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Talks

The Commons: An Unfinished History

A keynote at the Green Light District festival in Porsgrunn, Norway on the commons, enclosure, fishing, hill farming and the backstory to the industrial world in which we find ourselves.

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Writings

Spelling it Out

An essay about the three languages you need to take a project from dreams to reality. Written for Jessie Brennan’s book, Re:development.

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Essays Writings

The Friendly Society: On Cooperation, Utopia, Friendship & the Commons

In which I sketch out a set of ideas about the logic of the commons, prompted by conversations in a seminar at the Gothenburg School of Design & Crafts.

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Conversations Writings

The Limits to Measurement: A Conversation With Christopher Brewster

On the history of grand projects to categorise the world – and how we end up with the Internet of Toilets.

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Essays Writings

A Five Hundred Year Moment?

Wherever you look, to the left or to the right, you will have a hard time finding a politician who doesn’t want to create more jobs. They may argue over the best means to do so, but they would hardly think of asking whether employment as we know it is a good thing.

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Essays Writings

The Crossing of Two Lines

The essay which introduces The Crossing of Two Lines, the book I made with the artist duo Performing Pictures.

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Essays Writings

Commoning in the City

Two days of conversations about ‘the commons’ on an island in the heart of Stockholm set me thinking about what it means to reclaim ‘subsistence’ in the 21st century.

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Conversations Writings

Dealing With Our Own Shit: A Conversation With Gustavo Esteva

In the fourth issue of Dark Mountain, I published this conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual Gustavo Esteva.

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Essays Writings

The Space Hackers Are Coming

On the emergence of a new kind of spatial agent, responding pragmatically to the constrictions and precarities of post-crisis living.