Politics

Among the many challenges in a capitalist society, it’s hard to imagine a way to profit from a car-free future. Governments don’t profit from providing public transportation to citizens. It’s a service, a reflection of our commitment to the social good. Private transportation — cars — are a different animal: hundreds of industries profit from it,... See more

Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda

Wenn man sich die Welt so ansieht, dann fällt auf, dass seit mindestens fünf Jahren jede größere Politik-Entscheidung von Straßenprotesten begleitet wird. Ich glaube, das ist ein Symptom für die Delegitimation unserer Politik. Für das Gefühl, dass irgendetwas in der Welt aus den Spuren geraten ist.

"Rituale Des Trauerns Um Bessere Zeiten"

Ein digitaler Staat sei „die Voraussetzung von allem“. Sie empfehlen deshalb die Einführung eines Ministeriums für Digitales und Verwaltung als „Treiber und Umsetzer der Digitalisierung und einer umfassenden Staatsmodernisierung“, mit eigenem Budget und klaren Verantwortlichkeiten

Dominik Fürst • Steinbrück, Voßkuhle, de Maizière: Was ein „handlungsfähiger Staat“ nun braucht

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Studying this map app should be mandatory in schools. Fascinating.

She told me that twenty years from now, she thinks work will look like waking up in the morning, opening a device, and deciding the character and length of work that you’d like to do: a quick, day’s long project, a year-long commitment, whatever works for you, the worker, in that moment. Everyone a freelancer, everyone in control of the work

Anne Helen Petersen • How Our System Revenges Rest

the shrouded costs will not be apparent to consumers. It is easier to compare fuel prices than mortgage costs.

Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. [[Noam Chomsky]]

varia • Varia

A society’s structure and government are linked at the core to the organisation of space, and vice versa. For Foucault (2007) the definition and regulation of space is seen as governmentality, a tool for controlling and governing society. Defining certain spaces by assigning them certain properties, regulating their use and exchange, controlling