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

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”?

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.”

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

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

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.

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

On art, technology, and the Seed Phrase podcast.

Christian Stöcker on Energy Independence.

Nicole Deitelhoff on the New European Order.

Alevtina Kakhidze on the Art of Surviving

Tobias Zielony and Vicky on Healing.

Max Krahé on the Financial Origins of the War.

Oxana Timofeeva on Denial.

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

Jeff Deutch on Forensic Truth.

Thea Riofrancos on the Global Economic Order

Jonathan White on the European Project.

Markus Gabriel on Invisible Goods

Ece Temelkuran on Loss and Displacement.

Raj Patel on Food Rebellions

Ingo Venzke on the World Order

Raj Patel on Food Justice

Anna Katsman on Her Family.

Christoph Möllers on Post-Militarism.

Tobias Zielony and Tasia on Partying.

Vladimir Safatle on Neutrality.

A message from Alevtina Kakhidze.

Hakan Tanriverdi on Cyber Warfare.

Georgiy Kasianov on the Politics of Memory.

Ingo Venzke on the Crisis of International Law.

Tobias Zielony and Maria on Drones.

Adam Harvey on Wartime Tech

Rüdiger Bachmann on the Case for Harder Sanctions.

Tobias Müller on Solidarity as Co-Liberation

Georg Diez on History and Memory.

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

Max Krahé on Containment.

Janine von Wolfersdorff on Helping People.

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 Ingo Venzke on an international alliance for transformative and inclusive climate action. A policy brief for 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 fellows Dennis Snower and Paul Twomey on shifting control of personal data from data aggregators to digital consumers. A policy brief for the G7.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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