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the moment we are living in, analysis
by Michel Bauwens 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

analysis from brian holmes, a must read on the current conjuncture, as far as I'm concerned: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1356 "The Cold War military order ended along with the Keynesian-Fordist industrial paradigm way back in the 1970s. The crisis that is opening now (for the last three years) will spell the end of American-led, financially driven neoliberal globalization. Since that period can also be dubbed "Informationalism" I think does matter to nettime. The "immanent critique of the internet" is now talking place in the flesh on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. Beginning with the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the focus of global warfare and the principle justification for the gigantic national arms-manufacturing complexes shifted from Asia (which had occupied that role during the Cold War) to the Middle East. US defeat in Vietnam officialized the shift. Meanwhile, the stunning victory of Egypt in the 1973 Israeli-Egyptian War, coupled with the first oil embargo, brought about a new reaction in the form of a strategic alliance between national militaries, arms manufacturers and oil extractors that is now visible to all as the ugly fist of Anglo-American imperialism. We are talking about a shift from the Cold War atomic-weapons conflict to the hot wars all aimed at maintaining control over the dwindling oil of the Middle East. Felix is right to say that Islamism replaced Communism as the threat required to maintain this military-industrial-extractive complex. That shift occured in the period from 1979 (Iranian Revolution) to 1981 (Anwar Sadat's assassination, commonly attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood, but in fact done by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad now led by Ayman al-Zawahiri). With the monetary turn in the economy and the ascendancy of Reagan and Thatcher, that same period marked the beginning of the financially driven political-economic formula of neoliberalism, which went global after the fall of the Soviet Union's hollow facade in 1989. We all lived through the globalization boom in the 1990s, but most did not realize it was already marking the "financial autumn" (in Braudel's famous phrase) of the American Century. Some of us did: we watched the Asian countries react to the 1997 financial crisis by refusing any new Western loans and ramping up their exports; we followed the deliberate engineering of the property/derivatives bubble after the industrial expansion of the 1990s collapsed in the year 2000; we were not surprised by the scope and severity of the 2008 krach, because we were well aware it had started in the summer of 2007. From this perspective it appears that the American system - or at the very least, the neoliberal version of it - is now on the way out. But the process is only beginning. Throughout the era of US imperial dominance, the central issue has been opening the markets of subordinated countries to American (and more broadly, Western) trade, on American terms. This began at least as far back as the late 1920s, when the Ford Motor Co. was producing around two thirds of the cars sold in the world. However, the pattern of trade changed decisively in the 1970s, when the US started running very serious balance-of-trade deficits in manufactured goods including automobiles. Many people thought THAT was the beginning of the end. Instead the US continued to ramp up its exports of high-end engineering, of services and immaterial goods of all kinds, of legal frameworks, scientific paradigms and managerial brainpower, and finally, most decisively, of financial flows, which it did not so much supply itself as coordinate, with the help of Tokyo and the City of London, via the new electronic networks. The fiber-optic cable laid in the 1990s permitted the raising and allocation of speculative capital all over the world, giving rise to the tremendous burst of urbanization and indeed, of industrial development, that we have seen in and around the major global nodes since the late 1990s. This financially driven globalization culminated with the entry of China to the WTO in 2001. And indeed, in China it shows its true face: authoritarian state capitalism, information without democracy. The utopia whose promise so many of us felt in the 1990s has reversed into a nightmare. It is not over yet - but a major crisis began in 2007, and by 2008 it was already clear that the crisis would be geopolitical. The unipolar system of globalization has fallen apart. What I call "continental drift" has begun in earnest. How will world development be coordinated in 10 or 15 years? No one yet knows. But it is known that the great promise of informationalism aka financialization was a lie and a failure. One the one hand it has maintained and even worsened the harshest domestic inequalities (witness Egypt); and on the other, with the deliberate cultivation of the Islamist enemy, it has produced a new form of super-empowered, laser-guided warfare and a process of intensive global policing whose hallmarks are satellite surveillance and assassination by unmanned drones (classic information technologies). Since 9/11 both these developments have made the new-look American imperium even more unpopular than the old one. First Latin America peeled away from what had been called the "Washington Consensus" (Thomas Friedman admiringly called it the "golden straightjacket" but no one wants to put it on anymore). Then, in the wake of the 2008 crisis, China began to assert itself as a fully autonomous and sovereign industrial power. And now, the people in the Middle East can no longer stand to be held in a state of arrested development (if not outright arrest for the slightest critique of their American-backed regimes). But I am sure this is only a beginning. We are now going to face 10 or 15 years of economic and military chaos, while a new geopolitical order is worked out and a new industrial order emerges to face, for better or worse, the challenges of an ecologically transformed planet. Will this period of chaos entail a great war involving atomic weapons and centered on the Middle East? Will it see the militarization of China? Will it see the continued hardening of the class structure in the Western societies, with the spread of personal-security technologies and the proliferation of sealed borders? Will it see the generalization of GMO farming and the consequent destruction of arable land all over the earth? Or can all these negative trends be halted, in the face of their evident dead-end nature for most of the world population? Will a new ecologically conceived toolkit emerge out of the ruins of financial globalization? Will world development patterns be changed so as to allow everyone, everywhere, to find meaning in their lives by participating in the caretaking of human society? These are the questions and let us be glad they are now at last coming explicitly on the table. Crisis is welcome, it interrupts the business-as-usual that inexorably makes things worse. My friend and collaborator Armin Medosch is right to insist on the mass intelligence of the Egyptians acting courageously in the street right now: it is impressive, it is beautiful, and even as it marks the beginning of the end of Informationalism it realizes part of the promise of the knowledge economy that neoliberal management killed and abandoned: because listen, remember, the people on the streets are in fact known to many in Egypt as "the digital generation." That kind of intelligence, unfolding in many different forms and at different scales, is in my humbly visionary opinion what will provide the joy of the upcoming difficult years. What the "digital generation" has to invent is not the stiffening of a repressive hyper-technological order. What we have to invent, beyond what we used to think of as "ourselves," is a way through chaos, a way beyond repression, a way out of planetary hegemonies: a chance to coexist in the twenty-first century." -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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improving agro-production through peer learning
by Michel Bauwens 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

related to our p2p-urbanism debate to food in cities, in the sense of showing how structured horizontal learning can dramatically boost productivity even without the use of digital technology http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a932361952~f Agroecology has played a key role in helping Cuba survive the crisis caused by the collapse of the socialist bloc in Europe and the tightening of the US trade embargo. Cuban peasants have been able to boost food production without scarce and expensive imported agricultural chemicals by first substituting more ecological inputs for the no longer available imports, and then by making a transition to more agroecologically integrated and diverse farming systems. This was possible not so much because appropriate alternatives were made available, but rather because of the Campesino-a-Campesino (CAC) social process methodology that the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) used to build a grassroots agroecology movement. This paper was produced in a 'self-study' process spearheaded by ANAP and La Via Campesina, the international agrarian movement of which ANAP is a member. In it we document and analyze the history of the Campesino-to-Campesino Agroecology Movement (MACAC), and the significantly increased contribution of peasants to national food production in Cuba that was brought about, at least in part, due to this movement. Our key findings are (i) the spread of agroecology was rapid and successful largely due to the social process methodology and social movement dynamics, (ii) farming practices evolved over time and contributed to significantly increased relative and absolute production by the peasant sector, and (iii) those practices resulted in additional benefits including resilience to climate change. -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Fwd: Special issue of Telematics and Informatics: Radio and new participatory journalisms around the World: Understanding Convergence in News Cultures
by Michel Bauwens 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Servaes <telematicsandinformatics(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM Subject: Special issue of Telematics and Informatics: Radio and new participatory journalisms around the World: Understanding Convergence in News Cultures To: "Gabriel, Ann E (ELS-NYC)" <A.Gabriel(a)elsevier.com>, Anders henten < henten(a)cmi.aau.dk>, "Chen, Jie (ELS-BEI)" <J.Chen(a)elsevier.com>, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Sandra Braman <braman(a)uwm.edu>, Boonlert Supadhiloke <boonlert.s(a)bu.ac.th>, "Charron, Claude-Yves" < charron.c-y(a)uqam.ca>, "Kuo Chen-Yu, Eddie (Prof)" <cykuo(a)ntu.edu.sg>, Ulla Carlsson <ulla.carlsson(a)nordicom.gu.se>, cssschange(a)gmail.com, Howard Frederick <hfrederick(a)unitec.ac.nz>, Francois Heinderyckx < francois.heinderyckx(a)ulb.ac.be>, Steve Fox <stevejfox(a)gmail.com>, Connie Griffin <cgriffin(a)cas.umass.edu>, Louis Heinsman <Louis.Heinsman(a)omroep.nl>, Kasenally Roukaya <roukaya(a)uom.ac.mu>, Karol Jakubowicz <jkarol7(a)tlen.pl>, Carmel Mathew <C.MariaJude(a)elsevier.com>, Last Moyo <Last.Moyo(a)wits.ac.za>, Robin Mansell <r.e.mansell(a)lse.ac.uk>, Pippa Norris < Pippa_Norris(a)harvard.edu> *Radio and new participatory journalisms around the World: * *Understanding Convergence in News Cultures* Special issue of *Telematics and Informatics* http://ees.elsevier.com/tele/ * * Edited by Dr. *Last Moyo* Senior lecturer, Media Studies, University of Witwatersrand, P Bag 3, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa. E-mail: last.moyo(a)wits.ac.za *INTRODUCTION* The Internet and mobile phones are changing the face of radio. Their appropriation by private, public and community radio is transforming radio as a medium thus making it at least in principle more accessible through multiple platforms such as webcasting, mobile streaming, and podcasts. In most cases, these technologies have had a profound impact on radio’s institutional cultures and practices especially with regards to the way it produces and disseminates news and current affairs programming. They have a direct impact on journalistic practices in terms of the gathering, manufacturing, and subsequent dissemination of news to audiences. The use of digital media is also influencing the audiences which are seen as becoming much more actively involved in the production and consumption of news as radio changes from a mass medium to a more interactive, individualised, and participatory medium. Hence, this Special Issue aims to conduct a critical study of new media uses by the public, private and community radio stations and their audiences and the potential impact such uses have in democratizing citizen participation in radio news. Specific areas of investigation will include, among others, how radio stations and audiences use mobile phones in terms of voice calls, SMS (texting), MMS, mobile radio, podcasts, audio streaming, blogs, electronic mail, and discussion forums to construct and mediate reality in the medium of news. By new participatory journalisms, we seek to refer to what has been controversially dubbed as citizen journalism. This is a kind of journalism that is not only embedded on people’s everyday experiences, but is also driven people themselves. While these new forms of participatory journalisms have been appropriated by radio, they also find independent expression through digital media channels. While giving special attention to the confluences that exist between citizen journalism and radio journalism, this Special Issue also takes a keen interest in the general use of mobile phones and the Internet by radio and their audience *OVERALL OBJECTIVES* Contributors to this Special Issue are encouraged to provide theoretically sound and methodologically rigorous case study-based analysis of the uses of the Internet and mobile phones by radio journalists and their audiences in the production and dissemination of news. Therefore, contributions that reflect historically-grounded theorization of the Internet and mobile phone uses by radio journalists would be most welcome. *RECOMMENDED THEMES* Contributions must focus on, among other related issues, the following themes:** · Confluences of radio journalism and citizen journalism · Internet, mobile phones and the changing news room cultures on radio · Community radio and citizen participation in the digital age · Radio news and public service broadcasting in the digital age · Digital media political economy, radio audiences and the digital divide. · ICTs, gender and newsroom policies · Radio, convergence and fragmentation of audiences *Send abstracts to:* *Dr. Last Moyo* *Senior Lecturer* *Department of Media Studies* *University of Witwatersrand* *Tel: + 27 11 717 4241* *Email: **last.moyo(a)wits.ac.za* <last.moyo(a)wits.ac.za> *Submit full articles online at* *http://ees.elsevier.com/tele* -- *************************************** Jan Servaes Editor-in-Chief, Telematics and Informatics c/o Department of Communication 415 Machmer Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, USA Tel: +1 (413) 545-4314 Fax: +1 (413) 545-6399 telematicsandinformatics(a)gmail.com www.elsevier.com/locate/tele **************************************** -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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social media background of egypt, from one of the key participants of the secret IT headquarters
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/02/04/01 -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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filesharing improves movie attendance
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/2/9/6/pages… hi tom, something for you? (I pre-dated your 2 pieces on activist mapping) -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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paypal's thiel political role
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

hi thomas, see http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miller20110211 does your paypal book talk about this? Michel -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Fwd: Prelude on Huffington Post; Now available at local booksellers in U.S.
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kurt Cobb <preludethenovel(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:20 PM Subject: Prelude on Huffington Post; Now available at local booksellers in U.S. To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Having trouble viewing this email? Click here <http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=r9xzi6dab&v=001-Z4x8hfwY…> <http://s.rs6.net/t?e=s5wCPrt3HaA&c=1&r=1><http://s.rs6.net/t?e=s5wCPrt3HaA&c=3&r=1><http://s.rs6.net/t?e=s5wCPrt3HaA&c=4&r=1><http://s.rs6.net/t?e=s5wCPrt3HaA&c=5&r=1><http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Prelude-on-Huffington-Post--Now-availabl…> [image: Prelude - A Peak Oil Novel] *1. Prelude on The Huffington Post* *2. Now Available from Local Booksellers throughout the U.S.* *3. Prelude on WJR radio Sunday night (Feb. 13)* *February 12, 2011* *Dear Michel,* Prelude<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>is currently mentioned on The Huffington Post<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>in a piece entitled Preface to a Prelude to Peak Oil<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>. This is excellent timing because Prelude<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>has just become available from local bookstores throughout the United States. Bookstores can order it through well-known book wholesaler Ingram. If you have a Facebook page, I would greatly appreciate it if you would click on The Huffington Post<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>and "Like" this article, and if you've read Prelude<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>, I hope you'll write a brief comment about the book there. Even if you haven't read the novel, you may want to say something about the importance of the peak oil issue. This weekend is turning out to be a banner one for publicity as I will also be interviewed on Detroit radio station WJR (AM 760) for a program called "The Greening of the Great Lakes." The show airs Sunday, February 13 from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. If you want to listen live on the Internet, click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>to go to the station site. In the coming weeks I'll have important information about international distribution of Prelude<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&et=1104493628762&s=14&e=001lHebeW2j…>. Until then, thanks for your continuing support. Sincerely, Kurt Cobb, Author Prelude - A Peak Oil Novel Forward email<http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=r9xzi6dab&m=1103715163985&ea=…> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001Bw9O7W52JHpwQcq4c8-xiw%3D%3…> <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_BusLet_003> This email was sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com by preludethenovel(a)yahoo.com | Update Profile/Email Address<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=001Bw9O7W52JHpwQcq4c8-xiw%3D%3…> | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001Bw9O7W52JHpwQcq4c8-xiw%3D%3…>™ | Privacy Policy <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. Prelude - A Peak Oil Novel | P. O. Box 671 | Portage | MI | 49081-0671 -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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rundown of links to egyptian revolution
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

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Fwd: 3 min video : Peak Oil Roller-Coaster - A Brief History of Fossil Fuels - english or french
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/2/12 Subject: 3 min video : Peak Oil Roller-Coaster - A Brief History of Fossil Fuels - english or french To: hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, econowmix(a)googlegroups.com in english *Peak Oil Roller-Coaster - A Brief History of Fossil Fuel* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYr6GnTSS-s french translation : * * *Au-delà des limites de la croissance : une brève histoire des énergies fossiles* http://vimeo.com/18837570 -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Re: [P2P-F] graph for wiki: open government vs open governance
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

thank you Franco, I now also put it in the wiki: http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Government_vs_Open_Governance On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Franco Iacomella <yaco(a)gnu.org> wrote: > El 06/02/11 02:46, Michel Bauwens escribió: > >> hi franco, >> > > Hi Michel! > > > I have been ill for 2 days, my guess is an allergy to some pollution >> here in Chiang Mai ... >> > > That's bad, I have been ill too. But now I am fine again. Sorry for the > delay in answering you. > > > here is table, >> >> http://open-governance-and-learning.posterous.com/open-government-vs-open-g… >> >> could you publish it on our wiki with the same title? >> > > Done it! Is scheduled to be published in Feb 16. > > > Best, > > > > -- > Franco Iacomella > -- 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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