On the morning of November 7, I received a number of worried emails about accusations that appeared on one of the Twitter feeds of Anonymous (@YourAnonNews), which reaches 1m plus members. In that tweet, it was said that we had published a CC-licensed work of ‘Georgie BC’, the pseudo of Heather Marsh, which ‘refused to… Continue reading
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Making Sense of the Emerging Economy with Yochai Benkler
The schematic (R) and reality (L) of an open source hardware device called the Keyquencer In my 20s I had the impression that my reality was fundamentally illegible to the academics of the past. Making a living from open source hardware meant I was participating in an international network of people who freely shared their… Continue reading
Binding Chaos – An Economy for All
This is the 3rd and final part in our series from Binding Chaos the new book by Heather Marsh. Share in any way you like with attribution (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Click here for Parts 1 Society vs Dissociation and Part 2 – Stigmergy. Abstract from Binding Chaos, the new book by Heather Marsh @GeorgieBC
Binding Chaos – Stigmergy
Part 2 of our series from Binding Chaos the new book by Heather Marsh is the chapter on Stigmergy. Share in any way you like with attribution (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). For Part 1 see http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/society-vs-dissociation/2013/10/21 Abstract from Binding Chaos, the new book by Heather Marsh @GeorgieBC kamagra in groningen
Binding Chaos – Society vs Dissociation
“The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has… Continue reading
Launch of new ‘Radical Realities’ zine of the Alternate (G8) Collective in Birmingham
Via Nicolas Ripley: “Alternate have published our first e-zine, Radical Realities, with contributions from John Hilary, Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Heather Marsh and Michel Bauwens. The Alternate Collective was formed out of Occupy Birmingham, UK. The collective comprises of radical practitioners that promote and publish about democratic and cooperative governance. We aim to propose practical… Continue reading
Alternate G8 Interview on Open Government
This interview appeared in the first issue of the ‘zine’ Radical Realities published by the Alternate (G8) Collective which also features a keynote on peer governance by Heather Marsh. This issue selects transcripts of speakers from the AG8 Conference hosted by the Collective in Birmingham, UK on June 22nd 2013 (mine was a remote intervention… Continue reading
The Approval Economy as an alternative to P2P Trade economies
Heather Marsh describes the logic of the approval economy. Excerpted from “Georgie BC“: “To benefit all of society, an economy needs to be based on service to all of society. In today’s economy, service is bought and sold as a good; instead goods must be provided as a service. An economy benefitting all of society… Continue reading
The fallacy of the dream of Decentralized (P2P) Trade Economies
Trade can’t solve the inequality issues, what we need instead is an approval economy, argues Heather Marsh. See the next installment on April 6 for the description of the logic of an approval economy. Excerpted from Georgie BC: “Peer-to-peer trading is being increasingly explored as a method to cut out corporate control of the trade… Continue reading
Preserving elite knowledge in systems of peer governance
How to deal with elite knowledge, without reverting to Elitism, Celebrity and Oligarchy? The following is excerpted from another brilliant contribution on the development of a peer governance practice and theory, by “Georgie BC” (Heather Marsh). Key thesis: “The key to preventing elite knowledge from becoming a tyrannical oligarchy is to maintain control by the… Continue reading
Replacing Intellectual Property Rights by Idea Credit Rights
Excerpted from Heather Marsh: “Copyright and patent laws which are structured to ensure fame and profit for those that can afford the fees and are the quickest to file forms have created a society and a history filled with people celebrated for creations they did not originate and filled also with creative people who died… Continue reading
A proposal for Governance by User Groups
Republished from Heather Marsh: “Governments up till now have been run by hierarchical groups, which act as the final authority on all topics for an entire region for an arbitrarily specified length of time or until they are overthrown by another group. What these authorities govern is a series of systems, controlled by the state… Continue reading
Society vs Systems of Dissociation
Food for thought, excerpted from Heather Marsh: “In Individuals in Society I wrote of a state of nature where society did not exist. In truth, such a state has never existed outside of social contract theory because humans are social animals and we have always created societies. In today’s structure, society with its dependencies and… Continue reading
Post-democratic musings: The problems with democracy
We can do better than this. We can govern by user groups, respect individual rights and global commons, and collaborate using stigmergy and concentric groups. Where necessary, elite expertise can be contained and used through transparent epistemic communities and knowledge bridges while control remains with the user group. Food for thought. Republished from Heather Marsh:… Continue reading
Desktop Regulatory State
The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Superempowered Individuals The subject of my previous book — The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto — was the way in which falling capital outlays required for both information and material production was eroding the rationale for large organizations, and shifting the balance of power toward… Continue reading