Soy Publica is a collective created in 2010 as a response to attacks on public education in the Greater Madrid area. It’s a totally independent group based on assembly principles Via Guerilla Translation!: “Soy Pública is a collective created in 2010 as a response to attacks on public education in the Greater Madrid area. It’s… Continue reading
Date archives "March 2014"
Pitivi: Bringing Open Source Video Editing to the Next Level
I bought a Canon 60D DSLR a few months back and have been doing a little bit of video including some interviews. Being a Linux user I looked into the different free software that is available for video editing. This isn’t my first time working with video but it is my first time editing video… Continue reading
The Fifteen Geometric Properties of Wholeness
From the book The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems (Center for Environmental Structure) by Christopher Alexander. The Fifteen Geometric Properties of Wholeness Here are the fifteen properties, now expressed as fifteen transformations that generate life. These provide the active juice with which a living system provides… Continue reading
Debating nine pre-P2P perspectives: 4) Neo-marxism
We continue our conversation with Jose Ramos about nine world-changing political theories and p2p theory relates to them. Today’s topic: Neo-Marxism. 1. Summary by Jose Ramos: Neo-Marxist theories, which explore and articulate alternatives to status quo globalisation, vary greatly. It might also be said that neo-Marxism has influenced so many spheres of inquiry and social… Continue reading
Rodney Mullen on Open Source Skateboarding
Skateboarding functions as an open source community, explains the 10-year long world champion Rodney Mullen. “By peering into the layered nature of practice through the lens of what high-level pro skateboarders do, we’ll investigate how the nuanced way in which they go about it can be the biggest determinant of success— especially at groundbreaking levels…. Continue reading
Call for contributions to a book on ‘Mass Intellectuality: The democratisation of higher education’
SOURCE – http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/02/25/call-for-contributions-to-a-book-on-mass-intellectuality-the-democratisation-of-higher-education/ Through our work on the Social Science Centre, Joss Winn and I have been approached to produce a book which documents and critically analyses ‘alternative higher education’ projects in terms of their being critical responses to ‘intellectual leadership’ in mainstream higher education. The book is intended to be part of a series already agreed with Bloomsbury… Continue reading