Hi Paz, all Thanks for your suggestion. My 2.5 cents: my understanding of the journal is that anything that relates to the commons / peer production, understood as a social relation, mode of production, etc where people control what they do, is relevant. Now, one of our stated themes of interest is industry/ecology, and sustainability could certainly be related to that. At the same time the issue you raise - exploitation of resources, toxicity of e-waste - goes far beyond our control, to the heart of the industrial/capitalist system. This issue has been reported on - though not enough - by organisations such as the Basel Action Group. That is important but we would also need to figure out whether people somewhere are extracting their own resources to build stuff/electronics in a safe and sustainable way, in order not just to focus on the negative, but also to highlight alternatives. I am planning to propose an issue on the limits of self-governance, so not ready to take on additional work, but if others want to I would support them. cheers, Mathieu ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Paz Sastre <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:34 To: Journal of Peer Production's general and public list Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] News and Issues Great! Thank you very much! What about the markets of raw materials and electronic components used in projects of open source hardware?. There is a big gap in this area, usually they only show the final product. Is it interesting enough for a new number? Regards, pz 2014-11-18 10:55 GMT-06:00 maxigas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: From: Paz Sastre <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] News and Issues Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:02:23 -0600
Hi Mathieu,
I don't know exactly what should I do to propose a new topic for the journal, but after reading your mail I would like to send you an idea: a new number about money, that is to say, about alternative currencies, crytocurrencies, digital currencies... and the communities that grow around them. I am very interested in this topic and although Geert Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures are working on it, I think is worthy enough to deserve more different approaches and researches.
Your wish has been granted. The issue Shared Machine Shops was #4: Value and Currency. It is still quite fresh and up-to-date with developments and contains some super articles. You can read them here: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-4-value-and-currency/ -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ When capitalism started it wasn't legal. _______________________________________________ JoPP-Public mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, where am I? what he really wants to know is, where are the other places" Whitehead