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Announcing the Call for Papers of the Deep Commons Conference 2022

Deep Commons Conference 2022 – Call for Abstracts Link to conference webpage: https://www.deepcommons.net/conference This event will take place online from October 27th to 29th – hosted by the Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland, in association with La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, Mississippi, USA. Conference Theme: Cultivating Ecologies of Solidarity […]

May 13, 2022
Posted in Announcements
Tags: Capitalism, Commons, conference, Direct democracy, Ecology, solidarity

Re-Embedding Citizenship in Revolutionary Politics

Written by Yavor Tarinski To take no part in the running of the community’s affairs is to be either a beast or a god! ~Aristotle[1] When exploring social change, one has to examine all aspects of it. Developing strategies and institutions that will help facilitate the coming into being and functioning of a democratic and […]

June 9, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Direct democracy, The Right to the City, Yavor Tarinski One Comment

Public Assemblies in Early Cities

Written by TRISE member Yavor Tarinski. Originally published on Aftoleksi, here. The greatest achievement of these human beings was the creation of cities. Dimitrios Roussopoulos[1] As Hannah Arendt has suggested, “To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and violence“[2]. […]

October 30, 2020
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Direct democracy, history, Yavor Tarinski

Autonomy: The Legacy of Ideal

Written by Nikos Vrantsis. What follows is a review of Yavor Tarinski’s book Short Introduction of the Political Legacy of Castoriadis (Athens: Aftoleksi, 2020). Cornelius Castoriadis is considered one of the crucial voices of the twentieth century. However, the academic community surrounds his work, with the kind of respect reserved for thinkers considered obsolete: […]

June 17, 2020
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Autonomous movement, Direct democracy, political ecology

Review of ‘The Disobedient Society’

‘The Disobedient Society‘ is a neat little book (190 pages) by Mat Little, published last year by New Compass Press. In it Mat Little probes the question of obedience in our society; because, despite our ongoing resistance and rallies, we nonetheless show an astonishing basic obedience towards a capitalist economic system that clearly many of […]

June 16, 2020
Posted in Publications/Reviews
Tags: Direct democracy, Disobedience, Mat Little, philosophy 4 Comments

On why nuclear energy is incompatible with direct democracy

Written by Yavor Tarinski The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.[1] Murray Bookchin The question of energy is of crucial importance when we discuss the future of our cities. Our contemporary heavily urbanized societies consume huge amounts of energy, which is being derived through environmentally […]

July 4, 2019
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Direct democracy, Energy, Yavor Tarinski 3 Comments

Basic Standards for Organizing Citizens’ Assemblies

Written by Marcin Gerwin 1.Random selection of participants All members of a citizens’ assembly are selected by lot. Ideally, every member of the population eligible to take part in a citizens’ assembly should be able to potentially receive invitation to participate. 2.Demographic representation The composition of a citizens’ assembly should broadly match the demographic […]

December 13, 2018
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Direct democracy, municipalism

Citizens’ Assemblies: Democracy that Works

Written by Marcin Gerwin. The following post is Chapter 1 of his new publication Citizen Assemblies: Guide to Democracy that Works. Imagine a group of people of different ages who meet in order to settle some matter important for a city, a country or for the European Union. This group was not selected through elections […]

November 28, 2018
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Direct democracy, municipalism, The Right to the City

Direct Democracy, Social Ecology and Public Time

Written by Alexandros Schismenos One could argue that since the dawn of modernity, humanity is in a situation of constant crisis. Today, however, we find ourselves amidst a nexus of crises, economic crisis, political crisis, ecological and anthropological crisis, while the human environments’ very existence is threatened. The privatization of public space, under […]

September 11, 2017
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: crises, Direct democracy, public space, public time One Comment