I'm taking the seminar Eco Radicals: The Legacy of Revolutionary Cooperatives at New School with Prof. Trebor Scholz. This is a series of personal notes and thoughts in and around the course. This is week 4.
„Et hätt noch immer joot jejange" — wirklich?
Ich starte 040x040 neu. Gegen institutionalisierte Selbstzufriedenheit, für Austausch und Neugier über Grenzen hinweg.
Kein Masterplan. Ein kleines Experiment für 2026.
I’m focused on exchange, collaboration, and cross-border curiosity: a simple practice that keeps institutionalized self-satisfaction from becoming the default.
No masterplan. Just a tiny experiment for 2026.
Matthias here. In the 1.5x edition of Why Is This Interesting, Noah wrote about sped-up playback and changes in media consumption. Today I would like to offer some additional food for thought about the relation between speed-up, detours, and society.
The pandemic has hit local communities around the globe and compounded many of the challenges that cities were already facing – overcoming economic and social distress, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and fighting the rise of populism and the polarisation of societies.