Das Spiel des guten Lebens von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo Während der Degrowth Konferenz gab es neben Vorträgen, Podiumsdiskussionen und Workshops auch viele unkonventionelle Aktionen. Eine davon war das "Spiel des guten Lebens", bei dem das "Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie" das Thema "Degrowth" mit in die Leipziger Fußgängerzone genommen hat, um mit Passant_Innen ins Gespräch zu kommen.
Since the very beginning of modern growth-critique, starting with the publication of the report „Limits to Growth“ in 1972, the mainstream response to this critique has always been: “Well, we can grow the limits by making things ever more efficient”. Now, with the shiny user interface of the ongoing digital revolution, the holy grail of the efficiency revolution gets yet another new finish: By ...
What is capitalism? A kind of state? An institution? Some values? A power structure? Ideology? A Culture? What governs capitalism? Supply and demand Invisible hand Enclosure of land The drive to expand Market mechanism Class schism Racism The moral virtue of productivism. Innovation! Invest! Impress! Progress! Entrepreneurial quest for Technological success in Pursuit ...
By Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, Leah Temper and Lucía Argüelles An interviewed Anuak farmer from the Gambella region in Ethiopia assures that nobody in his village supported the land deal for Al Amoudi´s Southern Star Farm project from the beginning. Despite of this, the contract was signed and the villagers were kicked off the lands. He lost his crop land and also his access to the now cleared ...
