These interactive “Web Curios”—bringing nature meditation, a map of all controlling technologies, and raw Gen A angst—are very much worth playing with
Space-time visualised, black spacemen marginalised, and freshwater immersion: tussling with the cosmos in this week's A/V
Alternative Editorial: Stop The Parade
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneGeneral Election, political culture, politicians, new media, RegenA, environment, climate change, just stop oil, activism
“Games providing the impression or actuality of more autonomy are growing in popularity”, says prog games-maker Keir Milburn
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People are averting their eyes and ears away from news media - it's depressing, relentless and boring
Alternative Editorial: Five Observations On The UK General Election Debate
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, YOUTHpat kaneGeneral Election, party politics, emotional literacy, political emotions, green agenda, RegenA
The “neuropolitics” of our brains makes sense of the endless fear-mongering of the UK Election’s main players. But care can also be triggered
Alternative Editorial: Alternative Manifesting
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Taiwan's Audrey Tang, visionary for digital democracy, has a new book and a new documentary. Both are about the power of "plurality"
DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, SOCIO-POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICAL CULTURE, PLANETARIAN, PARTY POLITICS, INGENUITY, GLOBALISTS, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, A BETTER MEDIApat kanevTaiwan, taiwan, Audrey tang, digital democracy
Edinburgh City Council bans advertising of high-carbon products in council spaces - as well as arms manufacturers
Local news “drives democratic engagement, mitigates disinformation & protects environmental standards.” UK philanthropy needs to step up to help it
A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans. Here’s why this linguistic argument matters
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
"Evil Does Not Exist" is a powerful Japanese eco-drama about one community’s fight against intrusive land development
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
Alternative Editorial: Springing Into Action
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, SOCIO-POLITICS, WE CANpat kaneSpring, CAN, new political system, emotions, natality
The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, A/UK PODCAST, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ARTISTS, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTURE, REGEN ECONOMIES, SOCIO-POLITICS, SPRINGpat kanenew political system, parallel pois, partner state, praxis, agency, new economy, 4th sector, new media, parallel polis