Geography Archives: Global

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

From taxi, bus and IT workers to communities fighting the spread of Data centers, it’s right to rebel against the use and misuse of any new technology by elites. Owen McCormack argues that these campaigns can be part of a more general revolt against capitalism with profound implications for socialists and revolutionaries in the coming years.

On Forms, Relations, and Social Powers.

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography.

AI developers, in particular the two industry leaders, OpenAI and Anthropic, have yet to make a profit. 

A philosophy of contradictions.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

For far too long environmental issues have been seen as the preserve of the middle classes, but as the recent heatwave shows, climate change impacts us all, and the poor and most vulnerable suffer the most, finds Terina Hine.

A call for Jewish organizations around the world to publicly endorse the BDS movement and support coordinated nonviolent pressure to end Israeli impunity.

This post debunks the hype surrounding the large language model (LLM) generative AI systems (later to become multimodal AI systems) produced by leading tech companies, in particular ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), Copilot (Microsoft), and Llama (Meta). 

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.

This post starts a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of AI hype in order to help us understand some of the real dangers we face from AI use and highlight hopeful avenues of effective resistance. It offers an overview of my argument. Following posts will take up the relevant issues in more detail.

The dictionary tells us ‘pragmatic’ means: ‘dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations’.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

A recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has warned that we are entering an era of global water bankruptcy.