Preface from the forthcoming book “Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. The scholarly book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2014. This is a working draft on which we invite everybody to read and comment. Preface The aim of this book is not… Continue reading
Date archives "April 2014"
21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World
Source: shareable.net. Nice overview by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak of the rapidly maturing technologies which are set to move power out of the hands of centralised organisations and help usher in a new world of resilient distributed networks. Featuring OpenGarden, whose FireChat iPhone app is proving immensely popular, even outstripping Facebook and Twitter in daily download… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner on circuits of value in the Lulz economy
We talked about Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus a few days ago. Here’s another take from Dmytri Kleiner, originally published in his blog. Thus, like capitalists, voluntary producers, come to market twice. Fist time as buyers, the second time for the lulz. However, unlike capitalists their circuit is not completed, because the lulz do not enable… Continue reading
Interviewing Enric Duran on the Integral Revolution Part 3 & 4
Part 1 & 2 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/integral-revolution-part-1-2/2014/04/04 Original article – http://guerrillatranslation.com/2014/03/26/integral-revolution/ PART III: FUTURE PROJECTIONS NG: What lengths are you going to in documenting the development and design of CIC? How can we follow along? We have a wealth of material documenting our experience. We’ve carried out several training courses within our integral cooperative, as well as… Continue reading
Video of the Day: “Come Back” – the Story of Enric Duran’s action and its aftermath
“Come Back” is a full-length documentary film detailing the aftermath of Spanish activist Enric Duran’s notorious action against 16 major banks. In case you’re not familiar with his act of “financial civil disobedience”, Duran attained roughly half a million Euros in bank loans and subsequently distributed the funds to support anti-capitalist activist movements. This documentary… Continue reading
Interviewing Enric Duran on the Integral Revolution Part 1 & 2
The article will be followed by parts 2 & 3 tomorrow. Original Article – http://guerrillatranslation.com/2014/03/26/integral-revolution/ Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation, Neal Gorenflo of Shareable, and author John Restakis interview Catalan Integral Cooperative’s Enric Duran Answers translated by Stacco Troncoso, text edited by Jane Loes Lipton – Guerrilla Translation! Images by Lisa Furness and the CIC… Continue reading
This is Not Your Ancestors’ Collapse Scenario
[Note: This originally appeared at Center for a Stateless Society] A forthcoming “NASA study” that predicts medium-term collapse has gone viral on the Internet, based entirely on Nafeez Ahmed’s advance writeup for The Guardian (“NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?,” March 14). To start with we should note, just in passing, that it… Continue reading
When Kickstarter Becomes a Charity For Venture Capitalists
Continuing our critique of venture capital-led innovations, Joel Johnson tells the story of what happened to the company he supported through his crowdsourced capital. Originally published at Valleywag.com “If Oculus turned into a billion-dollar company on their own by selling hardware, publishing software, and forging strategic alliances with other companies, I don’t think I would… Continue reading
Understanding The Effects Of Hierarchy In Society
Professor Robert Sapolsky’s baboon studies offer insight into the negative effects of hierarchy in society: “So what do baboons teach the average person, don’t bite somebody because your having a bad day, don’t displace on them in any sort of manner, social affiliation is a remarkably powerful thing and that’s said by somebody who lives… Continue reading
CSCW 2015 | Call for Participation
CSCW 2015 | Call for Participation March 14-18, 2015 | Vancouver, BC, Canada http://cscw.acm.org The ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: The Convivialist Manifesto
Via: “This manifesto aims at naming the common point shared by the countless initiatives seeking for an alternative to the current organisation of the world. Their common point is the search for what its authors call a Convivialism, i.e. for an art of living together (con-vivere) that would allow humans to take care of each… Continue reading
Collaborative Economy Week May 4 – 11, 2014
Collaborative Economy Week ¡Come and share! Collaborative Economy Week is an event created by Minka: Bank of Networks to spread new models of economies based in collaboration, articulate actors and leaders of the economy in a global collaborative network and learn by sharing skills and tools. The main goal is to connect collaborative economy actors… Continue reading
Introducing the Mapping All Alternatives project
Silke Helfrich introduces “A global collective mapping effort for “all alternatives”: “We observe a rapid expansion of social movements and initiatives around degrowth, solidarity economy, cooperatives, p2p initiatives, collaborative consumption, commons and others. New initiatives are appearing all overthe world. Making them visible on a common map (Open Street Map based) will provide useful tools… Continue reading
Possible Utopias and the need for a Social Knowledge Economy
Here’s a very recent interview with P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens, recorded in Quito, Ecuador. You can find the original, published at Radios Libres’ site, right here. It was originally conducted in Spanish, with consecutive translation by FLOKSociety’s Andrés Delgado. For our blog, I’ve translated the questions in text and kept Michel’s audio answers in… Continue reading
Let’s Hear it (also) for the Rootless Cosmopolitans?
Let’s Hear it (also) for the Rootless Cosmopolitans? Peter Waterman [email protected] www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman Rootless Cosmopolitans – whether with this or related names – had a bad press during the 20th century. Not only from Stalin, who was responsible for popularising the concept bezrodniy kosmopolit (literally: a countryless cosmopolitan, in Stalin’s mind a stateless one also). One… Continue reading
The outline of the new paradigm that will save our civilisation
Excerpted from Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: (go to the original for all the supporting links) “The new emerging paradigm is premised on a fundamentally different ethos, in which we see ourselves not as disconnected, competing units fixated on maximising consumerist conquest over one another; but as interdependent members of a single human family. Our economies, rather… Continue reading