Was excited to read Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang & Community (2024):

https://www.plurality.net/

Especially given the promotion it's getting. And it certainly has some powerful points to make. Chief among them, that ‘democracies could ... help facilitate radical experiments with how technologies could reshape social structures.’

Trouble is, Plurality is just not very pluralistic. Turns out plurality for Weyl et al is good, so long as it’s democratic pluralism.

This is why the concept of pluriversality is far more productive and helpful. Pluriversal politics involves 'an entangelment of forms' on a spectrum 'from the radically relational to the modernist liberal' (Escobar).

#politics #democracy #technology #collaboration #plurality #pluriversal

Just published the fifth part of 'Defund Culture' on my Open Humanities Notebook/blog. It's titled 'Invest in the De-liberalisation of Society'.

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/?SSScrollPosition=0

Versions of the first three parts of 'Defund Culture' appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of the journal Radical Philosophy.

https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/defund-culture

The rest I'm making available for the first time on my blog.

#defundculture #defund #culture #liberalism #liberal #pluriversal #decolonisation #theory

#AcademicFedi #Design #DesignResearch #CoDesign #ParticipatoryDesign #CfP #Pluriverse #Pluriversal #Decolonising #Decolonizing #DecolonisingDesign

Special Issue on
"Towards Pluriversality: Decolonising Design Research and Practices"

CoDesign journal
Abstract deadline 1 Dec 2022

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/codesign-towards-pluriversality/