Full reproduction of a original Greek-language article: “There may be no better proof of the rupture that is brought about by the “movement of the squares” other than its open, participatory, directly democratic way of organising and functioning. Within a single week it has given birth to a political culture of a different type, one… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2011"
Book of the Week (2): The History of Stamp Scrip
* Book: New Currency: How Money Changes the World As We Know It. By Jordan Bruce MacLeod. Integral Publishers, 2009 This very well written introduction to why we need differently designed currency has an interesting review of historical experiences, in particular how evolutions after the meltdown of 1929 could help find solutions for the meltdown… Continue reading
Compilation of images and music dedicated to #spanishrevolution
Well done compilation:
Towards #participatorydemocracy
An anonymous youtube user explains the need to move from Representative Democracy towards Participatory Democracy and how we now have the necessary tools to make it a reality at our disposal.
Wikying public policy making
Excerpted form a post by Colin Hawkett: If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.’ – Aristotle Things are screwed up. There’s a process called democracy that is supposed to… Continue reading
Vertical Integration and Moore’s Law for Atoms
At Replicator, Joe Flaherty writes: My guess is that the increasing availability of small scale manufacturing tools will lead to more vertical integration. Product inventors will be able to fund their designs via Kickstarter, produce them at Protomold, create a store front using Shopify, and send products to customers using Amazons “Fulfillment By Amazon” service…. Continue reading
The values of real democracy
Via: From The Campaign for Real Democracy / Project 2012 which has set out the following principles: VALUES: Equality – each person is able to speak and be listened to – there is no elite platform Difference – we learn from each other’s perspectives; we may disagree, but we listen to one another respectfully and… Continue reading
Flattr contributions now open on p2p blog
Some of you may have noticed that we have for about a month now, been supporting Flattr donations on our blog. The work of P2P Foundation relies mostly on the goodwill of volunteers around the world who care about this effort. You can help us continue and improve this work by making a donation using… Continue reading
Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Seven: The Alternative Economy As a Singularity
[I’m down to the final stretch of serializing The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto, at Michel Bauwens’ kind invitation. We begin the series of excerpts from the seventh and last chapter. I’ll do this in three installments, since it’s one of the more important chapters in the book] We have seen the burdens… Continue reading
Robin Good on Digital Curation
Howard Rheingold interviews one of my heroes, Robin Good, on the importance of curation, which is what we are essentially doing at the P2P Foundation blog:
#15M to #19J Spain Rallies for Protests
The Spanish protest movement known as #15M has organised country wide demonstrations on June 19th – map with confirmed locations – in order to make a statement of purpose and to protest against the signature of “A Pact for the Euro” or “Euro Pact”. The movement is rallying for European and global support: THERE ARE… Continue reading
Democratic mobilizations in Europe – seeds 4 a commons-based society?
Plans for the School of Commoning are moving quickly forward. Inspired by the blog of Michel Bauwens on the same subject http://bit.ly/k7jijy we will offer a new workshop on the current, real democracy mobilizations and how they may relate to the transition to a post-capitalist, commons-based society. It will take place in London at SOAS University, June… Continue reading
Book of the Week: How New Currency could change the world
* Book: New Currency: How Money Changes the World As We Know It. By Jordan Bruce MacLeod. Integral Publishers, 2009 This is not a new book but it is very readable, cogently explained, with lots of interesting history of past experiences and lessons learned from them. It’s a very good introduction and background to the… Continue reading
P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens
P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (GMT+1000) The Hub, Melbourne, Australia Humanity has invented a new model of value creation that is based on sharing knowledge, code and design and involves the cooperation of a commons/community,… Continue reading
The new wave of anti-corporate hacktivism
Excerpted from Micah White: “Historically, denial of service has been the primary tactic of electronic civil disobedience. Now, we are seeing instead the politicization of highly-skilled, clandestine hacker groups who are explicitly anti-corporate. One of the first to arise is LulzSecurity. They have hacked Sony six times in a row and dumped internal code. When… Continue reading
On Anagorism
The “Anagorism” page of the P2P Foundation Wiki includes a quote from John Crump in which he states that “socialism is, by definition, a marketless society,” and that “[f]ar from socialism being compatible with exchange and the market, the generalised production of goods for exchange on the market is the hallmark of an entirely different… Continue reading