Second of a 10-posts-series on P2P Lab’s 2013 publications. Full reference: Kostakis, V. & Papachristou, M. (2013). Commons-based peer production and digital fabrication: The case of a RepRap-based, Lego-built 3D printing-milling machine. Telematics & Informatics. The blister-packs are very convenient for taking along with you. Buy generic diflucan. The difference between a brand name medication… Continue reading
Date archives "October 2013"
Book of the Day: Off the Network
* Book: Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World. By Ulises Mejias. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2013 URL = http://offthenetwork.info free e-copy “Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users’ understanding of the world—and why that should worry… Continue reading
Binding Chaos – An Economy for All
This is the 3rd and final part in our series from Binding Chaos the new book by Heather Marsh. Share in any way you like with attribution (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Click here for Parts 1 Society vs Dissociation and Part 2 – Stigmergy. Abstract from Binding Chaos, the new book by Heather Marsh @GeorgieBC
Hollis Doherty on the Worgl Monetary Experiment in Austria
“Hollis Doherty is a writer, actress, and currency activist. A lifelong passion for protecting the Earth’s natural resources led her to a Biology degree at the University of Colorado. When she recently discovered the true story of the currency experiment during the Great Depression in Woergl, Austria, she flew there to research and ultimately write… Continue reading
How Silicon Valley elites are driving California to a new feudalism
The gap between the oligarchic class and everyone else seems increasingly permanent. A critical component of assuring class mobility, California’s once widely admired public schools were recently ranked near the absolute bottom in the country. Think about this: despite the state’s huge tech sector, California eighth graders scored 47th out of the 51 states in… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Turkey's Library of Stuff
Turkey’s Library of Stuff EMRAH GÜLER writes: “Turkey’s very own Gezi Protests, are defining new decade. On purest and most simple level, the civil uprisings and mass gatherings are revitalizing forgotten communities, creating new ones, and reclaiming public spaces as, well, public spaces. “Community is nearly impossible in a highly monetized society like our own,”… Continue reading
The Future of Internet Cooperation
This is about a recent meeting of the leaders of several organizations that govern the global connectivity infrastructure, which the Internet has certainly become. They met in Montevideo, Uruguay and took stock of the situation. Their unanimous view was that the independence of the Internet from countries and corporations is of great importance. The major… Continue reading
Tiberius Brastaviceanu on Open Value Networks
Great explanation and presentation on the open hardware and research model practiced by Sensorica: open value accounting “In addition to developing highly advanced scientific instruments, Tiberus Brastaviceanu and his team have created an innovative process halfway between traditional research and open collaboration. Based on fairness, transparency and redistribution of profits, their methodology is likely to… Continue reading
Towards Post-Democracy
* Book: Colin Crouch. Post-Democracy. (2005) Excerpted from a discussion by Henry Farrell: “In the 1990s and the 2000s, right-wing parties were the enthusiasts of the market, pushing for the deregulation of banks, the privatisation of core state functions and the whittling away of social protections. All of these now look to have been very… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Water Governance for 21st Century
* Book: Water Governance for 21st Century. Lessons from Water Trading in the U.S. and Australia. by Shiney Varghese. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2013. Excerpted from a review by Ana Micka: “Water Governance for 21st Century, by Shiney Varghese at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, makes a compelling case urging advcates… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The ‘End of Power’ by Moises Naim
Tom Atlee writes: “Naim suggests that globalization, economic growth, a growing global middle class, the spread of democracy, and rapidly expanding telecommunications technologies have changed our world. Together these developments have created a fluid and unpredictable environment which has unsettled the traditional dominions of power.” Atlee’s review reveals limitations on Naim’s perspective, namely favor of… Continue reading
Events \ Giving What You Don’t Have \ London
“Giving What You Don’t Have” the new film by artist Cornelia Sollfrank will be screened and followed by discussion at the Furtherfield Gallery in London this coming weekend, Saturday 26th October. “Cornelia Sollfrank will present her latest film Giving What You Don’t Have. It features interviews with individuals Kenneth Goldsmith, Marcell Mars, Sean Dockray, Dmitry… Continue reading
Video: post-capitalist coops in Catalonia and Spain
Watch this video on the Techno-Industrial Eco-Village in Calafou:
Project of the Day: Participation Now
Participation Now = course from the Open University + directory of initiatives: “Explore and engage with the field of public participation and find out how new forms of action are working to reshape contemporary life”. Description “Participation Now is a regularly updated and searchable archive of contemporary public participation initiatives to keep you informed… Continue reading
Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing in the Case of the Helix T Wind Turbine Project
First of a 10-posts-series on P2P Lab’s 2013 publications. Full reference: Kostakis, V., Fountouklis, M. & Drechsler, W. (2013) Peer production and desktop manufacturing: The case of the Helix_T wind turbine project. Science, Technology & Human Values, 38(6): 773 – 800. Summary This article set out to show, through the Helix_T wind turbine project, two… Continue reading
An Open Call for Open Hardware Technology for the Environment
“Anyone reasonably informed today understands that we are going through a major cultural shift. Capitalism and logics of egoist accumulation have led to the destruction of the environment, and as the number of humans on earth does not cease to grow, worst case scenari beckons. The scale of environmental man-made damages suggests that we need… Continue reading