Combinations
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A publication by @radxchange.bsky.social exploring new ideas about economics, democracy and the relationship between technology and power.
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I genuinely liked the book a lot! Equally, it seems to me to be a beginning rather than an end, and where we particularly need more work is in figuring out how to reconcile democratic decision making with getting shit done (the politics will inevitably be messy).
Thank you to @himself.bsky.social for saying most of what I wanted to about @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book Abundance: www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
The Abundance Debate We’re Not Having
To shift American politics onto more productive grounds, the abundance agenda needs a broader cross-ideological debate than critics or advocates alike have allowed.
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June 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I genuinely liked the book a lot! Equally, it seems to me to be a beginning rather than an end, and where we particularly need more work is in figuring out how to reconcile democratic decision making with getting shit done (the politics will inevitably be messy).
“Democratic control of state authority is not worth much if the state in question doesn’t have sovereignty. This is what I mean when I say there cannot be a democratic state in the absence of state sovereignty.”
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The Case Against Planetary Governance
Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike.
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June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Democratic control of state authority is not worth much if the state in question doesn’t have sovereignty. This is what I mean when I say there cannot be a democratic state in the absence of state sovereignty.”
www.combinationsmag.com/the-case-aga...
www.combinationsmag.com/the-case-aga...
Reposted by Combinations
Thank you to @himself.bsky.social for saying most of what I wanted to about @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book Abundance: www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
The Abundance Debate We’re Not Having
To shift American politics onto more productive grounds, the abundance agenda needs a broader cross-ideological debate than critics or advocates alike have allowed.
www.combinationsmag.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thank you to @himself.bsky.social for saying most of what I wanted to about @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book Abundance: www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.
When states ban religious symbols, they're imposing secularism while claiming objectivity.
J.H.H. Weiler reveals how Europe's constitutional diversity offers a better model.
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J.H.H. Weiler reveals how Europe's constitutional diversity offers a better model.
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Freedom Of and From Religion in Democracies
Perhaps freedom of religion is best served not by the expulsion of religious symbols from public spaces, but a more flexible form of tolerance.
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May 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
When states ban religious symbols, they're imposing secularism while claiming objectivity.
J.H.H. Weiler reveals how Europe's constitutional diversity offers a better model.
www.combinationsmag.com/freedom-of-a...
J.H.H. Weiler reveals how Europe's constitutional diversity offers a better model.
www.combinationsmag.com/freedom-of-a...
“Long-term political success is often less about winning a particular fight than shaping the ground and stakes of future contestation.”
@himself.bsky.social takes on the abundance agenda and its critics.
www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
@himself.bsky.social takes on the abundance agenda and its critics.
www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
The Abundance Debate We’re Not Having
To shift American politics onto more productive grounds, the abundance agenda needs a broader cross-ideological debate than critics or advocates alike have allowed.
www.combinationsmag.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Long-term political success is often less about winning a particular fight than shaping the ground and stakes of future contestation.”
@himself.bsky.social takes on the abundance agenda and its critics.
www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
@himself.bsky.social takes on the abundance agenda and its critics.
www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc...
"If voting processes are conceived as mere aggregators of independent desires, democracy looks more like a compromise between would-be totalitarians than a collective discernment of transcendent authority."
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Conclave Democracy
If democracy threatens stable authority, as many of its critics claim, why does the Catholic Church turn to it when authority is most at stake?
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May 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"If voting processes are conceived as mere aggregators of independent desires, democracy looks more like a compromise between would-be totalitarians than a collective discernment of transcendent authority."
www.combinationsmag.com/conclave-dem...
www.combinationsmag.com/conclave-dem...
While tech utopians dream of digital republics, Caribbean micro-states earn more selling passports than all other exports combined.
@tfa.ng reveals how the growing marketplace for citizenship is virtualizing sovereignty from within.
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@tfa.ng reveals how the growing marketplace for citizenship is virtualizing sovereignty from within.
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Citizenship as a Service
Micro-states like Saint Kitts and Nevis now earn more from selling passports than all other exports combined. While tech utopians dream of digital republics, the growing marketplace for citizenship is...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
While tech utopians dream of digital republics, Caribbean micro-states earn more selling passports than all other exports combined.
@tfa.ng reveals how the growing marketplace for citizenship is virtualizing sovereignty from within.
www.combinationsmag.com/citizenship-...
@tfa.ng reveals how the growing marketplace for citizenship is virtualizing sovereignty from within.
www.combinationsmag.com/citizenship-...
"History has never ended before. AI, no matter how powerful it gets, won’t end it now. And that means we have work to do that a universal basic income can’t do for us."
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Post-Cognitive Income
Should AI exceed human cognitive abilities, UBI alone won’t suffice. We need to build new structures of mutualization to preserve dignity and strengthen our communities.
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May 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"History has never ended before. AI, no matter how powerful it gets, won’t end it now. And that means we have work to do that a universal basic income can’t do for us."
www.combinationsmag.com/post-cogniti...
www.combinationsmag.com/post-cogniti...
The modern nation state was as much a theological innovation as a political one, argues Rana Dasgupta.
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Remaking globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society will require a comparable transformation in the cosmos.
www.combinationsmag.com/towards-a-pl...
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Remaking globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society will require a comparable transformation in the cosmos.
www.combinationsmag.com/towards-a-pl...
Towards a Planetary Theology
Every political innovation requires, first of all, a corresponding transformation in the cosmos. To remake globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society, we must recognize theo...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The modern nation state was as much a theological innovation as a political one, argues Rana Dasgupta.
.
Remaking globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society will require a comparable transformation in the cosmos.
www.combinationsmag.com/towards-a-pl...
.
Remaking globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society will require a comparable transformation in the cosmos.
www.combinationsmag.com/towards-a-pl...