In this episode of the @futurehistories.bsky.social podcast, host Jan Groos talks to @cedricdurand.bsky.social of the University of Geneva about the history, theory and contemporary practice of ecological planning. www.indep.network/cedric-duran...
Colin Wilson reviews Muskism, finding that Slobodian and Tarnoff reveal how Musk’s blend of autocratic control, state symbiosis, and far-right ideology forms a coherent capitalist strategy instead of merely a confused contradiction
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"Jusqu’à présent personne n’a tenté de systématiser scientifiquement l’acquis organisationnel de l’humanité"
"Aux origines conceptuelles des matrices entrées-sorties" Bogdanov (1921)
intro et trad avec François Alisson @unil.bsky.social sky.social
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Danke @karldietzberlin.bsky.social für die Übersetzung unseres Buches und für diesen fantastischen Titel: "Das Prinzip Verzweigung".
In the journal Globalizations, @cedricdurand.bsky.social has published an article that critiques Friedrich Hayek’s knowledge problem through analysing green finance and the Anthropocene and outlines how socialist planning could be feasible in the 21st century. www.indep.network/article-prov...
"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...
nothing to worry about here then
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@futurehistories.bsky.social insightful argument for #ecologicalplanning: to think that adhering to planetary boundaries is limiting choice now is disregarding the adverse and greater effect on choice and freedoms acting without ecology in mind will have and is having now. @cedricdurand.bsky.social
thank you @futurehistories.bsky.social for this conversation !
"The more that the government relies on outside actors to carry out its core function, the more vulnerable it becomes to those private actors’ wants and desires, which may differ sharply from those of the administration itself."
"Los cambios en el modo de producción no ocurren de la noche a la mañana; son graduales."
El Debate sobre el Tecnofeudalismo con @evgenymorozov.bsky.social mediado por Susan Watkins de la @newleftreview.bsky.social
"tandis que la Chine, contraint les développeurs à « soumettre les modèles d’IA générative aux autorités pour des évaluations de sécurité et à inclure des filigranes visibles et indélébiles sur les contenus générés par l’IA, », l’Europe s’aligne sur les Etats-Unis"
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"Donald Trump a fait claquer sur les Européens le fouet des nécessités externes, cette impulsion brutale qui oblige les sociétés à faire un bond transformateur, sous peine de se disloquer ou de se soumettre." (avec Razmig Keucheyan ) www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202... Merci @nouvelobs.com
Buchcover von »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand und Razmig Keucheyan. Daneben steht der Untertitel des Buches – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – und ein Button mit Text: Coming Soon.
Geht bald in Druck: unser neuer Analysen-Band »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand (Universität Genf) + Razmig Keucheyan (Universität Bordeaux), übersetzt aus dem Frz. Das Wirtschaftsmagazin Alternatives Economiques urteilte: »Bis heute eines der besten Bücher zur ökologischen Planung« /1
From @cedricdurand.bsky.social "Ecological planning is the alternative to Green finance. But its institutional design must acknowledge the non-identity of nature, the importance of the Polanyian internal overview, and the need for robust democratic countervailing forces."
Thanks Edemilson Parana, for initiating this special Issue on The Political Economy of Green-Digital Transition with many great papers: www.tandfonline.com/action/doSea...
Ecological planning is the alternative to Green finance. But its institutional design must acknowledge the non-identity of nature, the importance of the Polanyian internal overview, and the need for robust democratic countervailing forces. 6/
Still, reification tendencies are not confined to the realm of commodity fetishism; they are also present in bureaucratic and scientific methods and technologies and affect both nature and the very possibility of a meaningful life. 5/
Contra Hayek, I draw on Charles Bettelheim, who argues that the concrete possibilities of planning depend on the development of information systems. 4/
Contrastingly, the purpose of economic planning in the Anthropocene is to enable the emergence of an economic subject that is also an ecological subject, a subject capable of deploying a new form of reflexivity upon the entanglement of the natural and social spheres. 3/
Green finance relies on an epistemology that considers markets as an efficient information processor. It overlooks the issue of how knowledge about the environment should emerge and how it relates to the challenge of reshaping our economies to remain within planetary boundaries. 2/
In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/
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Fascinating piece by @cedricdurand.bsky.social . A key issue here - as per Microsoft’s recent laments - is the impossibility of forcing firms to adopt a technology that demoralises them and delivers no near-term profit. The limits of financial and cultural hype. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
"Vers une épidémie de démoralisation? "l'utilisation intensive de l'IA est démotivante et déqualifiante, alimentant l'ennui et la médiocrité. Nous pourrions même assister à une « courbe en J" inversée de la productivité : les gains à court terme étant éclipsés par une moindre qualité du travail."
Thanks for pointing out !
