A warning to Troica, banks and investors from The People’s Assembly of Syntagma Square 03/07/2011: “Warning against the Troika, the banks and local or foreign prospective investors who covet Greece’s public property. The revoked and dictatorial Greek government that does not represent the people of this country has just voted for bills, with which it… Continue reading
Towards a Technological, Social, and Legal Infrastructure for Secure Leaking
Excerpted from Finn Brunton: Infrastructural “The means for securely and anonymously submitting materials are already fairly well established — though of course they can be improved, and constant vigilance is needed for potential attacks. Real difficulties lie on the publication side, as the struggle to keep WikiLeaks online demonstrates. There are two aspects to this… Continue reading
Peereconomic update: an interesting experiment in ‘paid usership’
“n.e.w.s. is dealing with remunerated usership (online and off line) as an innovative way of equitably redistributing community-produced value. Contrary to mainstream practice – with its residual romanticism of solitary authorship and single signature value – we at n.e.w.s. contend that value is always collectively produced through linguistic cooperation (polemics or just idle chatter) –… Continue reading
Thomas Greco on the nuts and bolts of creating a credit-commons- based local exchange system
Watch this video conversation in Canada, here: This TV interview is also well worth watching: Here, Thomas Greco explains how mutual credit clearing systems could go viral and spread globally: “It is possible to organize an entirely new structure of money, banking, and finance, one that is interest-free, decentralized, and controlled, not by banks or… Continue reading
Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (2): the role of Facilitation Banks and Electronic Transaction Monitoring
Robert Searle: In Part Two of Transfinancial Economics, or TFE we will examine in more detail about the role of Facilitation Banks, or FBs, and also Electronic Transaction Monitoring, or ETM. Facilitation Banks. These would be quite different to the ordinary mainstream banks..even though they would probably be part of the existing banking system. They… Continue reading
Mapping out the value exchange spectrum (2): applying Gregory Rader’s quadrant view
Second part of the interesting attempt by Gregory J. Rader, to map out and distinguish different kinds of exchanges such as the market, the gift economy, etc .. In the first part we presented his “Mapping the Value Universe” ; here, how he attempts to apply it. Gregory Rader: “In the introduction I posed a… Continue reading
Naomi Klein on the need for integrating the precautionary principle in our addiction to risk
Interesting video:
Book of the Week (2): Sacred Economics, Disintermediation and the P2P Revolution
Every new epoch needs its adapted spirituality. A good candidate for a positive affirmation of a p2p spirituality is this book from marvelous author and speaker Charles Eistenstein, whose earlier The Ascent of Humanity offered a most profound critique of the current system. Here, he describes the positive alternative. * Book: Charles Eistenstein. Sacred Economics:… Continue reading
Richard Hames on the need for new ways of thinking complexity and change
Excerpted from Richard Hames: “The dilemmas facing humanity have become so complex they can only be resolved by comprehending the situation from a higher level of collective consciousness. Once that new state of awareness has been reached, however, we will be able to choose a profoundly different evolutionary path to that recently pursued with such… Continue reading
On the necessary concept of ‘transition’ to get from here to there
Excerpted from Christian Arnsperger: “What exactly do I mean by the word “transition”? It is supposed to be a third way between two other options: on the one hand, revolution which involves a very particular view of political and social action (namely, a wholesale “turning-around” of all institutions at once, usually through the intervention of… Continue reading
Mapping out the value exchange universe (1), a quadrant view from Gregory Rader
Interesting attempt by Gregory J. Rader, to map out and distinguish different kinds of exchanges such as the market, the gift economy, etc .. We present his “Mapping the Value Universe” in two parts. The first explains the following diagram just below, while the second part applies it: Gregory Rader: “Now for the let-down…the outcome… Continue reading
The basic orientation of p2p theory towards societal reform: transforming civil society, the private and the state
This article aims to be a summary of the very basic orientation that I propose for social change. I start from the classic division of human society in three basic aspects: civil society, the private sector, and the state. 1. The transformation of civil society I think it is safe to say that in the… Continue reading
Introduction to Transfinancial Economics: Part One, The Core Concepts
Robert Searle: “What is presented in this series of articles is a new paradigm known as Transfinancial Economics, or TFE. The word “Transfinancial” implies innovative funding which goes beyond (ie.trans) our present conventional understanding of money. TFE is not only an abbreviation for Transfinancial Economics, but also implies a genuine scientific dimension to the subject… Continue reading
Collaborative Change? – Commons, Networks, Exchange
Collaborative Change? – Commons, Networks, Exchange Thursday 14th July, Wood Quay Venue, Dublin 2 This one-day symposium, co-organized by PhotoIreland and GradCAM and supported by the City Arts Office, Dublin City Council, investigates emerging possibilities around collaboration, sharing and exchange and collective models of production, consumption, and ownership across a number of arts and… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Charles Eistenstein’s Sacred Economics is out!
Every new epoch needs its adapted spirituality. A good candidate for a positive affirmation of a p2p spirituality is this book from marvelous author and speaker Charles Eistenstein, whose earlier The Ascent of Humanity offered a most profound critique of the current system. Here, he describes the positive alternative. * Book: Charles Eistenstein. Sacred Economics:… Continue reading
Creativos Conecta2 – Promoting Free Culture
Creativos Conecta2 is a recently launched Spanish language project aiming to promote free culture and become an information and education channel for creating free cultural and artistic products. It also aims to increase the use of free culture licensing such as Creative Commons, Copyleft and others. Creativos Conecta2 promotes work by artists using such licenses… Continue reading