Category: Society

  • Intentional inefficiency as bureaucratic anti-fascism

    Intentional inefficiency as bureaucratic anti-fascism

    Fascism is back. And Big Tech is its willing enabler. Both statements are hardly controversial. Both statements are also deeper related than widely accepted. This post explains how (digital) capitalism and the rising far-right in the US as well as in Germany are related. It will dive into the role of bureaucracy as an anti-fascist…

  • Solidarity beyond individual privacy and data protection

    Solidarity beyond individual privacy and data protection

    Progressive digital policy people are on the defensive. Europe has politically been shifting to the right. Border violence, authoritarian surveillance and commercialisation of data are threatening people that move to the EU and people that live here. In the search for answers, progressive actors are turning to familiar tools: The defense of privacy and data…