Via James Quilligan, a message from Lisinka Ulatowska: “A growing number of organizations are planning a dialogue with Governments, a cooperative lobby, starting with the CSD in May 2010 to see how the Global Commons (those areas of the world and human experience that are vital to the well-being of humanity and the Planet) can… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2009"
Andreas Wittel: Funding a Material Commons for Social Innovation
In this excerpt of Andreas Wittel contributions to the Reimagining Society Project , one of the key questions concerns the role of state-based funding. Andreas Wittel: “Social production and the multiplication of the things being produced has severe implications for everything that is holy to the spirit of capitalism. It challenges the notion of (intellectual)… Continue reading
From the old communalism to the new?
There is a new wave of young people drawn to basic human skills of growing one’s own food, building one’s own home, and creating face-to-face communities. I am thrilled to see it. It’s happening all over. Dave Belden, an editor of Tikkun magazine, replies to a request by a young man with a community project,… Continue reading
A proposed (draft) statement on P2P Values
This is an attempt by Ryan Lanham to define P2P space in terms of a few boundary statements. Disagreement is encouraged. Feel free to contribute comments also in our Ning forum: ASSERTION: A strong P2P advocate would affirm all of the following with minimal qualification: 1. A strong P2P advocate is someone who believes that… Continue reading
If you like us, fund us (2)
This is part of our drive to secure our foundation. Since last week we have reached 450 euro, just another 550 euro to go. So please donate and spread retweet it across your network with the necessary r/t shortened link to this post http://bit.ly/3NsYWu 😉 Click on the Paypal donate button on the top right… Continue reading
Saskia Sassen: Investing in a new infrastructure for distributed capitalism
The effect I have in mind is a widely distributed range of growth sites, that incorporate more and more people. Clearly, this is not a revolution. This is within capitalism, but it begins to lay the ground for a widespread and distributed economic network, that can function as one platform for gaining entry into out… Continue reading
Is the long tail being undermined by an online monoculture that is ‘worse than mass media’?
Whenever I make these claims someone says “Well I use Netflix and it’s shown me all kinds of films I didn’t know about before. It’s broadened my experience, so that’s an increase in diversity.” And someone else points to the latest viral home video on YouTube as evidence of niche success. So this post explains… Continue reading
Building alliances for a P2P world
This summary of a political strategy for a more P2P oriented world, which focuses on alliance building, was previously published here. Text: “I think we do have to accept that we are no longer in a mercantile, nor industrial capitalist logic, but in a third phase of cognitive capitalism. My thesis is that the marxist… Continue reading
Social media: re-introducing centralization through the backdoor
Armin Medosch: “In media theory much has been made of the one-sided and centralised broadcast structure of television and radio. the topology of the broadcast system, centralised, one-to-many, one-way, has been compared unfavourable to the net, which is a many-to-many structure, but also one-to-many and many-to-one, it is, in terms of a topology, a highly… Continue reading
Five reasons why the new capitalism must be ethical
The original article, Five ideas on value and the crisis, was a contribution by Adam Arvidsson to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications. Adam Arvidsson: “We are, it would seem, in the midst of a historical crisis of the capitalist system. As the dynamo effects of the sub-prime collapse ripple through the economy, from… Continue reading
International coalition for civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era
Via Simona Conservas of EXGAE: “A huge international coalition has come together to campaign for respect for the civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era. Today they will be launching internationally the “Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge”. This initiative constitutes the beginning of an unprecedented offensive of civil society… Continue reading
The great internet/p2p deflation
I believe that this efficiency will make the economic markets they affect “shrink” in terms of economy and capital. It doesn’t mean that the number of variation of the products available will shrink, just the capital involved. Innovative deflation lets $100 Million at Craigslist undercut $100 Billion dollars that used to service the same thing… Continue reading
Brian Holmes: the next phase of capital
The following contribution appeared in the IDC mailing list, and was a reaction against applying the labor theory of value to Facebook and other social networks. Apart from stressing that we need to go ‘beyond Marx’, Brian gives an interesting overview of recent analyses of post-meltdown capital structures, as well as a pessimistic prediction of… Continue reading
Robin Wood on Shifts in Value Exchange as related to phases in Human Development
A contribution by Robin Wood, applying the Spiral Dynamics theory of human developmental phases to value exchange. Robin Wood: “I believe it is helpful to context how value is created, appropriated and exchanged at different levels of development. We need to answer the first question posed by this group: What are all the different types… Continue reading
If you like us, fund us
We are already at 339 euro, so help us get to 1,000! Click on the Paypal donate button on the top right of this blog >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear friends, I hope we can count on you to defray some of the legal costs of the P2P Foundation, which one of our team has been funding so… Continue reading
Building Torrent Family Trees (Beta)
We are used to seeing family trees in biology. But how about for software? I think it is possible for us to look at family tree of digital media too: this post outlines how.
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