Communicative capitalism is a concept put forward by Jodi Dean in a to be published book of the same title. It is also a previously published essay, Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics, in the book, Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (2008) According to Dean, the Web 2.0 is a… Continue reading
A field typology for intersubjective development
When people work together something arises that is not located within any particular person but in the intersubjective field between them. P2P facilitator Mushin has been working with such fields, and offers an interesting typology. Mushin’s Typology of Fields: Physical Field “A field in physics is an intrinsic part of each point in space-time; we… Continue reading
Peer to peer and its alliances
Whom should P2P movements ally with? This question was discussed in our p2p research list, and below is the contribution by Andy Robinson. It starts with an analysis of the U.S.-libertarian ethos, well represented amongst software professionals, then goes on to link the forces for ‘virtual peer production’, with the forces that defend the natural… Continue reading
This is our world: A participatory nomadic documentary
Via Synnove Mathe: A call for participation in a new documentary: “A group of young people (16 – 19 years old) going to surf the world traveling in a sustainable way, just visiting free and public spaces, participatory events and iniciatives, knowing artivists and nomadic persons and projects, hubs, co-working spaces, etc. We will know… Continue reading
Meeting with Amelia Andersdotter of the Swedish Pirate Party at Citilab
Meeting with Amelia Andersdotter of the Swedish Pirate Party at Citilab Amelia has been invited by the Virtual European Parliament (VEP) research programme Amelia Andersdotter, member of the Swedish Pirate Party will be in Catalonia on the 7th, 8th and 9th of July at the invitation of the research programme Virtual European Parliament (VEP)a project… Continue reading
The difference between the public domain and the commons
Andrew Rens reminds us of an important distinction. He starts by quoting James Boyle: “The term “commons” is generally used to denote a resource over which some group has access and use rights—albeit perhaps under certain conditions. … Some would say it is a commons only if the whole society has access. That is the… Continue reading
Workshop: Can peer production make washing machines?
Years ago, Graham Seaman asked himself the theoretical question: Can peer production make washing machines? This July, French artist Jean-Noël Montagné will test this proposition in practice, during a Belgian festival of DIY hardware hackers. Here are the details: “The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the… Continue reading
Open source community for liberating gov data | DIYcity
From DIYcity Hi DIYcity The City of SF has undertaken an experiment to develop an open source platform with the community that will help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. We see a great opportunity to work with other cities and developers in creating technology that is re-usable, free and… Continue reading
Program – 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes – Medialab-Prado Madrid
Program – 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes place: Medialab Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid Program of presentations, lectures, and roundtables of the Inclusiva-net: P2P Networks and Processes at Medialab-Prado from July 6 ot 10, 2009. Moderated by Juan Martín Prada. This international seminar will focus on an analysis… Continue reading
The Portuguese digital and collaborative learning revolution
Interesting reportage in the Wikinomics blog, about the recent experiences in Portugal. (however, do read the comments for more sceptical accounts from the field itself) Don Tapscott: “A modest country across the Atlantic that’s turning into the world leader in rethinking education for the 21st century. That country is Portugal. Its economy in early 2005… Continue reading
The Amateur Class, or, The Reserve Army of the Web
Our collaborator Vasilis Kostakis published an article in Rethinking Marxism. Here’s the editor’s note: “Web 2.0 is exploiting a reserve army of amateurs. That’s the evocative argument advanced by Vasilis Kostakis concerning the transformation of the computer industry inaugurated by the new version of the Internet. The netarchists and netocrats who now own the platforms… Continue reading
A call for a global network of city arcologies
In Reality Sandwich, the writer by the name of Doctress Neutopia has an interesting essay which describes the relatively failed urban project of Paul Soleri, i.e. the Arcology project. She believes that the time is now ripe for a worldwide coalition of such urban renewal projects, especially needed in the context of what Peak Oil… Continue reading
The continued importance of unions
The report indicates that if California workers were compensated for 100 percent of their productivity gains since 1980, the average wage would be more than 30 dollars an hour, or 40 percent higher than the average real wage in 2007. The following is from the LIVING WAGE COALITION OF SONOMA COUNTY website in California. The… Continue reading
How Siefkes’ Peer Economy model differs from the market model
The following refers to Christian Siefkes book, From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing Peer Production into the Physical World. (Edition C. Siefkes, Berlin, 2007), and the occasional critique that the proposed effort sharing scheme is in fact a market. Christian Siefkes: “Markets are based on private, uncoordinated production using privately owned means of production, whose output… Continue reading
Thomas Greco on implementing regional mutual credit clearing associations
Reality Sandwich republishes an extensive excerpt from Thomas Greco excellent new book on monetary transformation, which we featured here before. An excerpt from that larger excerpt, focused on how to implement bank-replacing ‘credit clearings’ on a regional level. Thomas Greco: “Doesn’t it therefore make more sense to nurture the businesses that are already part of… Continue reading
Bre Pettis on Rapid Prototyping
Enthusiastic presentation on the joys of do it yourself production: Video: Rapid-Prototyping – Interview mit Bre Pettis (6:43)