26 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media
This week NLP took part in a publishing experiment - we published one of three versions of a new e-pamphlet by Dan Hind, called Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty. In this article, also co-published on Dan's blog and openDemocracy, Dan explains the attractions of the...
20 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: Today we are excited to launch our publication of a new ebook by Dan Hind on the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. In Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, Dan makes a powerful case for the need to generalise the model of public meetings and...
22 August, 2011 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Media
The media have some explaining to do in Britain and elsewhere. Taken as a whole they keep seeing things that aren’t there, like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And they keep overlooking things that are there, like the shadow banking system. There is clearly a problem with the system that...
25 April, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Media, Philosophy and Theory, Religion
22 April, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Media
Dan Hind was a publisher for more than ten years, working for, among others, Penguin and Random House. In 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform. In The Return of the Public he argued for the democratisation of the media is a prerequisite for self-determinaton and rational...
21 April, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Dan Hind was a publisher for more than ten years, working for, among others, Penguin and Random House. In 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform. In The Return of the Public he argued for the democratisation of the media is a prerequisite for self-determinaton and rational...
01 April, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Employment & Welfare
11 October, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Dan Hind was a journalist and publisher until 2009, when he left publishing to focus on campaigning for media reform. He is the author of The Threat to Reason and, most recently, The Return of the Public. He spoke to Samuel Grove about his proposals for popular participation in the process of...