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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 22/11/2025

How to Plan an Economy A series of diagrams viewed through an overhead projector outlining models for democratically planned economies—all of which have been imagined, none of which have been realized. Now on view in Portland through the end of Nov carnationcontemporary.com/Planning-Rap...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 03/08/2025

Sérgio Ferro on how design maintains conceptual purity while built on layers of invisible labor

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 18/07/2025

Some visual notes from my conversation with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson for their running Build & Fight series. Full talk can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOr... cc @coopjax.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social

Digital Commons - Build & Fight - Cooperation Jackson

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 14/07/2025

The latest Hito Steyerl book is harrowing

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 05/07/2025

Some Saturday prototyping of a new sculpture

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 29/06/2025

Happiness as a constant state of nostalgia

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 27/06/2025

Design fiction for post-capitalist futures. Each poster borrows from historical aesthetics and repurposes them for democratic planning. Part of a larger project I'm presenting at SASE on July 3 @sasemeeting.bsky.social

To unite the efforts of all worker councils - poster

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 01/06/2025

Jig of the year or hack job? Verdict is out.

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 25/05/2025

Some last minute tweaks to a Capitalist Clock before shipping off to the Science Gallery Melbourne work.rarar.com/work/capital...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 25/05/2025

Portland: come for the food and nature, stay for the little free libraries with @catalystjournal.bsky.social

Catalyst Journal - Portland Little Free Library

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 23/05/2025

Are you a hub or a spoke?

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 23/05/2025

Getting halfway decent at making boxes of all shapes and sizes. New work in the making about governance

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 22/05/2025

Great band names await behind @posthog.com analytics options

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 18/05/2025

Wise words for the slop era

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 10/05/2025

3D print for a new piece. Probably the biggest one I’ve had to assemble thus far

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 05/05/2025

Prototyping a new piece about the absurdity of endless meetings

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 24/04/2025

If you look hard enough, there are some real gems in Marx’s Grundrisse

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 19/04/2025

From the depths of Aliexpress

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 12/04/2025

MIG Welder UI and data viz circa 1984

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 04/04/2025

LinkedIn going all in with the word choice

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 04/04/2025

Last time it was this wild was during the pandemic work.rarar.com/work/pandemi...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 23/03/2025

Prototyping something new with an infinite camera effect

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 19/03/2025

While this was published in 1967, Lange's ideas were shared in the 30s. Close to a century later, we're still having the same conversations. Oskar Lange - The Computer and the Market

Oskar Lange, The Computer and the Market

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 19/02/2025

An excellent overview of the People's Network for Land & Liberation and its six orgs: Cooperation Jackson @coopjax.bsky.social, Community Movement Builders, Cooperation Vermont, Incite Focus, Native Roots Network, and Wellspring Co-op. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 15/02/2025

Prototyping a new piece called Chance Operation. More details soon; showing first in Nov this year

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 07/02/2025

Grateful to have had Life Force be a part of the Spiraling Upwards exhibition at The Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City. More info about the work here work.rarar.com/work/life-fo...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 03/02/2025

Presenting a talk as part of Afterglow, a symposium exploring the intersection of art, science and technology through light art. My piece, Dual Power, examines how digital interfaces reduce complex political histories into binary choices, using light intensity as both medium and metaphor.

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 30/01/2025

Working on a new piece called Distributed Plan, which streams an old Soviet film showing the computers used for central planning. In front of the projector is a structure with small motors rotating prisms that diffract the light beam. Exhibiting in Nov, along with other conceptual work

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 22/01/2025

Just published a chapter in the new Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design. The work examines how PD has evolved beyond academia over the past decade, exploring the role of context and proposing new ways to recognize diverse participatory practices.

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 19/01/2025

Marx doing when he does best: trolling Malthus

Marx calling Malthus a baboon - Grundrisse

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 16/01/2025

Sending Dual Power off for an exhibition in Toronto. More info on the piece: work.rarar.com/work/dual-po...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 03/01/2025

Great diagram for designers to anchor on in 2025 and beyond - from Assembling Tomorrow by Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 28/12/2024

An abbreviated product spec for mutual aid infrastructure (from Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid)

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 26/12/2024

Designers beware: the book is a typesetting nightmare

GIC - Fundamental Principles of Communist Production & Distribution

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 17/12/2024

tfw the algorithm knows you too well—simultaneously terrified and impressed

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 14/12/2024

an early take on product-market fit (Grundrisse, Marx)

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 11/12/2024

Don’t judge a book by its cover, they say

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 05/12/2024

The tragic beauty of sci-fi: 30+ years later and we’re still stuck with the same social systems and ideologies (Red Mars, KSR)

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 03/12/2024

Late to the party on Fundamental Principles of Communist Production & Distribution—one of the earliest blueprints for postcapitalism that extrapolate Marx’s remarks from the Critique of the Gotha Program www.marxists.org/subject/left...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 02/12/2024

Prisms generate some nice glitch-like artifacts

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 02/12/2024

Testing out an analog video filter

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 02/12/2024

The closest Marx got to writing a design spec for postcapitalism—one of my favorite passages from Critique of the Gotha Program

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 26/11/2024

Back at it. Feels great to start making new work again after being in a newborn parent bunker. More details on this piece as I closer to exhibition prep early next year!

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 23/11/2024

A concise distillation of the 3 most widely known models for democratic economic planning found in “Planning for a future free from rebound effects” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Democratic economic planning models: planning mechanisms and institutions

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 16/11/2024

Any Salt Lake City folks out there—hope you have time to swing by the Leonardo Museum where you can find Life Force on display as part of the Spiraling Upwards exhibition theleonardo.org/exhibits/cur...

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 14/11/2024

Nerding out on the @subvertworld.bsky.social platform coop governance model

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 14/11/2024

From Cédric Durand’s How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: a window into China’s social credit rating system

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