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what slaves knew that we've forgotten (jubliee economics)
by Michel Bauwens 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi Marvin, I thought you would enjoy this, given your first chapter, http://www.youtube.com/jubecomin#p/u/6/YexcwTYVyr0 -- 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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natural vs knowledge commons
by Michel Bauwens 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

very comparable to roberto verzola and my own approach: http://steadystate.org/sustaining-our-commonwealth-of-nature-and-knowledge/ -- 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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Fwd: Co-Owning the Physical Layer
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sepp Hasslberger <sepp(a)lastrega.com> Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Co-Owning the Physical Layer To: building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet(a)googlegroups.com Cc: suresh2323(a)gmail.com, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com>, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com>, videobridgebuilders(a)globalvillages.org Patrick's description of ownership and co-ownership of the physical layer of the internet is quite clear. Of course you can run any program you want on your own network, you can exchange files with your neighbors, you can, in other words, enjoy the fruits of what you own. Perhaps for some time in the beginning, those co-operatives (or whatever we call them) of co-owners of the physical network infrastructure will wish to connect to other such co-operatives that are out of reach of their physical network infrastructure and they may decide to rent, from an internet service provider, a broadband connection to be shared among the users of the network. They would all chip in to pay for that connection as a group, and they would use it to reach peers who are too distant, or to use services on the "traditional" internet. They might, in co-operation with other user groups, eventually take over a failing service provider and run it under their own collective steam. Everything would get much cheaper (no need to make profit) and probably more reliable as well, as potential points of failure of the network get distributed to numerous nodes, each one run by someone who's responsible for its good functioning. Whether in the interim of time between building a local net of connectivity and taking over or establishing a provider of long distance connectivity, the co-operative's co-owners will collectively rent a broad band connection, or will decide to share several of their existing connections with the rest of the co-operative, makes no difference. The end result will be a user-owned and user-maintained network that provides secure, stable, resilient connectivity between peers. Sepp "The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition" http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ http://www.laleva.org http://blog.hasslberger.com/ http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger http://twitter.com/healthsupreme . On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote: > Suresh Fernando wrote: >> >> what you are saying is that most exchanges >> of goods and services are not sales > > The goods are not sold, AND they are not exchanged. > > This is easy to see for a single owner, and probably > nobody will dispute the idea that the owner of an > Avocado tree - even if he pays another to harvest > that fruit, does not *buy* those Objects because he > owns them already - as a side-effect of his owning > the Sources (the tree, land and water rights). > > > > This Mode of Production applies to all industries. > > We, the people, can co-own the internet as clusters > of peers who invest for the purpose of receiving > that connectivity without paying more than cost. > > > ---- > Imagine you have several computers within your > home that you want to have connected together. > > You are not connecting to anything outside of your > house, but are just creating an internal network. > > You buy the wires and routers and maybe hire > someone to install and configure that equipment. > > You must also pay any other costs such as the > electricity and any sort of upkeep those Sources > require to keep them operational. > > Obviously you do send yourself a bill in the mail > every month and then pay that bill back to yourself. > > This is so obvious it may be too boring to consider. > > But bear with me for a few more seconds, as it > becomes very interesting as we scale this network > to more and more users. > > > ---- > Now imagine you talk to your neighbor about your > new internal network and you both decide it would > be fun to run a wire between your houses to share > files and be connected for other reasons. > > You both pitch-in to buy the wires and probably the > neighbor pays for the router that will sit in his house. > > You must pay all of these initial costs, and continue > to pay the costs of electricity (until you finally build > or buy a photo-voltaic array...). > > Now, there is no reason for each of you to *buy* that > connectivity from your collective self. You just pay > the costs and that is it. > > > ---- > Now comes the part that for some reason is confusing > to most people. > > Imagine your neighbor also connects to *his* neighbor > and you to another, and those to more, until there are > hundreds and then thousands and even possibly > millions and billions of people connected. > > *That* intranet/internet would be owned buy the users > of that service. > > They must pay all the real costs of being connected, > but cannot pay Profit, since they are not buying that > service from anyone - but own it already as a side- > effect of their owning the Sources of those Objectives. > > > >> How, in the transition to this model are portions >> in the Sources (of production I assume) allocated? > > Simply according to the % of ownership. -- 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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Fwd: A strategic framework for demonetization
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:08 PM Subject: Fwd: A strategic framework for demonetization To: gifteconomy(a)lists.gifteconomy.org, econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada(a)reflex.at> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM Subject: [globalvillages] A strategic framework for demonetization To: globalvillages(a)yahoogroups.com Because of the actual OSE discussion in GlobalVillages I publish a piece that I wrote for a new, emerging list on demonetization, which means the abolition or the diminishing of money in social relations. It has many points that resonate with globalviillages. It is very important to react properly to the powerful message and the strategic shortcomings of the Zeitgeist movie, and this is the context in which also the following piece emerged. The important point is that the nonmonetary world has to coexist in a certain way with the monetary, and its rather a "productive" and "effective" than a "peaceful" coexistence. The same idea applies to intellectual property. Franz ------- Dear all, familiar or new, in this interesting circle! We all have been attracted by a mission statement that is claiming that demonetization is both necessary and feasible. But what does this "feasibility" mean to each of us? Certainly quite different things. The idea to call for "demonetization" and the call for this mailing list brings together a very broad range of perspectives, theoretical traditions and social activists. - So how can we build on our common understanding of the problematique of money relations and the logic of exchange of equivalents and strengthen synergies while respecting a big bag of cultural, theoretical and strategic differences and making controversies fruitful? Maybe, at this very opening point where we consider the purpose of this mailing list and demonetization in general, a little metaphor could help. What comes to my mind is the image of a "playing field". "Demonetization" can be conceived or thought of as such a field, where different perspectives can play together and create patterns of understanding and change, as well as really practical synergies and a team effort, as long as certain rules are respected. Lets put it that way: we share a vague assumption that the money economy, the capitalist and inherently patriarchal and racist mode of production, can and should be transformed not only from one point but from a variety of starting points, on a variety of levels, with a variety of actors and vectors. We might be focusing on local levels or global collaboration, on gift-driven or on coordination-driven approaches, we might work with civil society, political or entrepreneurial paradigms, based on class based schemes or on practical utopian visions or old traditions, yet we are aware that there are many people and currents in the field of change, trying out different concepts, putting different things before each other, yet giving all of us valuable experience. To this aim, let me propose some helpful assumptions for a demonetization discourse that is both "on target", respects diversity in our approaches and strengthens synergies by asking precise questions and making clear statements. 1. Demonetization is of utmost importance for the whole world ultimately, yet I am convinced that it can be done on certain levels / scales of societal production more easily than on others - with a strong personal tendency to favor the local scale. 2. Generally spoken, demonetization is only possible if people become conscious of the process of their (re)production - be it in part or be it in in totality. This is not an easy thing... she or he who says goodbye to money also says good bye to a certain kind of convenience and indifference. Money relations are relations of abstract equality, where individuality doesn't matter. (The German "gleich-gültig" both expresses the equality of exchange and the indifference of a human relation). Many people like this convenience, and I think its necessary to say that we dont like it. It comes at a high price, money taking over social relations before we know it. So demonetisation is the process of (re-)transforming social relations into acts of concsious creations. This is nothing we can expect to come by itself, its a long process and one assumption that holds our discourse together it begins at different points, yet identifyable points. 3. A very simple way to frame demonetisation is to suggest that foremost, "islands of demonetization" have to be defined, islands, where the money relation is replaced by a cooperative circularity; a circularity that feeds energy back into every single part of the chain; a kind of "social contract" between members of a social network, that in most cases will first circumscribe itself by means of "inside/outside"- relations, and then gradually build syntheses to other social networks. We have heard expressions like "tribe" or "phyle" to describe one way this can happen, other ways are more favorizing temporary zones, that foster individual freedom and yet allow new social protocols to emerge. In some cases there is an expected leap in productivity that makes it possible to "give" to the outside world; definitely in the case of immaterial commons the boundaries are much less important, but even in material cycles the "exchange" with the outside world might be a general aspect of benefit to society at large. 4. The word "exchange" has a general and a special meaning, one one side its the exchange of equivalents, the latin do ut des, and on the other side it is the general fact that some kind of mutuality is at the bottomline of every social relation. As soon as we know to differentiate, the word will not do harm to us. We know that a cooperative circularity is not to be mixed up with "equivalent" exchange relations, its scale is determined by the direct focus on the needs and necessities of members of a given social network, a conscious division of labour, and a dynamic process of planning by means of dialogue. One way to resolve this would be to differentiate clearly between "exchange" - "I give to you because you give to me" - and "metabolism" - "I give to you so that you can enfold better your productive potentials or simply because I want to enfold my productive potentials better". Social metabolism is an eternal condition of society, equivalent exchange is a specific social form of such metabolism, which necessarily favors those who are in favor already and leads to catastrophic distortion and disparities. 5. The productive potential of such social networks and cooperatives depends also on the way they deal with the existing forms of wealth in terms of products and means of production. We are supposedly targeting "germ forms" that are embedded in a larger society dominated by the capitalist mode of production. Even if we start to produce ourselves, we might have need for goods that are available only for money. In many cases, this simply means the necessity to accumulate money as "foreign exchange" in order to be able to acquire means of production and products on the market - whilst constantly looking for alternatives to expand our cooperative cycles. 6. There is a dramatic new factor that helps us to change the picture quickly. A growing number of industrial products embody "productive intelligence" (see Toffler, third wave). The potential of cooperative self-providing can grow very fast and the acquisition of tools rather than means of consumtion is a growing option even at the smallest scale. Of course this is exact the reason why conventional economical practise has turned into direct sabotage of such qualities. We witness a process of marketing and product design that imlplies a strategic imperative: that technologies are deformed increasingly by the economy to prevent self-employment, self-determined labour proactively. Some authors who observe technology development cannot help but suppose there is a "general prevention" against any kind of autonomy built in in modern technology. They are not only taking our land, they are also eroding our productive potential. The terminator genes are built in not only in the seeds from agroindustries, in a metaphorical sense every computer and every car is built in this way for immediate or imminent obsolesence. This is pure waste that reaches dimensions of gross national products. And of course the productive capabilities of modularize, connect, link and swap elements of interoperable technology are almost zero. The cheaper the stuff is, the less . 7. Nevertheless and in a sharp contradiction to this, activating and even subsidising self-employment ("Eigenarbeit") is an increasingly attractive way of generating revenues, of making money - take examples such as the self-service petrol station or the self-service furniture shop. These potentials of self-providing are enhanced by community building between customers of a firm, which is the reason why even dominant economic actors time and again foster such community building. Different capitals move with different velocities in this respect. Some capitals even use the potential of communities also as a weapon against monopolies. 8. What is new in strategies related to demonetization is to take community building in our hands, by conscious action, as a strategic tool. To tie into strategies of capital to build communities and not necessarily subvert them, but in the contrary bring them far beyond the point that was originally intended. To increase the leading and designing roles of communities in regard to capital, with the threat to react with retreat if capital seeks control of communities. To favor those that explicitely loosen their grip on "intellectual capital" or other things that are essentially commons, to reward them, to credit them. 9. To say it clearly, we always have to remind ourselves of the strategic aspect of any intervention: What is the interest of capital to leave us alone or to promote a specific kind of social interaction actively? So processes of demonetization are not simply processes of delinking, but consist of taking advantage of certain opportunities to construct stable and permanent cooperative circularities in the context of a mode of production that is still defined and dominated by the capital relation. Those are opportunities that must be stabilized practically, as germ forms ("Keimformen") of demonetized social relations - in doing this, we have to keep in mind those fractions of capital and its political agency, that want to cooperate synergetically. 10. So it would be absolutely not enough to refrain from talking about money. We must talk about the innumerable variants of interplay of a possible nonmonetary world, its solidarity economical procedures, its common resources and infrastructures, with the currently, aggressively dominating monetary system, with its economical and political actors, and where their interests might help us to survive and grow. 11. That said, of course we will also have to look into the nature of cooperative cycles themselves, revive old knowledge and findings and contribute new forms. 12. That brings me back to the playing field: some will be in the center where nonmonetary practises prevail, some will be at the edges where they colide or coexist with monetary ones, some will be at the front where they can tackle with innovations whilst others still create the base in the back and maintain structures. Lets not take that picture too serious, but lets start the game. Thanks to Andreas Exner for inputs and encouragement to have this published early. I hope we can build on it. 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Fwd: Global Protests & Uprisings Maps Time-Lapse
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

certainly many other protests not represented here... but still of interest :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUYigqwKYY *"December 18 to March 7, 2011, this little video is a time-lapse series of maps marking major uprisings and protests around the world during that period. The maps are on my blog and this was a by-product. Obviously, not every protest in the world is represented here, but it is arguably to scale. Mostly, it looks like a virus..."* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gigi Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM Subject: <edu-factory> Global Protests & Uprisings Maps Time-Lapse To: "edufactory(a)listcultures.org" <edufactory(a)listcultures.org> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUYigqwKYY _______________________________________________ edufactory mailing list edufactory(a)listcultures.org http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/edufactory_listcultures.org

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Portugal is awakening to the P2P ethos
by Miguel Afonso Caetano 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Greeting, dear all from Portugal. I know haven't participated in any way in this list yet but the fact is that generally there is not much happening in a true P2P-sense around here for me to contribute anything of relevance to the list. Until yesterday. I thought that my fellow citizens were generally extremely apathetic, individualistic and subservient. But yesterday this changed with the occurence of a mass demonstration against precariousness and unemployment that gathered almost 300,000 people in Lisbon's biggest avenue. Read the Washington Post and Reuters' reports here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR201103120… http://www.hindustantimes.com/Massive-rallies-in-Portugal-as-more-austerity… Spanish newspapers El País and El Mundo also mentioned the rally: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Decenas/miles/portugueses/mani… http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/03/12/internacional/1299954717.html Some photos and videos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloco_de_esquerda/sets/72157626125803349/show/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7PpsTOqYLA It was fabulous, it was huge! Never in my 35-years of existence in this country ever had I seen something so spontaneous, non-hierarchical, bottom-up and leaderless as this demonstration. Traditionally, all major "civic" events in Portugal have been organized by political parties, unions or the Church with promotional aid by the mainstream media. Not this one. It all emerged from Facebook, in an almost bottom-up fashion. Some left-wing parties have naturally tried to co-opt the movement, associating themselves with the protesters, providing propaganda, etc. But all-in-all it was a unique moment. I sincerely hope this can be the start of something really big, inclusive and participative :) Civil society around here is still very incipient. Since April 25 of 1974, The State has gorged all the economy's resources and now that it is buried in debts, the biggest opposition party wants to privatize everything and sell all the assets that weren't already sold to the huge corporations who have profited from privileged ties with the current ruling government by way of public-private partnerships to fund the construction of numerous highways, bridges or high-speed trains. With the enormous consolidation of the economy that has been going on, no wonder people have no jobs or have to live in perpetual precariousness! And still, there are some critics who dismiss the complains of the protesters, accusing them of lack of self-esteem, spirit of entrepreneurship or even of having chosen a wrong educational path. Sure, there was some recycling of the icons and ideologies of the April Revolution, specifically its communist and marxist roots: "comrades" here and there, lots of complains and no consistent alternatives to present for the future of the society. People still have a very naïve perspective of the State's role. But to sum up: I think this is the right moment to spread the P2P ethos here in Portugal. Leaderless movements like this one are inherently open and syncretic. Thus, they can be partially appropriated by organized institutional agents; however they cannot be totally co-opted by them. Otherwise, they become closed. I estimate that there will be even more massive demonstrations before people realize they will need to organize between themselves in practical terms in their daily lives and not to expect everything from the government. Best, -- Miguel Caetano http://remixtures.com http://twitter.com/remixtures http://friendfeed.com/remixtures https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000686403651

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Fwd: newsletter from fcforum
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La-EX.net|FCForum <info(a)fcforum.net> Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:31 PM Subject: newsletter from fcforum To: Dear all, To keep all the endorsers informed of the possible modifications of the Manual for sustainable creativity, we will suscribe you to the fcforum newsletter, a very low trafic list (maximum 6 per year). It is a list where no one can answer, just I can send the info. Apologise if you don't want to be there. Here you can easily unsuscribe: http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum_info If you wish to participate more actively to the discussion, you can suscribe to the discussion list: http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum_discussion Both lists are in english (and some spanglish too :-)) I hope this is fine for you. All the best Simona -- 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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Fwd: "Systems Change" : recurring properties and processes ?
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:09 PM Subject: "Systems Change" : recurring properties and processes ? To: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/seven-lessons-leaders-systems-change <http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/seven-lessons-leaders-systems-change>*note - found via Paul, via "coalition" list : http://groups.google.com/group/coalition?hl=en , march 11* excerpts : Living systems have their own dynamics. Observing systems reveals recurring properties and processes. They resist change, but they also develop, adapt, and evolve. Understanding how systems maintain themselves and how they change has very practical consequences that go to the heart of education for sustainable living. ... *Lesson #1: To promote systems change, foster community and cultivate networks*. Most of the qualities of a living system, notes Fritjof Capra, are aspects of a single fundamental network pattern: nature sustains life by creating and nurturing communities. Lasting change frequently requires a critical mass or density of interrelationships within a community. ... *Lesson #2: Work at multiple levels of scale.* *"*Nested systems" is a core ecological principle. Like Russian "matryoshka" dolls that fit one into the other, most systems contain other systems and are contained within larger systems: cells within organs within individuals within communities ... *Lesson #3: Make space for self-organization.* Fritjof Capra writes, "Perhaps *the* central concept in the systems view of life" is that the pattern favored by life "is a network pattern capable of self-organization." He adds, "Life constantly reaches out into novelty, and this property of all living systems is the origin of development, learning, and evolution." Networks that can effect systems change will sometimes self-organize if you set up the right conditions. ... *Lesson #4: Seize breakthrough opportunities when they arise.* Remember the adage of former White House Chief of Staff (now Chicago Mayor-elect) Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.* "* ... *Lesson #5: Facilitate — but give up the illusion that you can direct — change.* "We never succeed in directing or telling people how they must change," observes Margaret Wheatley. "We don't succeed by handing them a plan, or pestering them with our interpretations, or relentlessly pressing forward with our agenda, believing that volume and intensity will convince them to see it our way." So what can you do? In the provocative maxim of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, "You can never direct a living system. You can only disturb it." How do you disturb a system? By introducing information that contradicts old assumptions. By demonstrating that things people believe they can't do are already being accomplished somewhere (one of the objectives of our book *Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability*<http://www.ecoliteracy.org/books/smart-nature-schooling-sustainability>). By inviting new people into the conversation. By rearranging structures so that people relate in ways they're not used to. By presenting issues from different perspectives. Meanwhile, you can create conditions that take advantage of the system's capacity for generating creative solutions. Nurture networks of connection and communication, create climates of trust and mutual support, encourage questioning, and reward innovation. ... *Lesson #6: Assume that change is going to take time* *Anticipate that you'll need time for the education and training required for people to change attitudes, adopt new practices, or use new tools. Set high goals, but take manageable steps. Look for intermediate achievements that allow people to experience — and celebrate — success and to receive recognition on the way to the ultimate goal.* *...* ** *Lesson #7: Be prepared to be surprised.* *Change in living systems is nonlinear. As they develop and evolve, living systems generate phenomena that are not predictable from the properties of their individual parts* -- 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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global mapping of protests
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

hi tom, perhaps you can report on this site mapping protests on an ongoing basis? see http://swampalmanac.com/blog/2011/03/09/the-global-protest-map-time-lapse-v… -- 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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augmented reality
by Michel Bauwens 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

this article http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/03/10/virtual-mediated-and-augm… makes some important discussion around mediated/augmented/virtual reality Alessandro, could you you have a look at it, eventually quote/discuss it? Michel The failure to distinguish augmented and mediated reality betrays an widely held assumption that causality between the online and offline worlds is uni-directional; that is, it only considers how the material is altered by the digital. However, augmented reality is bigger than just holding a smartphone screen in front of your face to see information superimposed on the landscape in front of you. Using this kind of program as the paradigmatic example of augmented reality obscures the recursivity between the online and offline world. Almost every aspect of online networks and their content are determined by the same social structures (e.g., race, class, gender, etc.) that have long determined offline networks and their content. *Augmented reality does not just alter our social and material reality, it also reproduces and reifies it.* -- 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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