From world affairs to entertainment, business to fashion, crime to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst that drives the popular dialogue globally.
By Yvonne Yen Liu Marshall Ganz calls Occupy a moment, but we have a history and a future. My generation, in North America, was birthed over 12 years ago, in the streets of Seattle, when trade u...
2012 is not going to be easy. Against a backdrop of economic stagnation in the west, civil society unrest in all sorts of places, and continued volatility in commodity markets, the going will be tough for business.
Dr. David Graeber, professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London on his book - Debt: The First 5000 years. How the concepts of debt a...
With the election season heating up and the Iowa Caucuses happening in less than 48 hours, I thought it might be fun to take a look at the open source CMS platforms behind a few of the biggest names in American politics.
GothamistHigher Education Bubble: Columbia to Offer 'Occupy 101′ ClassBig Governmentby Publius Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester — sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course...
The open source movement continues to strengthen every year, such that no matter who you are, what software you use, what book you read, whatever you do somewhere along the line open source software is in use.
Progressive Democrats of America, National Nurses United, the Rainbow-PUSH coalition and The Nation magazine welcomed Rev. Jesse Jackson to an exciting forum...
Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than $1 billion a year in revenue.
On this day of great celebrations worldwide, we also invite to celebrate the impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that today, like every year on this day, becomes freely available to humankind. Every year on New Year's Day, in fact, due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose.
Contemporary anarchist author and anthropologist David Graeber writes in his book Direct Action: An Ethnography that anarchists do not seek to seize power for themselves. “Rather, they wish to destroy that power, using means that are—so far as possible—consistent with their ends, that embody them.”
If there are an infinite number of hammers, or a device exists to infinitely reproduce them, then the problem of scarcity disappears, along with the need for property rights. Intellectual property is not a scarce commodity.
Classical music, like other performing arts, has long depended on the 1 percent while also struggling to fight the perception — an unfair perception — that it is elitist and inaccessible. (Occupy the Arts- great provoking article.
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925 (My favorite article of the year, from @DavidBrooksNYT In the Annals of Psychology: Social ...
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