Blockchain technology has held numerous promises: for a better internet, for decentralization, for a critique of power – and maybe even a critique of capitalism.

In a fluctuating market, what has staying power? Mitchell F. Chan reflects on the construction of value and art and crypto’s shared status as “receptacles of faith.”

Between false hopes and facile critique, there is an emancipatory view of emerging technologies like blockchain.

On art, technology, and the Seed Phrase podcast.

Penny Rafferty is LARPing new forms of organizing into existence. Taking up tools and processes used in the blockchain world, she aims to open wider portals of possibility.

How could we bring decolonial methodologies to blockchain? What is a “community-activating art practice”?

Lee Tzu-Tung’s “prolonged undercover performance art” and “bionic cryptocurrency” strive towards open-source futures on the blockchain and beyond.

Bitcoin launched with lofty promises to improve the financial system in the name of the people. Fast-forward to today: most of its monetary value is concentrated among a small minority of token-holders.

Terra0 uses artistic narratives to propose post-human economies. As they put it: "On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a tree."

A message from Alevtina Kakhidze.

Adam Harvey on Wartime Tech

Tobias Zielony and Tasia on Partying.

Jonathan White on the European Project.

Christoph Möllers on Post-Militarism.

Raj Patel on Food Justice

Max Krahé on Containment.

Alevtina Kakhidze on the Art of Surviving

Ingo Venzke on the Crisis of International Law.

Georg Diez on History and Memory.

Vladimir Safatle on Neutrality.

Ece Temelkuran on Loss and Displacement.

Max Krahé on the Financial Origins of the War.

Tobias Zielony and Maria on Drones.

Tobias Zielony and Vicky on Healing.

Jeff Deutch on Forensic Truth.

Anna Katsman on Her Family.

Markus Gabriel on Invisible Goods

Janine von Wolfersdorff on Helping People.

Ingo Venzke on the World Order

Hakan Tanriverdi on Cyber Warfare.

Nicole Deitelhoff on the New European Order.

Thea Riofrancos on the Global Economic Order

Christian Stöcker on Energy Independence.

Jan-Werner Müller on “the West” and the War.

Rüdiger Bachmann on the Case for Harder Sanctions.

Oxana Timofeeva on Denial.

Philip Manow on the Geo-Economics of Geo-Politics.

Raj Patel on Food Rebellions

Georgiy Kasianov on the Politics of Memory.

Tobias Müller on Solidarity as Co-Liberation

Imagining possible futures – 50 years after “The Limits to Growth”

Dennis Meadows on The Need for a Mature World

Karimah Ashadu Describes the Limbo Within Capitalism

Elisabeth Strowick on Stories, Scenarios and Climate Change

Kinga Kiełczyńska on Reincarnation and The Limits of Art Production

Emma Enderby on Arts and Speculative Scenarios

Ana Prvački on the Lessons of Nature for Societal Change

Our fellow Corine Pelluchon on why we need to rethink the way we produce and consume what we eat. A Policy Brief for the G7.

Our colleague Katharina Lima de Miranda on designing new measures of economic and social wellbeing beyond GDP. A policy brief for the G7.

Our fellow Ingo Venzke on an international alliance for transformative and inclusive climate action. A policy brief for G7.

Our fellows Dennis Snower and Paul Twomey on shifting control of personal data from data aggregators to digital consumers. A policy brief for the G7.

Raisa Galofre’s work challenges Western narratives around gender and identity, offering an alternative perspective...

As they describe themselves, Jota Mombaça is a “non-binary bicha” (pejorative Brazilian slang used for gay men), and a “mutant” whose personality is in constant flux.

Artist and activist Ina-Maria Shikongo talks about the fight for justice and for survival in her native Namibia.

Juliet Jacques is a writer, filmmaker and journalist whose practice explores the themes of literature, film, art...

Against the colorful and radiant backdrop of his paintings, Anjel (born Boris Anje) is celebrated for his depictions of contemporary African dandies.

Akinbode Akinbiyi is a wanderer. On his walks through cities such as Berlin, Lagos and Johannesburg, Akinbiyi closely observes and documents social realities of the streets.

Markus Gabriel is an internationally acclaimed philosopher of the New Realism school of thought.

Sim Chi Yin’s photographic work lays bare the monumental challenges our planet faces, and simultaneously provides personal accounts of human existence by uniting intimate storytelling with documentary photography.

Hope is a promise, a contradiction, a quiet revolution.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an independent curator, author and biotechnologist.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist who refers to herself as a feminist economist.

Social injustice and inequality are at the heart of Kiri Dalena’s work as a visual artist, filmmaker and activist.

Catriona McKinnon is a political theorist who studies climate justice and climate ethics.

Hope is promise and practice. Hope is about agency and community, it is both private and political and has the potential to transform us and, in the process, the world.

Jonathan White is a political scientist whose interests lie in political sociology and political theory.

Christof Mauch is a historian with a strong focus on nature and the environment.

Igor Levit is a pianist who connects his art with the social events happening around him.

Ece Temelkuran is a novelist and political commentator whose work explores issues that are controversial in Turkey, such as the Kurdish and Armenian struggles and freedom of expression.

Lea Ypi is a political philosopher whose research centres on issues of global justice, normative political theory...