Peer2Politics

Jim helps us to Understanding  BitCoin with Stephen DeMeulenaere, the founder of Complementary Currency Resource Center and fellow atQoin. Also, we learn how Google to test self-driving cars

Reposted from the C-Realm podcast, KMO talks to author David Holmgren, co-originator (with Bill Mollison) of permaculture. We want to thank Michel Bauwens for originally contacting Holmgren. Watch for an upcoming trialogue between Bauwens, Holmgren and Josef Davies-Coates.

Welcome to the website dedicated to the KZSU-FM (Stanford University) radio interview show and podcast Hearsay Culture, hosted by Dave Levine, an Assistant Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law and a Non-Residential Fellow at theCenter for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School. In sum, each 50-55 minute show is designed to cover modern technology/Internet issues, but not from a purely law or geek perspective. From the KZSU-FM schedule description: “An interview talk show that focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored.”

Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.

Sharing your neighbour's car, tools and clothes. Peter Day reports on the sharing economy.

Reposted from the C-Realm podcast, KMO starts off with a discussion of David Graeber’s 2012 essay, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, part of which we’ve recently featured of the blog.  The bulk of the Podcast comprises a fascinating conversation with G- Paul Blundell on the workings of his Commune.

The history of the war between the techies and America's NSA over the keys to our privacy.

KMO talks with Kevin Carson, author of The Homebrew Industrial Revolutionabout the technologies that seem poised to end the dominance of capital-intensive production methodologies and brake the stranglehold that capitalists and the government minions hold over our lives. Author Jeremy Rifkin describes the current state of human affairs as the transition from the Second to the Third Industrial Revolution. Going forward, says Rifkin, capitalism will be a much diminished force in human affairs.

Sarah Montague asks what the university of the future will look like.

“Lastly, I’m thrilled to post Show #192, August 23, my interview with Tim Jordan of King’s College London on hacking. Tim is (and has been) doing fascinating work on the question of how the Internet has changed communication practices. Drawing on the worlds of 19th century Australian pioneers and modern-day virtual world gamers,Internet, Society and Culture: Communicative Practices Before and After the Internet, published by Bloomsbury, was a terrific book from which to draw many enlightening and fun points of discussion. I learned much and loved the interview.”

Michel Bauwens es el director de la investigación de FLOKsociety, un proyecto del IAEN-UPE para pensar las dinámicas emancipadoras que puedan surgir de la nueva matriz productiva. En la entrevista Bauwens recalca la función del proyecto FLOKsociety en definir nuevas posibilidades de organización del marco productivo del Ecuador hacia un desarrollo justo y sustentable de la economía social del conocimiento en el país.

KMO welcomes permaculture co-originator David Holmgren to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss two of his essays: Money Vs Fossil Energy: the Battle for Control of the World and Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future. David has been tracking the onset of climate change and peak oil for many years, but he says that in recent years, largely due to the work of Steve Keen and Nicole Foss, he has come to see financial systems as the fastest moving and most volatile element in emerging global crisis. He describes why he considers the Bush administration to have been guided by a certain energy realism lacking in too many social and climate activists. Finally, he describes why he thinks that multiple generations of mass affluence has left us saddled with a psycho-social debt that will be very difficult for us to discharge.