An uncertain future
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Crises are occurring one after the other and the turmoil they cause is hitting us harder and harder. People are beginning to realise that the wellbeing we enjoy may...
Singer and Harari discuss how individual responsibility towards others and the planet should be exercised. To accomplish collective goals such as the fight against...
We are up against a crisis of neoliberal hegemony that could pave the way for authoritarian governments, but that can also present the opportunity to restore and...
The beginning of the 21st century presents us with challenges that force democracies to improve. New challenges, both global and those specific of each...
How do democracy, sovereignty and territory relate to one another? The ownership and exercise...
In the midst of a changing world made more complicated by climate change, we must abandon the suicidal idea of perpetual growth on a finite planet and start talking...
History has shown that power owes less to knowledge and the defence of truth than to the actual possibility of shaping and imposing a discourse. The real...
The capitalist game is about employing a social resource – the legal system – for private gain. It is played in the service of private actors, but the decisive actors...
The collective expression of fear turns individual anxiety into collective paralysis, and, as far as the climate crisis is concerned, this is the fastest and surest...
Today’s city no longer offers the necessary living conditions for most of its inhabitants, as a result of a production model designed to make people productive, but...
Artificial intelligence systems will become more and more affordable, will become a key decision-making factor and will facilitate the management of urban complexity...
Cities cannot just belong to “us”. We need animals. Their presence forces us to sharpen our...
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