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April 28, 2016 4:05 PM
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The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
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February 18, 2016 11:18 AM
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Mainstream neoconservative integral theory predicts a next state of civilisation which is hyper-individualist and is a reaction against collectivist excesses
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January 25, 2016 3:26 PM
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Felix Stadler explains that: “In this lecture, I try to untangle the differences between resources that managed as “public” and are thus connected to notions of the state and citizens and those that are managed as “free” and are thus based on notions of the commons and community. The differences are subtle, but in their …
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January 11, 2016 12:49 PM
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Excerpted from Dan McQuillan: “There are interesting weaknesses at the core of scientific hegemony. While most scientists choose to present their practice publicly as an infallible machine for the production of truths, the opinions behind the curtain are far more mixed, and for good reason. Even hard science is not immune to distortion by group-think …
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December 30, 2015 1:53 PM
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A new society could arise on the same technological base that is now still predominantly destroying the social bonds. The digital networks might be the prime catalysts in the transformation from today’s consumer society into what he calls a ‘society of contribution’. This is a strongly recommended interview to get to know the otherwise difficult …
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December 23, 2015 2:55 PM
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What we need are Technologies of Organizational Communion (TOCs) to serve as evolutionary guidance systems for the Technologies of Information and Communication (TICs – aka ICTs) that now stand the chance of connecting us not only with each other, but with the planet, with future generations, and most importantly, with ourselves. * Article: Alexander Laszlo, …
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November 10, 2015 9:12 AM
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Excerpted from Peter Pogany: “The present analysis is interfused with the thermodynamic theory of world history, which is briefly summarized below. Human population and produced artifacts together may be perceived as a material entity, an aggregation of atoms or, even more generally, that of subatomic particles. This entity, culture, has undergone exponential growth through human …
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October 25, 2015 12:32 PM
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There will soon be four singularities of the universe, building on the achievements of the first three, argues Olivier Auber in a brilliant essay. Some backgrond first: – the first Singularity of the Universe (the alleged Big Bang). – the second Singularity that took place on earth and probably on billions of other planets: the …
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jean lievens
September 6, 2015 2:18 AM
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A brief tour of the imagining of abundance throughout history, from the Golden Age of the ancients to the P2P production of the current generation.
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August 13, 2015 11:49 AM
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“Futuristic accumulation is the commodification of publicly created scientific knowledge, which via copyright and patent, is privatized as intellectual property for the extraction of monopolistic technological rents. Its central site is the research university, whose entrainment to business gradually evolved over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Europe and North America but reached a watershed in the United States’ mobilization of university knowledge for atomic weapons, cryptography, ballistics and military projects by the United States during the Second World War. This process, intensified in the Cold War, directly linked academy and industry.
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jean lievens
July 18, 2015 1:02 PM
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In old security models, you tried to lock out all of the greedy, dishonest people. Bitcoin, on the other hand, welcomes everyone, fully expecting them to act in their own self-interest, and then it uses their greed to secure the network.
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June 22, 2015 5:38 AM
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Excerpts selected by Hudson Luce: Section “106. The basic problem goes even deeper: it is the way that humanity has taken up technology and its development according to an undifferentiated and one-dimensional paradigm. This paradigm exalts the concept of a subject who, using logical and rational procedures, progressively approaches and gains control over an external …
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May 7, 2015 2:45 PM
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“peer production and the emerging economy of the Commons may (and already do) provide the material conditions of an alternative future spirituality and self. An identity based on networks of cooperation rather than competition, and common property and sharing rather than privatization and commodification, has no need to generate a collective will that puts human systems in balance with eco-systems because that will is already built-in to the foundation of the consciousness and practices of peer production as a collective, commons project. There is no sense of the individual part standing separate from the collective whole or in a dominant relation to others, so there is no gap to mend and heal, there is only an in-built spiritual consciousness and self practice of ‘We’ and ‘I’ in nature and society as a unified (yet diverse) integral practice”
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April 10, 2016 9:40 AM
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Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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January 27, 2016 3:15 PM
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In this article, Peter Turchin makes the very important argument, in a response to Branko Milanovic, that “Naked Self-Interest is a Recipe for Social Dissolution”. Very much worth reading. Peter Turchin: “The main question is whether economic agents, most importantly businessmen (including both corporation officers and business owners), should be motivated solely by self-interest, or …
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January 15, 2016 2:13 PM
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It is not often that one can encounter an author who is deeply read in both liberal, marxist and even libertarian literature, embracing Marx AND Ayn Rand, and claiming to show an underlyng unity. Please note that the underlying ideas for a technological utopia are not the ideas of the P2P Foundation, as we must …
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jean lievens
January 5, 2016 4:59 PM
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This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. Dieter Duhm on EVOLUTION AND GROWING FREEDOM: The idea of evolution is that the totality of life on Earth is in a constant process of becoming. From the first cell to the human being …
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December 28, 2015 4:40 PM
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Article: Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains. By Melanie Swan. Interesting take that does not necessarily a right-libertarian approach to blockchain technology. Here is the summary followed by two excerpts. Summary: “There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of …
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jean lievens
December 10, 2015 5:36 AM
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David Bollier reflects on the work of the Commons Strategies Group while taking us through their beautiful new website.
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jean lievens
November 1, 2015 2:42 PM
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* Article: Collective Individuation:vThe Future of the Social Web. By Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin. Digital Studies, 2013. Summary: “We are in the epoch of networks. The world is now rapidly being perceived as a vast space of interlocking networks of seemingly infinite variety: biological, productive, cybernetic, and – most importantly of all – social. …
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jean lievens
October 10, 2015 12:52 PM
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Challenging and entertaining presentation by Alexa Clay, the ‘Amish Futurist’ and friends, about the need for soul in technology and despite technology. Watch the video here:
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jean lievens
August 26, 2015 2:33 PM
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Reflections on the clash between our modern, western ideas of liberal equality and property, and the modes of being and knowing nourished in the Commons.
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jean lievens
July 22, 2015 5:37 PM
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A post dedicated to setting down in black and white the great conceptual frameworks within which we understand the world.
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jean lievens
July 11, 2015 4:13 AM
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What would individualism and equality look like if detached from their foundations in a logic of equivalence?
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jean lievens
May 19, 2015 11:35 AM
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“Joana Formosinho is a zoologist with a background in animal behavioural research, but as she says in her introduction, she felt that her research and research methods had not brought her a profound level of insight:
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