Excerpted from the C-Realm Podcast: KMO welcomes Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation to the C-Realm podcast to talk about strategies for transitioning from an economy dominated by for profit institutions to a “for benefit” model. Michel thinks the current system fails to recognize actual scarcity of resources and imposes an artificial scarcity on knowledge,… Continue reading
Roberto Unger on the False Dilemma’s Regarding Structural Political Change
Solutions today seem either utopian or trivial, so what can we do ? Recommended by Pat Conaty: “Presentation by Roberto Unger, Harvard professor and former advisor to the Brazilian President Lula. His delivery style is stern to say the least and totally humourless. However he does see the new paradigm in a way similar to… Continue reading
Open invitation to network our labour for a radical change
Networked Labour was an outcome of an international seminar held in Amsterdam between 7-9 May 2013. The seminar was initially supported by Networked Politics, transform! europe, Transnational Institute and IGOPNET (Institut de Govern the Polítiques Públiques). At the end of the seminar several ideas have emerged one of which was to improve this web space and try to transform it into a transnational and… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: Infodesarrollo Ecuador
This is the organisation that organized 24 workshops for the FLOKSociety.org project in Ecuador, in order to obtain civic input from all layers of Ecuadorian society: “Infodesarrollo.ec is the Ecuadorian Information and Communication Network for Development, formed by 19 organizations, whose mission is to promote the generation and exchange of information, methodologies, experiences and knowledge… Continue reading
The Tyranny of Artistic Modernism
I first asked for permission to republish this important and straight to the core essay for another blog back in 2012, but they never put it up. So I’m grateful to now have been given the opportunity to present it on the p2p-blog. One of the authors, Mark Anthony Signorelli, wrote a follow-up essay in September… Continue reading
P2P PhD Research Opportunities in the UK
AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities research students The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the Arts and Humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Leicester and De Montfort universities, provides research candidates with cross-institutional… Continue reading
The Living Bridges network and the new models of facilitation
Living Bridges a model of Facilitation bounding Social Capital, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship AI Practitioner May 2013 AI and Communities of Practice by Glauka The full issue is available here – http://www.aipractitioner.com/appreciative-inquiry-practitioner-may-2013
The Network is the Vanguard: a new approach to labor mobilization?
Excerpted from Dan Gallin: “I believe you are also right in saying that there is a critical mass out there for a militant union and left-socialist movement, very inchoate at this time, but when I mentioned critical mass in my last e-mail I meant something else, I meant the critical mass it would take to… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media
* Article: Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media. Andreas Wittel. tripleC 10(2): 313-333, 2012 From the Abstract: “This is the claim: In the age of mass media the political economy of media has engaged with Marxist concepts in a rather limited way. In the age of digital media Marxist theory could and… Continue reading
The Communal State model in Venezuela
Excerpted from Dario Azzellini: “In January 2007, Chávez proposed to go beyond the bourgeois state by building the communal state. He thus picked up and applied more widely a concern originating with anti-systemic forces. The main idea was to form council structures of all kinds (communal councils, communes, and communal cities, for example), as bottom… Continue reading