The text below is taken from the European Freelancers movement’s campaign website, which is built on the book written by Joel Dullroy and Anna Cahsman: Independents Unite! If you are a peer producer, self-employed or part of a phyle collective, go read their manifesto and lend a hand to an emerging movement with your signature to… Continue reading
Date archives "September 2014"
IASC Commons Releases Six Short Animated Videos
The IASC Commons (International Association for the Study of Commons) has released a series of six short, artfully produced videos, “Commons in Action,” that amount to short advertisements for important commons projects. Each begins with the words: “Commons are forms of governance and governance strategies for resources created and owned collectively. Commons are a reality today.” The longest video,… Continue reading
Human Ecosystems in São Paulo: the Real Time Museum of the City
Source: http://human-ecosystems.com/home/human-ecosystems-in-sao-paulo-the-real-time-museum-of-the-city/ From September 23rd to 28th, as a parallel program of the International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies, the SESC Vila Mariana will hosts the Human Ecosystems project, by the Italian artists Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source). Human Ecosystems is a global project which captures the real-time public conversations… Continue reading
The 4th International Degrowth Conference: New Convergences
In a sign of the growing convergence of alternative economic movements, the Degrowth movement’s fourth international conference in Leipzig, Germany, a couple of weeks ago attracted more than 2,700 people. While a large portion of the conference included academics presenting formal papers, there were also large contingents of activists from commons networks, cooperatives, the Social and… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Planning for Protest
Planning for Protest Description “Planning for Protest is a publication, exhibition and associated project of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Organized by Ben Allen, James Bae, Ricardo Gomes, Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels, the project explores both the social and architectural definitions of protest in light of the current global financial crisis. Architectural offices witnessing… Continue reading
Need for an holistic and emancipatory scientific methodology
Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine, is a must read by Matteo Pasquinelli. However the ‘accelerationism’ is the name of rapidly changing Zeitgeist(s) -the spirit of ‘space-time’, compressed increasingly into smaller units. The direction of meta-data and big-data research already moved further within the timespawn of Pasquinelli’s paper publication in early 2014. The theorization of the emerging ‘meta-data’ society, already has to… Continue reading
Occupying the Money System: Enric Duran introduces Fair.Coop
“What was missing for us to start out on this path was a monetary initiative present in these markets which, instead of relying on human competition to retain the greatest value, would be based on human cooperation as equals, creating value for all. With the arrival of Fair.Coop, faircoin has become the cryptocurrency focused on the social cooperation… Continue reading
Launching of the “P2P and Innovation” magazine in Brazil
By Janice Figueiredo: “The first issue of the “P2P and Innovation” (“Revista P2P & INOVAÇÃO”) magazine in Brazil has just been launched. The magazine brings together eight articles, which are the result of the course Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, ministered in Brazil in November 2012. During the course – made possible through… Continue reading
A Truncated Interview on Racism
At a conference (Economics, People, and Planet) in Denmark, a tall Nordic-looking man and a mixed-race woman wearing press badges asked me for an interview. They put me on camera and the woman said, “I’ll ask you the same question I’m asking all the keynote speakers. What does the conference topic have to do with… Continue reading
David Harvey and Gar Alperovitz on Cooperation and Capitalism
Source: http://grittv.org/?video=david-harvey-and-gar-alperovitz-on-capitalism-and-cooperation David Harvey and Gar Alperovitz have been thinking, writing and speaking about capitalism for decades. David Harvey is a widely cited author of, among other things, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, Gar Alperovitz is co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, and a member of the board of… Continue reading
Exarchia, a countercultural island in downtown Athens
This is a 12 minute video report on Atens’ Exarchia district, where a different kind of economy is alive, one where contribution, rather than exchange, is most valued. Exarchia is a district of Athens that is home to leftists and anarchists, poor people and intellectuals. Greece’s economic crisis hit it hard. But solidarity and a… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Atlas of Transformation
Atlas of Transformation URL = http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/index.html Description “Atlas of Transformation is a book with almost 900 pages. It is a sort of global guidebook of transformation processes. With structured entries, its goal is to create a tool for the intellectual grasping of the processes of social and political change in countries that call themselves “countries of… Continue reading
Theses on P2P Politics, published in “The Square”
The latest issue of “The Square” newspaper, edited by Ivor Stodolsky, features articles by Michel Bauwens, Nika Dubrovsky/ Feminist Pencil, Grey Violet (aka Maria Shtern), Núria Güell, G.U.L.F., Noah Fischer/Occupy Museums, Teivo Teivainen & Ivor Stodolsky, Telekommunisten and Nadya Tolokno (Tolokonnikova) of Zona Prava/Pussy Riot. Michel’s piece is entitled “Thesis in P2P Politics”
Interview: Andy Goldring on Time in Permaculture Economies
Read the interview of Andy Goldring by Michelle Bastian here. Michelle Bastian explains: “One of the aims of the Sustaining Time project is to provide materials that can open up discussions around the relationship between time and attempts to move towards more sustainable economic models. As part of this interviews were conducted with a range… Continue reading
The Highest Poverty. Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life by Giorgio Agamben
” It wasn’t an accident that Christian monasticism started right as the Roman Empire was becoming, or claiming to become, Christian. Women and men—sometimes bending gender in the process—fled to the wilderness of Egypt and Turkey and Syria where they could live out the more demanding parts of their religion, with one another’s company and… Continue reading
Wind Empowerment Athens 2014
Please support our friends at WindEmpowerment in crowdfunding an event to raise awareness on energy resilience at the local level. Their self-manufactured wind turbines are a good example of open source local manufacturing embedded within a global commons approach. The following text is copied from their crowdfunding campaign page. Support locally manufactured small wind turbines and the electrification of rural communities Wind… Continue reading