Just a heads-up that the listing for my forthcoming book Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual care in the Long Emergency has just gone live on Amazon here in the UK, and that you’d be doing me a real solid by pre-ordering it via the link. (I’ll update this with links to alternative/non-Amazon sources as they become available.)

Just a heads-up that the listing for my forthcoming book Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual care in the Long Emergency has just gone live on Amazon here in the UK, and that you’d be doing me a real solid by pre-ordering it via the link. (I’ll update this with links to alternative/non-Amazon sources as they become available.)

Not long ago I received the very welcome news that the publishing house GOG Edizioni was interested in bringing out an Italian translation of my 2013 pamphlet “Against the Smart City,” in time for its tenth anniversary. I’ve contributed a new introduction, which I hereby share with you. Godere e gustare! It is only very rarely that a writer...

I don’t write here any more, obviously. But having posted variations of the below on my Mastodon, my free dispatches from London and my Patreon, and over the few days thereafter receiving what is for me a genuinely unusual degree of response, a few readers suggested that I might want to run a version of it on an open platform, so more people could see...

It feels to me, beloved — and plainly has felt for some time — like this is no longer an organic way for me to work through ideas and share that work with you, so I think I’m gonna close up shop. Thanks for reading, thinking and responding all these years. (For some of you, I imagine that means all the way back to the old v-2.org, starting around the...

Pursuant to my recent trip to St Petersburg, the cats at ForbesLife Russia wanted to chat with me about “my attitude to some controversial urban technologies.” Herewith the results. What is the future of e-cars and self-driving cars? How soon they will replace regular drivers? Would it change the transport system in cities? It’s pretty well-known...