2026-05-17
*planted: 17/05/2026last tended: 17/05/2026
- Listened:
- Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
- Critical systems theory. I haven't understood half of what's been said so far. But combining systems theory and critical theory sounds interesting.
- Traces systems theory line through Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to Niklas Luhmann.
- Then I believe the idea is to address the absence of politics in Luhmann's systems theory.
- autopoiesis.
- Today in Focus: Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war – The Latest
- Today in Focus: What next for Labour as Reform wins big in local elections? – The Latest
- Greens got a lot of the vote, but didn't translate into a lot of seats. Reform targeted well so took a lot of the seats.
- Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus, so this is bad news…
- Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
- "According to the CPJ, Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalist killings around the world last year."
- Bookmarked:
- European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for …
- "The European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions."
- Linux Distributions as Coops?
- Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
- "This document from the Metagov community has two goals. First, it identifies distinct layers of the AI stack that can be named and reimagined. Second, for each layer, it points to potential strategies, grounded in existing projects, that could steer that layer toward meaningful collective governance."
- Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Une…
- "By engaging grassroots struggles and internationalist justice claims, the article outlines pathways for just ecosocialist transitions rooted in energy democracy, global redistribution, and relational ecological care."
- European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for …
- Zettled:
- How does Reform UK use digital technology? How to counter it?
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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