Our latest After Order Working Paper Series webinar is now available on YouTube. In Clouds and Territories, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social explores how cloud infrastructures, AI systems, and digital platforms have become central to geopolitical competition and contemporary forms of state power.

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How should we think about sovereignty, territory and power in a world shaped by cloud infrastructure, AI systems and digital platforms? Our latest working paper by Paolo Gerbaudo explores how digital technology and geography have become deeply intertwined. // @paologerbaudo.bsky.social

As Brazil navigates trade disputes, geopolitical competition, and growing tensions over foreign influence, claims to national sovereignty have acquired renewed political force. Yet the material capacities required to sustain sovereignty have been steadily eroded over decades.

A presença da democracia no discurso dos autocratas contemporâneos tornou-se corriqueira. No mundo todo, líderes de movimentos autoritários afirmam ser os verdadeiros democratas e os únicos capazes de restaurar a soberania nacional em favor do povo.

Join us online for a webinar exploring how sovereignty, territory and power are being reshaped by cloud infrastructure, AI systems and digital platforms in the twenty-first century.

The first season of After Order podcast concludes with a live-recorded conversation exploring the central premise that has run through the series: that we are not living through an interregnum between stable systems, but through a period of sustained disorder.

Alameda is an international institute established in response to the catastrophic threats facing humanity today, including ecological collapse, large-scale war, and deepening social and economic disintegration.

Can societies flourish within planetary limits while remaining committed to endless growth? In a recent webinar, Sabrina Fernandes and Raj Patel, moderated by Alameda Director Juliano Fiori, discussed ecological sovereignty and the political and economic challenges of our time.

What forms of sovereignty are possible in an age of overlapping crises? Our latest newsletter features updates on research, essays, conversations and publications exploring some of the defining questions of our time.

In a time marked by instability, fragmentation, and recurring crises, questions around sovereignty have become increasingly urgent. Who holds power today? Who shapes the decisions that affect people’s lives?

We’re pleased to share our latest Working Paper, Towards a Concept of Ecological Sovereignty, by Sabrina Fernandes (@sabrinafernandes.com) The paper reflects on sovereignty, extraction, planetary boundaries, and the political contradictions shaping today’s ecological crisis.

While we ask ChatGPT questions such as “Will AI take my job?” or “Can you proofread this text?”, there are communities whose lives are being directly altered by the expansion of this technology.

Part of what makes the present moment so difficult to process is the way catastrophe unfolds in full visibility while the structures responsible for sustaining it continue to function as normal.

The United Kingdom increasingly resembles a nation unable to define itself in the present tense. As nationalism shapes the latest electoral cycle, tensions over sovereignty, unionism and national identity continue to expose the fragility of the British political structure.

In the sixth episode of After Order, Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Juliano Fiori about the breakdown of global order and the material foundations of US hegemony. // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social

In the fifth episode of After Order, the Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Gabriel Tupinambá about popular sovereignty under conditions of growing instability. // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social

What would it mean to rethink sovereignty through an ecological lens. Join us online for the first event in Alameda’s After Order Working Paper Series.

In the fourth episode of After Order, the Alameda Institute’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Cecilia Rikap and Paolo Gerbaudo about digital sovereignty following the rise of Big Tech. // @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social

How did nostalgic visions of white-minority rule in southern Africa move from online subcultures into mainstream political discourse?

In the third episode of After Order, the Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla of Progressive International and The Hague Group about power, sovereignty, and the breakdown of the global order.

We’re pleased to invite you to a live recording of After Order on 12 May — an evening to think through a world characterised by ongoing crises, from economic turbulence to geopolitical fragmentation.

In the second episode of After Order, Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, about the new frontiers of extraction // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social

Recent local elections in France offer a revealing snapshot of the balance of forces on the Left. The picture is not one of crisis or clear hegemony, but of a more complex reality taking shape.

Mercenaries have become an inescapable part of today’s landscape of conflict and disorder. Guns for hire now operate across global theatres, embedded in wars that rarely resemble traditional interstate conflict.

Temos o prazer de anunciar o lançamento do After Order (Depois da Ordem) — o novo podcast do Alameda em colaboração com a Macrodose. A série levanta uma questão oportuna: e se não estivermos entre sistemas estáveis, mas sim vivendo um período marcado por crises recorrentes — um tempo pós-ordem?

A ordem internacional consolidada após a Segunda Guerra Mundial foi resultado da hegemonia americana. Embora pareça que essa ordem tenha chegado ao fim, não está claro se uma nova ordem hegemônica virá a se formar.

The international order consolidated in the aftermath of the Second World War was the result of American hegemony. While it seems that this order has now come to an end, it is not clear that a new hegemonic order will take form.

Since the financial crisis of 2007—8, incipient challenges to the primacy of US power and political turbulence within Western capitalist democracies have provoked a considerable body of writing about the end of liberal order.

Contemporary authoritarian leaders rarely present themselves as enemies of democracy. On the contrary, many claim to be its true defenders.