Everybody strike! The urban environmental politics of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

Kurt Iveson | November 22, 2021

How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political [...]

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Digital labourers of the city, unite!

Kurt Iveson | April 28, 2017

For growing numbers of urban inhabitants, smartphones and their mobile apps have become essential tools for everyday life.

In the decade since smartphones first became popularised, many millions of people in cities around the world have grown used to using apps for finding and making [...]

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