Column – The Junction

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 […]

by Aaron White

Naomi Klein: “The moral crisis is inextricable from the ecological crisis”

This piece was originally published by openDemocracy. For the past two decades, Naomi Klein has been a leading voice exposing the social and environmental injustices of neoliberal capitalism. From revealing the appalling conditions experienced by those working at the bottom of the global supply chain, to documenting the ‘shock doctrine’ agenda imposed by disaster capitalists […]

by Freddie Stuart

How facial recognition technology is bringing surveillance capitalism to our streets

This piece was written for and published by openDemocracy’s new ourEconomy section. The original can be found here. Facial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to privacy and public space. Last month it was revealed by the Financial Times that facial recognition cameras had been used to […]

by Freddie Stuart

Occupying Space – The Geopolitics of the Cosmos

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the first man on the Moon, we must not allow our reading of history to be defined by a nationalist agenda. On July 20th 1969, at approximately 17 minutes past 8 in the evening (GMT), NASA’s Apollo XI mission successfully landed its Eagle module on the surface of […]

by Freddie Stuart

Building Windmills: Green Politics Beyond the Watershed

As we enter a watershed moment, and talk of a Green New Deal begins to permeate mainstream public discourse, the Left must utilise its historical monopoly on Green Politics, and push forward proposals that ensure a ‘just transition’ to a new eco-centric economy. Since its inception in 2018, the climate protest group known as Extinction Rebellion […]

by Aaron White

Why we need to build an alternative online infrastructure

We are living in an age with unprecedented asymmetries of knowledge and power. From the prevalence of drone warfare, the corporate coup d’état of our executive, or the incredible aggregation of personal data held by the wealthiest companies in the world – one of the fundamental struggles of our time will consider what role the superintendents […]

by Freddie Stuart

Marcuse and ‘Technological Rationality’

As we move into an era of unchartered technological growth, it is helpful to revisit the theoretical framework of Herbert Marcuse, who posits that any debates around the organisation of technical resources must be prefaced with an acceptance that technology is simply the tool of ideology, whether established or revolutionary. Born in Berlin in 1898, and […]

by Freddie Stuart

Breaking the Brexit Binary: The Future of Democratic Internationalism

If internationalism is going to oust isolationism in Britain it needs to do more than present itself as the moral alternative to Brexit – we need tangible proposals for both the future of Europe and a wider project for a progressive global international. Breaking the Brexit Binary With the Brexit debacle still very much unresolved, […]

by Timo Stibbe

Guest Column: Why the European Union Is – And Therefore Has – A Future

Timo Stibbe is part of the advanced Master of European Politics and Policies at KU Leuven and SciencesPo Paris. He previously completed bachelors in History and Dutch Language and Culture at Utrecht University, and obtained a Masters degree in Modern European Studies at University College London. He specialises in European integration theory and his current […]

by Aaron White

Private jet saviors: why billionaires are not the answer to the climate crisis, we are

The Overton window is shifting. The Green New Deal (GND) championed by Justice Democrats and the Sunrise Movement demonstrates the formation of a comprehensive agenda in line with the recent UN assessment that necessitates a 45% reduction of carbon emissions in the next 12 years in order to prevent apocalyptic climate ramifications. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and […]