21May2012 By David de Ugarte The conversations begun by Garrido, Pi i Margall and Salvochea, with Fourier, Proudhon and Kropotkin in the background, and even those of the foralismo involved in the...
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24May2012 By David de Ugarte Popular utopias have always demanded abundance, and when empowered with technology, have established it in very similar terms to those we use today. Degrowth, on the o...
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There is no answer. There is no solution. There is only practice.
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April 7, 2011 — Poor Richard Image via Wikipedia I probably should have titled this “Hacking the Organization”. What follows is not a primer of organizational design but simply a back-of-the-...
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Five basic elements, with linked explanatory text, to develop a comprehensible narrative of the transition to the P2P production method as the only substantive alternative to systemic crisis… wit...
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By Michel Bauwens, 04.07.12 Image: Dave Gray A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once r...
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The P2P production mode is the mode of production characteristic of a society based on distributed networks . As seen in the free software , the blogosphere , the new industrial revolution and P2P exchange is characterized by:
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Culture Machine is an international open-access journal of culture and theory, founded in 1999. Its aim is to be to cultural studies and cultural theory what 'fundamental research' is to the natural sciences: open-ended, non-goal orientated, exploratory and experimental. All contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed.
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Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project
Suggested by Yoda
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By Jeff Conant / AlterNet Invoking the spirit of international peasant farmer movements La Via Campesina and Brazil’s Movimento Sem Terra, hundreds of people entered a five-acre plot of l...
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Proposal for an International (Un-)Conference on Commons-Oriented Economics (we should really think about and Un-conforence, i.e. set the right topics and inform the right people and make them work together. - Silke)
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via NCAgainstCorporatePower.org Converge for Justice Occupy Wall Street, South Break Up BOA’s Business as Usual!
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We are living in a world controlled by forces that are no longer capable to give freedom and dignity to the world´s population (if they were ever capable to do so). A world where it is told to us ...
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23May2012 By David de Ugarte The changes spelled out as possible today can’t wait for the spoiled children of the middle class to feel “guilty” about enjoying economic rents in a world of gr...
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Michel Bauwens Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assu...
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May 16, 2012 — Poor Richard (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Sign of the Four opens with an alarming scene: “Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic...
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Grupo Cooperativo de las Indias ~ http://grupolasindias.coop ~ reindustrializa@grupolasindias.coop History of the industrial P2P sector The explosion in the social use of the Internet in the ’...
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The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals...
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Join this campaign. In all likelihood, the markets and States of the Iberian Peninsula, more than those of Ireland or Greece, are going to show the limits and horrors of this crisis. What happens in this part of Europe is in our hands — and there are also shining alternatives.
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Joe Justice is the ideator of Team Wikspeed: a team of volunteers distributed around the world who recently created a prototype car that is open source, modular and ultra-efficient in just three mo... ...YES, in just three months compared with the years it takes traditional car manufacturers to bring out a new model.
This is an extremely interesting interview with Joe Justice ... it gives the gist of where the manufacturing revolution is going.
The interview is in both English and Italian.
Via Sepp Hasslberger
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Responding to the current wave of privatisations, European Alternatives together with the International University College and its Institute for the Study of Political Economy and Law together with the Municipality of Naples, and the Institut international D’etudes et recherches sur les biens communs are launching a process of forums and metings throughout Europe to draft a European Charter of the Commons. In May/June meetings will take place in Zagreb, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Berlin, London, Paris, and Rome. More information coming soon!
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Inspiring and equipping people everywhere to make global well-being our most urgent priority, without relying on growth to make it happen.
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Max Keiser talks to Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation about bitcoin in the virtual world and about pseudo abundance and artificial scarcity in the real wo...
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As interest in the commons rises everywhere, OnTheCommons.org is adding more practical information you can apply in your own community .
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A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Poledy.com.
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