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Fwd: Writings and P2P, urgent to print chapter 1
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: john sobol <john(a)johnsobol.com> Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:00 AM Subject: Writings and P2P To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Dear Michel, thank you for the kind note below and for the invitation to collaborate in some way on a publishing project. I have been quite interested in this possibility since receiving your email and I apologize for not having responded sooner. Although it is true I have been busy that is not much of an excuse. The real reason for my procrastination has been my confusion over what exactly I want to be publishing. I have not really got it sorted out even now, but anything is better than nothing at all so here I am with a somewhat scattered response... A few quick thoughts: - I have attached the manuscript that I mentioned to you, but when I look at it I am almost embarrassed by how much of it is drawn from the iDC list. I know that most people will not have read those posts so I probably shouldn't be concerned, but I also know you have so it feels a little self-indulgent. Anyway, for what it's worth here it is. At the moment it is called I Scream You Scream We All Scream for I Scream. Make of it what you will. I am keen to hear any and all feedback. As far as publishing it with your foundation, if you happened to think it was a good idea I'd be open to that for sure. At this point I'd just like to get these ideas out there. - As I think I mentioned before, I had been wanting to put together a more coherent and easy to follow book but and to some extent put the above one together because I didn't have the time to do a whole new one. Having said that, I have begun writing some chapters of the new book since I last wrote to you, and though I still don't have time to write the whole thing in one shot, it might be possible for me to crank out chapters like these as essays. I could imagine - if you happen to find them worthy - publishing them on the P2P foundation blog as a series and then eventually assembling them into a book. There are three chapters attached (they still need some tweaking but you will get the idea) I am working on a 4th about Museums, with others to follow on various topics such as Democracy, Branding, Music, Human Resources, etc. They are all basically surveys that are not designed to be comprehensive so much as to popularize a certain way of seeing contemporary culture and cultural issues, and to show how my oral/literate/digital framework applies to and sheds light on all aspects of society. - Lastly, I was wondering - if you have time to think about this given the amount of material I am sending your way - if you would have any comments on a business plan that I have developed and that I am actively looking to implement these days. In fact I quit my job in order to do this and am determined to make it happen. However, I am hampered by lack of capital. (I have discovered that it takes money in hand to get investors to take you seriously. An unfortunate Catch-22) At the moment the business model itself is fairly traditional - although the context is very radical and innovative (and of course creative!). And quite frankly I am doing this in part to make a bunch of money, since I have none and am tired of not having any, and have a family etc. But I am not totally crazy about that business model even though I think it will be very successful, inasmuch as it is essentially very capitalist. I would be open to other suggestions about ways of proceeding, both in terms of attracting the modest investment capital and/or human resources to bring it to life, and how it might function as an economy, if you have any. I have considered starting it as a non-profit, and I may still do that, but I have been dealing with non-profits in the arts for most of my adult life and am basically tired of them. I'd kind of like to make a lot of money so I can do what I want after creatively without having to answer to anyone. Anyway, I know that you are deeply immersed in new economic ideas so you might have some thoughts on my plans, which would be welcome. My only request is that you not circulate the info I am attaching to anyone. Thank you. The business is called The Media League. I won't send you the whole prospectus but I will attach a diagram explaining the business model and a brochure describing how it will work. Again, all comments welcome... Michel, I see from your posts on facebook how busy you are so I will understand if you have little time to invest in all of this. But I respect your opinion and integrity so would welcome any feedback that you do have. Best wishes, John Sobol On 8-Feb-11, at 1:58 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote: Hi John, thanks for the response, for the blog post, I would just add a few sentences in front and perhaps at the end to contextualize it, and I would publish it separately as an entry 'as is' great to hear about this, by the way, we just created a p2p foundation coop to start publishing books, if you don't find a publisher, let us know, I"m interested in getting the file indeed, I can print it out here locally and make it into book form so I can read it, also, perhaps you should consider a series for us, with excerpts both of your old book, to set the historical stage (say a series of 3), followed by 3 of your new one, just a thought, Michel On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:50 AM, john sobol <john(a)johnsobol.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > nice to hear from you. I'm glad that to hear my post resonated with you, as > your posts inevitably do with me. > > Can you tell me exactly what you'd like with regard to my post? I'm afraid > I'm not quite sure. (Do you want a blog post, or for me to leave a comment > on someone else's post...or?)I would be happy to oblige if you can given me > clearer instructions. > > Also, it occurs to me to mention something to you. As you know I have a > very particular analysis of digital culture, one rooted in my personal > experience exploring, unlocking and interweaving oral, literate and digital > technologies and cultures throughout my life. I wrote one book introducing > this subject (Digitopia Blues - Race, Technology and the American Voice, > Banff Centre Press, 2002), but for some years I have been wanting to write > the sequel which addresses the present and future based on the same paradigm > articulated in that book (which mostly covers the past, i.e. how we got > here). I could never get around to writing another book though, but a while > back I started assembling all of my recent writings on this subject and > editing them. For example, when I collected everything I had posted to iDC I > had over 100 pages, and I had over 300 in total from dozens of sources. > Eventually I edited these down to a more manageable size and I now have what > I would consider a final - if somewhat eclectic - version of a manuscript > that articulates my philosophy (Interactivism) in detail. At the core of > that philosophy is a historically-rooted trans-cultural understanding of the > meaning of that 'symbiosis of virtual and material sociality' that I > mentioned in my latest iDC post. > > Would you be interested in reading it? I can send you a pdf if you are. > > If you do not have time for this that's OK too. Thanks and... > > Keep up the good work, > John > > -- > www.johnsobol.com > > > > > > > > > On 7-Feb-11, at 1:41 AM, Michael Bauwens wrote: > > right on John!! >> >> I was wondering if you would consider turning these pieces in a >> publishable >> comment for the p2p blog? >> >> if you can, please reply to michelsub2004 at gmail, as I'm not using this >> box >> regularly .. >> >> Michel >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> >>> From: john sobol <john(a)johnsobol.com> >>> To: idc <idc(a)mailman.thing.net> >>> Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 11:18:29 PM >>> Subject: Re: [iDC] <nettime> Egyptian Revolution: 2nd decolonialisation >>> for >>> >> all >> >>> >>> Hi Judith, and all... >>> >>> although I agree that the self-involvement and self interest of media >>> folk (old and new) is breathtaking, this is hardly new, or news. >>> >>> Is there anyone who would suggest that the demonstrations don't >>> matter? I don't think anyone has or would. >>> >>> But I think if some new media types are overly proud of the role that >>> social networks have played in these protests, many on this list are >>> perhaps overly hostile to recognizing that role as well. Why I'm not >>> sure. But in my opinion it would be as foolish to deny the power of >>> one as to deny the power of the other, or more importantly their >>> essential interconnectedness. >>> >>> It is this aspect - the symbiosis of virtual and material sociality - >>> that has created the drama that continues to unfold. One could and >>> would not have achieved anything without the other. That is the >>> lesson of these events, as it has been the lesson of many other >>> evolving social contexts in recent years. Certainly people are in the >>> streets talking with one another, as they are online talking to one >>> another (where they still can be, and where they were until the >>> killswitch was hit) creating distributed, non-hierarchical, temporary >>> autonomies in both realms, each feeding and sustaining the other. >>> >>> Where will it lead? Quite possibly nowhere that any one who dreams of >>> freedom wishes. But we shall see. Certainly, as the recent executions >>> in Iran proved, the nefarious workings of tyranny are enhanced by the >>> end of privacy and the durability of data, just as they are >>> threatened by other inherently liberalizing characteristics of >>> digital culture. But either way, this is - assuming we all survive >>> ourselves in the coming years - just the beginning of many >>> revolutions to come, digitally-enabled, materially lived, both >>> progressive and alarmingly tribal (hello Tea Party!) against which I >>> fear the only real resistance may prove to be the authoritarian >>> hammer of literate politico-militarism (i.e. 'order' as it is defined >>> by those who cannot abide social structures that resist >>> paperization). Witness Obama's desire (soon to be imposed) for an >>> orderly transition. That would be the same kind of orderly transition >>> that he imposed on the auto industry, Guantanamo, wall street, health >>> care, BP, afghanistan... >>> >>> Anyway, I risk losing my way in the tangent that is Obama's >>> heartbreaking betrayal, so I'll stop here. I would conclude by saying >>> that it is just as pointless to argue against calling this the >>> Twitter Revolution as it is to argue for it. The behaviours are real, >>> the impacts are real. The argument over nomenclature is divisive and >>> distracting. >>> >>> The one and only time i was in Cairo - some 20 years ago - I was lost >>> for a week in a fog of fever, sweat and dreams, cared for by >>> strangers. Today I'm a ghost, lost in the fevers, sweat and dreams of >>> unknown friends seeking freedom, and finding it with each inspired >>> breath, each courageous step, each defiant word... >>> >>> peace and blessings be upon them >>> john >>> >>> >>> On 4-Feb-11, at 10:00 AM, Judith Rodenbeck wrote: >>> >>> "Most of" the people in Tahrir Square are NOT journalists/bloggers! >>>> And they are communicating with hands and voices, giving the >>>> conditional lie to the notion that demonstrations don't matter. The >>>> self-involvement of "new media" folk is breathtaking. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 4, 2011, at 7:27 AM, sumandro wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Why are people on streets in Cairo are tweeting and claiming >>>>> hashtag spaces? Only because most of them are journalists/bloggers >>>>> and they require the global audience for their living? How does >>>>> tweeting from the streets change their experiences and future >>>>> experiences of those streets? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity >>>> (distributedcreativity.org) >>>> iDC(a)mailman.thing.net >>>> https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc >>>> >>>> List Archive: >>>> http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/ >>>> >>>> iDC Photo Stream: >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/ >>>> >>>> RSS feed: >>>> http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc >>>> >>>> iDC Chat on Facebook: >>>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647 >>>> >>>> Share relevant URLs on Del.icio.us by adding the tag iDCref >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity >>> (distributedcreativity.org) >>> iDC(a)mailman.thing.net >>> https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc >>> >>> List Archive: >>> http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/ >>> >>> iDC Photo Stream: >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/ >>> >>> RSS feed: >>> http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc >>> >>> iDC Chat on Facebook: >>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647 >>> >>> Share relevant URLs on Del.icio.us by adding the tag iDCref >>> >>> >> >> >> > -- 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/ -- 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] interesting book review ...
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

thanks, sharing with our list as well, Michel On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:07 PM, James Quilligan <jbquilligan(a)comcast.net>wrote: > > ... looks like an interesting book > The spectre of a jobless online world > > Review by James Crabtree > > Published: April 4 2011 02:56 | Last updated: April 4 2011 02:56 > > The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern > History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, by Tyler Cowen, *Penguin > eSpecial, RRP £2.30/$3.99* > > Battered by recession and menaced by China, the US hungers for explanations > of its relative economic decline. Tyler Cowen, an economist and blogger, has > provided one: that the country has run out of technological juice. > > Where many believe innovation keeps growth ticking along, Cowen posits a > world of “periodic technological plateaus, and right now we are sitting on > top of one”. As a result, America increasingly resembles Japan: ageing, > stagnant, overgoverned and waiting for a technological burst to get the > motor going again. > > This provocative thesis is one reason *The Great Stagnation<http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781101502242,00.html> > *is the most discussed economics book of the year. Another stems from its > format. Inspired by Marginal Revolution, the must-bookmark blog for > economics nerds that he publishes, Cowen released the book only in > electronic form. This ensured a timely arrival just as the US was emerging > from financial meltdown and looking for answers. > > Cheap to download and quick to read, its brevity also has much to recommend > it. “Big idea” books too often spread an article’s worth of insight over > hundreds of pages of padded-out prose. Cowen cannot be accused of the same > mistake. Instead, *The Great Stagnation* is a true pamphlet for the modern > age: more insightful, urgent and challenging than most publications many > times its length. > > That said, there are problems with the story it tells. The first concerns > the route by which one might expect the internet to filter into higher > productivity and growth. Cowen’s contention is that the “low-hanging fruit” > of land, education and technology that once powered US growth have all been > picked. Cheap land has been used up. There are fewer “smart, uneducated > kids” to send to school. And the internet, in particular, has disappointed > relative to innovations such as electricity and the railways. > > Cowen is no Luddite: as one might expect of a blogger, he thinks life is > more fun and interesting with the internet around. But he worries that > today’s “web activities do not generate jobs and revenues at the rate of > past technological innovations”. > > This may well be correct. Facebook and Twitter are not obviously > productivity-enhancing tools – as their users can all too easily attest. But > this is the reason few economists look to them in particular, and consumer > technology in general, as a main explanation of how technology alters > patterns of growth. > > Instead, most growth theorists look instead at how the internet diffuses > through organisations. At first this effect was seen only in a few sectors, > most obviously among super-efficient retailers such as *Wal-Mart<http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:WMT> > * and *Tesco <http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=uk:TSCO>*, > which used the web to reshape their logistics systems. But now other > industries have reworked themselves too, and the evidence suggests they have > also become more productive, boosting economic growth overall. > > But this process takes time, rather than arriving in one big bang as Cowen > seems to expect. The coming of electricity did not boost growth by giving > workers light. Rather, it did so in much the same way as the internet today: > by allowing production to be arranged in new ways. Indeed, economist Paul > David has shown that productivity took close to a generation to rise after > electricity’s arrival, when most of the machines in US manufacturing began > to use it. Much the same is likely to be true of the internet. > > The real problem, however, comes when Cowen links his argument about a > technological plateau to the predicament of the US labour market. Here, his > analysis is unarguable: wages are stagnant, job growth is anaemic and the > very wealthy have won the largest share of recent economic gains. But to > blame this on too little technological innovation, rather than too much, > seems to get the problem the wrong way round. > > What ails the US job market is not the result of technological churn alone, > though that is a big contributor. Automation, the reconfiguration of > industries, and technologies that allow jobs to be moved overseas: all have > contributed to an “hourglass” labour market with a prosperous top, pinched > middle and struggling bottom. In short, the structure of the US economy > changed hugely in the past 20 years: the problem is too little has been done > to help those left behind. > > At one point, Cowen quotes Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Ebay, as saying > that “people don’t want to believe technology is broken”. In fact, the more > likely problem is that technology works too well. America may be suffering > from a great stagnation, but but in spite of his stimulating and engaging > analysis, it seems unlikely that it is happening for the reasons Mr Cowen > suggests. > -- 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] P2P Essays - incorrect link
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

*thank you so much, very useful!* On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Nikolay Georgiev < nikolay.h.georgiev(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Michel, > > on the page http://p2pfoundation.net/?title=Essays > the link to the first essay is incorrect: > > currently: > http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~padler/research/01-Heckscher-chap01%20copy-1.pdf<http://www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Epadler/research/01-Heckscher-chap01%20copy-1.pdf> > correct: > http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~padler/research/01-Heckscher-chap01%20copy-1.pdf<http://www-bcf.usc.edu/%7Epadler/research/01-Heckscher-chap01%20copy-1.pdf> > > Correct is "www-b" instead of "www-r". > > Greetings, > > Nikolay > > > -- > Nikolay Georgiev > > Website: http://www.nikolay-georgiev.net/blog/ > Email: nikolay.h.georgiev(a)gmail.com > Skype: nikolay.h.georgiev > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nikolayhg > Couch Surfing: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/nikolayhg > > Address: > Schlesierstr. 46 > 76227 Karlsruhe > Germany > -- 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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counter-economy bk
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

hi Kevin, are you familiar with this: could you eventually find out more: * Will Bradley, Mika Hannula, Cristina Ricupero (eds) Self-organisation Counter Economic Strategies, Superflex, NIFCA 2006. -- 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: "Is an Emancipatory Communism Possible?" (talk by Allan Armstrong in NYC)
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: seth weiss <weiss_seth(a)hotmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM Subject: "Is an Emancipatory Communism Possible?" (talk by Allan Armstrong in NYC) To: newspacegroup newspacegroup <newspacegroup(a)lists.mutualaid.org> *Is an Emancipatory Communism Possible?* *A talk by Allan Armstrong* *Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00 PM* at TRS, Inc, 44 East 32nd Street, 11th Floor Manhattan (between Madison & Park Avenues) Presented by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (marxist-humanist- initiative.org) & The New SPACE (http://new-space-nyc.org) =========== Mention of the word "Communism" today conjures up visions of tyrants. Young people, even when they clash violently with the representatives of global capitalism in Seattle or London, call their protests "anti-capitalist," not communist. However, anti-capitalism is not enough. Revolutions can lead to immediate feelings of intense liberation, but they are usually followed by much longer periods of defense, setbacks, and painful reconstruction. The 20th century was the "Century of Revolutions," but it eventually produced so little for humanity at such a high cost, that it is not surprising that many are very cautious, despite growing barbarism. Allan Armstrong will argue that it is vital that we outline a genuine new human emancipatory communism, which takes full stock of the failings of both "official" and "dissident Communism," and which can persuasively show that human liberation can still be achieved. He will explore Marx's vision, particularly as detailed in his "Critique of the Gotha Program," which emphasizes the need to break with capitalist production relations rather than expecting a new society to come about through political changes. *Allan Armstrong, *a republican, Scottish internationalist, and communist, is currently co-editor of Emancipation & Liberation, the journal of the Republican Communist Network*.* He is also involved with the commune, a collective dedicated to outlining a new communism for the 21st century. Armstrong is the author of "Why We Need a New Emancipatory Communism" ( http://thecommune.co.uk/2009/06/02/why-we-need-a-new-human-emancipatory-com…) and "The Communist Case for 'Internationalism from Below'" ( http://thecommune.co.uk/2010/06/06/the-communist-case-for-internationalism-… ). _______________________________________________ You are subscribed to the NewSPACEgroup mailing list http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/newspacegroup To Unsubscribe from this or any mutualaid.org hosted mailing list, visit: http://lists.mutualaid.org/unsub.php -- 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: achieving resonance for social change
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I'm publishing this excerpt on the 13th, see for original essay http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/resonance-and-the-egyptian-… publishable comments are very welcome, Michel Material vs. immaterial resonance in spreading social change<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=15220> [image: photo of Michel Bauwens] Michel Bauwens 13th April 2011 The emancipatory potential of the internet does not mean that Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the main weapons of the 21st century democratic rebellions, as the media often simplistically claims. These are important channels, crucial at points, for the dissemination of resonances produced in the streets by bodies that for the most part do not tweet. The main weapon of democratic, non-violent rebellions still is, and will always be, bodies in the streets producing resonance. And the trends of global unrest that preceded Egypt seem to indicate we are entering a wave of transcontinental anti-elite resonances that are encountering receptive bodies across disparate geographies. This wave began in Europe in 2010, is spreading like wildfire into North Africa and the Middle-East, and is now ricocheting back into Europe. The following is from a long and rather difficult essay on ‘resonance’, i.e. how people are being affected by dreams of change which they see occuring elswhere, and are then willing to put their own lives at state to effect similar change in their own locale. For the author, resonance is NOT a metaphor, but a real physical process. The following is excerpted<http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/resonance-and-the-egyptian-…>from the part where the author discuss immaterial resonance. In my opinion, while I agree that the physical is primary (to the degree one can indeed separate ‘material’ from ‘immaterial’, which is indeed a problematic distinction), I disagree that it necessarily needs to originate there. In other words, resonance can be create first in the immaterial spaces of communication, before it is actualized on the streets. *Gaston Gordillo: * *“The resonance expanding from Egypt is being channeled through a planetary network of instant communications that has reached a density, spatial reach, speed, and sophistication unparalleled in world history. Karl Marx’s utopian vision of a wave of emancipatory energies interconnected across the nations of the world is only materially possible today. Yet this internationalism will continue being a utopian projection if reactionary resonances based on fear prevail. This is why current struggles for global democracy are over the smoothing out and striation of the primary space that facilitates resonance expansion, the internet. State and corporate power are rapidly joining forces to police the web. The recent attempts by the Obama administration to demonize and shut down Wikileaks express that the United States and Chinese government are not that different in this regard, for both fear the power of uncoded, anti-state resonances travelling globally through unrestricted, unpoliced channels.* *The emancipatory potential of the internet does not mean that Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the main weapons of the 21st century democratic rebellions, as the media often simplistically claims. These are important channels, crucial at points, for the dissemination of resonances produced in the streets by bodies that for the most part do not tweet. The main weapon of democratic, non-violent rebellions still is, and will always be, bodies in the streets producing resonance. And the trends of global unrest that preceded Egypt seem to indicate we are entering a wave of transcontinental anti-elite resonances that are encountering receptive bodies across disparate geographies. This wave began in Europe in 2010, is spreading like wildfire into North Africa and the Middle-East, and is now ricocheting back into Europe, as illustrated by the protests and potential court actions for human rights violations that have just forced George W. Bush to cancel a trip to Switzerland.* *Meanwhile, the material resonances created in central Cairo continue expanding toward the world. I began writing this essay the day the Egyptian Revolution began, and these pages’ tone, layout, and configurations have mutated and evolved in parallel with the effect that that those equally evolving resonances coming from the margins of the Nile, and that I was trying to understand with words, had on my body. The images and voices of those determined bodies in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, or Suez resonated with my own embodied memories of having been raised under one of the many dictatorships that the United States sponsored, trained, and funded in Latin America to destroy the revolutionary resonances of the 1960s and 1970s. Those riveting images created an affective empathy with their plight as fellow human bodies determined to put an end to their oppression.* *The main intention of this essay is to partly contribute to spreading the inspiring resonance created in the streets of Egypt. The obstacles to the expansion of resonance are clear within the territory of the United States, a space in which a powerful propaganda machine has been effective in repelling or neutralizing resonances coming from elsewhere. This repulsion, which was only eroded by the American multitude in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is crucial in the ongoing reproduction of the United States as the central node of imperial machinery and can only be undermined by further resonances produced in American streets. This is why, as Slavoj Zizek observed in The Guardian, it is important that liberals in the US (and across the world) stop fearing the Egyptian revolutionary spirit.* *The shifting resonances that this essay has tried to outline are, as I hope it is by now clearer, both patently solid and elusive in their patterns of dispersion. Yet we are socialized to assume that passions on the streets are sheer elusiveness devoid of materiality, and that the shock waves, contagions, and domino effects are just metaphors to refer to something else. Yet these words dance around the potent and bodily political materiality of resonance, which we should be able to see clearly if we looked at the streets of Egypt with a slightly different sensibility.”* The Speed of Current Revolutionary Resonance after Egypt and Tunisia Gaston Gordillo: "The current wave of revolutionary insurrections seems to be the fastest in history. Revolutions always come in waves, but insurgent shockwaves that once expanded across continents over years or months are now making states crumble, one after another, in a matter of weeks. As the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are rapidly followed by widespread rebellions in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and now Oman, it is clear that these are not just events but nodes of acceleration, which shoot out high-speed resonances in all directions and make millions of bodies fight oppression in myriad places at the same time. This political whirlwind is a distance-dissolving machine. It is also an evolving constellation that shifts its form and pulsation because of the striated nature of the global terrain, one day creating moments of joyful exhilaration on Tahrir Square and a few days later facing unrestrained state violence in Libya. In these mutating territories, we seem to be witnessing an epochal clash between new revolutionary velocities and the old, increasingly eroded supremacy of the state in controlling means of speed-creation. In Egypt, the Mubarak regime was overwhelmed by a revolutionary resonance that, while emanating from its node in Tahrir Square, became a high-speed deterritorializing force that saturated the space of the nation with millions of bodies on the streets. This insurgent deterritorialization was fueled by a fast-paced rhizomic synergy between bodies in the streets and instant forms of communication that outmaneuvered the state and disseminated images with high affective impact (passionate bodies and bodies killed by the state) that resonated with even more bodies, outpacing the state modulation of fear through TV and radio and inspiring further action on the streets. These are rhizomic, leaderless, affirmative velocities that follow multiple lines of expansion independent from each other yet empowered and made resilient by their interconnectedness (an amazing, real-time visualization by André Panisson, shown here, illustrates the rhizomic velocities of tweets about the Egyptian Revolution, and the spatial interconnections they generate, during key moments of the uprising). The state, in turn, has responded throughout the region with an arsenal of velocities of its own: arboreal patterns of speed that respond to centralized nodes of command, with vast means of destruction at its disposal, and with nodes of resonance modulation with few entry points under its tight control (the TV, radio). This mobile, powerful, but heavy machinery has unleashed violence to prevent the formation of multitudes producing resonance in the streets and has tried to shut down multi-entry nodes of resonance expansion like the internet and phone systems. These are reactive velocities, which follow the tempo and initiative of revolutionary resonances on the streets. These are also murderous velocities, which can indeed slow down or disrupt these resonances by killing the bodies producing them. In Libya, the Gaddafi regime withstood the deterritorializing charge of the initial uprising by acting fast and with ferocity. In contrast to Egypt, high-speed state terror in Tripoli territorialized the revolution. And the relative weakness of an internet-savvy youth in comparison to Egypt has limited the synergy between the unrest on the streets and the speed allowed by rhizomic social networks. Because of this widespread violence, the Libyan Revolution is now a territorial insurrection, solidifying its control of cities like Tobruk and Benghazi and confronting a regime entrenched in Tripoli. Gaddafi’s swift and violent response, in other words, created the battlefronts favored by states, which allow them to move troops and high-speed weapons systems outwards from the safe node of its arboreal structure. And while it is likely that this strategy will run its course the way it did in Egypt, the Libyan case reminds us of the power of state velocities and, more importantly, that revolutions are decided in bodily confrontations in actual spatial terrains. ... The insurgent velocities flowing through North Africa and the Middle-East, likewise, are inseparable from the speed of global networks of instant communication. And this requires a brief overview of the nodal spatiality of different media technologies: that is, the spatial layout of the nodes that produce messages and the nodes that receive them. In the twentieth century, radio and TV opened up and democratized access to nodes of message-reception but within an arboreal structure originating in a handful, and tightly-controlled, nodes of message production. The structure of both the radio and TV is hierarchical and their flows are unidirectional and emanate from a root that anchors the whole system: a handful of nodes based in a building somewhere (TV and radio stations) and controlling the messages sent out to millions of bodies who cannot but listen and watch. That the most influential TV nodes are controlled by the state or corporations gives these actors unparalleled power to modulate the reactive, fearful, inward-looking resonances necessary to reproduce exploitative bodily constellations based on profound inequalities. The internet and mobile technologies, in contrast, are built on a multi-sited and rhizomic physical infrastructure with countless nodes of message-creation, even if the network has arboreal nodes such as Google or Facebook (as pointed out by Ian Buchanan). The dense arborescent knots that exist within wider rhizomic networks can be clearly seen in the picture to the right. On a daily basis, a complex, multilayered system like this channels billions of multi-directional flows created by millions of bodies who can potentially reach wide audiences without the mediation of media conglomerates. In 2010, Wikileaks brought to light with devastating clarity why the internet, while coded by state-corporate arboreal forms at multiple levels, does offer a liberating potential: a small group of bodies can make classified information about imperial operations accessible, in principle, to billions of bodies all over the planet. More importantly, they can do it despite the fierce opposition of the imperial elites. And that Wikileaks survived myriad cyber-attacks through the rapid creation of rhizomic networks of solidarity (the Wikileaks mirror sites) reveals that insurgent velocities on the web can outpace the speed of state censorship. Yet what recent debates about the political salience of the internet overlook is that what the web amplifies is the power to mobilize and coordinate bodies in actual spaces through equally rhizomic forms of speed. In the Egyptian Revolution, the synergy between the velocities generated on these networks of instant communication and in the urban terrain was decisive in allowing the multitude outmaneuver state violence and state propaganda. The revolution was fought at different yet inseparable velocities: the speed of swarms of bodies clashing with the police on the streets and the much-faster speed of the affective resonances generated by those clashes and amplified over the internet and TV networks not controlled by the Egyptian state like Al Jazeera. Disembodied and projected instantly as images, sounds, and text onto countless computers and TV screens, these resonances became embodied again by affecting the millions of bodies watching, listening, and reading. Not all bodies were affected the same way. Yet millions resonated positively, and not just in Egypt. Nikolai Grozni wrote about the affective impact that the resonance travelling at instant speed from Egypt had on his body following the news in Paris. “Ever since the uprising in Egypt began on Jan. 25, I have hardly moved an inch away from the TV screen. I may be in France, but my spirit is in Tahrir Square. I’m throwing stones. I’m breathing in tear gas. I’m lighting up Molotov cocktails. I’m dodging bullets. I’m fighting thick-headed policemen. I’m cursing every symbol of the regime until my voice cracks.” Contrary to what he claims, Grozni’s body (not just his spirit) was affectively and fully in sync with those bodies on Tahrir Square, to the point that the spatial distance between Egypt and France seemed to had dissolved. His body resonated, via his TV, together with those bodies on Tahrir Square. This instantaneous affectation amplified through global networks was the same that, a few days earlier, had inspired millions of Egyptian bodies following the news about the uprising in Tunisia to take to the streets to topple Mubarak. The synergy between the streets and online social networks was in fact what triggered the opening salvo of the Egyptian Revolution on January 25. As analyzed by Charles Hirschkind, in the previous months social networks became a potent resonance machine amplifying what the Egyptian media made invisible: bodies terrorized by the state. The affective power was epitomized by the widespread circulation in June 2010 of the photo of the disfigured, tortured face of Khalel Said, who had been beaten up to death by two police officers. The visceral resonance created by the image of the corpse led to the creation of a Facebook group (We Are All Khalel Said) that was to have a central role in the organization of the January 25 demonstrations. This image reached myriad computer screens and affected millions of bodies, as Jon Beasley-Murray would put it, at a non-discursive, non-ideological level. “That was the turning point,” said Heba Morayef, the Human Rights Watch advocate in Egypt to The Guardian. “Prior to that, demonstrations in favour of political reform struck many ordinary Egyptians as somewhat abstract.” The tortured face of a 28-year-old man dissipated those abstraction and made many bodies resonate out of empathy with a young man tortured and murdered by state agents. Activists on Facebook turned that bodily trace of terror into a deterritorialized weapon of resonance expansion. ... This is why the Mubarak regime tried to shut down rhizomic networks of instant communication (internet, phone systems) transmitting these resonances, turning off the famous “internet switch” in key buildings in Cairo (especially the Telecom Egypt Building) and going after the bodies of on-line activists. Khalil Said, after all, was killed because he was a blogger exposing police corruption and Wael Ghonim was captured on the street and detained for twelve days because of his activism on Facebook. This is the same state tactic of reterritorialization involved in imperial attempts to imprison the body of Julian Assange, which shows that state velocities also seek synergy between their repressive actions on the networks of communication and on actual bodies in the streets. Since bodies coming together in space are the main source of revolutionary resonance, the primary aim of the state in all cases has been to disband those bodies and take them off the streets. The resulting clash between arboreal and rhizomic velocities was particularly dramatic in Egypt. In planning for the January 25 protests, activists decided to take over the streets through patterns of high mobility and dispersion in order to avoid being pinned down in space (“kettled”) by the police as it had happened in previous rallies, a strategy of swarming also adopted by activists in the UK to challenge kettles. An Egyptian activist told The Guardian, “This time we were determined to do something different – be multi-polar, fast-moving, and too mobile for the amin markazi [central security forces].” And they were indeed too fast, mobile, and multi-polar for the state, stretching riot police units thin and outmaneuvering them over several days. At one point, an overwhelmed police gave up and withdrew from the streets of Egypt. In this urban terrain, as The Invisible Committee would put it, the centrifugal force of the multitude prevailed over the centripetal force of the police. The footage of the epic, several–hour battle for the control of the Qasr El Nile bridge on January 28, shown here, illustrates how amid clouds of teargas these mobile swarms came together, dispersed when attacked, and pushed the police back even in a narrow space such as a bridge. The successful occupation of the bridge anticipated the occupation of Tahrir Square and, a few days later, the toppling of Mubarak. Few events embodied the Egyptian Revolution more dramatically than when on February 11, the day Mubarak fell, a multitude surrounded the building of the state-run TV in Cairo on the Nile, while determined masses were taking over the rest of the city and the nation to topple the regime once and for all. That dangerously resonant bodily saturation encroaching on the root of the state propaganda machine was powerful enough, despite the protective ring of soldiers, to make the bodies inside the building change the tone of the modulation emitted from the arboreal state node. Instead of propagating fear, the state TV began endorsing the revolutionary resonances emanating from Tahrir Square. In Egypt, rhizomic speeds prevailed by saturation not only in the clashes with the police but also in the modulation of resonances in arboreal networks of mass communication. These mobilities were politically effective not so much because of the speed of individual bodies, which for the most part walked or ran, but because of their multi-polar nature, which was able to saturate the urban terrain and outpace the state. The systemic speed of this human swarm was enhanced by its myriad pulsations, widespread spatial dispersion, and bodily density. A gripping example are the videos (hereand here) quickly posted on YouTube that show police vans and unmarked vehicles driving at very high speed amid large crowds without even trying to avoid them. On the one hand, these vehicles’ lightning speed made them run over and kill several bodies. On the other hand,this is a desperate velocity of escape from a hostile space controlled by resonant bodies. And while the videos were posted online to highlight state brutality, they also signal a rapid retreat by the state from streets saturated by the multitude. These rhizomic speeds are constitutive of an insurrection without leaders, hierarchical organizations, or parties (most of which had been neutralized or decapitated by the regime). This non-hierarchical bodily form is the multitude as multiplicity. And as Stathis Gourgouris observed, this multitude never gestured toward any transcendent or superior authorization. No leader, no vanguard, no revolutionary party, just resonant bodies on the streets. The most popular slogan chanted in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain or Libya has been and is, “The people want to bring down the regime.” Originated in signs and on Facebook pages in Tunisia, this chanting by myriad resonant bodies materializes the constituent, leaderless power of the multitude." ( http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-speed-of-revolutionary-…) -- 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 -- 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: [Commoning] Fwd: guidelines for structure at P2PU
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:49 PM Subject: [Commoning] Fwd: guidelines for structure To: commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de Hi all: here is a "strawman" proposal I sent to P2PU. (I'm not sure why they call all proposals "strawmen".) It may be of more general appeal when thinking about how to set up peer-production systems. Joe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:29 AM Subject: guidelines for structure To: P2PU Community <p2pu-community(a)googlegroups.com> The following begins to approach a full proposal on "guidelines for structure" (this is my first complete revision: it seems ready for public discussion in the P2PU's standard "strawman" framework). It draws on Pippa's posting in this thread about P2PU's priorities: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-community/browse_thread/thread/d1462b43… There's other material from my ongoing discussion with Charlie about "paragogy" I'd like to bring into this in the future; we'll save such expansions for later. IDENTIFYING BOTH COMPLETION GOALS AND SUCCESS/FAILURE CRITERIA SHOULD BE PART OF THE COURSE AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. This should include "organizational efforts, across the board". Even if that sounds obvious, it's not yet clear how best to implement. P2PU should be emphasising community involvement "to 105%" -- and clearly identified critera for success and failure are the minimum data needed to make community involvement work. As an example, P2PU's roadmap should include high-level goals, even as these are subject to discussion. Folding courses and projects together under one heading implies that P2PU should dare to "eat its own dogfood" -- and it provides core community members the opportunity to lead by example. IDENTIFYING COMPLETION CRITERIA SHOULD NOT ONLY BE A SOCIAL NORM, BUT SOMETHING CLEARLY IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE TECHNOLOGY. Prior art in this area lies in the field of "bug reporting". Conceptualizing P2PU "tasks" as tickets within a well-thought-through issue tracking system would give both learners and organizational leaders a powerful tool for defining their workflow. A good first task would be to make a map of system objects and the way they relate to one another, so we can know how the technology itself serves the organisation's high-level goals. As an example: here is work-in-progress by me, describing the elements of the Planetary System: http://trac.mathweb.org/planetary/export/HEAD/pmredux-extras/general-metada… (More progress to be made there this week: I'd be happy to help with a similar document for P2PU once this one is done.) THE SEMANTICS AROUND "GROUPS" NEEDS REFINING. This is a key point, since groups are the new "fundamental object" for P2PU, and have to accommodate both course-like and more informal book-club-like interactions. As an example of an outstanding issue: assuming that members come and go, any agreements the group makes may only apply to a certain cohort at a certain period of time. What happens if someone wants to repurpose a group? Are they forkable, or what? Is there a plan to keep track of the potentially huge number of groups that may accumulate over time? These are just a few of the many things that should be spelled out in detail ASAP. PARTICIPANTS SHOULD ALSO CLEARLY DEFINE THEIR PERSONAL GOALS (SUCCESS/FAILURE CRITERA) AND SHARE THAT WITH THEIR PEERS. It would not be too much to ask to have goals visible on user homepages, presumably with ways to opt-OUT, so for example the goal might only be visible to members of a certain group/course, or cohort. All major "accountability" issues can be handled post hoc, through transparent record-keeping on learner profiles. This will address most of the concerns brought up by e.g. JWeb. THE IDEA THAT GOVERNANCE IS "OPEN" BECAUSE ANYONE CAN RAISE THEIR OPINION IN THE MAILING LIST HAS SHORTCOMINGS. There is a huge difference between London's Speaker's Corner, and the UK's Lords and Commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers'_Corner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom In today's popular usage, "peers" and "commoners" are the same, but we would do well to reflect on the historical usage and learn from it. Perhaps the "community list" can be replaced by more empowering functionality within the new site, e.g. http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/p2pu-the-course/ (It needs significant changes to be useful for "governance" matters.) ONCE AGAIN: CORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS SHOULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE! Anything that P2PU expects of "participants" it should expect of "core community members". Transparency, openness, and involvement should all have concrete meanings in the technology used by P2PU. The are issues that need to championed by organisational leadership if anything is going to be made of them in a "grassroots" fashion. This doesn't mean that all conversations should happen in public (that wouldn't be a "good example" for P2P communications), but it does mean that leadership needs a degree of "accountability" (in proportion to their power). At the same time, *complaints* (bug reports) should not be duplicated unduly, but managed in a coherent fashion. Accountability does not mean that leadership needs to respond and fix every issue, on demand. Rather, it means a responsibility to keep the space in good condition for work by the community as a whole. This is happening presently with a fair amount of informality, and some opaqueness that would go away if the guidelines suggested here about clearly defining "success/failure criteria" were followed throughout the project. Recommended reading: http://piratepad.net/bug-report-1 http://piratepad.net/bug-report-2 _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de http://lists.wissensallmende.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning -- 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] P2P Value Exchange
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Dear Sam, I find this idea of a p2p-oriented personal transformation scorecard and proposed pathway to be awesome. I really hope you can expand on it and publish it as a blog proposal, this is something to be worked on, perhaps in the context of http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation, Michel On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > It's tricky, and your business plan (if I may call it that) goes to the > > heart of the potential logical glitch with Contact as well: how can we > > expect to be paid a living for delivering groups of people unto > themselves? > > I suppose the only way is not only to love doing it, but to be so good at > it > > that you really are making something possible that wouldn't have been > > otherwise. > > That's why I say it's tricky. Ultimately, I would think you could develop > a > > set of resources that let people just do what you're talking about. The > way > > civic organizations federalized in the early 1900's (as Putnam explains > in > > Bowling Alone). In the meantime, and at the very outset, you actually > > workshop these things live for money - which is also a trick since money > is > > the last thing most of these communities have. > > But the "lack of action of community organizations that are focusing > on..." > > is troubling to me. It's like you've come up with a solution but can't > find > > people ready with the problem. There are many groups attempting > sustainable > > community/economic models though. If you're interested in hooking up with > > them, I can find some lists. > > > > > > > > You've got me thinking, Douglas, that there could be a use for a way > for people to "audit" their lives, and see how much of their activity > is currently in 20th century industrial paradigm ecologies, and how > much they have invested in emerging p2p ecologies/economies. > > This is actually directly related to the models we're developing for > our project "Understanding Today's Economic Transformation" > > http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transform… > (contributions of any amount welcome, as this campaign is still active > with 14 days left to go!). A practical application that is possible > from that work could be an application to see your transition, plus > ways to enhance participation in emerging systems. > > People communicate with me that they need workable ways for > transitioning themselves as individuals and collaborative groups > towards peer-to-peer economies. Re-localization is definitely part of > the picture. So is organized sharing. And a fundamental approach that > allows your work and systems to be highly re-usable/inter-operable. > > > -- > -- > Sam Rose > Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation > Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 > Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 > skype: samuelrose > email: samuel.rose(a)gmail.com > http://futureforwardinstitute.com > http://forwardfound.org > http://hollymeadcapital.com > http://p2pfoundation.net > http://socialmediaclassroom.com > > "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human > ambition." - Carl Sagan > -- 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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learningthroughdigitalmedia.net
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

To members of Institute for Distributed Creativity<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647> <http://www.facebook.com/rtscholz>Trebor Scholz<http://www.facebook.com/rtscholz> April 4 at 5:34am <http://www.facebook.com/ajax/report.php?content_type=9&cid=1975006218987&ri…> The iDC just launched "Learning Through Digital Media." http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/ This publication is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations, leading up to the MobilityShifts Summit, inspired this collection of essays, which was rigorously peer-reviewed.

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"People Power Participation Programme" - Transeuropa
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

excerpted from message sent by Noel : *"We have funding to bring over citizens, activists and civil society organisations from Europe to this Forum in London and it would be great if you could recommend activists or civil society organisations from the continent you think we should invite to the workshop below? If you can let me know by Friday 8th April that would be much appreciated.* * **MUTUALISM, COOPERATIVISM, COPRODUCTION* " *A more responsible, more just and more decent economy might require a new*... " ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dougald* *Any ideas? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noel Hatch <noel.hatch1(a)googlemail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:48 PM Subject: Transeuropa Programme To: dougald hine <writetodougald(a)gmail.com> Hey Dougald Hope you're well. Thought the following may be of interest and you always know really amazing people! As part of our "People Power Participation Programme <http://www.euroalter.com/stockholm/>". We’ve been organising citizen panels, workshops and other types of participative activities across Europe to enable people to discuss the impact of the economic crisis on people’s lives and put forward ideas on common solutions to improve social and economic rights. This Forum will bring together citizens, activists and civil society organisations from around Europe to draft common programs for action and campaigns on these issues. We have funding to bring over citizens, activists and civil society organisations from Europe to this Forum in London and it would be great if you could recommend activists or civil society organisations from the continent you think we should invite to the workshop below? If you can let me know by Friday 8th April that would be much appreciated. *MUTUALISM, COOPERATIVISM, COPRODUCTION * *A more responsible, more just and more decent economy might require a new model of business and public services, one which promotes responsibility above profit making. Forms of mutualism and cooperativism might be such an alternative model: promoting responsibility to consumers and to workers. What potentials are there for this model to be promoted throughout Europe?* All the best N -- 07515992174 <http://www.compassonline.org.uk/> www.twitter.com/noelito -- Dougald Hine - http://dougald.co.uk/

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