Source: http://adam.hypotheses.org/1939 Reclaiming the Internet » with distributed architectures: rights, technologies, practices, innovation. The research program ADAM (Distributed Architectures and Multimedia Applications, adam.hypotheses.org) (1) studies the technical, political, social, socio-cultural and legal implications of distributed network architectures. This term indicates a type of network bearing several features: a network made of multiple computing units, capable to… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2014"
James Quilligan on bioregional self-sufficiency as a condition for bioregional democracy
“Bioregional democracy (or the Bioregional State) is a set of electoral reforms and commodity reforms designed to force the political process in a democracy to better represent concerns about the economy, the body, and environmental concerns (e.g. water quality), toward developmental paths that are locally prioritized and tailored to different areas for their own specific… Continue reading
Capital as Commons : Investment with ‘r = g’
The neoliberal ‘ethic’ and practice is fueling increasing economic inequality around the globe. We are seeing ‘economic divergence’ as policy design weighted by lobbies creating conditions for a society that is fundamentally divided into an upper percentile of “”have’s”, and the greater majority of labouring and suffering human beings. How can ethical investors work with… Continue reading
The 14th Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium – July 16-18 Amsterdam
The 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium addresses the design and realization of privacy services for the Internet and other data systems and communication networks by bringing together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives. The symposium seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all… Continue reading
P2P in the Urban South
A conversation with Michel Bauwens about the dynamics of peer sharing: the role of cities in Africa on the occasion of festival Afropixel 4, Dakar, Senegal (in French) “Think what a peer-to-peer economy in a city like Dakar could mean. First, we need to consider an alternative economic model based on networks, cooperation and exchange,… Continue reading
An update on recent research on positive and empathic Crowd Psychology
Excerpted from Michael Bond: “In recent years, social psychologists have found that, rather than surrendering rationality and self-awareness, people in crowds define themselves according to who they are with at the time; their social identity determines how they behave. Stephen Reicher, a social psychologist at the University of St Andrews, says this model of crowd… Continue reading
P2P Foundation and the Commons Stragies Group: An open letter of support for Medialab-Prado
In response to the plight of Medialab-Prado and their own Manifesto, the P2P Foundation and the Commons Strategies group have redacted an open letter in support of this essential project. Please read and share. The P2P Foundation offers its voice in support of MediaLab Prado, an exemplary project of collaborative, commons-oriented co-working in Madrid, Spain,… Continue reading
Utopia in the horizon (documentary)
“Utopia in the horizon” is a documentary “for those who chose to struggle” presented in 2012 by ROARMAG.org and made possible by Syntagma Multimedia Team. From the description of the documentary on ROARMAG’s youtube channel: In May 2011, hundreds of thousands of Greeks swarmed into Syntagma Square in Athens to protest against the firesale of… Continue reading
Secessioning from the Broadcast: Lecture from Gene Youngblood
Recorded lecture on p2p media theory, worth listening in full: Here, Greg Palast explains the historical importance of Gene Youngblood’s work:
Rushkoff: “Punching nerds in the face is never a good thing”
Originally sent out as part of Douglas Rushkoff’s e-mail newsletter (which we’ve talked about here) and since republished in CNN, this article talks about the growing hostility towards the former “garage-shop” tech giants… and how they could avoid it for the good of all. At this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner — the annual opportunity… Continue reading
Rob Carlson: Patents are dysfunctional for synthetic biology startups
A testimony from Rob Carlson:
Should the voluntariat resist commoning for capital ?
“While we must challenge the obliteration of wages for the sake of profits, we should not argue simply for the restitution of the wage labor regime of last century’s capitalism. The growing corporate exploitation of spontaneous, voluntary activity brings into view a truth that capitalism could more readily obscure in an era of stable wage… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Andrew McGettigan on MOOC Boosterism
Andrew McGettigan on ‘MOOC Boosterism: Mass online learning and the current higher education policy environment (in the UK): See here for parts 2, 3 and 4.
The Internet and Crisis of Social Control: liberation is so close, yet so far away
“The cultural arm of social control in America … is now based exclusively on a mass identification that’s not enforceable. The very existence of this apparatus that enables millions to systematically dis-identify with the American Imaginary, to willfully estrange ourselves from the master signifier — that’s a new menace to social control. It’s jaw-dropping to… Continue reading
Red cybernetics, darwinian marxism and the cunning of instrumental reason
Excerpted from a fascinating essay by Johan Soderbergh: “The paper on Darwinian Marxism proposes a thought experiment in which the output of a self-printing 3D printer is compared with an injection moulding machine, a standard industrial tool for the mass production of consumer goods. In the long run, and provided that the question of exhaustible… Continue reading
The Commons movement is spreading in Greece
Greece. A country in deep crisis. The promise of the Commons seems to embody the hopes and dreams of a multitude in search of an alternative, sustainable future. For the past few years, we have been witnessing a surge of Commons-fuelled activity: Projects, workshops and festivals explicitly focused on Commons-oriented ideas and practices are taking… Continue reading