Month: August 2015

• August 11, 2015

  An Ecology of Peace Building – The Politics of Emergence

  Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly CharityFocus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology and gift-economy.Writing in Open Democracy (28.01.15) he – characteristically – puts his finger on the tensions invoked by the new langauge of the ‘gift economy’ once it becomes embedded within the discourses of the […]
• August 6, 2015

  Biopolitics, the Attention Economy and Wellbeing:In the ‘attention economy’, resistance and awareness are no longer strangers.

  The Political Economy of Attention – Mindful Commons and Wellbeing  When everything counts, of course you have to count everything!  The drive for more comprehensive measurement is entirely consistent with the biopolitics of neoliberalism and ‘cognitive capitalism’. In the meantime it is being lauded as part of the ‘Beyond GDP’ and wellbeing agenda. Cognitive capitalism […]