Daniel Suarez. Daemon (Signet, 2009); Freedom(TM) (Dutton 2010). I should have known how good these books would be when I saw John Robb of Global Guerrillas listed among Suarez’s advisers on the Acknowledgements page of Daemon. If you’ve been following Robb the last year or so, you know he writes a lot about resilient communities… Continue reading
Date archives "April 2010"
Interview with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable
Details on the background on the initiative that promotes sharing practices, from the first part of an interview with founder Neal Gorenflo, by Triple Pundit: “Triple Pundit: How did Shareable.net come to be? Neal Gorenflo: I became disillusioned with my work and came to realize that I really had no purpose. That started an internal… Continue reading
Commons, Market, Capital and State (6): water commons, community and state (part one)
Massimo de Angelis continues his Andean travels and is know in Bolivia. In an article on water commons in the country, he makes some very interesting general points about the relation between the commons and the state, which we’ll publish in two parts: Part 1: “Commons, understood generally as the autonomous institutions and practices of… Continue reading
Appeal to EU: Patents Inhibiting Knowledge Diffusion For Green Technology
An excerpt from IP Watch, from David Cronin: “Paul David, a member of the Knowledge for Growth (K4G) group, which counsels the European Commission on industrial innovation, appealed to the EU and US not to resort to litigation over patents relating to ‘green’ technology such as that used in generating renewable energy. Arguing that patents… Continue reading
Commons, Market, Capital and State (5): network vs. state
A contribution from Dimitri Kleiner, followed by a discussion which occured in Facebook: “Capitalism depends on the State to impose control into the network economy, to choke relations through authorized channels, and thereby capture value that would otherwise be retained by its producers. Points of control are introduce into the natural mesh of social relations…. Continue reading
The P2P Values Video
With beautiful but airy music, but could also have a more chtonic techno-beat, such as the one videomaker Akasa created for a related Barbara Marx Hubbard video :
Commons, Market, Capital and State (4): a critique of free market ideology
Dmytri Kleiner, a German mutualist activist, who recently published a Telekommunisten Manifesto, argues a free market is impossible under capitalist conditions: “Capitalism depends on the appropriation of value for its subsistence and growth. The disingenuous rhetoric of the “Free Market” is a smoke screen to justify a system of privilege and exploitation, better called the… Continue reading
Introducing a biocultural approach towards Traditional Knowledge Commons licensing
“In August 2009, around 80 traditional healers living in the Bushbuckridge area of the Mpumalanga province in South Africa developed a biocultural community protocol which provided clear terms and conditions for access to their collectively held traditional knowledge (TK).” Report: Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons. A community approach to sharing traditional knowledge for non-commercial research…. Continue reading
P2P and the Role of Exclusion II: the case of Wikipedia
A re-post from Golpe de e-Estado One of the crucial characteristics of P2P is equipotency of its participants, in consequence it is not exclusion but non-rivalry or even “anti-rivalry“, with free-riders making positive contributions to production (“outriders”), what is essential (see part I). But exclusion is still present: Wikipedia, one of the mayor successes of… Continue reading
IPN: A Peer-to-Peer Network Approach to Psychological Work
Psychological Commons’ refers to a psychological space where people can find support for enquiries into their particular experience of the human condition. It is a space informed but not dominated by the hundreds of thousands of articles, journals, books, tapes, cd’s and DVDs about psychology, the hundreds of varieties of psycho-practice, plus survivor groups, user… Continue reading
Charles Leadbeater: should the UK go back to the 17th cy Diggers’ sense of community?
The Guardian’s Madeleine Bunting reports on a new pamphlet for the Young Foundation by Charles Leadbeater, Digging for the Future. Excerpt: “Leadbeater takes three aspects of Winstanley’s ideas. The first is the critique of power and his vision of self-organising, self-sufficient communities – the diggers who grew their own food. Leadbeater thinks you can take… Continue reading
The Five Commons- An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies
Title: The Five Commons – An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Ref: FF-2010-4-19 Introduction The Five Commons constitutes an evolving vision of the emerging 21st Century economy. Each of the five commons represents a… Continue reading
Why business is good for the free software commons
Not sure who the author is, but interesting points from Topyli: “Let us see how we have needed companies that exploit our free software commons. Let us see how they have actually added not only capital for themselves, but actual use value for all of us. In the late 1980s, before the Internet or the… Continue reading
Here Comes…Insect Media
A look at forthcoming (fall 2010) book from Finish media theorist Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.
Continue readingThe free culture interview
Shortened, and not identical version, of the interview which appeared recently in Spanish periodicals (see page ten of Periodico): Interviewer was Amador Fdez-Savater. Text: 1. What are the P2P dynamics or processes? What do they give us in order to think: 1) another way of producing, 2) another way of (self)governing; 3) another way of… Continue reading
A double review of: The Firm as Collaborative Community
the entire book is filled with really interesting insights. If you’re interested in the transformation of work and work organization, as I am, or if you’re just interested in how macro changes are affecting rhetoric and values, I highly recommend this book. Tom Haskins has been reading this important book, and took extensive notes. And… Continue reading