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The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income

August 12, 2021 by Christos Carras

What a UBI offers is a form of protection that does not trap people either outside employment (thanks to its universality) or inside employment (thanks to its being obligation-free).

Revenge of the amateur: the future of culture after peak oil

December 15, 2020December 5, 2012 by Erik Curren

This weekend…I went to see a performance of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito…And I was uncomfortable. It’s not because I was bored with the opera. I was uncomfortable because of peak oil.