November 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ISSUE of "Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods"
by mp 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Holistic, system oriented exchange about climate change among peers: ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ISSUE View/download .PDF here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73367551/Call-for-Papers-CCC-1st-Issue This new, open-access transdisciplinary journal Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods aims to critically engage with and disseminate biocultural approaches to understanding and responding to climate change and global change processes. The journal puts into practice the ‘epistemic bridging’ that lies at the heart of indigenous peoples’ biocultural understanding of territory, community, climate and ecosystems through sharing across practice based learning, research findings and conceptual papers. A feature of this first issue will be a section on REDD and REDD+. We are particularly interested in articles that explore the relationship between the rights of forest dwelling indigenous peoples and climate change mitigation mechanisms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Types of Papers: Research Articles (5 – 8,000 words) Essays Book and report reviews INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Please visit the CCC:BSL site at http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc/index.php/ccc/index for all the information on how to format your manuscript, as well as on-line submissions. Please note that you must register (go to http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc.index.php/ccc/user/register) as an author to be able to submit your manuscript. For more information: http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc/index.php/ccc/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Completed manuscripts submitted by December 23rd will be considered for the journal launch in January 2012.. Manuscripts submitted after this date will also be considered for the first issue, which will continue to publish papers through till March 2012. Short contributions: Maximum length 2,000 words Research articles: Maximum length 8,000 words JOURNAL EDITORS Dr Marina Apgar, Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA) initiative, Asociacion ANDES, Cusco, Peru Dr Will Allen, Learning for Sustainability - http://learningforsustainability.net/ Dr Martin Pedersen, Co-founder | t r 3 3 | Dr Nina Moeller, Freelance Consultant, UK Further info: A new journal of biocultural systems & livelihoods: Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge that communities and ecosystems across the world face today. Indigenous peoples and local communities living in biodiverse and fragile ecosystems of the planet are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their direct reliance on local, natural systems for their livelihoods, well-being and cultural expressions. Paradoxically, they also potentially hold vital knowledge, gained through co-evolutionary relationships with the natural systems that have enabled their survival and resilience. Understanding climate change, its impacts on local and global systems, and potential solutions requires touching upon concerns of how to link the social to the environmental within a framework of equity and justice. It requires dialogue across scales from the local to the global. Holistic approaches, such as indigenous and biocultural approaches offer potential avenues for understanding the challenge and building appropriate solutions. This new, open-access transdisciplinary journal Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods aims to critically engage with and disseminate biocultural approaches to understanding and responding to climate change and global change processes. The journal puts into practice the ‘epistemic bridging’ that lies at the heart of indigenous peoples’ biocultural understanding of territory, community, climate and ecosystems through sharing across practice based learning, research findings and conceptual papers. In light of a commitment to building epistemological bridges between different knowledge systems, the journal will use an open peer review process which aims to promote an environment of cooperation, knowledge exchange and networking between authors and reviewers of the journal community. --

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Hernando de Soto Polar...
by robert searle 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

I thought this was quite an interesting Wikipedia page on Hernando de Soto Polar.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar

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Greg Palast..
by robert searle 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Greg Palast is still going strong. He has published another book this year which is referenced in the Wikipedia bio entry on him.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast

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Peter Schweizer
by robert searle 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Apart from Throw Them All Out Peter Schweizer has written similiar tomes as well. Here, is a google page of references to him, and relevant sites. There is though not much about him on the Wikipedia entry. http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&cp=0&gs_id=1&xhr=t&q=Peter+Schweizer&pf=p&sc…

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Throw Them All Out!
by robert searle 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

The book about the congressional insider trading activities!! I originally read about it on Michels FB site, and then heard something on it on BBC Radio Four... http://www.amazon.com/Throw-Them-All-Peter-Schweizer/dp/0547573146

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Fwd: reSource for transmedial culture: Statement of interest
by Michel Bauwens 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tatiana Bazzichelli <tbazz(a)transmediale.de> Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 PM Subject: reSource for transmedial culture: Statement of interest To: tbazz(a)transmediale.de Cc: Daniela Silvestrin <ds(a)transmediale.de> reSource for transmedial culture Statement of interest & call for collaborations The reSource is an initiative of transmediale - festival for art and digital culture, Berlin in collaboration with CTM/DISK GbR and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, on the search for further partners during 2012. ## reSource - A new initiative of the transmediale festival The reSource for transmedial culture is a new framework for transmediale festival related projects that happen throughout the year in the city of Berlin. It is an initiative that extends into ongoing activities with decisive touchdowns at each festival. Within the aegis of facilitating collaboration and the sharing of resources and knowledge between the transmediale festival in Berlin and the local and translocal scene engaged with art and digital culture, the objective of the reSource for transmedial culture is to act as a link between the cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks in the field of art and technology, hacktivism and politics. This statement of interest is directed mainly to local and international artists, cultural producers, hackers, activists, and gender-situated communities active in the city of Berlin and in the broader field of net culture regionally and internationally, to co-develop experiences which invite exploration, experimentation and reflection. By generating a set of questions and issues which are addressed to local and translocal communities within (and beyond) digital cultural production, the main idea is to develop mutual exchanges of methodologies and knowledge, as well as project-space experiences, investigating new ways of forming a cultural public and producing a meta reflection on strategies of collaborative actions. The launch of the reSource will take place at transmediale 2012 through different project disseminations such as workshops, talks and performances. It will in itself be an important feature of the 25th anniversary of the transmediale, looking into the future while acknowledging the importance of the festival as an accessible and dynamic forum for the translocal art scene as well as for interdisciplinary cultural producers and researchers. The reSource launch at transmediale is anticipated by a beta-reSource event on November 16-18, 2011 at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) organised in partnership with the Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC) of Aarhus University and the Vilém Flusser Archive. After transmediale 2012, the reSource will extend its activity in collaboration with two main partners: CTM/DISK, proposing a series of open events held in the spring 2012, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, organising a public event in August 2012, which will show the results of the first phase of collaboration and sharing within the context of the reSource for transmedial culture. This statement of interest is thought as a call for collaborations to involve a number of additional projects and partners towards the creation of a distributed platform during 2012 and further, envisioning the festival form as a peer-production context of knowledge and research. ## reSource - A year-round distributed project If a source is the beginning, or origin of something, reSource is used in this context as a starting point from which a distributed sharing process, and a common executable (artistic) program, is produced. The aim of the reSource for transmedial culture is to be distributed in a form that extends into an ongoing, year-round activity with touchdowns at each festival. This form includes both its executable files, and its source code. Source codes are useful to modify a program or understand how it works. Taking this notion more broadly, in the framework of the reSource for transmedial culture, the objective becomes to develop a networking distributed platform and an (executable) meta reflection on the meaning and the practices of networked art, hacking and collaborative art production within the context of an international art festival. Starting from the assumption that the increasing commercialisation of the contexts of sharing and networking is currently transforming the meaning of art and participation, what should be the answer of artists, activists and hackers working on a critical dimension of networking? And if hacker and artistic practices are developing in the context of a deep transformation of the meaning of participation, often reflecting a precarious cultural and economical configuration, what is the responsibility and the role of cultural institutions engaging with art and digital technologies, towards a critical articulation of culture production? In Berlin, hacker, activist and artistic practices are very much realised outside the realm of artistic institutions. Some of those practices are contributing to transform the economy and the cultural asset of the city, but they are also becoming easy targets to be exploited by the market. However, this is not only a local phenomenon: At this present time, while financial markets are deeply influencing the development of cultural production and, more generally, our daily life flexibility, direct participation and common engagement are becoming pervasive business logics. The progressive involvement of users in the production process generates new possibilities of interaction among peers, but also of hierarchical control. Analysing the topology and the effects of artistic and hacktivist practices in decentralised social networks implies a reflection on power structures, business methodologies as well as on the relationship between art and economy. The social media and social networking phenomenon brings about contradictions and ambiguities. The subject of social networking is constantly transforming, and requires both a theoretical and empirical involvement of researchers and artists, theoreticians and practitioners before it can be fully understood. It becomes necessary to rethink concepts such as innovation and disruption, co-optation and opposition, as a mutual feedback loop, and a two-way disruption. ## reSource - A shared knowledge laboratory The reSource for transmedial culture aims to work towards the creation of a shared knowledge laboratory within transmediale, and a project for local and trans-local distributed networks by organising events, workshops and talks involving artists, hackers, activists, researchers and cultural producers active in the city of Berlin and abroad. The aim of the reSource is to involve communities that not only engage directly with network technologies, but that are also critically reflecting on decentralised and distributed strategies of networking and anti-hegemonic practices, from hackers and activists to feminist, queer, transgender and porn communities. Within this framework, the reSource statement of interest poses the following objectives: - To rethink the concepts of (social) networking, collaborative practices, innovation and participation, through the creation of a platform of distributed networks involving grassroots communities of hackers, artists, performers, activists, curators and cultural producers; - To apply the concept of disruptive innovation to the art field so as to open up a critical perspective on the “network economy”, working in collaboration with local and translocal communities in Berlin and abroad, trying to understand how the market works after de-assembling its strategies and mechanisms of production; - To generate disruptive modalities of art production after the emergence of social media, reflecting on distributive decentralised and socially engaged contexts of participation and innovation; - To analyse the concept of transmedial culture, investigating creative approaches across digital and analogue media, reflecting on the intersections between cultural production, networking and disruptive art practices; - To reflect on the strategies of networked art and hacktivism, by developing an empirical methodology based on mutual exchanges between the members of the (post-) media art scene, cultural producers and researchers in the field of the humanities. The analyses of these subjects necessarily imply sharing methodologies whereby artists, hackers, activists and researchers join together to form practice-oriented contexts of reflection and give feedback to both theory and practice through an interdisciplinary, distributed and polyphonic approach. Artistic and hacker practices are thought therefore both as a resource for producing cultural innovation, but also as a strategic challenge to generate media criticism – and a meta reflection on artistic production in the framework of digital culture and network economy. This statement of interest must be imagined as an initial input and a starting point for further collaboration on the analysis and the production of disruptive hacker and artistic practices in the framework of (social) networking, but also as an input to generate a collective investigation into the practice of networking as an art strategy – and an applied research method. Contacts: Tatiana Bazzichelli: tbazz(a)transmediale.de reSource concept and programme developer Daniela Silvestrin: ds(a)transmediale.de reSource programme assistant More info: http://www.transmediale.de/**beyond/tm-resource<http://www.transmediale.de/beyond/tm-resource> -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // reSource concept and programme developer in/compatible // transmediale 2012, 31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 // http://www.transmediale.de join the conversation on the transmediale IRC channel // server: irc.freenode.net | channel: #transmediale | port: 6667 transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] Vol 11, Issue 97 - Thrive Movement
by David Alan Foster 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Last night I saw a film called "Thrive" by Foster Gamble. Never heard of him before. Seems like a "black sheep" of the Gamble (Proctor and) family. Check out the website <http://thrivemovement.com/>, which is fairly comprehensive. I bought the film for [free] local screenings in the Bay Area (Peninsula/Palo Alto particularly). Though the creators are maintaining an arms-length relationship with the Occupy Movement, it seems very aligned, and has concrete actions that might well represent the 99%. Would like more of you to see it and comment, especially with regard to OWS. Curious also how you see it aligning (or not) with Zeitgeist, Coalition of the Willing, etc. David On Nov 21, 2011, at 5:51 PM, p2p-foundation-request(a)lists.ourproject.org wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: www.diginfo.tv/ - Info feed on new Ambient and Robotic > Technologies (Michel Bauwens) > 2. "25 Billion Lawsuit" : "Geithner" ? ( AIG, Goldman Sachs, > Treasury, Fed, ... Group of Thirty, ... ? ) (Dante-Gabryell Monson)

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a mad currency!
by mrc 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is like a burning stone! When you get it, you have to pass it to the one the giver told you. The one receiving it from you have to forcedly pass it to the someone's else you choosed and so on. It could just pause the moving due a need of reaching a bigger critical ammount that when is reached, it will make it become a bigger damned and previewed fireball! pd. some people even clausule it further with the investments having to be commons when they get into a production status. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOzAHlAAoJEAlfUArKi+ECUkUH/Rj05aoaqwGUGsR3DjpE3Lc5 RHmcXJjrEZ8mO2waXSHuFaqll5jX7o3w1vY/9FOGktFW0ucA1FdFrRzoCMv2u7Ba AsibUv+MzBlEjZ0ot8Z636oIY6Q3I1IJa/Cxq5+9AqWNMeNmURkRot1m7akwD6eV U3L0vuuj8uLubn6URhODFLD8NTiQeuuqY98C/CclE6Ry6jQuhJF/PWW19SXHEmUo 5XJiaABxdbsIagrulHvCTWNQtt6adu732DAvLs2yMGOn3OhAPb1lDbUD+9c2A8kp qnFzr52prLXJTBwuSpbArHxbbAi5tGa+zj/76z4FSBsqPd5jF6/GClx22V86fZI= =k7r+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Climate Change Meetings at Durban..
by robert searle 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Maybe of interest. http://unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/meeting/6245.php

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100 Wikipedia Alternatives
by Franco Iacomella 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

See: http://www.freecollegeclasses.org/wikipedia-alternatives/ Best, -- Franco Iacomella

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