Archive of Technology

Can we rethink biopolitics–the questions of life and death–in the long shadow of COVID and climate change?

Craig Gent analyses the role of unions and potential for social movements in creating a workers' future without scarcity. Part of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work. 

In response to the current COVID-19 crisis the UK Biobank, that contains half a million people’s anonymised health and genetic information, may be used to answer questions about coronavirus. Becca Muir asks, are the biopolitics of these databases being ignored?

Geoengineering schemes — still largely hypothetical — not only fail to address the underlying causes of climate change; they carry their own profound political, economic, and ecological risks. 

The problem is not technology or nature. The problem is how to organise societies at a global scale.

Tear Gas author Anna Feigenbaum visits Milipol.