Occupy Sandy is a series of spontaneous relief efforts by people inside of and close to the occupy movement. It came together in the first days after the storm devastated large parts of the eastern US coastline and did quite some damage to New York City transport infrastructure and housing. In what seems an uncharacteristic… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Abolishing Education and Liberating Creation
Manifesto: Abolishing Education and Liberating Creation. The Beginnings of a Manifesto and Practical Guide. Jeruviel Stardust Earthen-Hornbroth. (Pre-Release September 2012) Thesis Excerpted from the draft introduction: In order to manifest a world free of all oppressions, a world in which many worlds fit, we must simultaneously seek to abolish education—the concept, practice, and all of… Continue reading
Walter Mignolo: Coloniality: The past and present of global unjustice
Walter Mignolo, discusses essential issues of polycentrism and collaboration in post-coloniality: (excerpt) “”Hegemony, in a polycentric world, would require of pluriversality to a universal principle–an apparent contradiction that deserves careful attention. If the principle of pluri-versality is uni-versaly (that is, globally) assumed, then dialogues and alliances of civilizations—instead of competitions between imperial nation-states and dependency… Continue reading
Public Domain Call for arts!
Source: Amelia Andersdotter Every year loads of European artistic works enter into the public domain, that is, the copyright protection granted to the work expires and the material becomes free for use (with or without attribution depending on jurisdiction). In 2013 te works from all over Europe passing into the public domain are works for… Continue reading
GOSI: A Concept for a Global Open Source Initiative
Franz Nahrada informed us of this initiative: “Something like this HAS to emerge sooner or later, when some bright people understand that there is no way out for business as usual and the competitive game does not work any more for the rest of us.” A Concept for a Global Open Source Initiative _GOSI_ Based… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
Book: Steven Johnson. Future, Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age Description “Is there a new political philosophy emerging from things like open source software development; massive community sharing hubs like Wikipedia, Kickstarter, and Reddit; peer-to-peer social networking; experiments in “Liquid Democracy,” and the rapid spread of resource sharing tools like ZipCar, AirBnb… Continue reading
Asbjørn Wahl: The 1 % won’t compromise with the unions that they believe they can defeat
The interview with Asbjørn Wahl made during his stay in Zagreb, at the conference “Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons”, 22.-24. November. Wahl counters the argument of those who suggest Keynsianism sort new comprimise can be forced on capitalist classes, by counter-argueing that today it is a furtile effort because the 1%… Continue reading
Terms of Service: No one reads the legal language – what to do about it?
Who of us has not clicked the “Agree” button to install a program on their computer or to register for the services offered by a website without having read every word of the long and boring legal document that calls itself “terms of service”? Sometimes we don’t even open the document that feels like it… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Rebirth of Guilds
A return to guilds as an organizing force for the worker of the future will bring with it another medieval institution: a return of ownership of means of production to the individual. In our surveys of distributed workers over the years, we have noted a consistent finding. Workers report that the technology they have in… Continue reading
Media of oXcars 12 and Free Culture Forum already online
The Free Culture Forum (FCForum) is an international encounter of civic society actors on free culture, digital rights and access to knowledge. It has been taking place in Barcelona every year since 2009. It takes place jointly with the oXcars, a free culture festival. The oXcars are a non-competitive awards ceremony held at Sala Apolo… Continue reading