The surprise is not that artists use bandcamp, the surprise is that they use anything else. Great music is priceless, bad music is worthless. — Steve Lawson The best way to support an artist is to pay then directly. — Ethan Diamond When I am at a live music festival for example Staycation Live and… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2014"
THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU IMAGINE BUILDING: HERE’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO START IMAGINING IT
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here. One of the best ways to see clearly, or to find out what your vision is, is to close your eyes, and imagine that you have just arrived in the place. What do you see? What is most wonderful about the place you see? WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN… Continue reading
An intentional egalitarian community as a small-scale implementation of postcapitalist, peer production model of economy. Part I : Work as a spontanous, voluntary contribution
In this article, I will present egalitarian communities, mainly Acorn community in Virginia, to examine whether the postcapitalist mode of production in the physical world can be introduced by establishing intentional communities. It should be noted that the opinions presented here are not necessary those of the founders or members of the community where I have… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Commons-Based Reciprocity Licenses To Advance Reciprocity for the Commons
* Article: BETWEEN COPYLEFT AND COPYFARLEFT: ADVANCE RECIPROCITY FOR THE COMMONS. Miguel Said Vieira & Primavera De Filippi. Journal of Peerproduction, From the Summary: “Licensing debates abound in the “free culture” academic discussion (see, i.a., Downes, 2009; Hill, 2005; Lemos, 2010; Netpop Research, 2009; UNESCO OER Community, 2011), but we believe much of it suffers… Continue reading
P2Pvalue @ #31C3
P2Pvalue are at the 31st Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg to announce our 2nd Workshop on FLOSS4P2P. We will be giving a lightning talk on December 28th at 14:45 inviting people to attend the workshop which will take place in London on March 16-17 Hope to see you at the Hamburg talk and at our London… Continue reading
The anticipated failure of startup urbanism
The city is not a company; community is not a brand; citizenship cannot be mistaken for consumption. .. The city is not a startup. It is not a market than needs to be disrupted in order to stimulate competition and growth. The city is not a platform that can be hacked. Despite the optimistic talk,… Continue reading
Shadow, Ritual, and Relationship in the Gift
A friend recently asked me a question I get a lot: “How do you manage payment for your time and workshops?” by which she also meant, “How can I do that in a way that works practically and feels right too?” I would like to answer that question publicly, both to puncture the misperception that… Continue reading
Bonnita Roy on Grand Narratives in the P2P Age
In June 2013, I had asked Bonnitta Roy an essential question related to communication and paradigm change, but which I then forgot to publish on our blog. The answer is still relevant. The Question was the following: Dear Bonnitta Roy, I need your lights on the following issue: it is often said that post-modernism killed… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Aram Sinnreich on the Piracy Crusade
Guest lecture by the author of a new book The Piracy Crusade (via Google Hangout for Josephine Dorado’s classes on internet culture at the New School.) Watch the video here:
Uber feeds on class inequality
Excerpted from Leo Mirani: “There are only two requirements for an on-demand service economy to work, and neither is an iPhone. First, the market being addressed needs to be big enough to scale—food, laundry, taxi rides. Without that, it’s just a concierge service for the rich rather than a disruptive paradigm shift, as a venture… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: FabLabs, 3D-Printing and Degrowth
* Essay: FabLabs, 3D-printing and degrowth – Democratisation and deceleration of production or a new consumptive boom producing more waste? by Charlotte Knips, Jürgen Bertling This was a ‘Stirring’ Paper for the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Summary: “No technology can be sustainable in itself – for it to contribute to a truly green economy… Continue reading
Software that has the Quality Without A Name
This essay is written by Federico Mena Quintero and can be downloaded as a pdf: – Software that has the Quality Without A Name Over the course of The Nature of Order, Alexander manages to show that environments or structures that are built according to that method all end up having the Quality Without A Name…. Continue reading
Why Pirate Parties need to evolve, or die
Republished from ZACQARY ADAM XEPER of the NY Pirates: (the new title is ours) “I came to the Pirate movement as a film student frustrated with Hollywood and fascinated with the Internet. I stayed for the promise of a genuinely new kind of political thought, and the Pirate Wheel‘s potential to apply to every sociopolitical… Continue reading
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. from IDEALOGUE on Vimeo. “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.” Source: EFF.org It’s been over 14 years since EFF co-founder and former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow penned… Continue reading
The Urban Farming Guys: Farmin’ in the HOOD 2
A very inspiring video on the end of the year!
A history of Austria’s Solar Self-Build Movement
Republished from George Mockray: “In 1983, a couple of years after the second of the 1970s oil shocks and at a time when petroleum prices were relatively low, in a village near Graz, Austria, in the province of Styria, a farmer and an engineer led a group of 32 people in building simple do it… Continue reading