* Book: Toward a Bioregional State. Mark Whitaker, 2005. I missed this book when it came out, but I consider as important as choosing Marvin Brown’s Civilising the Economy as book of the year in 2010. This is a very important book about what needs to be done to achieve a sustainable ‘world structure’. 1…. Continue reading
Stephen Fry: Sharers are not criminals
Vibrant speech in defense of (file)sharing, worth listening too:
Open Hardware at the Open Knowledge Conference 2011
The Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin went really well. 400 people came for it from around the world. Topics discussed were Open Data, Open Science, Open Education, Open Hardware and others. I will report here the most important aspects around the Open Hardware part of it and some other interesting things. Richard Stallman shared one… Continue reading
Report on the internationalisation of the #Europeanrevolution
Via: Report on the LISBON INTERNATIONAL MEETING of July 13th: “International press: They compiled an archive of press divided in three folders: one with international artcles about the local situation, another about international movilisations and another about France, available to visitors in the information table and updated every day. They also compiled a digital archive… Continue reading
Anonymous launches three-phase plan
Watch this video, and savour the privilege of living in these times of deep change:
Jobs for a frugal economy
This was originally proposed in a letter to President Obama: Excerpted from Warren Johnson: “What is needed is a way of creating jobs at less cost and use of oil. This could be done by encouraging the creation of sustainable ways of life by offering assistance to those who would like to live in the… Continue reading
Clay Shirky on why journalism needs to be publicly supported
Via Boing Boing: “Clay Shirky is getting ready to teach NYU’s Journalism School undergrads, and he’s posted “Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic,” a call-to-arms to produce a wide variety of journalisms that — unlike the newspaper business of yore — has a wide variety of business models that don’t all… Continue reading
Is Culture a Commons … or is it Free?
Culture cannot be a commons, says Nina Paley on her blog. “Economists talk about rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods, but Culture is neither rivalrous, nor non-rivalrous; it is anti-rivalrous.” By this, Nina means that culture is outside of the framework of being owned or not being owned. Culture can’t be owned, she says, and as a… Continue reading
The convergence of networked and sovereign power: what is the role of the emerging “Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations”?
Network sovereignty has agendas against agency, especially that of the “unspecified enemy.” And this is ultimately the source of public secret asymmetries, in which the US projects its own network sovereign shadow activities out onto individual sovereigns. What happens when these shadows come back into public awareness? Let’s take it straight from one of the… Continue reading
John Robb on Conducting Economic Insurgencies through Open Source Business Ventures
John Robb, author of one of the most interesting p2p blogs on open source warfare developments, has been setting his sights in the last two years on community resilience and what the appropriate commercial entities may be for this. In this presentation, he talks about what kind of institutions can be developed to avoid cognitive… Continue reading
What are popular assemblies and why are they recurring now?
Via: What Are Popular Assemblies? Sveinung Legard: “Before we look at some of these examples, what is a popular assembly? A popular assembly is a space that is open to all citizens from a certain area, be it a neighborhood, city, or a broader region. This space is used by the citizens to discuss matters… Continue reading
Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (3): Some Outstanding Implications of Transfinancial Economics
Robert Searle: The potential implications of Transfinancial Economics are vast, and outstanding in many respects. Alot of the Facilitation Finance would occur with the introduction of Electronic Transaction Monitoring, or ETM which would take into account in advance the productive capacity of relevant businesses in a commercial project. Thus, the production of the “right” amount… Continue reading
Overdose: a documentary on the next meltdown … the one that’s on its way
Jerome Roos writes, recommending Overdose: “This hauntingly beautiful documentary tells the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see — the one that’s on its way …Revealing the folly behind our policy response to the global financial crisis of 2008, Overdose exposes the structural contradictions that underpin our world economic system today.” Watch… Continue reading
Are our deep ‘mod ecologies’ threatened by the shallow ‘app ecologies’?
Excerpted from an interesting thoughtpiece on internet-driven innovation by Alison Powell: “If the raw materials be wood, stone, or easily modifiable Linux software and solderable boards, we take apart and remake because that’s partly how we want to remake our world. This is at the heart of the ‘mod ecology’ where people take on, take… Continue reading
Who’s reponsible for the meltdown?
One Day in the Life Inside The Tahrir Sit-In
Via: “Since a huge protest on July 8th in Tahrir, demonstrators have been holding a sit-in, vowing to remain until their demands are met. They have taken full ownership of the square with no government forces in sight. Food, cleanliness and security are in the hands of the protesters who are living in the square… Continue reading