Re-blogged from here: “I’ve written a few entries here concerning our changing relationship with data and identity as we increasingly engage in these swarming media networks. As our interactions become centered around self- and social-classification we construct inherently multiple, deterritorialized identities. The attention movement, social networking services, and the growing role of RSS feeds in… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2006"
New documentary on filesharing
Reblogged from the P2P Weblog: “On Piracy: On Piracy, Radio & Walmarts is a documentary film by Julien McArdle, a student at University of Ottawa. The film tries to take a balanced perspective as it explores music and movie piracy causes and attitudes through interviews with everyone involved. From the web site: “Each day, millions… Continue reading
Global gathering of the Commons in Bali
From a Press Release By Anne MacKinnon and Charlotte Hess UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA – Recent research from all over the world offers a new approach to combating poverty and other difficult problems worldwide, an international group of scholars says. An organization of those scholars will hold a major international conference in Bali this June including… Continue reading
Wilber whirldwind wrap-up
The flurry of exchanges around spiritual and cognitive authoritarianism at the Integral Institute after the ‘Wilber insults his critics episode’, continues. Here are a few recent links for those interested. Why is it historically important? Because this moment symbolically presents the dead of Wilber theory as an intellectual project, and the birth of a new… Continue reading
The ethical surplus and its monetization: quote from Adam Arvidsson
A very clear quote from Adam Arvidsson: “Informational capitalism is characterized by a growing separation between production and valorization. The production of immaterial values like knowledge, affect and sociality increasingly takes place in autonomous processes of technologically empowered communication that unfolds among users themselves. Their valorization occurs through the ability to appropriate a share of… Continue reading
The emergence of an Asian Commons
(courtesy of suchit nanda) I’m a notoriously bad note-taker, so as usual, no full report on this conference, but just a few notes and references. Some conferences have a real magic, and the Asia Commons conference really had it. It is probably the first time that people from all across Asia, especially South Asia, but… Continue reading
Remi Sussan on the link between computers, the counter-culture and peer to peer ideals
 Remi Sussan, our French collaborator and author of les Utopies Posthumaines reflects on the underlying links between the counter-culture, computers, and the egalitarian ideals that are now embedded in social software. The occasion is a new DVD on the topic, The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet Some documents have tried to uncover… Continue reading
Bruce Sterling: update on zero-advertising brands
Bruce Sterling has an interesting article in Wired, on recent Web 2.0 business models, that can be read as an update to Adam Arviddson’s earlier post on zero-advertising brands. The relevant citation: “How can any business grow without an ad campaign? The key is what publisher Tim O’Reilly calls an architecture of participation. Web 2.0… Continue reading
Problems with the Zaadz of Capitalism and the Omidyar of Commonism
How far should you trust your intuitions? I’ve been invited on several occasions to join Zaadz, a semi-closed networking/blogging side. Yet, I always resisted, without quite knowing why. My problem started with the dreaded c-word in the mission statement: “Ours involves Capitalism. Spirituality. Enthusiasm. Love. Service. Inspiration. Leaders. People CRAZY enough to think they can… Continue reading
What’s wrong: treating rival sources as non-rival, treating non-rival sources as rival
Below is a very efficient device to raise awareness of the destruction of the biosphere: the ecological debt calendar, which shows that industrialized countries have recently passed the treshold when they are literally ‘eating up the world’. This is a key issue for P2P Theory, and has been one of the key message of economist… Continue reading
Why is the free software movement excluded from UN bodies?
I’m reproducing an appeal by Fouad Riaz Bajwa : “The results of the selection of committees or stakeholders is not acceptable by the (Civil Society) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement. The FOSS Movement has been deliberately sidelined again as was done during the WSIS main activities. Once again under representation has been given… Continue reading
On the logic of cultism at the Integral institutes
James Burke posted an update on the previous entry, showing the claim that Wilber now says that the outrageous rant was written on purpose. This is entirely consistent with the cultic process. The basis of cultism is the abandonment of autonomy and critical thinking by adherents, which project ideal qualities on the leader of the… Continue reading
Ken Wilber is losing it
[UPDATE] (Apparently Ken Wilber’s rant, discussed below, was made on purpose to “separate the 1st-Tier people from the 2nd Tier”). It has long been apparent that the movement around Ken Wilber, despite all the good people it is still attracting, is becoming a closed cultic environment. One of the key symptoms is a total inability… Continue reading
Italian collective movie against Berlusconi
An item we missed when it appeared in April. Bruno Pellegrini and his team are making a movie based on the contributions of videobloggers throughout Italy. Here’s an interview about the project, and the trailer is here.
The economic case for free software in the South
One of the big issues at the Asia Commons conference I attended, and I have yet to blog about, was the importance of free software for the economic development of the countries in the South. Robin Miller has a good recap of that argument: “we need to look beyond the software industry — and beyond… Continue reading
Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K Yale)
To coincide with the recent Asia Conference on the Digital Commons in Bangkok (June 6-8), I thought p2p foundation blog readers would appreciate hearing more about my recent trip to the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference that took place at Yale Law School between April 21-23 2006. According to Wikipedia: “The goals of Access to… Continue reading