A proposal for a World Day of Commons October 15, 2010! Following the Manifesto Reclam the Commons, we suggest organizing the first World Day of Commons on October 15, 2010 This would be a day of public actions, presentations, debates, workshops, shows, meetings,… around the world to share the visions and the practices of Commons… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2010"
The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference
The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference Free Culture between Commons and Markets: Approaching the Hybrid Economy? October 8-9, Berlin. Registration Open http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Registration The Free Culture Research Conference presents a unique opportunity for scholars whose work contributes to the promotion, study or criticism of a Free Culture, to engage with a multidisciplinary group of academic peers… Continue reading
Peter Linebaugh on the Principles of the Commons
Reposted from counterpunch. Peter Linebaugh: “Human solidarity as expressed in the slogan “all for one and one for all” is the foundation of commoning. In capitalist society this principle is permitted in childhood games or in military combat. Otherwise, when it is not honored in hypocrisy, it appears in the struggle contra capitalism or, as… Continue reading
A Response to Dale Carrico
My response to Dale Carrico’s comment on the free market movement here. My main objections are two, Dale. First, your overbroad assertions about “market libertarians,” which are belied by the fact that there’s a sizable community of left-wing market libertarians who see the large corporation as a creature of the state, and who see the… Continue reading
The new triarchy: the commons, enterprise, the state
At the P2P Foundation, our central concept is peer to peer, i.e. the ability to freely associate with others around the creation of common value. More specifically, we call this, according to the structural anthropology of Alan Page Fiske, communal shareholding, i.e. the non-reciprocal exchange of an individual with a totality. It is totality that… Continue reading
Towards a law for sharing: the Sustainable Economies Law Center
= SELC aims to help social enterprises, worker-owned co-ops, and other mission-oriented enterprises sort through legal red tape. Jane Orsi, co-founder of SELC, is interviewed by Shareable magazine: (excerpts) “Bernice Yeung: What is sustainable economies law? Why did you create a center on this topic? Janelle Orsi: Jenny Kassan and I founded SELC so we… Continue reading
All Creative Work Is Derivative
Great clip from Nina Paley, says Keimform:
Consumption as an investment in partner-producers
Interesting description of the innovation represented by the Hoop Fund, in Shareable. Vera Churiloy: “Now imagine if you could directly help the artisans and farmers behind these products with a small loan to improve their communities. By sharing the story with your network, the money might quickly multiply – it could grow large enough to… Continue reading
Communal Councils: experimentations in participatory democracy in Venezuela
Excerpted from In These Times: Andrew Kennis: “Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s megalomaniac president who has spearheaded the country’s Bolivarian revolution and garnered so much attention, is not the only one shaking up the country’s political system. A community-based revolution is underway in Venezuela. Ordinary people all over are changing how their communities are governed. In the… Continue reading
Cultural Policy Should Support Organized Networks
This is an abstract from a presentation by Geert Lovink: New Cultural Policy: Support Organized Networks, to be given in Dortmund on August 24. Apart from Geert’s customary snide remark on the open and free culture movement, his proposal is entirely congruent with the kind of approach we have followed here, and entirely compatible with… Continue reading
FABRICATE – CALL FOR WORK
FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making… Continue reading
Call for Solidarity: Bradley Manning Support Network
A call for support from Mike Gogulski: For the past couple of months, I’ve been developing the Bradley Manning Support Network in support of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning. If you would like to get involved, there are a range of options: *A personal endorsement, to be published at www.bradleymanning.org/about/supporters *Organizational endorsement from orgs… Continue reading
Introducing open business models
The video version, thanks to Robin Good:
Book of the Week: against intellectually inspired spiritual authoritarianism
* Book: Bald Ambition: Critique of Ken Wilber’s Theory of Everything. Jeff Meyerhoff. Inside the Curtain Press, 2010 Ken Wilber, the creator of a contemporary form of integral theory, even if not academically recognized, is a towering intellectual and philosophical figure. One of the first books to examine in a brilliant way it’s intellectual basis… Continue reading
Critiquing Stewart Brand’s Californian Ideology
Dale Carrico has a fascinating three-parter, which we won’t reproduce here, but below is the introduction. The original article has the links. Intro: “I read an article attributing to futurologist Steward Brand “heretical” views that were presumably shocking given that Brand is an “icon” of the environmentalist movement, but which seemed to me not only… Continue reading
Gordon Cook: comparing the P2P Foundation approach to John Robb’s global guerillas
The August-September 2010 issue of the Cook Report is a dedicated Special Issue: * The Global Economic System in the Midst of Profound Change: An Examination of Michel Bauwens’ Foundation for P2P Alternatives. Peer Production in a World that is Benkler’s “Wealth of Networks” Made Concrete. Cook Report, Volume XIX, No. 5, August 2010 Request… Continue reading