How inequality distorts the economy and threatens international peace. The work of Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis argues that tariffs are not a clash between nations, but the shockwave of internal inequality. In 2020, while the world witnessed the tariff escalation between China and the United States, two analysts published a book that unsettled the conventional narrative on trade […]
Published in 2017 by «Lexington Books», «Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse», by Wendy Lynne Lee, poses a question: what happens when the limit of power ceases to be territory and becomes a finite planet. The climate crisis brings together growth, inequality and geopolitical violence. Wendy Lynne Lee is a philosopher and professor emerita at «Commonwealth University […]
The essay “The Enemy Knows the System. A Resistance Manual for a Surveilled Generation” was published in 2019. Its author, journalist and writer Marta Peirano, constructs in this book a critical analysis of the control and surveillance systems that define the digital age. The text is situated in a historical context marked by Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations about the NSA’s […]
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019; O Capital Morreu), by McKenzie Wark, presents a provocative hypothesis: industrial capitalism is no longer the dominant system, but has been replaced by another mode of production based on information control. Published by Verso, the essay introduces the concept of “vectoralism” to describe this new economic order. The object of the work […]
Recovering Memory to Rebuild the Collective Network Body text (1,828 characters, 7 paragraphs): The history of the internet told from below is not a story of technology, but of collective struggle. Marta G. Franco, in her book “Las redes son nuestras. Una historia popular de internet y un mapa para volver a habitarla” (“The Networks Are Ours: A People’s History […]