Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani is the co-founder of Novara Media and Silke Digital. He is an expert on digital media, protest and political communications and has published with, among others, the Guardian, Vice and the LRB. He is currently completing a Ph.D at the New Political Communications Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London. You can follow him on twitter @aaronbastani

Britain's housing crisis: on Novara Radio

We need homes, but why growth? The Novara radio show discusses the housing crisis in Britain. For more Novara radio episodes, go to the Novara Media website.

By James Butler and Aaron Bastani

/ 7 May 2013

The crisis of European centre-left parties: on Novara Radio

The Novara radio show discusses the crisis of nominally left social democratic parties in Europe since 2008. For more Novara radio episodes, go to the Novara Media website.

By James Butler and Aaron Bastani

/ 1 May 2013

The Lady is not Returning: Novara radio on Thatcher

The Novara radio show marks the death of Margaret Thatcher with nuanced, wide-ranging, radical analysis of the politician and her legacy.

By James Butler and Aaron Bastani

/ 9 Apr 2013

Weaponising workfare

Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven't - our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change.

By Aaron Bastani

/ 22 Mar 2013

Audio: New media and the British commentariat

The British media is exceptional in its status as part of the political class. But with the newsroom becoming defunct as a site of cultural production, and models of journalistic authority breaking down, this role is threatened. Laurie Penny and James Butler discuss, hosted by Aaron Peters.

By Laurie Penny, James Butler and Aaron Bastani

/ 8 Jan 2013

Video, Up The Anti : Reclaiming the future - lessons of protest

A collection of speakers from an Up the anti conference discuss lessons to be learnt from the return of mass protest, and look at the challenges ahead in securing claims on the future.

By Guy Aitchison, James Butler, Aaron Bastani and Ragnhild Freng Dale

/ 13 Dec 2012

Olympic Britishness and the crisis of identity

London 2012's opening ceremony offered an epic history of the British worker, but with no acknowledgement of what contemporary work is like. Its celebration of modern Britain was a trans-historical mash-up, flattening all history as repackaged and 'inevitable' British national identity. In fact, t

By Aaron Bastani

/ 3 Aug 2012

"Unsourcing" - does free labour ultimately require free goods too?

Crowdsourcing has been discovered by the corporate sector, The Economist tells us, as a great way to turn consumers into free labour. "Unsourcing", is the McKinsey-speak for the method pioneered by Wikipedia (and adopted by openDemocracy). But what are the system-wide implications of this move? Wh

By Aaron Bastani

/ 5 Jul 2012

Supply Side and Plan A - the straightest path to human tragedy

The Coalition's economic 'Plan A' ultimately has a strategy of wage repression at its heart. This will undermine the conditions needed for economic revival but, above all, will impose incalculable human costs on the mass of British people

By Aaron Bastani

/ 15 May 2012

Jobless reindustrialisation: down and out in Detroit and Turin

The consensus of the UK's three main political parties of the need to 'rebalance' the economy fails to acknowledge the paradoxes of modern systems of production. Aaron Peters examines how the global processes of mechanisation and outsourcing have together made impotent the possibility of recovery

By Aaron Bastani

/ 9 May 2012

The Third Industrial Revolution - a response to the Economist

The Third Revolution by nature of its high mechanisation and non-labour intensity means an ever larger proportion of the general public will be excluded from the production process or remunerated to ever lesser extents.

By Aaron Bastani

/ 26 Apr 2012

'Plan B(s), Keynes and the global financial crisis, is there no alternative alternative?'

Aaron Peters talks to Danny Hayward on Novara (Resonance FM) about UK politics, Keynesianism, underconsumptionist critiques of neo-liberalism and possible Plan B(s) amid the economic crisis.

By Aaron Bastani

/ 15 Mar 2012