We continue our (belated) treatment of a report by Hilary Wainwright of the Networked Politics meeting at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation by activists from the European left. Excerpt: “This emphasis on a shared but necessarily networked struggle for the conditions of social creativity also marks the break – which has been implicit since 1968 –… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2010"
A critique of steady-state capitalism
1. For more than thirty years Daly has chanted his mantra of “development without growth” but he has yet to explain, in any concrete way, how an actual capitalist economy comprised of capitalists, investors, employees, and consumers could carry on from day to day in “stasis.” 2. Like it or not Jonathon, it’s time to… Continue reading
All Rights Reserved All Wrongs Reversed
The video above is a remix of Anders Webergs film 090909 the film shot entirely on a mobile phone originally runs for 9 hours 9 minutes and 9 seconds the remix running 9 seconds and 9 frames is reminiscent of the work of Stan Brakhage. In our networked culture copyrights and control over the use… Continue reading
When The Pirate Bay Meets CAD Files
At reBang weblog, csven writes: At some point, p2p networks won’t have just mp3 files, they’ll have CAD files. When they do, the first thing that will happen is factories in distant corners of the manufacturing world will start churning out bootleg product at a pace that will make current infringement look like pre-Napster music… Continue reading
Understanding Carrying Capacity
(Clicking the above image will download a pdf file of a larger image.) In order to understand the complex world emerging around us, it is necessary to have a grasp of the ecological concept of “carrying capacity.” This post explains this crucial concept without letting the mathematics distract us from the important points. In an… Continue reading
Can state services ever be transformed into commons?
I missed this report of a meeting at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation by activists from the European left. Excerpted from Hilary Wainwright: “Among those taking part were a group of around thirty activist intellectuals from Europe, Latin America and North America who met Berlin in the spacious rooms of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation near some… Continue reading
New donation pool to raise funds for Ripple development
A new donation pool has been created to raise funds for development of the Ripple project, with an initial contribution of $500.00. The final amount will be donated to the Ripple project to support the development of a standalone Ripple server to provide open decentralized payment through the Ripplepay site as well as other services… Continue reading
Elements of an integrated sharing infrastructure
Readers are probably aware of my mindmap giving an overview of the emergence of a integrated infrastructure of openness, which I explained here. After a remark by Sam Rose, I now see openness as mostly related to the immaterial aspect of value creation, i.e. sharing knowledge, code and design (though of course the infrastructure for… Continue reading