Book of the Day: Re-Thinking Social Protection as a Commons

* Book: Francine Mestrum: Building Another World: Re-thinking Social Protection. Global Social Justice, 2013 Francine Mestrum writes: “It is a proposal for a new concept of social protection, which is particularly important at the moment that international organizations start to make their proposals for ‘social protection’. The ILO came out with its ‘social protection floors’,… Continue reading

Essay of the Day: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations

Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations * Article: Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations. By Gary Ruskin – Essential Information, 2013. Report on corporate espionage/surveillance of nonprofit advocacy groups. Executive Summary “This report is an effort to document something we know little about: corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. The entire subject is veiled in secrecy. In… Continue reading

Creating buildings and environments that support life (Interview with Nikos Salingaros)

Click on the play button below to listen to the interview: Interview with Nikos Salingaros by James Alexander Arnfinsen, originally published by Levevei.no Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:46 — 62.0MB) “In this episode I have the delight of connecting with Nikos Salingaros, who is a Professor in Mathematics, an Urbanist and Architectural Theorist. He is originally from Greece, but… Continue reading

The Vacation Credit Labor System as the Benedictine Rule for emerging post-capitalist times

“Now with the vacation-credit labor system, secular communal society has what Catholic monasticism has had with Benedict’s Rule, a means of organizing a communal, labor-sharing economy without the use of money, and in the case of egalitarian community, with a participatory as opposed to an authoritarian form of governance. Kat Kinkade’s labor system innovation may… Continue reading

Selected Citations on Peer to Peer Media

For the sources, see here: * Algorithmic Authority Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or institutional authority. … Algorithmic authority handles… Continue reading