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(By Jon Lebkowsky) We refute and cast away the demons of division, polarization, hatred, distortion… and their avatars and agents in the realm of mass and social media, cable news,…

Plutopians have interviewed Christopher Brown about his science fiction novels, “Tropic of Kansas” and “Failed State.” In addition to his science fiction and his work as an attorney, Chris is…

Plutopia’s Jon Lebkowsky reviews the top ten stories of 2021 as part of the “State of the World 2022” conversation.

Music of the Plutopian Spheres Listening at the moment to Bill Frisell’s “1968,” from his 2004 album “Unspeakable,” which BBC described as “heavy funk for thinking truckers.” Plutopian perusals This…

Music of the Plutopian Spheres Pianist/composer Bill Evans was a true original, considered “the main reformer of the harmonic language of jazz piano.” He played piano with Miles Davis, then…

Happy Holidaze! Plutopians wish all our friends and fans the happiest of holidaze. Lately it feels like the world is in a rock tumbler, hopefully we’ll come out of this…

Music of the Plutopian Spheres ‘Tis the season to talk about holiday music, and an opportunity to discuss SomaFM. SomaFM is an independent Internet radio station for browser-based or app-based…

Review by Felix Stalder Felix Stalder sent this review to the nettime email list. We’re publishing it here with Felix’ permission. So, I finished reading The Dawn of Everything, the…

Let go of fear! Plutopia News Network is on the road this week. We haven’t encountered any Repbublicans, Democrats, fascists, socialists, Nazis, Communists, or extraterrestrial invaders… we’ve just seen ordinary…

Music of the Plutopian Spheres We’ve started watching Peter Jackson’s documentary “The Beatles: Get Back.” It shows the older and evolving “Fab Four” in the act of creating music for…