By: Eduard Nus. Originally published on degrowth.de About the authors and their positions The whole text is written from the personal standpoint of the author. I will try to distinguish between the interpretation of the 15-M movement and the ideas we, that is the autonomous current, have today. I write with a perspective amid the… Continue reading
This video was made by interviewing a group of commoners who attended to the first public meeting of the European Commons Assembly in Brussels, 15-17 November, 2016. They reflected about how neoliberalism shape cities as places for tourism, gentrifying and dismantling the cooperative environment of the neighborhoods; as well as how commoners build alternatives by… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (19 mins) Kristy Milland, TurkerNation — If Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) were a boss, one would guess that it hated its employees. This has driven mTurk workers (Turkers) to fight back in a variety of… Continue reading
By Christel van de Craats and Tomas Diez, republished from citiesintransition.eu. More than two hundred years since the Industrial Revolution, global urbanisation keeps accelerating. United Nations projections indicate that 75% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050. Newly created cities and the urbanisation process in rural areas replicates a lifestyle based… Continue reading
Issue 70 of podcast series ‘Money and Power’: “This week, I am delighted to welcome Alexander Douglas, a lecturer in philosophy at St. Andrews University, to the show, to talk about his recent book: The Philosophy Of Debt. It was great to talk to Alex about the nature of debt and money, and how all… Continue reading
By Katarzyna Gajewska: Despite the high importance of food quality to human health and wellbeing, we have so little say in defining the conditions of food distribution and production. Mass-scale production results in food poor in nutriments and in need of preservatives. The use of sugar causes damages to physical health. The industrialization of agriculture… Continue reading
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley: If you’ve ever wondered about how a new, collaborative, sustainable, democratic economy might work the new book Ours to Hack and Own – The rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet, is for you. The book is edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan… Continue reading
This post by Jordan Greenhall originally appeared on Medium. It appears that the “generation naming” sweepstakes have started up again. As the bloom is fading from the Millennial (nee Generation Y) rose, marketers and social commentators are turning their eyes on the next sweet young thing: that cohort of people born somewhere around the turn… Continue reading
This post by Hal Plotkin was originally published on creativecommons.org The Creative Commons upcoming Global Summit is the first major opportunity to introduce our community to the newly-born Platform Cooperatives Consortium and to look for ways our two movements, which share many core values, can collaborate. We have just entered a time of potentially enormous… Continue reading
By: Corinna Burkhart, Matthias Schmelzer and Nina Treu. Originally published on degrowth.de Exploring alternatives and connecting quests The common ground of the movements, various currents and initiatives participating in this project is their search for alternatives and their call for a shift in paradigms. Society’s current focus on competition, profit-seeking, exploitation and economic growth should… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (16 mins) Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado — Building a platform co-op economy is about more than just new “killer apps”—it’s about creating and connecting an ecosystem. In the wake of last year’s Platform Cooperativism… Continue reading
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley: In 2010, when Transition Towns started growing into the hundreds in the UK, with another 250 worldwide, it felt like something was really happening. Like ‘the people’ might be about to start taking control of their town’s futures. When the Occupy movement camped up on the steps of St Pauls with that… Continue reading
Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. He is the author of fifteen bestselling books on media, technology, and society, including Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and most recently Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus. He recently authored a chapter of the new… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Shareable. Anna Bergren Miller: When the City Council of Barcelona asked democracy activist and researcher Mayo Fuster Morell for policy recommendations regarding the sharing economy, she suggested that the City Council take a different approach: Rather than relying on an expert to dictate policy from the top down, why not use a collaborative process… Continue reading
Is it a viable prospect to create a direct mechanism for transferring a universal basic income to all the world’s people? Not before we bring about a huge united voice of ordinary citizens in favour of sharing the world’s resources to end hunger and life-threatening poverty once and for all, argues STWR. The following article… Continue reading
By Oliver Sylvester Bradley: Technology is disrupting outmoded industries at an unprecedented rate. As the gyroscopic effects of the neoliberal model wobble out of control Paul Mason suggests the end of capitalism has begun and even the IMF is questioning whether their capitalist agenda was a 30 year long mistake. This article analyses how platform… Continue reading