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We Will Not Be Pacified by Participation

Today, 'participatory design' is widely used in the technology sector to improve marketability and usability of products. But its originators had explicitly political intentions: to collaborate with unions and bolster unions’ power.

The Goose on the Common

Once upon a time, nobody owned the land. If people needed a goose for their family’s dinner, they would simply go to the common and catch a wild goose that belonged to no one.

Co-ops, Climate, and Capital

As a part of the New Deal program for economic recovery, rural electrical cooperatives were never designed to empower labor. Yet, their democratic and socialist potentials remain possible today if we impose a radical vision from the...

Making Metaphors into Models

The continued disregard for Garrett Hardin's politics and preservation of his scientific pretensions have profound consequences for the legitimation of white supremacy and ecofascism.