Posts in POLITICAL CULTURE
If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanechoice, conflict, binary, psychology, human givens, war, peace
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think
As the “HSBC 9” eco-protesters are acquitted of criminality, an eloquent open letter explains their actions
ACTION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneExtinction Rebellion, activism, climate activism, green protest, protest
Alternative Editorial: Busy Being Born
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, MASCULINE, POLITICAL CULTURE, YES WE CANpat kanenatality, innovation, political culture, new politics, hannah arendt
Cosmolocalism imagined in graphics, and as a route to putting "nature rights" at the heart of the Irish constitution
Alternative Editorial: Going to peace
The UK's score on reported "democratic wellbeing" is extremely low, says Carnegie Trust. We have answers for that...
Californian statespersons are “planetary realists”—brokering subnational green agreements with China where the US cannot
People experiencing news fatigue are less likely to be voters. (Given our mainstream media, not exactly a shock exclusive...)
Alternative Editorial: The Alternative To War Is Not Peace
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, FEMININE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, peace, middle east, binary, socio-politics, peace journalism, conflict transformaton
Citizens' Assemblies should lean towards becoming a parallel polis - and much less a democratic figleaf for establishments
Political and social movements can school business practice. But can you separate movements' methods from their moral claims?
The big players in AI want the state to regulate them (like nukes or bio-tech). Yet will open-source LLM's democratic potential also be part of the mix?
Alternative Editorial: Making It Easy
On play, creativity and the new politics of imagination for Gen Z/Alpha. Pat Kane talks with Planet: Critical's Rachel Donald
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, FUTURES, ALTERNATIVE UK, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, ACTION, ARTISTSpat kaneplay, superplay, the play ethic, pat kane
Alternative Editorial: Urgency Is Upon Us
Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England)
20% of people in England live in rural areas. Pam Barrett is showing the powers those communities need to keep them healthy and happy
Stanford has conducted the world's first "global deliberative poll"--on how to regulate bullying and harassment in VR and the metaverse
COMMUNITY, SOCIO-POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICAL CULTURE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALISTS, PLANETARIAN, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kanemetaverse, virtual reality, virtuality, social contract