This is not a topic I normally talk about, i.e., what was the spiritual and psychological evolution that led to my engagement with and for P2P? In seven minutes, invited by the Pecha Kucha organizers in Rio de Janeiro, I am here trying to follow automatically amd fast-changing slide images, speaking quite fast to keep… Continue reading
Cities need networks, not heroes; weak ties, not strong ties
Excerpted from Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley: (from the book, The Metropolitan Revolution, Brookings Institution Press) “When economic sociologist Sean Safford first began comparing midcentury board lineups of local Boy Scout chapters and garden clubs in the cities of Youngstown and Allentown, the idea that such data could have any bearing on the future of… Continue reading
Video: Ugo Mattei on the Constitutive Power of the Commons
On transnational social constitutionalism, Constitution making and constitutive power of the commons. By Ugo Mattei, in Turin, Italy. Watch the video here:
The emergence of social coops for social care: Italy and beyond
The rise of social enterprise as a new, hybrid form of social care has been met with growing interest. In the co-operative sector, the emergence of social co-ops has been the most significant change to occur in the movement in thirty years. These are co-operatives whose purpose is the provision of Social Care, not only… Continue reading
Stefano and Vera Zamagni on the Civil Society Model for the Market Economy
Stefano Zamagni and Vera Zamagni talk to the ExtraEnvironmentalist about the civil society model of a market economy.
Self-Organization in Greece at the Vio-Me Occupied Factory
“The workers at the Vio.Me. Factory in Thessaloniki, Greece have quickly grown into a symbol of self-management internationally. After going on strike and occupying their factory, on February 12, 2013 they re-opened the factory and started production under worker’s control. For many, the factory represents a new potential way forward for unemployed workers in Greece… Continue reading
Why the ‘commons’ has become such an important concept
Excerpted from Dougald Hine: “Of everything I hear during these two days, the answer that most impresses me comes from Stavros Stavrides: ‘commons’ has become useful, he argues, because of a change in attitude to the state, a disillusionment with the ‘public’ and a need for another term to takes its place. The public sphere,… Continue reading
Video: David Graeber and Charles Eisenstein on the Nature of Money
Via: “In this video, David Graeber, Occupy Wall Street activist and author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, tackle the loaded question: What is money? Eisenstein and Graeber aptly compare money to magic, and explore the notion that money works because we all believe in it. This video… Continue reading
Four Futures Scenarios for Power in the Network Era (1): The Context
“This article asks questions about the futures of power in the network era. Two critical emerging issues are at work with uncertain outcomes. The first is the emergence of the collaborative economy, while the second is the emergence of surveillance capabilities from both civic, state and commercial sources. While both of these emerging issues are… Continue reading
A maker/hacker community’s critique of Open Source Ecology
I plan on trying to contact as many past contributors as possible from Open Source Ecology to get more information about the realities inside this project, and I will be posting more as time goes on. If you have information about this project, or any other project like this, feel free to get in touch… Continue reading