Robin Hood Coop

by Tere Vadén

Financial markets might seem to be at the very core of inequality. Based on a hacking model, Robin Hood Coop uses cutting-edge technology to intercept the routes of Wall Street’s best traders — and then re-distributes the profits.

The Rise of General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko Through Social Media

Social media is proving a potentially lethal weapon against dictatorships in Africa, reports Elie Smith, a Cameroonian journalist, reporter and translator.

UN-mapping Territory

by Oscar Murillo

Recently the mundanity of global air travel has come to fascinate me. Websites such as Plane Finder, at their base level, track the minutiae of global travel. Geographical location, speed, altitude — all of these details are meticulously recorded…

Cécile B. Evans

Artist Cécile B. Evans talks about the physicality of the internet, how digital technologies are changing our bodies and the problem of limitless possibilities.

Map Kibera

by the Map Kibera Trust, edited by Stephen Pook

When the Beautifully Complex Houses the Predatory

(based on author’s new book Expulsions, published by Columbia University) by Saskia Sassen

One of the major recent challenges in the struggle for a more just society has been the emergence of what I will call ‘complex…