Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

The effort to turn Letterboxd community-owned is live!

15 years ago today, I was there with my notebook when a few 100 people hunkered down to Occupy Wall Street.

I just realized it was 17 YEARS AGO that I cofounded Waging Nonviolence.

Ivan Illich was born 100 years ago today.

Are you looking to deepen your thinking and practice in transforming media systems?

Oh goodness, people are hosting gatherings to celebrate Ivan Illich around the world!

I once wrote a book about cooperatives called Everything for Everyone; the title is a reference to an old Christian doctrine that the world is the shared inheritance of us all.

You might remember that I co-edited a book, Beautiful Solutions, that tells stories of solidarity economies around the world.

During a spell of thick wildfire smoke this summer, I was driving my kids toward the afternoon sun; it was a pale red, and we could look right at it—only a little brighter than the moon at dusk.

Next month, it will be 15 years since Occupy Wall Street took over Lower Manhattan and other bits of the world.

The Conflict Systems zine, on designing online communities with conflict in mind, is NOW OUT.

Among my peers who study the cultures and economies surrounding technology, I often find myself more tech-positive than most.

MEDLab’s new Conflict Systems zine drops Wednesday—all about the need for building habits and tools for conflict into online spaces.