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Europolis

What is the future of the European city? Some speculations ...
Total Surveillance
Total surveillance is not just a system of technologies whereby everywhere and everyone are watched, but is also an attitude towards society that is rooted in a lack of faith in freedom. Policy-makers, it seems, are unable to answer why total surveillance is undesirable because they cannot conceptualise freedom beyond negative liberty and consumer choice.
Towards non-unitary globality

What might a globalised political-economy be like?

Migration and cosmopolitan will

The debate about immigration assumes the primacy of a settled, territorial population. However, emerging globality may require a shift in this view.

Liquid City
When urban flux and flow meet ergonomics and technology, the liquid city is born ...
From ought to is: towards an ergonomic conception of politics?
Normative conceptions of politics have tended to dominant political thinking from the Enlightenment onwards, leading to a politics that seeks moral equilibrium through the rational development of norms. However, ergonomics may be useful in crafting a non-normative politics that is also concerned with promoting social order.