Excerpted from Alex Knight: ” I believe a revolutionary politics requires a strategy to open up pathways for millions of ordinary people to mobilize and empower themselves. Undoubtedly this does not require everyone to do the same thing, but for each of us to pursue the endeavors which liberate our knowledge of the world, and… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2014"
Video of the Day: Bittunes – Super Distribution meets CC meets Bitcoin
Tomer from @iamsatoshi interviews Simon Edhouse, CEO of Bittunes, an Independent Digital Music Market where artists can both share and monetise their output. From the notes accompanying the video: “Bittunes is about empowering the end-user. It is about monetization of digital exchange between peers. As this is something which is impossible with traditional currencies, bitcoin was the… Continue reading
It Is Not a Revolution, It Is a New Networked Renaissance
P2P Foundation collaborator, Bernardo Gutiérrez writes for OWS’ Theory Thursday segment on the interconnected, non-linear nature of the global revolutionary process. You can read the full piece here at OccupyWallStreet.org Revolution is getting too small for us. Its centenary semantic wall seems to crumble. Indeed, the Internet launches a gunshot of questions to the heart… Continue reading
Framing the FLOK Transition Project in Ecuador: why open knowledge is not enough
John Restakis: “In the current debate concerning the rise and consequences of “cognitive capitalism”, a new discourse is developing around the concept of a “social knowledge economy”. But what does a social knowledge economy mean and what are its implications for the ways in which a society and an economy are ordered? Cognitive capitalism refers… Continue reading
Panel on New Business Models in the P2P / Social Innovation Era
Really interesting conversation moderated by Bert-Ola Bergstrand. Watch the video here:
“The biological Human Being – individuals and societies in light of evolution” (First Chapter)
——————————————————————————————- Download first chapter here (pdf). Author and co-author: Terje Bongard, Researcher at Norw. Inst. for Nature Research, Eivin Røskaft, Professor in biology at the Norw. Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Emailing addresses: [email protected] and [email protected] Telephone Terje Bongard: +4798644786 Fax: +4773801401 An extract of first chapter: “The biological Human Being – individuals and… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Leading from the Emerging Future – from Ego-system to Eco-system Economies
Leading from the Emerging Future – from Ego-system to Eco-system Economies. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer Description from Kelvy Bird: “In their new book Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer suggest that addressing today’s global challenges requires a threefold revolution: a revolution of economic thought from ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness, a revolution of relationships among… Continue reading
Upcoming Conference: Co-individuation of Minds, Bodies, Social Organizations and Technè
Call for Papers: General Organology: The Co-individuation of Minds, Bodies, Social Organizations and Technè “Marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of Bernard Stiegler’s landmark book, La Technique et le temps 1, which first outlined the project of a general organology, this conference aims to survey the range of twentieth-century and contemporary philosophical accounts, scientific… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Calafou, a Post-capitalist, Ecoindustrial Colony
Part of the Catalan Integral Cooperative, Calafou is a huge experimental site, functioning as a research centre exploring the intersection of permaculture and modern manufacturing. Calafou is, as they say, an attempt “to create an alternative to the second sector, alternatives to industry and services.” The following is excerpted from their website: Since its inception,… Continue reading
Brett Scott on Seedbombing and Applying the Principles of Permaculture to Finance
Extracted from his wonderfully named blog “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money” (which also doubles as the title of his latest book), Brett Scott lays it all out. “Finance, even in its most high-tech formulations, is rooted in ecological systems. A high-frequency trading hedge fund, for example, relies on electricity… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Global Capitalism Update with Prof. Rick Wolff
I was initially taken aback at the length of this video-lecture by Professor Rick Wolff – almost an hour and a half – but, let me assure you, it’s totally worth it. He’s the sort of teacher I really wish I could’ve had in university (surely I’d have gone to class more often!) Wolff starts… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Permaneering
= an approach to selecting, salvaging, reusing and modifying tools that’s based within ecological design criteria Description Paul Mobbs: “‘Permaneering’, or “Persistent Materials and Engineering”, is a developing concept within the Salvage Server Project’s approach to engineering, electronics and system design. Put simply, it’s an approach to selecting, salavaging, reusing and modifying tools that’s based… Continue reading
Podcast of the Day: Josef Davies-Coates on Open Coops for Permaculture
Stefan Geyer interviews our good friend Josef Davies-Coates about open cooperatives, permaculture, United Diversity and the joys of being a cybrarian. Apart from the stellar content, the show features some greasy funk between segments making for a very entertaining hour. From the shownotes to the episode: “Interviewing Cybrarian and Symbiotic Engineer Josef Davies-Coates, founder of… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Mapping the Transition to the Solar Age: from Economism to Earth Systems Science
Mapping the Transition to the Solar Age: from Economism to Earth Systems Science. Hazel Henderson. ICAEW and Tomorrow’s Company, 2013 Description Hazel Henderson writes: “…the new planetary awareness driving these paradigm shifts as we humans “connect the dots.” This knowledge explosion is now challenging our cultural beliefs about money, wealth, scarcity, abundance and transcending financial… Continue reading
Pat Conaty on Solidarity Cooperatives and the Cooperative Commonwealth
One of the most knowledgeable people about alternative economic forms and how they could be integrated in a ‘whole system’, with particular focus on Solidarity Cooperatives: “Solidarity Co-operatives have been developed as a unique multi-stakeholder Co-operative system since the 1980s. They are unique because co-production members include paid workers, volunteers, service users and social investors…. Continue reading
Toward a Political Platform for the Commons
Proposed by Jay Walljasper: (context is USA) * Universal health care: This would include natural health treatments and psychological therapies, both of which save money over the long haul by preventing serious medical conditions. * A fair electoral system: How about a voting system in which the guy who gets the most votes wins? Even… Continue reading