Tom Smith is a member of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN). In 2022, he began a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project in the Department of Geography at LMU, Munich, focusing on Alternative Production Networks and localisation.
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Beating the Clock: A review of ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ and ‘Breaking Things at Work’
Returning to the Great Resignation mentioned at the opening of this piece, it is clear that deep discontent with work, production and our relationship to our own finite time have never been more relevant.
April 7, 2022
A Universe of Stories
Amidst ecological and social disruption – compounded now by the rolling Covid-19 crisis – that uneasy stasis is over. In this new context, the term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies.
November 2, 2020
Autonomous Nature
Whatever this troubling word nature may mean, it is an unruly force.
October 4, 2016