Read the survey as a pdf: – Reputation based on punishment rather than generosity allows for evolution of cooperation in sizable groups Abstract: Cooperation among unrelated individuals can arise if decisions to help others can be based on reputation. While working for dyadic interactions, reputation-use in social dilemmas involving many individuals (e.g. public goods games) becomes… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2015"
The Meaning of the Paris Commune
Todays book of the day is “Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune” by Kristin Ross – http://www.versobooks.com/books/1864-communal-luxury. We feature here an extract from an interview with the author Kristin Ross with Manu Goswami for Jacobin. What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation? On March 18, 1871, artisans and… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Effects of Algorithm Awareness
* Essay: A Path to Understanding the Effects of Algorithm Awareness. By Kevin Hamilton et al. From the Abstract: “The rise in prevalence of algorithmically curated feeds in online news and social media sites raises a new question for designers, critics, and scholars of media: how aware are users of the role of algorithms and… Continue reading
Food is a public good – Jose Luis Vivero Pol
“Food is now treated as a commodity, and the global industrial food system is now broken. Food should be a public good, with producers supported by government and industry in the public interest. Here co-operative farmers in India share information, supported by local civil society workers” – Jose Luis Vivero Pol https://twitter.com/JoseLViveroPol Originally published – https://www.academia.edu/11733398/Food_is_a_public_good… Continue reading
(Conceptual) Art, Cryptocurrency and Beyond
“AltCoins, crypto-tokens, smart contracts and DAOs are tools artists can use to explore new ways of social organization and artistic production, . . . . The ideology and technology of the blockchain and the materials of art history (especially the history of Conceptual Art) can provide useful resources for mutual experiment and critique.” By Rob… Continue reading
Non-Market Based Approaches To Housing and Community Development
* Report: Causa Justa::Just Cause (CJJC). Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area, 2013. Cat Johnson reviewed this 112-page document, which was prepared in collaboration with the Alameda County Public Health Department, proposing steps that cities like Oakland can take to stop displacement of historic residents. Though from 2013, we publish it here… Continue reading
Rethinking digital culture policy in Brazil after the phase of hope
The new Brazilian Minister of Digital Culture is reconnecting with the spirit of Gilberto Gil. Here is a lecture expressing his views. Originally posted at BrasilPost English version by Lou Gold & Jose Murilo Juca Ferreira: “We can not accept that a company wishes to rise above the laws, culture and sovereignty of our country”… Continue reading
Thesis: Towards a Participatory Way of Knowing
* MSc Dissertation: Encounters with otherness: Towards a participatory way of knowing. By Joana Formosinho. 2014 class of Holistic Science at Schumacher College,2014. Excerpted from a review by “Simon”: “Joana Formosinho is a zoologist with a background in animal behavioural research, but as she says in her introduction, she felt that her research and research… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Well-Being as the Key Concept in Political Economy
* Article: If ‘Well-Being’ is the Key Concept in Political Economy… By Claudio Gnesutta. Economic Thought Vol 3, No 2, 2014 From the Abstract: “If ‘well-being’ is to be the key concept in political economy, then economists are placed, from a methodological viewpoint, in an uncomfortable position. A well-being approach requires consideration of several non-economic… Continue reading
The resurgence of self-managed workers cooperatives 5 Turkey
From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried Reports from Jon Henley in Marseille and Thessaloniki, Ashifa Kassam in Mataró, Spain, Constanze Letsch in Istanbul and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires for The Guardian – Original Article – http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day-workers-of-the-world-unite-and-take-over-their-factories Turkey: ‘We like coming to work now’ by… Continue reading
A Conversation between Michel Bauwens and Ivor Stodolsky, April 2014
For TO THE SQUARE 2 : “THESIS ON P2P POLITICS”, “The Square” Issue #1, p. 5/26 A Conversation between Michel Bauwens and Ivor Stodolsky, April 2014 Michel Bauwens is a leading proponent of the emerging field of “peer-to-peer” (P2P) practices and theory, and the director and founder of the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers… Continue reading
Opposition and alternatives mount to Facebook’s Internet.org initiative
Excerpted from Tim Karr: “Internet.org isn’t the Internet. It’s an enclosed digital domain that doesn’t benefit the poor so much as it pads Facebook’s bottom line. Imagine the benefits of a billion new subscribers for a company whose business is built on harvesting user data. As Facebook pushes Internet.org from continent to continent, backlash against… Continue reading
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy and Security
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from 65 groups in 31 countries, on his project Internet.Org. The letter has been posted on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notes/accessnoworg/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-regarding-internetorg-net-neutrality-privacy-and-/935857379791271 Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We, the undersigned, share a common concern about the launch and expansion of Facebook’s Internet.org platform and its implications for the open Internet around the world. On that… Continue reading
The State of American Permaculture: A Millennial’s Perspective
By Benjamin Weiss – http://susquehannapc.com/2015/05/09/the-state-of-american-permaculture-a-millennials-perspective/ Part 1 of a series on social & economic inequality within the permaculture movement… My Attempts to Make a Living in Permaculture… I am 31 years old. During the past ten years I have studied permaculture and many other fields and disciplines with full dedication. I have attended classes, workshops,… Continue reading
3 Ways Humans Create Poverty
Poverty isn’t just a fact of nature. We made it happen, and we can fix it. “It is impossible to solve an entrenched problem like mass poverty without understanding how it came into being. There’s every reason to believe we can overcome poverty, if we take the time to understand and learn the lessons from… Continue reading
The resurgence of self-managed workers cooperatives 4 Argentina
From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried Reports from Jon Henley in Marseille and Thessaloniki, Ashifa Kassam in Mataró, Spain, Constanze Letsch in Istanbul and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires for The Guardian – Original Article – http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day-workers-of-the-world-unite-and-take-over-their-factories Argentina: ‘At first it was rough’ by Uki… Continue reading