While being ill over the last week or so, I’ve spent some time playing the beta version of Fate of the World, a forthcoming PC game based around climate change which has generated quite a lot of interest in the mainstream media ( see here and here) The game essentially puts you in command of [...]
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Fate of the World Beta
Posted in climate change, media, politics, tagged climate change, ecology, environment, fate of the world, game, video game on November 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Soul at Work – Franco “Bifo” Beradi
Posted in book review, cultural criticism, politics, tagged Anarchism, Autonomism, Berardi, book review, communism, philosophy on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Franco Berardi was a key member of the Italian Autonomist movement, alongside the likes of other authors such as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Mario Tronti and Paulo Virno, and was a close associate of Felix Guattari, the French philosopher. Berardi’s work has only recent been translated from Italian into English, and Soul at Work was [...]
Climategate: More Garbage from the Guardian
Posted in climate change, media, politics, tagged climate change, climategate, fred pearce, guardian, muir russell on July 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I wrote about the Penn State University investigation into Michael Mann’s research conduct which stemmed from the Climate Research Unit email hack widely known as Climategate, and criticising media outlets such as the Guardian, which gave a huge amount of coverage to the ‘scandal’ whilst then failing to give anything like equal attention to [...]
Election Results: First Thoughts… Progressive Parties Win 53% of Votes but Less than 50% of Seats
Posted in politics, tagged Bristol, Bristol North West, Clegg, election 2010, electoral reform, hung parliament, Labour, Liberal Democrats, proportional representation, UK election on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up this morning to find that I now have a Tory MP. Lets just say it isn’t what I was hoping for. The results for Bristol North West look like this Charlotte Leslie, Conservative 19,115 38.0% Paul Harrod, Liberal Democrat 15,841 31.5% Sam Townend, Labour 13,059 25.9% Robert Upton, UK Independence Party 1,175 [...]
Capital and Language – Christian Marazzi
Posted in book review, politics, tagged capital, capitalism, economics, language, marazzi, politics, post-fordism on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Christian Marazzi is one of the group of Italian Post-Fordist theorists along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and France Beradi. Capital and Language first published in Italian in 2002 is the first of Marazzi’s works to be published in English. The starting point of the economic analysis presented by Marazzi in this text is that [...]
Commonwealth – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Posted in activism, book review, politics, tagged activism, commons, commonwealth, communism, Hardt, multitude, Negri, Th on April 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Commonwealth is the third in the series of socio-political analyses from Hardt and Negri which began with Empire (2000) and continued with Multitude (2004). To briefly summarise the series so far; Empire provided an overview of the changes to the structures of power and economic forces from the 1980′s onwards which Hardt and Negri characterise [...]
The Voter Power Index
Posted in politics, tagged politics, UK election, voter power index on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to this, living in North-West Bristol my vote is worth just 0.521 of a vote. More shocking than that though, is the fact that this is apparently over twice the average amount of voting power of most UK citizens (the average is 0.253). At first glance this is really useful way of illustrating the [...]
