Alternative Editorial: Making It Easy
The UK-based Neighbourhood Democracy Movement is building a media system, creating an inspiring world of can-do storie
Skrillex amplifies Arab womanhood, high art out of creative therapy, and Dirk Koy’s morphing streets. Post-holiday A/V
Manchester's alternative news site The Mill is building a paying audience and getting big name support
"If an AI simulates a popstar and starts gigging...has she passed the Touring Test?" There’s more techno-gags like that at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe
A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, YOUTHpat kanecomedy, artificial intelligence, Edinburgh, Edinburgh festival fringe
Workaday absurdity in Berlin, deep patterns matched in Morocco, and meaning-making with Cornel West. A/V to expand your "me"
Alternative Editorial: The Personal Is The Mediated
Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas
Will the new AI rob creators of their copyright? Or will it liberate human creativity into unprecedented levels of invention? The debate is open
Alternative Editorial: Moving Into Integrity
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTER NATIVES, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BOUNCE BEYOND, CREATE THE FEEL, FUTURES, PLANET A, TELL THE STORYpat kanemedia, trauma, integrity, climate breakdown, truth, I-WE-WORLD
There are new train experiences like European Sleeper opening up all over the continent, in the post airline-era
A BETTER MEDIA, ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANETARIAN, TECHNOLOGYpat kaneEurope, transport, public transport, trains, leisure
"Community provides a sandbox for playing with identity. Members can find spaces to feel even more themselves"
If we only "know" through science and rationality, we deny the "sensuous knowledge" of many other parts of our world (and our bodies), says Minna Salami
Alternative Editorial: A Social Contract For the Digital Age
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, BUILD THE ECONOMY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanesocial contract, digital age, media system, media culture, political culture
News collaboratives, youth media outlets, and a newsletter bee (“La Abeja”) buzzing around Latin communities. A better media, in California Central Valley
Interviewed by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart on Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth runs rings round them…
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
How do you build an “architecture of participation” in your organisation? We Are Open provides a very clear ten-point checklist
You gotta try... Here's some solar-punk memeing - going toe-to-toe with carbon propaganda. Some SP style in the streets, too
NEW ENERGY SOURCES, TECHNOLOGY, FUTURES, INGENUITY, ARTISTS, PLANETARIAN, PLANET A, A BETTER MEDIApat kanesolarpunk, new york, participatory budgeting, buses
The AI merry-go-round continues... Should we ban it from "counterfeiting people"? Let it unravel capitalism? Build "resilient small tech" instead?