* Book: The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. Marina Gorbis. Free Press, 2013. From the publisher: “Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in… Continue reading
Project of the Day: ADABio Autoconstruction
ADABio Autoconstruction This is a bit like Open Source Ecology or FarmHack, a coalition of organic farmers who share their agricultural machine designs, active in France. Brief in French: “Un réseau socio-technique d’agriculteurs biologiques qui partagent des savoirs et des savoir-faire dans l’autoconstruction de matériel agricole libre et approprié.” For more information: Julien Reynier: ‘ADABio… Continue reading
What’s Next for the Sharing Movement?
Excerpted from Neal Gorenflo and a very important article: Peer to peer dynamics form the basis of a new, liberating social contract. “The old social contract bound citizens to large hierarchies like nations and multinational corporations. In this contract, citizens gained the protection of hierarchies in return for obedience, labor or taxes. Citizen’s rights were… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Factories Of Knowledge, Industries Of Creativity
* Book: Factories Of Knowledge, Industries Of Creativity. By Gerald Raunig. MIT Press, 2013. From the publisher: “What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Strong Roots
Strong Roots Brief: “Established in 2006 by Lucy Scurfield, Strong Roots describes itself as a therapeutic garden project. It is, in essence, a piece of ground in Norwich where people can meet with others for personal development, belonging, companionship and delight in the shared task of cultivation. Strong Roots can also be seen as a… Continue reading
The innovative methodology behind the #GlobalP2P WikiSprint campaign
Bernardo Gutiérrez Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Jane Loes Lipton– Guerrilla Translation! Original article Collaboration, networking, transversality, openness, free licenses, remixing, transnationality. On March 20, the hashtag #GlobalP2P suddenly vaulted up among Twitter’s most globally used. One detail: it had never before been a TT(Trending Topic) in any country. Afterwards, it took place as… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Networked Disruption
* Book and PhD: Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking. Tatiana Bazzichelli. PhD Dissertation Department of Aesthetics and Communication. Faculty of Arts Aarhus University. 2013 First published in 2013 by Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, Helsingforsgade 14, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. www.digital-aestetik.dk PhD Dissertation: Tatiana Bazzichelli –… Continue reading
Project of the Day: PDX Radical Mycology Collective & Fungi for the People
PDX Radical Mycology Collective & Fungi for the People Brief PDX Radical Mycology Collective ‘Portland’s regional Radical Mycology collective.’ “Radical Mycology Is for … Accessible Mushroom Cultivation Techniques Myco-remediation of our Polluted Environment Building Healthy Relationships between People and Fungi We are currently forming as an off-shoot of the (inter)national Radical Mycology Convergence. Fungus is… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Open Education and the Commons
* Article: Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2012) ‘Open education: Common(s), commonism and the new common wealth’. Ephemera, Vol. 12, No. 4. From the abstract: “Open Education, and specifically the Open Education Resources movement, seeks to provide universal access to knowledge, undermining the historical enclosure and increasing privatisation of the public education system. An important… Continue reading
On the Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy
* Essay: The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy”. Gar Alperovitz with Steve Dubb. “The current issue of The Good Society, the long-running journal of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS), is devoted in its entirety to “Alternatives to Capitalism,” a symposium built around my essay (with… Continue reading