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Reality Sandwich feature on monetary transformation
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: your Reality Sandwich feature Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:23:08 -0500 From: Steven Taylor <stevenxtaylor(a)gmail.com> <stevenxtaylor(a)gmail.com> To: Thomas Greco <thg(a)mindspring.com> <thg(a)mindspring.com> Hi Thomas, We featured your latest on Reality Sandwich today. Here's the link. http://www.realitysandwich.com/worlds_ominous_reckoning Thanks for sending in the work. Best, Steven -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: nonkilling.org Economics Research Committee
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Economics Research Committee These Committees have been established as consultative bodies to promote the advancement of interdisciplinary scientific evidence on the possibilities of nonkilling societies. These Committees provide creative input on research agendas, academic events, courses and publications. You can find a list of existing Committees at: http://www.nonkilling.org/node/7Your actual involvement as a member is flexible, ranging from simply supporting the idea with your name to actively participating in the development of publications and events. In 2011 CGNK intends to publish various edited volumes and also keeps an active working papers series ( http://nonkilling.org/node/20) . For further details on the Center and nonkilling, please take time to visit our website: http://www.nonkilling.orgYours sincerely, Joám Evans Pim Research, Global Team Leader Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK) P.O. Box 12232, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96828 http://www.nonkilling.org Board member, Brazilian Institute for Nonkilling http://www.naomatar.org "Die if you must, but never kill." Marechal (General) Cândido Rondon (1865-1958) -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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hylozoic
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi Kevin, just wondering if you are familiar with rudy rucker's latest books, like hylozoic and whether they are pertinent to p2p concerns? http://thecommandline.net/2010/10/27/rudy_rucker/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] How Grass Roots activism is developing in a different way - apols for X posts
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *Frm Global Transition in Action by Les Squires > > Introduction:* > > Over the last decade widespread debate about environmental issues and > ethical consumer behavior has fostered the development of new grassroots > organizations. These organizations represent a departure from the more > hierarchical and institutionalized social movement organizations > (SMOs) operating within similar sectors. > > > > *Objective:* > > Investigating how new grassroots organizations differ from traditional SMOs > and how their diffusion is currently taking place are the broad goals of > this research. In particular, we want to show that these new social > movements are not primarily concerned with persuading the state to change > policies but with engaging individuals to adopt new lifestyles. Such > lifestyle changes will create new identities that will diffuse from the > market to the broader society. The internet is used for coordinating > individual changes into a collective action and for making possible the > recruitment of new people. > > > *Methods:* > > * *We used an online survey to collect data on the users of the following > website: http://transitionus.ning.com (now http://transitioninaction.com) > Data were collected from October 2009 to March 2010. Overall, 387 > respondents began the survey, and 243 completed it. > > > *Findings:* > > The survey showed respondents to be politically active, educated, white > adults, with women making up 58% of the sample. More than half of the > respondents have ever belonged to an environmental group or political/civic > organization, and over 80% have attended a political/civic event. However, > their responses to survey questions indicate that they are dissatisfied with > traditional means of political participation, such as street rallies and > letter writing, and that non‐contentious collective actions are preferred > (examples: food and gardening activities, energy saving activities, etc.). > Respondents perceive community organizing to be the most effective way to > bring about social change, deprioritizing connections to local government. > They generally distrust business corporations and political parties, > and explain their withdrawal from political/civic organizations as the > result of the failure of institutional organizations and means to effect > change. > > > Respondents are web‐savvy, using the internet for email, work, reading the > news, social networking, online discussions, and blogging. Cross tabulations > indicate that respondents that started a local chapter of Transition US, > i.e. the initiators, are slightly more likely to have first heard about the > movement from strong ties, such as close friends and relatives, while > joiners are slightly more likely to have first heard about the movement from > the internet and other weak ties, such as acquaintances or from flyers. > Indeed, joiners tend to continue to stay up to date with Transition via the > web while initiators tend to stay up to > date via local meetings. Furthermore, initiators spend more time with > people involved with Transition than people not involved, while joiners > spend more time with people not involved with Transition. > > > > These findings have implications for tactical shifts in the use of the > internet for organization and mobilization efforts on the parts of similar > lifestyle movement organizations. *The theoretical and practical aspects > of these implications will be the topic of a workshop on “The Mobilization > ofIdentities” held on February 15, 2011 at Stanford University. *More > information about this workshop will be made available closer to the date. > > > http://transitioninaction.com/forum/topics/stanford-transition-us-social > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Thimbl: Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be Fingered!
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

thanks for supporting thimbl: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. <dk(a)telekommunisten.net> Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:38 PM Subject: Thimbl: Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be Fingered! To: "Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. Subscriber" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ ##### Vote for Thimbl --> http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl ##### Watch the Thimbl video --> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform ##### What is Thimbl? --> http://www.thimbl.net ##### Get the Telekommunisten Manifesto --> http://bit.ly/telekommunist Hello! It's been a long time since I've sent out a email newsletter, hasn't it? As some of you may know, I've gotten drawn into the world of social media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few reasons for this, one, to explore those platforms as ways to communicate, but also to very large degree, to understand the enemy. Much of what's wrong with Web2.0 is covered in the Telekommunist Manifesto ( http://bit.ly/telekommunist) recently published by Geert Lovink and the Institute for Network Cultures. But now, Telekommunisten are going beyond criticizing the twitbooks, we have initiated a project to develop a truly social platform, one that is open source and decentralized, and perhaps best of all, based on the Finger Protocol, which was originally developed in the 1970s and is already support on pretty much every platform. /////// Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered! The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it's own: http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger & SSH client Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl project is just beginning, we need your to help spread the word. What's really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web Award from Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we'll be hanging around the OpenZone at Transmediale spreading the word and answering questions. Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, and we really need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the Award is being done on the drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, and is up against two projects that are far better known, so we're really need your vote. Please sign up to drumbeat and vote for Thimbl! Here's how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can see it on the home page of our drumpeat project. http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the Transmediale jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project and so are we! Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this on, share, blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social media! With your help, we can make this manifesto for the open web heard! Got Questions? Wanna Help? We've also launched a public community forum for the Thimbl project: http://www.thimbl.net/community.html Come by and say Hi! /////// Stammtisch! Also, for those of you in Berlin, I'll be at Cafe Buchhandlung tonight (Tuesday) for Stammtisch, so come by and have a drink for Thimbl! Stammstich remains at the usual place, Cafe Buchhandlug. (http://bit.ly/buchhandlung) I'll be there around 9pm. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --> http://www.thimbl.net --> http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html --> http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl [[[[ Telekommunisten. The Revolution is Calling ]]]] -- The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. using the following email: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com You may unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: http://freshsent.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/friends/michelsub2004/gmail.c… If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. 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Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum
by Wouter Tebbens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear all, first of all, I follow with great interest the activities going on in the P2P Foundation. And after some discussion with Michel, he suggested me to post here this small message, or better: an invitation. Let me first explain it briefly. With a network of universities and specialised groups we are working on the development of a shared master curriculum on Free Technologies (FT). We understand FT to include Free Software (OSS / Libre Software), Open Standards, Free Hardware. And with specialised tracks on Free Culture and Peer Production. Our aim is to help the adoption of these technologies and production methodologies through helping universities and higher educational institutes to participate and incorporate (parts of) the shared curriculum in their study programmes. One of the things we are looking for is people and organisations willing to contribute to the curriculum. A large part is already there, but especially in areas such as Free Hardware we could use more people who are in the frontline of developments. Maybe some of you know of existing courses and educational materials that may be of interest, or case studies about interesting projects. If you're interested, read on! This work builds further on what several universities and specialist groups have started years ago and that we are now continuing together under the umbrella of the Free Technology Academy (FTA). Let me summarise then a few main aspects that hopefully help to clarify our pursuit: * we are building a common framework for a shared master curriculum with shared norms, rules and procedures as well as copyleft educational materials * this facilitates the autonomy of each university interested in adopting parts of it, while assuring compatibility between programmes and courses * we like distance learning through the Internet, while also having face2face options at concrete locations * the developed educational methodology is based in full course books, that are openly published under free licenses * we are opening up the development process and feedback through web-based tools, open standards and team work * the books are generally worked through in (online) class rooms and continuous assessment activities are done by the participants, guided by a mentor from one of the universities * did I say that we practice what we preach? Indeed, the technologies used are free as in freedom. * we strive for recognition of the course certificates by universities * we strive for double degrees and ultimately for a joint degree * we build the curriculum with all interested parties willing to use and contribute to it. Only as a wider community or ecosystem can we develop this in a sustainable way. A draft for the shared curriculum we are developing in the FTA Campus Wiki: http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Master-Curriculum A substantial part of the courses are already active, here you can find the course books: http://ftacademy.org/materials and courses are conducted for example at the FTA: http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme and are recognised by the partner universities. If you would like to contribute, even by just adding some useful pointers, please do so in the course pages in the Master-Curriculum wiki-page. There are more people interested in working on this with us. And even more willing to take the courses. I look forward to hearing from you through this list, personal email or directly in the wiki. Your inputs are more than welcome and very much needed. best regards, -- Wouter Tebbens -- Free Knowledge Institute /Unlocking the knowledge society/ http://freeknowledge.eu/ Free Technology Academy /Online education about Free Software/ http://ftacademy.org/

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Re: [P2P-F] [OHANDA] Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

thanks Bryan, I'm the one working, with Franco Iacomella, on the peer production course, Michel On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Wouter Tebbens <wouter(a)freeknowledge.eu> > Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM > Subject: [OHANDA] Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum > To: ohanda(a)piksel.no, j.neumann(a)junes.eu > > > Dear all, > > first of all, I follow with great interest the activities going on in > Ohanda. This is really exciting! I write to you about developing a > master programme including courses on Copyleft Hardware. Maybe some of > you know of existing courses and educational materials that may be of > interest, or case studies about interesting projects. Let me first > explain it briefly. > > With a network of universities and specialised groups we are working on > the development of a shared master curriculum on Free Technologies (FT). > We understand FT to include Free Software (OSS / Libre Software), Open > Standards, Free Hardware. And with specialised tracks on Free Culture > and Peer Production. > > Our aim is to help the adoption of these technologies and production > methodologies through helping universities and higher educational > institutes to participate and incorporate (parts of) the shared > curriculum in their study programmes. > > One of the things we are looking for is people and organisations willing > to contribute to the curriculum. A large part is already there, but > especially in the areas such as Free Hardware we could use more people > who are in the frontline of developments. If you're interested, read on! > > This work builds further on what several universities and specialist > groups have started years ago and that we are now continuing together > under the umbrella of the Free Technology Academy (FTA). > > Let me summarise then a few main aspects that hopefully helps to > clarify our pursuit: > * we are building a common framework for a shared master curriculum with > shared norms, rules and procedures as well as copyleft educational > materials > * this facilitates the autonomy of each university interested in > adopting parts of it, while assuring compatibility between programmes > and courses > * we like distance learning through the Internet, while also having > face2face options at concrete locations > * the developed educational methodology is based in full course books, > that are openly published under free licenses > * we are opening up the development process and feedback through > web-based tools, open standards and team work > * the books are generally worked through in (online) class rooms and > continuous assessment activities are done by the participants, guided by > a mentor from one of the universities > * did I say that we practice what we preach? Indeed, the technologies > used are free as in freedom. > * we strive for recognition of the course certificates by universities > * we strive for double degrees and ultimately for a joint degree > * we build the curriculum with all interested parties willing to use and > contribute to it. Only as a wider community or ecosystem can we develop > this in a sustainable way. > > A draft for the shared curriculum we are developing in the FTA Campus > Wiki: http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Master-Curriculum > > Many of the courses are already active, here you can find the course > books: http://ftacademy.org/materials and courses are conducted for > example at the FTA: http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme and > recognised by the partner universities. > > If you would like to contribute, even by just adding some useful > pointers, please do so in the course pages in the Master-Curriculum > wiki-page. > > There are more people interested in working on this with us. And even > more willing to take the courses. I look forward to hearing from you > through this list, personal email or directly in the wiki. Your inputs > are more than welcome and very much needed. > > best regards, > -- > Wouter Tebbens > -- > Free Knowledge Institute /Unlocking the knowledge society/ > http://freeknowledge.eu/ > Free Technology Academy /Online education about Free Software/ > http://ftacademy.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > OHANDA mailing list > OHANDA(a)piksel.no > https://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/ohanda > > > > -- > - Bryan > http://heybryan.org/ > 1 512 203 0507 > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: [Notification from Critical Studies in Peer Production] New item: "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study"
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CSPP Plone Administrator <cspp-plone(a)oekonux.org> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:59 AM Subject: [Notification from Critical Studies in Peer Production] New item: "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study" To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Hello, Item "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study" has been created. http://cspp.oekonux.org/scientific-committee/latest-submissions/long-theory… Regards, -- Critical Studies in Peer Production -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] [Demonetize.it] platform
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

thanks raffael, forwarding the demonetarization initiative to our mailing list, Michel On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Raffael Kemenczy <raffael(a)kemenczy.at>wrote: > Hello Michael, > > I modified the wiki article on the Network of European Technocrats and > created the European Organisation for Sustainability page (name was changed, > I am a member). I also added reference to The Starfish and the Spider Book > as the idea for the Project's name came from it. > > As we were writing about this topic, I'd like to forward the attached > e-mail to you (maybe you've already seen it, as I just saw that Franz > Nahrada is also on the list). Feel free to forward this to interested > parties as I am sure it intersects with the areas you are working in as > well. > > > Kind regards, > > Raffael > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andreas Exner <andreas.exner(a)chello.at> > Date: 11 January 2011 10:44 > Subject: [Demonetize.it] platform - open mailing list > > > Hi everybody > > I'm very glad to make the list of people who signalled interest to work > on a de- monetarization project now open to everybody. Some requests are > still open (e.g. to Harry Cleaver, Raul Zelik, indigenous networks). Please > spread the invitation if you know people who might be interested in such an > initiative. > > This is the content of this mail: > > 1. PEOPLE > 2. STATEMENT > 3. WEBLOG & "NETWORKING GROUP"? > 4. MEETING, COMMUNICATION & MISSION > 5. FURTHER STEPS > > Beneath you'll find the original invititation. > > 1. PEOPLE > > Some very quick and rough information on the people who would like to > build a platform "demonetarization" or who signalled considerable interest > in such a project - please post your corrections if I got something wrong or > if you'd like to present yourself otherwise. > > Franz Nahrada (Globally Integrated Village Environment, * > http://www.give.at/* <http://www.give.at/> , networker, commons, Vienna) > > Athanasios Karathanassis (political ecology, regulation theory, Hannover, > "Naturzerstörung und kapitalistisches Wachstum", *http://www.amazon.de/Naturzerst%C3%B6rung-kapitalistisches- > %C3%96kosysteme-%C3%B6konomischer-Entwicklungen/dp/3899650182*<http://www.amazon.de/Naturzerst%C3%B6rung-kapitalistisches-%C3%96kosysteme-…>) > > John Holloway ("Change the World without Taking Power", * > http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-holloway*<http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-holloway>, Puebla) > > Gustavo Esteva ("Post-Development", *http://gustavoesteva.com/*<http://gustavoesteva.com/> > *)* > > Lars Stubbe (works on social movements in Latin America, engages in an > autonomous trade union group, Kassel) > > Nikola Winter (works within the "Zeitgeist-Movement"; she is interested > in the project as a "private person") * > http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/*<http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/> > > Martin Scheuringer (editor of "Streifzüge", *http://www.streifzuege.org/*<http://www.streifzuege.org/> > *)* > > Raffael Kemenczy (works on models to organize a demonetized economy, * > www.kemenczy.at* <http://www.kemenczy.at> , works together with EOS * > www.eoslife.eu* <http://www.eoslife.eu> ) > > Alfred Fresin (works on a model to organize a demonetized economy, > "Bedürfnisorientierte Versorgungswirtschaft", *http://stattkapitalismus.blogsport.de/2009/05/07/ergaenzung-die-bedeutung- > der-stimmigen-kritik-der-marktwirtschaft-fuer-eine-al*<http://stattkapitalismus.blogsport.de/2009/05/07/ergaenzung-die-bedeutung-d…> > *)* > > Genevieve Vaughan ("For-Giving. A Feminist Critique of Exchange", * > http://www.for-giving.com/* <http://www.for-giving.com/> *)* > > Werner Rätz (Attac Germany, basic income, *http://www.attac.de/was-ist- > attac/gruppen/?L=2&ognum=10007*<http://www.attac.de/was-ist-attac/gruppen/?L=2&ognum=10007>) > Friederike Habermann (People's Global Action, works on feminism, > solidarity economy, Berlin) > > Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (one of the founders of the paradigm of > "subsistence economy", feminist, part-time in Vienna) > > Thorsten Endlein (works on solidarity economy, * > http://www.kritischeuni.de/* <http://www.kritischeuni.de/> *, *Kassel) > Helge Buttkereit (works on social movements in Latin America, * > http://www.buttkereit.info/* <http://www.buttkereit.info/> *, * works with > the Hans-Jürgen Krahl Institut, *http://www.hjki.de/*<http://www.hjki.de/> that published a brochure on "Practical Socialism") > > Christian Lauk (works on political ecology, agrarian metabolism; economic > growth, *http://www.social-innovation.org/*<http://www.social-innovation.org/>, Vienna) > > Andreas Exner (works on solidarity economy, economic growth; editor of > "Streifzüge", *http://www.streifzuege.org/* <http://www.streifzuege.org/>, > *http://www.social- innovation.org/* <http://www.social-innovation.org/> , > *http://krisu.noblogs.org/* <http://krisu.noblogs.org/> part-time in > Vienna) > > Christian Siefkes (commons, "peer economy", *http://www.keimform.de/*<http://www.keimform.de/>, Berlin) > > Stephanie Grohmann (feminist, working on queer economy, social movements) > > Stefan Meretz (commons, *http://www.keimform.de/*<http://www.keimform.de/>, Berlin) > > 2. STATEMENT > > The preliminary "mission statement" - until now no changes to this version > were submitted - was: > > "All production and all ways of life rely on unconditional giving, the > direct communication between producers, cooperation and the riches of the > earth. Yet the money economy has monopolized our social and natural world > for its own, self-referential and destructive purpose: profit. The dynamic > principle of the money economy is capital: money begetting more money. It > turns human beings into sellers of labour time and consumers of > commodities; it pits them against each other; it splits the world into > value and non-value, enchaining, exploiting and deforming what it > valorizes and destroying what it defines as worthless; it sorts people > according to competitiveness and subordinates 'the female' to 'the male'. > The economic and socio-ecological crisis of our times is its result. > De-monetization, by fostering conscious self-organization of producers, is > the way out of it. De-monetization is the first prerequisite for a free > society. Yet for a de-monetized society to be free from social domination, > a new mode of organizing production and new ways of life must be > developed. De-monetization is present in a broad range of debates and > practices for another society, that is possible and necessary. This > initiative makes them visible, brings them together and explores their > differences." > > For the weblog and our own self-definition we would need a consensual > version. Please indicate the changes you would like to see. You can post to > the list - if someone thinks that traffic is too much, please adress it to > me, I'll collect suggestions and post them in a summary to all of you. > > 3. WEBLOG & "NETWORKING GROUP"? > > Stefan Meretz has suggested to buy the domain "demonetize.it" - > personally, I think that'll be great. Please let us hear what you think > about it. > > We need a German section, so maybe we first try to include it in " > demonetize.it", as well as possible spanish versions and of course an > english one. > > I would propose to introduce three broad categories on the weblog: > > (a) "Understanding" (all theoretical contributions; why is a de-monetized > society necessary, why is it possible) > > (b) "Doing" (how doe de-monetized social relations work? where can such > relations be found? what is their contribution to the current way of living > and producing?) > > (c) "Strategy & Vision" (how can a completely or overwhelmingly de- > monetized society work? what are necessary steps in this direction? which > social movements work in this direction? where can de-monetized approaches > be found in discussions on solidarity economy, commons etc.?) > > NOTE: the people gathered together here display a wide range of > theoretical backgrounds, perspectives and even "ethical orientations". This > project is mainly or even solely about the least common denominator, it is > definitely NOT about a "maximum consensus". The denominator is (a) a > de-monetized society is necessary and possible and (b) it must be free of > social domination. All other questions will be answered in the most > controversial and heterogenous way! > > "Demonetize.it" is an intervention that aims at changing the discourse on > what direction society shall take. It is NOT about building any kind of > "consensus" tackling all sorts of questions that are left unanswered by the > demonetization and anti-domination goal. This consensus will neither be > possible nor necessary (in my view). > > What do you think about a "networking group" or "support group" > consisting of the people in this list, that would appear like a "steering > group" or an "editorial staff" on the weblog (with similar functions > concerning contributions to the weblog and further activities"? This group > could be expanded as soon as further people join. > > 4. MEETING, COMMUNICATION AND MISSION > > Friederike Habermann proposed a meeting in Berlin, during, before or > after the "Postwachstumskongress" (De-Growth-Congress) of Attac Germany, at > the end of May. Please tell us if you would like to come. > > Concerning people not able to come to Berlin, we have to decide how to > organize our communication: open Email-list? Google-Email-list? > > Of course, skype is always possible to supplement communication via > Email. > > 5. FURTHER STEPS > > After the launch of a weblog and a consensual version of our "mission > statement", I would propose to distribute the access data for the weblog to > everybody so that we can fill in relevant information (papers, people, > projects). > > The meeting in Berlin could be used to propose and discuss further steps. > Making a volume "Demonetize.it - A new paradigm of society" (or something > similar - both in English and German, i.e. two separate and parallel > publications) could be one activity. In preparing such a volume, theoretical > questions and empirical experiences could already be brought into discussion > within this group (not in the view of reaching "consensus", but in the view > of making argumentations clear and differences as well as synergies > unambigous). Another one could be to make a congress in autumn 2012. > > cheers, Andreas > PS: > Original Invitation: > > Hi all > > I am writing in English, since several english-speaking people are in the > mail adress, which includes a broad range of people that might be > interested in one way or the other in a "de-monetization" approach. If > anyone does not want to be part of this discussion, please give me a sign. > (I masked your adresses in order to limit unwanted email traffic.) > > Franz Nahrada had the idea to start a network on the issue of > "de-monetization". Athanasios Karathanassis (who is working > on economic growth in a regulation theoretical framework), from > the Critical University Hannover is also very interested to explore > the potentials of such an initiative. > > In brief, I outline a possible view on the topic: > > 1. The exacerbating economic and socio-ecological crisis makes viable > alternatives urgent > > 2. Capital growth is not an option, but a threat. State intervention is > at > best a necessary component on a way to overcome the state as a mode of > social domination. > > 3. Social movements gain momentum and put forward a range of > alternatives, > including most prominently Solidarity Economy, Commons, Basic Income, > De-Growth. Some of those approaches or the "sub-concepts" contained > therein are rather academic discussions or theoretical concepts, some of > them are utopian in character, others are firmly based on real-life > experience and organically related to social struggles. > > 4. Yet these proposals and conceptualizations are ambigous in so far as > they mix up categorically different principles of social regulation and > ways of life: market and non-market, state and non-state. So within > Solidarity Economy, there is a current strongly opposed to value and > money; within the Commons as well; within the discourse on Basic Income, > there is a current that sees money transfer as a mere stepping stone for > de-monetized production; and within the De-Growth debate, voices raise > concern whether the money relation is compatible with such a perspective. > > 5. Proposals (and practices) that rely on a further development of the > money economy and state support will encounter serious limits and > exacerbate the crisis, since capital, market relations and the state are > tightly interlinked and actually just different aspects of a society based > on capital, patriarchy and other forms of social domination. > > 6. In each of the above mentioned proposals (and practices), a social and > theoretical current is present, that aims at a de-monetized mode of > production. Yet this current is hardly visible since it is intermingled > with a broad range of theoretical debate and activism that just aims at > prolonging value and the commodity form, exchange of equivalents, money - > and in the end, maybe unintended yet necessarily so: capital, the state > and androcentrism. > > 7. It seems thus to be a promising step forward in the direction of real > alternatives to make categorical differences clear and a matter of serious > discussion: Should we aim to promote a conscious way of organizing social > production, i.e. abolish/transcend the commodity form, money and capital? > Or should we just try to "reform" capital? > > 8. As a first step, a weblog should be launched that serves as a platform > to (a) present the issue, indicate relevant links to papers, researchers, > ideas, activists and practical projects, (b) gain support and enable > networking, (c) sort out different approaches and perspectives within a > de-monetization paradigm. Languages should be German and English (maybe a > set up of two sister weblogs might be an option). > > 9. The initiative should aim at organizing a congress, maybe, for > practical reasons, in a German-speaking country (depending on resources). > Time frame: 2012, autumn. > > 10. Publications should be prepared, maybe as a volume of selected papers > on the issue > > 11. The overall aim is (a) to make de-monetization visible as a clear and > strong paradigm that transcends the current society, (b) to link de- > monetization perspectives present in different alternative practices and > debates, (c) to initiate and/or foster a discourse on de-monetization both > on an academic and a social movement level. The core task should be very > narrowly defined: against social domination, value and its different forms > (money, capital etc.). Yet from this core, a broad variety of discussions > might (a) reach out to approaches that rather try to limit the money > relation or push for a selective de-commodification and (b) engage with > those related approaches in a serious and critical discussion. > > I would like to put forward the following short "mission statement" as a > first proposal for a working consensus in view of the above-mentioned > weblog, which should be as narrow as necessary and as broad as possible, > being understandable to lay persons (I don't think my proposal is > convincing, but it might serve as a starting point for further > discussion): > > "All production and all ways of life rely on unconditional giving, the > direct communication between producers, cooperation and the riches of the > earth. Yet the money economy has monopolized our social and natural world > for its own, self-referential and destructive purpose: profit. The dynamic > principle of the money economy is capital: money begetting more money. It > turns human beings into sellers of labour time and consumers of > commodities; it pits them against each other; it splits the world into > value and non-value, enchaining, exploiting and deforming what it > valorizes and destroying what it defines as worthless; it sorts people > according to competitiveness and subordinates 'the female' to 'the male'. > The economic and socio-ecological crisis of our times is its result. > De-monetization, by fostering conscious self-organization of producers, is > the way out of it. De-monetization is the first prerequisite for a free > society. Yet for a de-monetized society to be free from social domination, > a new mode of organizing production and new ways of life must be > developed. De-monetization is present in a broad range of debates and > practices for another society, that is possible and necessary. This > initiative makes them visible, brings them together and explores their > differences." > > Please let me know what your ideas are on such an initiative, if you have > time and if you are interested. I will collect your responses and make an > updated and transparent email list including those that signalled interest > in further developing the idea. > > I wish you all the best and a Happy New Year 2011, > Andreas > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Please join me book launch/reception for Dark Matter @ Vera List Center NYC: Feb. 10, 5:30 PM
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gregory sholette <gsholette(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM Subject: Please join me book launch/reception for Dark Matter @ Vera List Center NYC: Feb. 10, 5:30 PM To: dear friends: please join me and my guests (following CAA) for: THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS and THE SHEILA C. JOHNSON DESIGN CENTER present BOOK LAUNCH and RECEPTION *Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture* *By Gregory Sholette* *Pluto Press, UK, 2011* * * Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:30 – 7:30 pm Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons The New School for Design Fifth Avenue at 13th Street Featuring: Workshop with radical knit activist Cat Mazza. A 2nd Whiskey Rebellion with Jim Costanzo and the Aaron Burr Society. Applejack served. *Both projects are featured in the book.* * * Books will be available for purchase. *http://www.plutobooks.com/results.asp?sf1=author&st1=Gregory%20Sholette&* -- gregory sholette 119 Payson Avenue #2E New York, NY 10034 USA -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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