Column – The Junction

The Shift to Postcapitalism

As evidenced in my recent Apeirogon post An Era of Mass Automation, there is strong reason to believe that automation will displace a large section of the global workforce in the next two decades. The unprecedented nature of this challenge requires an acute political response. In this column I consider proposals from the modern left in dealing with […]

by Anna Pyregov

Guest Column: Crypto vs. Fiat

The mainstream media has primarily portrayed cryptocurrencies as the gold nuggets of cyberspace’s lawless Wild West. Bitcoin, for instance, often brings to mind pyramid schemes and tax evasion, the Silk Road and the Dark Web, hacktivists and terrorists. But then again, government-issued, government-backed fiat money can be used for the same illicit activities that cryptocurrencies […]

by Freddie Stuart

Discriminating by Geography

‘It [Brexit] was a vote to restore, as we see it, our parliamentary democracy, national self-determination, and to become even more global and internationalist in action and in spirit’ Theresa May – 17th January 2017 The decision of the British public on the 23rd of June 2016 to withdraw from the European Union brought the […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Search for Security

“It is urgent that, collectively, we put in the work necessary to produce a 2019 Clock statement that rewinds the Doomsday Clock. Get engaged, get involved, and help create that future. The time is now” – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2018 With the famous ‘Doomsday Clock’ set at ‘two minutes to midnight’ in January […]

by Aaron White

The Ontological Distinction

“At the Einsatzgruppen stage, the rounded-up victims were brought in front of machine guns and killed at point-blank range. Though efforts were made to keep the weapons at the longest possible distance from the ditches into which the murdered were to fall, it was exceedingly difficult for the shooters to overlook the connection between shooting […]

by Aaron White

Discontent of the Status Quo

A frightening trend is spreading across Europe: a rise of nationalism built upon xenophobic rhetoric. This momentum is challenging the dominant electoral framework and governability of various governments. The recent German and Italian elections demonstrated a failure of the establishment parties to connect with a frustrated electorate. Angela Merkel struggled to form another Grand Coalition, […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Automation Liberation

“we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another” – Klaus Schwab With the current technology at our disposal, Forrester Research Institute predicts that 9% of jobs in the United States will be lost to human-free productive forces in 2018 alone. Looking […]