Network sovereignty has agendas against agency, especially that of the “unspecified enemy.” And this is ultimately the source of public secret asymmetries, in which the US projects its own network sovereign shadow activities out onto individual sovereigns. What happens when these shadows come back into public awareness? Let’s take it straight from one of the… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2011"
John Robb on Conducting Economic Insurgencies through Open Source Business Ventures
John Robb, author of one of the most interesting p2p blogs on open source warfare developments, has been setting his sights in the last two years on community resilience and what the appropriate commercial entities may be for this. In this presentation, he talks about what kind of institutions can be developed to avoid cognitive… Continue reading
What are popular assemblies and why are they recurring now?
Via: What Are Popular Assemblies? Sveinung Legard: “Before we look at some of these examples, what is a popular assembly? A popular assembly is a space that is open to all citizens from a certain area, be it a neighborhood, city, or a broader region. This space is used by the citizens to discuss matters… Continue reading
Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (3): Some Outstanding Implications of Transfinancial Economics
Robert Searle: The potential implications of Transfinancial Economics are vast, and outstanding in many respects. Alot of the Facilitation Finance would occur with the introduction of Electronic Transaction Monitoring, or ETM which would take into account in advance the productive capacity of relevant businesses in a commercial project. Thus, the production of the “right” amount… Continue reading
Overdose: a documentary on the next meltdown … the one that’s on its way
Jerome Roos writes, recommending Overdose: “This hauntingly beautiful documentary tells the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see — the one that’s on its way …Revealing the folly behind our policy response to the global financial crisis of 2008, Overdose exposes the structural contradictions that underpin our world economic system today.” Watch… Continue reading
Are our deep ‘mod ecologies’ threatened by the shallow ‘app ecologies’?
Excerpted from an interesting thoughtpiece on internet-driven innovation by Alison Powell: “If the raw materials be wood, stone, or easily modifiable Linux software and solderable boards, we take apart and remake because that’s partly how we want to remake our world. This is at the heart of the ‘mod ecology’ where people take on, take… Continue reading
Who’s reponsible for the meltdown?
One Day in the Life Inside The Tahrir Sit-In
Via: “Since a huge protest on July 8th in Tahrir, demonstrators have been holding a sit-in, vowing to remain until their demands are met. They have taken full ownership of the square with no government forces in sight. Food, cleanliness and security are in the hands of the protesters who are living in the square… Continue reading
Syntagma Assembly warns against the theft of Greek public property: privatisation plans are null and void
A warning to Troica, banks and investors from The People’s Assembly of Syntagma Square 03/07/2011: “Warning against the Troika, the banks and local or foreign prospective investors who covet Greece’s public property. The revoked and dictatorial Greek government that does not represent the people of this country has just voted for bills, with which it… Continue reading
Towards a Technological, Social, and Legal Infrastructure for Secure Leaking
Excerpted from Finn Brunton: Infrastructural “The means for securely and anonymously submitting materials are already fairly well established — though of course they can be improved, and constant vigilance is needed for potential attacks. Real difficulties lie on the publication side, as the struggle to keep WikiLeaks online demonstrates. There are two aspects to this… Continue reading
Peereconomic update: an interesting experiment in ‘paid usership’
“n.e.w.s. is dealing with remunerated usership (online and off line) as an innovative way of equitably redistributing community-produced value. Contrary to mainstream practice – with its residual romanticism of solitary authorship and single signature value – we at n.e.w.s. contend that value is always collectively produced through linguistic cooperation (polemics or just idle chatter) –… Continue reading
Thomas Greco on the nuts and bolts of creating a credit-commons- based local exchange system
Watch this video conversation in Canada, here: This TV interview is also well worth watching: Here, Thomas Greco explains how mutual credit clearing systems could go viral and spread globally: “It is possible to organize an entirely new structure of money, banking, and finance, one that is interest-free, decentralized, and controlled, not by banks or… Continue reading
Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (2): the role of Facilitation Banks and Electronic Transaction Monitoring
Robert Searle: In Part Two of Transfinancial Economics, or TFE we will examine in more detail about the role of Facilitation Banks, or FBs, and also Electronic Transaction Monitoring, or ETM. Facilitation Banks. These would be quite different to the ordinary mainstream banks..even though they would probably be part of the existing banking system. They… Continue reading
Mapping out the value exchange spectrum (2): applying Gregory Rader’s quadrant view
Second part of the interesting attempt by Gregory J. Rader, to map out and distinguish different kinds of exchanges such as the market, the gift economy, etc .. In the first part we presented his “Mapping the Value Universe” ; here, how he attempts to apply it. Gregory Rader: “In the introduction I posed a… Continue reading
Naomi Klein on the need for integrating the precautionary principle in our addiction to risk
Interesting video:
Book of the Week (2): Sacred Economics, Disintermediation and the P2P Revolution
Every new epoch needs its adapted spirituality. A good candidate for a positive affirmation of a p2p spirituality is this book from marvelous author and speaker Charles Eistenstein, whose earlier The Ascent of Humanity offered a most profound critique of the current system. Here, he describes the positive alternative. * Book: Charles Eistenstein. Sacred Economics:… Continue reading