Woodbine

Organization in New York, New York

https://inhabit.global/

Some friends are starting something that we're pretty excited about.

"Inhabit is a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North America. We bring together diverse strands of American thinking, activism, and hands-on experimentation into a radical vision in keeping with our tumultuous times. We believe revolution has to be built from the ground up, and that it starts by making another way of... life possible"

Come out tomorrow to Topos Bookstore at 7:30 as our Research Group welcomes Jasper Bernes for a presentation, "While stories about an imminent age of self-driving cars and robot factories dominate the headlines, auguring an end to labor as such, some technology commentators have suggested that algorithms may soon replace money and markets as well. In this new type of planned economy, sometimes referred to as Google Gosplan, silicon has replaced money and the distribution of r...esources occurs via algorithm rather than exchange. While some see this as ushering in a return to feudalism, others visions are more positive, arguing that algorithms offer the possibility of a true socialist planning, a “red plenty,” distributing resources according to need and abolishing the manufactured scarcities of the capitalist economy. These projections, Bernes will argue, misunderstand the nature of both markets and planning and, as a result, misconstrue the potentials and the perils of the contemporary moment."