The discussion topics, at the Berlin Biennale, include his experiences with Occupy Wall Street, strategies and tactics of new social movements, the crisis of capital and ways to move forward with the global Occupy Movement(s).
The Desktop Regulatory State Chapt. 2: Systems Disruption
[This is the fourth installment in my serialization of the first three chapters of my book-in-progress, tentatively titled Desktop Regulatory State] IV. Systems Disruption The dynamics of competition between networks and hierarchies lead to what John Robb calls “systems disruption.” Networks, despite much smaller resources than those which hierarchies can field, are able to leverage… Continue reading
Spain and the tragedy of the declining optimal scale of production
Via David de Ugarte and Lasindias.net, another provocative thesis: (the original article has many links) “The data on the Spanish economy is significant: the data on the balance of payments and the strength of the export sector can only be explained by an rise in productivity with an effect that is equal to or greater… Continue reading
Life in a Network for Survivors (Part 4)
Life in a Network for Survivors: The Thermonuclear Apocalypse and the Protocols of Freedom A text on the impact of Cold War era apocalyptic fantasy today. A search for the missing ideological history of internet protocols. An essay by P2P foundation’s Nicolás Mendoza, presented this week in four daily parts. The final version of… Continue reading
Towards a self-regulated Lex Mercatoria for Bitcoin conflicts?
Lex mercatoria is Latin for “merchant law” and it is the body of commercial law used by merchants throughout Europe during the medieval period emphasizing contractual freedom and alienability of property. Excerpted from Jon Matonis: ‘Large financial system websites are some of the most lucrative online targets and bitcoin has the added dimension of a… Continue reading
Details on the Local Motors Crowdsourced Design Methodologies
Details on the first commercially available crowdsourced car are excerpted from Eureka magazine: 1. The Use of Open Competitions “Another part of Local Motors’ business plan lies in holding open competitions among its community to design particular parts or products. The DARPA vehicle, for instance, came about as a result of a challenge to create… Continue reading
Life in a Network for Survivors (Part 3)
Life in a Network for Survivors: The Thermonuclear Apocalypse and the Protocols of Freedom A text on the impact of Cold War era apocalyptic fantasy today. A search for the missing ideological history of internet protocols. An essay by P2P foundation’s Nicolás Mendoza, presented this week in four daily parts. The final version of… Continue reading
The ‘Hammond’ study: P2P Filesharing Improves Music Sales
* Report: Profit Leak? Pre-Release File Sharing and the Music Industry. Roger G. Hammond, 2012 The Toronto Sun summarizes the conclusions of this study: ‘On the music side, an American economist found that having albums leak to file-sharing websites before the official release date can actually improve sales of the official copy. While Robert Hammond… Continue reading
The economics of intimacy and their financial valuelessness: divesting from the money economy
A quote from John F. Kavanaugh, Following Christ in a Consumer Society, on the economics of intimacy: “Let us suppose that you are a married person with children. If you are relatively happy with your life, if you enjoy spending time with your children, playing with them and talking to them; if you like nature,… Continue reading
Max Keiser on the war against Europe
I cannot stress enough the value of this interview on the mechanics of the asset-stripping of Europe and how it is a effectively planned process: (interview conducted by Infowars on the occasion of the Bilderberg conference)
The new triarchy: the commons trust, distributed enterprise, the partner state
(republished from August 2010) Michel Bauwens: At the P2P Foundation, our central concept is peer to peer, i.e. the ability to freely associate with others around the creation of common value. More specifically, we call this, according to the structural anthropology of Alan Page Fiske, communal shareholding, i.e. the non-reciprocal exchange of an individual with… Continue reading
Life in a Network for Survivors (Part 2)
Life in a Network for Survivors: The Thermonuclear Apocalypse and the Protocols of Freedom A text on the impact of Cold War era apocalyptic fantasy today. A search for the missing ideological history of internet protocols. An essay by P2P foundation’s Nicolás Mendoza, presented this week in four daily parts. The final version of… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens – Interview by Dr. Amit Nagpal
(with thanks to Dr. Nagpal and Jennifer Sertl) Source: The Joys Of Teaching 1. What have been the recent achievements of P2P Foundation? That’s a tricky question, as we are an advocacy organization that wants to promote a new paradigm. Essentially we are an observatory of open, participatory, and commons-oriented practices in every social field,… Continue reading
The Sharenomics Buffet: One Couch at a Time
Source: Steppin off the Edge Conversation about the ‘adventure economics’ of Couchsurfing. The authors, Gabriel Stempinski, Alexandra Liss et al., are preparing a documentary and a book on Couchsurfing and the broader sharing lifestyle and economy.
Four ways to understand transformation and evolution towards a sustainable society
I strongly recommend a meditation on these four figures representing insights on the right kind of evolution to expect and to strive for, based on the ideas of Ervin Laszlo: Here is a commentary from Maria Rodriguez of lasindias.net: “Laszlo, despite the spiritualistic direction of his approach, has an interesting background. His model, originally presented… Continue reading
How do we build a global social contract? (and the answer is … the commons!)
This text is excerpted from: • Essay: The Commons and World Governance. TOWARD A GLOBAL SOCIAL CONTRACT. Arnaud Blin and Gustavo Marín. Forum for a New World Governance. April 2012 (draft version) Arnaud Blin and Gustavo Marín: It is only by moving from the first idea, the protection of the one, to the latter, the… Continue reading