“The struggle for the right to the city is against the powers of capital that ruthlessly feed upon and extract rents from the common life that others have produced…. Capitalist urbanization perpetually tends to destroy the city as a social, political, and livable commons.” The interview of David Harvey, on his book, Rebel Cities was… Continue reading
Project of the Day: the Forum for a New World Governance
Excerpted from from the coordinators of the Forum, Arnaud Blin and Gustavo Marin : “Why have we opened this Forum for a new World Governance? Today, it is commonplace to say there is a crisis in world governance. As citizens all over the world are fully aware, tensions, conflicts, and wars are persisting, and national,… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Virality. Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
Book: Virality. Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks. Tony D. Sampson. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Abstract “Tarde’s diagram comprises of mostly unconscious flows of desire, passion, and imitative radiations of muscular, as well as cerebral activities. In sharp contrast then, Tarde’s society of imitation does not fall back on collective or individual representations…. Continue reading
Economic Crisis and the Future of European Economy by Kees van der Pijl
Kees van der Pijl presents his insightful analysis on the transnational dimension of and the main contradictions embedded in the structure of today’s global political economy that might be heading to a catastrophic end. link
John Robb on Building Resilient Communities
At World Maker Faire 2012, John Robb asked and answered the important question: “Do you live in a Resilient Community? A resilient community produces the food, energy, water, things, and incomes it needs locally. If you don’t live in one, build one.” Watch the video here:
Book Of The Day: #CryptoParty Handbook
Source: CryptoParty This 392 page, Creative Commons licensed handbook is designed to help those with no prior experience to protect their basic human right to Privacy in networked, digital domains. By covering a broad array of topics and use contexts it is written to help anyone wishing to understand and then quickly mitigate many kinds… Continue reading
A Theory of Transnational Revolution by Kees van der Pijl
“The ‘end of the Cold War’ here assumes a new meaning, since these revolts can no longer be denounced as ‘Moscow-backed’ and treated accordingly. It may well be that we are in the midst of an important turn of events in which, on a truly global scale, the limits of the capitalist mode of production… Continue reading
The Commons Beyond Market and State
Below is the introduction to the book, The Wealth of the Commons. By David Bollier & Silke Helfrich: “It has become increasingly clear that we are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by an archaic order of centralized hierarchies on the one hand… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Stuffed and Starved
Book: Raj Patel. Stuffed and Starved. 2nd ed. 2012 Description It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight. To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel… Continue reading
Jacob Appelbaum, Dmitry Kleiner: Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects
Jacob Appelbaum, the founder of the TOR Project and Dmitry Kleiner, the author of the Telekommunist Manifesto discusses brilliantly on the alarming state of the state surveillance and why and how we should resist it! link