Perspectives and Possibilities
Six questions about what can be changed. Three texts to start with for each, everything else behind them.
1How could democracy work differently?
- Representatives Without PartyNon-party citizens into parliament: a voters' association with a single purpose.
- The Transparency CouncilA fifth constitutional body that looks where no one else looks.
- One Could, One ShouldKeep the baby, change the bathwater: what can be repaired in democracy.
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- NOVA Has Already Failed Five Times
- The Other Entrances
- The Missing Form
- The Long March through the Party
- The Collapsed Articulation
- Die Gründung einer neuen Partei und das Eherne Gesetz von Robert Michels
- Democracy and its Blueprints
- Mandate Without Place
- The Citizen's Letter
- Dynamic Democracy
- The Contest of Results
- Can the Young Untangle the Party?
2What could a different economy look like?
- AkratiaFranz Oppenheimer had the analysis. Today the technology exists for it.
- Two KeysA hybrid of cooperative and foundation-owned company that avoids the weaknesses of both.
- The Viable EnterpriseBeyond greed and morality: what a company has to achieve.
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- The Lever in the Carport
- Two Concepts of Wealth
- Systemic Necessities and Co-optations
- Who Owns the Deserted Hall?
- The Construction of Mercy
- The Silent Shutdown
- From Experiment to Model
- The Experiment That Did Not Want to Become a Model
- The Long Game, Lost
- Intellectual Property versus Intellectual Prosperity
- The Thwarted Benefactor
3How does the new come into the world?
- The LevelsEight floors between an idea and a thing, and each one tests differently.
- The Built-in CustomerInnovation first needs a buyer, and only then money.
- Hokkaido and MagdeburgJapan buys capability by letting its people learn.
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4What can Europe do now?
- What Europe Can Do NowEight measures without new treaties, new institutions or unanimity.
- Retaliation as ArchitectureBuilding reciprocity instead of only threatening it.
- FRE: A Federal Republic of EuropeA Federal Republic of Europe: rebuilding the house instead of adding more extensions.
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- The Switch in the Town Hall
- Who Cedes?
- Who Is Allowed to Look
- The Perpetual Diet
- The Key No One Can Throw
- Zona Nova
- The Third Option
- Europe's Path to Technological Sovereignty: What Is Actually Happening
- MESH
- AGORA
- GRADUS
- DEMOS
- COSMOS
- SHADOW
- RIEGEL
- The Lost Courage
- The Chinese Lesson
- A Security Architecture with Precisely Defined Tit-for-Tat Strategies
5What can AI do for us?
- AI as Thinking PartnerA guide to working with AI as a thinking partner rather than an automaton.
- The Fourth QuarterAI as an anthropological step, and why the fear of it may be misplaced.
- The Reluctance to Think MultilaterallyPeople think bilaterally, the world is multilateral. AI can help.
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6What can the individual do?
- The Art of ArguingFactual disagreement as the precondition of every solution.
- Outlines of a Rhenish PhilosophyTake no doctrine entirely seriously, not even your own.
- Marcion and the Jefferson BibleThree rules for making something of two thousand years.