THEORY IS DEAD, MAY IT LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. After attending the New Contexts conference as a co-author, it has taken a few weeks for my brain to process the entire event. In a way participating in the co-authoring sessions was akin to the dream logic of both being yourself and being a fly on [...]

Spotty. Neglected. Abandoned. Dead-ended. Nevertheless some dead-ends are worth revisiting. If the fall of Soviet Union some 20 odd years ago consigned Communism and Marxist to some sort of imaginary intellectual dustbin, it is interesting to contemplate the counterfactual: what if the cybernetic central planned economy actually could function as a utopian provider of plenty [...]