A few thoughts on the limits of our democracy

My apologies that no posts have appeared for a while. I’ve been a bit busy with other things and I…

Some thoughts on basic income

Finland is a strange country. Here, governments may start a policy experiment, but later decide that it was not an…

The Capital Strike

The attitude towards strikes seems to have become more critical. Perhaps not so much among ordinary people, but the media…

Did we forget human nature?

Biologist Frans De Waal has written an interesting article called  How Bad Biology is Killing the Economy. I won’t summarise…

Religious fantasy

In one of the earlier text I quoted the ideas of Ann Pettifor. Now I would like to continue highlighting…

Capital is dead?

Wark McKenzie’s book Capital is dead (2019) is one of those works that really makes you think. Its message is…

A brief introduction to cognitive (bio)capitalism

Cognitive capitalism is in many ways a very complex concept, which I first came across in Moulier-Boutang’s book Cognitive capitalism…

What is ideology? – A brief introduction

By ideological debate, we mostly mean a debate about what we are or what we want. It is usually associated…

Shaping the human soul

I thought I would venture to write something about biopolitics, because, at least from a certain point of view, it…

…and forgive them their debts

I have always believed that solutions for the future should be searched for in the past. After all, the past…