An interview with Srećko Horvat

Last week we caught up with the philosopher, author and political activist Srećko Horvat in London. As well as discussing themes from his latest book Poetry from the Future, and his work at DiEM25, we spoke about a range of topics from building progressive internationalism, to the politics of technology, and taking hope from the […]

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Hours before the City Council Budget Vote

On June 30th, 2020, after a month of Black Lives Matter protests across the city and a week-long Occupation outside City Hall, the City Council was preparing to vote on the annual budget due at midnight. It remained to be seen whether the council would vote down the proposed budget by Mayor Bill de Blasio […]

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Signs of the Occupation

On Tuesday night, Black Lives Matter activists occupied City Hall in lower Manhattan to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio cut the NYPD budget by $1 billion. The activists plan to stay until at least June 30th, when the Mayor and City Council announce the new budget. I went down to the occupation on Friday […]

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On Regulation

Last week Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon is preparing draft legislation to present to the US Congress on how to regulate its own facial recognition software. Thanks to the work of numerous academics and activists, issues around surveillance technology are increasingly infiltrating the mainstream political debate. Too often however, the fallback approach of politicians is […]

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