Raphael Arar
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Head of Design @ One Project Mentor @ NEW INC Visiting Faculty @ Calarts Executive Board @ Leonardo / ISAST --- rarar.com oneproject.org leonardo.info
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While Trump & Big Tech privatize money creation through stablecoins, we designed an alternative with Yanis. Give that power to the people instead: digital central bank accounts funding a trust fund for everyone without new taxes or debt. See how monetarycommons.com
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"It is a painful irony that in a world increasingly objectified and obsessed with design in every form…that design has seemed to relinquish its desire to change the world. Instead it desperately clings to a few final moments of spectacle, effect and affect."

www.ft.com/content/e637...
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
www.ft.com
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futurehistories.bsky.social
A new episode of Future Histories!

I talk to Kai Heron (@kaiheron.bsky.social), Keir Milburn (@kmilb.bsky.social) and Bertie Russell (@bertrussell.bsky.socia) about their new book ‘Radical Abundance.’ (@abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social)

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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kmilb.bsky.social
#ACFM examines the Future. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I ask, did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? With music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs.
novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...
What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future? | Novara Media
A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.
novaramedia.com
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wmmna.bsky.social
Love is Resistance: a collection of 77 posters from Michael Rakowitz, Aya Haidar, Brian Eno, Dima Srouji, Emily Jacir, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg, Jeremy Deller and other artists standing in solidarity with Palestine www.loveisresistance.art
LOVE IS RESISTANCE
www.loveisresistance.art
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futurehistories.bsky.social
A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Jason W. Moore (@binghamtonu.bsky.social) about socialism in the web of life.

Full episode here:

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast @versobooks.bsky.social
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rude1.blacksky.team
> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining.

White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...
Woman explains how she and friends use shared bank account for group trips to alleviate stress of splitting bills
Kim Brindell explained how they came up with the idea.
abcnews.go.com
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itsmccarthy.bsky.social
What do unions do? On average they make the members about $870k more wealthy over time, new findings at Social Forces show.
Abstract
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So happy to hear! Looking forward to catching up!
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Will you be going? @scazan.bsky.social and I have a piece there too!
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newleftreview.bsky.social
Owen Hatherley on the leftist avant-garde publisher Rab-Rab Press:

'The books take an oblique approach to revolutionary history and the various attempts at creating a socialist culture, resurrecting it in select fragments.'

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Owen Hatherley, Making Strange — Sidecar
On Rab-Rab Press.
newleftreview.org
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brusselermel.bsky.social
In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...
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rude1.blacksky.team
> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media.

Me for @newpublic.org
🔭🖤🚀 How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Watching social media evolve into something decentralized, open-source, and scalable
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futurehistories.bsky.social
Whoop, whoop!

Future Histories Guests starter pack!

go.bsky.app/NH23BtR
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 22 Aug 1862 Claude Debussy, French radical impressionist composer heavily influenced by the Symbolists, was born. The son of a Communard, Debussy was influenced by the Parisian anarchist milieu and contributed to its press. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9446...