with people searching
... See moreFareed Zakaria • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
