The Womanifesto is the philosophy underpinning the satirical novel DOG Sharon: The Future is Female The Womanifesto calls for a positive re-evaluation and adoption of what have traditionally been referred to as Female Values and Perspectives with a corresponding paradigm shift in human affairs. The Womanifesto is the philosophy underpinning the satirical novel DOG Sharon: The Future is Female The Womanifesto calls… Continue reading
Date archives "September 2012"
Peer Production: a New Economic Dawn? by Alistair Davidson
In his most recent blog post, Alastair Davidson, the author of Wikileaks, Karl Marx and You. clarifies his posoition on the emergence of peer production as a universal mode of production as in a Marx. that is in dialectical conflict with the existing capitalist mode. “I keep claiming that peer production is a new mode… Continue reading
We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists
We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) will be appearing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 19th. Watch the video here:
Oil prices will make the Next Industrial Revolution a distributed one
Republished from John Aziz: “Large, centrally-directed systems are inherently fragile. Think of the human body; a spontaneous, unexpected blow to the head can kill an otherwise healthy creature; all the healthy cells and tissue in the legs, arms, torso and so forth killed through dependency on the brain’s functionality. Interdependent systems are only ever as… Continue reading
Organisation 4.0: Rising of the revolutionary ne(t)worganisation
New organising is networganising which is different than both organising and networking performed by traditional organisation and network. It is a higher level synthesis of the best parts of the two and that goes beyond the practices of pre-synthesis hybrid forms networked organisation (networg) and organised network (orgnet). Networganising is what a networganisation does in order to reach out like minded, key peers, link them and their… Continue reading
#GLOBALNOISE #13O “THIS IS WHAT GLOBAL REVOLUTION SOUNDS LIKE!!”
Map and a List of places where #globalNOISE actions will happen: we do not owe, we do not pay! #globalNOISE #13O Events ALREADY IN LIST:
Book of the Day: The Producism Manifesto
The Producism Manifesto. People-Powered Stimulus Packages and Sustainable Local Communities. By Drew Little. Description The goal of this book is to succinctly explain fundamental problems in the U.S.’s current economic system, and to propose a solution that is easy to understand through the use of text, image, and video content. A mobile application will also… Continue reading
Class struggle 3.0: Entrepreneurs as the New Labor Class vs. the Funder Class
Excerpted from a three-part essay by Venkatesch Rao: “For the last few months, I’ve been cautiously testing a radical-sounding hypothesis on smart people: entrepreneurs are the new labor. Or to put it in a more useful way, the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major technology… Continue reading
Why some of the best universities are giving away their courses
By Katherine Long: SEATTLE TECH entrepreneur Greg Linden describes himself as “mostly retired” these days, but at age 39 he still has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. So he decided to go to college — without leaving home. Through Stanford University, he took a class on robotic-car programming from professor Sebastian Thrun, who led the… Continue reading
New book available: The Wealth of the Commons
The book “The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State” is finally published. It includes texts from P2P-F’s members Michel Bauwens and Franco Iacomella. From David Bollier: I’m pleased to report that the English edition of a new anthology of essays, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State,… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy
Book: The Resilience Imperative. Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy. by Michael Lewis & Pat Conaty From the book’s description: “We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The… Continue reading
The world’s first open data festival can inspire business
Source: SITRA Sitra will contribute to Helsinki’s ground-breaking open knowledge conference. The OKFestival will bring leading open data experts to Helsinki for a week in September. The world’s first open knowledge festival will focus on new business opportunities, the benefits of making information freely available and the effects of a new type of transparency on… Continue reading
What’s Happening in the P2P Research Space?
An overview by Nicolas Mendoza: * R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project page at the P2P Foundation Wiki URL = http://p2pfoundation.net/The_R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project Please bear in mind that it is indeed a “Request for Comments”, as we believe that the final form of this P2P research initiative should be itself the result of a P2P production process. * Jarkko Moilanen’s Call for… Continue reading
Jerry – how to make your own computer
Jerry is a French open source initiative intended to show that we don’t necessarily have to wait for money to become available to buy an expensive computer. With simple components, it is possible to construct a rugged computer system that can be adapted to all kinds of uses, even to server duty, and that can… Continue reading
November 28: Commons Day in Helsinki, Finland
Program of the Commons Day, Friday 28.9 Co-organised day on peer-to-peer production and commons by Commons.fi- online journal, Helsinki Timebank and the University of Helsinki All events are open to all, and will be held in English. Research Seminar : How To Research the Commons in the Age of Global Capitalism? Time : 10:15-12:45 Place… Continue reading
The Internet Was Created Through Peer Production
“That should be the story we tell our kids when they ask who invented the Internet. Yes, we should tell them about the long-view government spending that paid the initial salaries, and the entrepreneurs who figured out a way to make the new medium commercially viable. But we shouldn’t bury the lead. The Internet was… Continue reading