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Often, the Resource is a whole system in its own right, but to your system it appears as just a Resource.
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
active and participatory democracy works not for its own sake, but as the best way of sharing the world’s resources.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Tous les hommes se divisent, en tous temps et de nos jours, en esclaves et en hommes libres ; car celui qui n’a pas les deux tiers de sa journée pour lui-même est esclave, qu’il soit d’ailleurs ce qu’il veut : politique, marchand, fonctionnaire, savant.
Friedrich Nietzsche • Il faut vivre dangereusement - Une pensée par jour (French Edition)
Jesse Robertson • A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
Matt Bluemink • From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths
we have seen that general quantitative statements about human settlements are the result of very general statistical constraints—on the nature of social networks, the costs of energy, and of using space—that leave ample space for choice, human agency, and subjectivity at an individual scale and for culture at the collective level.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The process of city administration is invisible to the citizen who sees little evidence of its human components but feels the sharp pain of taxation. With increasingly poor public service, his desires and needs are more insistently expressed. Yet his expressions of need seem to issue into thin air, for government does not appear attentive to his de
... See moreChristopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
As the scholar Richard Sennett puts it, ‘Modern capitalism works by colonising people’s imagination of what is possible.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle