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The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons. 
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Perhaps the simplest lesson is that even decentralized networks need, and have, governments. Every network is a state. Every state has a government.
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Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
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Marshall Ganz is a ‘social movement scholar’ and author of the book, Why David Sometimes Wins.He shares his general thoughts on the use of social media in the Arab spring.
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Republished from David Bollier (the original has links): “Scholar of networked behavior David Ronfeldt has proposed an idea whose time may have arrived: let’s create a new federated network of commons enterprises called the “Chamber of Commons.” The term is a wonderful wordplay on the more familiar group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the notoriously... Continue reading →
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If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy.
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John Holloway sees socialist models based on taking state power as reproducing rather than abolishing the capital-labor relationship in many ways.
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Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others to be absorbed in selfishness
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Ouishare's Benjamin and Francesca share how they use Loomio to collaborate as a large-scale international distributed community.
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Waze has built a real time layer of data and commands over our current traffic infrastructure, but this layer is owned and operated by a for-profit company
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In the United States the public economy’s ability to function productively on behalf of the citizenry is seriously imperiled
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Excerpted from Carlos Eduardo Martínez: To refer to this topic, and to try recreate this subject with the greatest clarity possible, it seems important to us to establish what kind of of phenomenon and/or activity we’re referring to...
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The whole blockchain development is a very good example of ‘value-sensitive design’, i.e. how the material interests and visions / intentions of various human groups enter into design decisions. The underlying cyber-libertarianism is a composite of different sensibilities, all of which are competing for the design direction of our new technological systems. The original Bitcoin/Blockchain …
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Murray Bookchin's 'The Next Revolution' offers a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.
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Erik Olin Wright, from a 2007 text in ‘Compass Points’: “Capitalism would be an unreproducible and chaotic social order if the state played the minimalist role specified in the libertarian fantasy, but it would also, as Polanyi argued, function much more erratically if civil society was absorbed into the economy as a fully commodified and... Continue reading →
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An excellent documentary, with english subtitles, coming from Sweden: “This is a solid, thought provoking documentary covering a relevant economic topic in-depth. The question of capitalism’s grip on the modern world is highly relevant today and the film questions if we should be pushing for a democratic cooperative way of doing business, showing case studies... Continue reading →
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The growth of information continues exponentially until it exceeds the social processes (institutions) and technological structures that produced it.
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The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs. Far from being anti-bureaucratic, the neoliberal regime... Continue reading →
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For the autonomists and like-minded thinkers, the goal is Exodus rather than taking power.
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On the convergence of the blockchain and the commons, with the blockchain as the new institutional technology that makes the commons scale.
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The urban commons movement of today stands on the shoulders of people’s continuing efforts to improve urban life
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The use of the concept of self-management has connotations with great ideological weight, rather than concrete.
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“We run a real risk of creating a new kind of regulatory capture?—?
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Benjamin and Francesca share how they collaborate as a large-scale international distributed community. (The conversation was conducted by Alanna Krause in the context of an investigation of how organizations use Loomio.) Watch the video here:
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