From a Greek correspondent: It is important to explain to European people what has really happened in Athens at 29 June. It was an organized terroristic attack of the Greek police against the Athenian population. A real chemical war. It is the tactics they will use later in Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc… Help us to… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2011"
Open design comes of age (2), second of a series by Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli (original source here): In a previous post, I started explaining that Open Design is now getting out of the underground, since many important design companies, institutions and sci-fi writers are now actively working on it. This does not mean that all the problems that we must solve in order to have a real… Continue reading
Common Healing: Kevin Hansen announces new Commons documentary
Kevin Hansen: “Common Healing is the introduction to the commons documentary we are producing. This draft effort is a step towards describing the vision of a ‘third way’ beyond government and business, where people can directly organize around commons they share.” Watch the trailer here: Common Healing – trailer v2 from Kevin Hansen on Vimeo…. Continue reading
From an Economics of Power and Greed to an Economics of Compassion and the Common Good
* Book: Economics Unmasked: From power and greed to compassion and the common good. By Philip B. Smith & Manfred Max Neef, Green Books, 2011 Excerpted from a review by Nic Marks, founder of the Centre for Well-being, via Ethical Markets TV: “This is a radical book – in fact it is a book to… Continue reading
The revolt against financial predation in Greece is a historic turning point in the awakening of European peoples
“First they went for the Irish, and we did nothing; then they went for the Greeks, and we did nothing; then they went for the Spanish, and we did nothing; then they went for the Portuguese, and we did nothing; then they went for the Belgians and we did nothing … this is how Europe… Continue reading
Kevin Carson on Bitcoin and the Phyles: dystopia or utopia?
Kevin Carson‘s take on Bitcoin, as reproduced from The Bitcoin Sun : “Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most economic transactions into darknets beyond the government’s capability of monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to implode. This was followed, in short… Continue reading
Blue Labour’s relational state, a partner state?
Jon Wilson explains the relational bias of Blue Labour and its conception of the state, which is quite related to our own conception of the Partner State. Excerpted from a Open Democracy debate: “The problem is that left-liberal politics imagines abstract values rather than strong relationships bind us to act together for the common good…. Continue reading
Colombia, chronicle of a Social Controversy Foretold: the story of copyright bill 241
Colombia, chronicle of a Social Controversy Foretold Translated by Carolina Mejía Original in spanish By Carolina Botero Following the trend of other laws currently being enforced by other countries attempting to regulate ISP’s responsibility for copyright infractions made through the internet (known as Hadopi Law, Sinde Law, “Notice and take Down laws”, “Notice and Notice laws”,… Continue reading
Open design comes of age, first of a series by Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli (original source here): With this post (and two following ones) I’m going to explain why I think that Open Design is going mainstream now (here I’m talking about Open Design on broad terms). With these posts I don’t want to say that it is now considered popular and no more controversial, but that… Continue reading
We need public clouds to complement private clouds
Excerpted from Charles Leadbeater: “The cloud capitalists – Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon – present themselves as the next step of the networked world. Cloud computing allows our data to be stored remotely so it is always there to be accessed from any device we like. For consumers juggling a mass of data on an array… Continue reading
The cyberstrike: online aspects of the June 30 anti-austerity mobilization in the UK
One thing is now certain- the zones of operation for political action are polymorphous and integrate into all areas of production and reproduction of capital- including immaterial areas such as the internet and IT networks. Contrary to what the mainstream media might print, the working-class are not dinosaurs but the productive class within society, and,… Continue reading
Towards post-futurism … What do we do after the ‘death of the future’?
Video interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the release of his new book “After the Future”. Directed by Gary Genosko and produced by the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson University. Interesting culture critique … the good news: it’s time to “live” again .. Bifo: After the Future from Preempting Dissent on… Continue reading
Digital Reverse Development: How the South is teaching the West
Reproduced from Dan McQuillan: “The idea of Digital Reverse Development is an observation and a call to action. It describes the way digitally-enabled social innovations from Brazil, Africa and elsewhere will start to tackle problems in the West. The part that’s most visible is the digital: @Ushahidi is moving mainstream, and there’s mobile tools from… Continue reading
Wiki Management at Synaxon
We magazine (issue 5 on leadership) interviews the CEO of Synaxon, which uses a wiki as intranet platform in order to achieve a transparent corporate culture: Interview “Gudrun Porath: How did you get the idea of completely refocusing your company on a wiki as your intranet platform with the switchover to a transparent corporate culture… Continue reading
Bifo on the crisis of European civilization and the cognitarian insurrection
Excerpted from The New Significance: 1. The Problem of Europe “There is no European identity. No ethnic identity, no religious identity, no national identity. This is the strenght and the beauty of the European project. Europe can only be the product of our mind. I would say also: a product of our imagination. And the… Continue reading
Eben Moglen on the four forces that have coalesced to destroy internet freedom
Really great lecture at PDF11. The first part outlines the dangers to net.freedom, the second part what we can do against it. Watch the video: