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Liverpool 8-11 July Fwd: Transition Conference 2011 tickets now available
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Transition Network <newsletter(a)transitionnetwork.org> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM Subject: Transition Conference 2011 tickets now available To: dante.monson(a)gmail.com [image: Transition Network Newsletter Header image]<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…> Transition Network Special Announcement *Transition Conference 2011: tickets now available* View this announcement online<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…> We’re delighted to announce that bookings are now open for the 2011 conference. Get your diaries out and mark the date. Better still, book up your tickets now! Have a look at the conference page here<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…>. We'll be in Liverpool in the North of England at Hope University<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247…> for the two and a half days of the 8th - 11th July. The conference is a perfect opportunity to meet with other Transitioners taking this challenging journey, to delve deeper into the areas that interest you most, and to gain new skills that will serve you and your initiative well over the coming years. This year's conference aims to provide knowledge, tools and understanding to help us live well in uncertain times. We'll all share our successes and challenges, hopes and fears, our questions and answers. We're planning an innovative structure and processes that enable each of us to get better at operating in group environments - a crucial skill as our transition journeys move into an increasingly uncertain future. When you leave the conference, you'll have new connections, insights and skills that will make both you and your transition initiative stronger for the times ahead. You can expect innovative workshops; plenty of open space sessions; skill sharing; in-depth project discussions; process work; entertainment (bring instruments!); creative outlets galore (particularly for kids); revitalising activities (bring loose clothing); and lots of meaningful fun and frivolity. All you need to bring is yourself, your energy, your experience and your thirst for learning more! And just to make sure you didn't miss that - we're welcoming kids too this year. We finally got our act together and are welcoming children and young people with an exciting programme and plenty to do<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…> . If you haven't been to a Transition conference yet, or you can't remember last year's (very unlikely!), have a read of the 2010 conference blog<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247…>which covered much of the action, watch some of the videos<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…>, or look at the photos<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…>, visioning exercise artworks<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247…>, open space sessions<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…>and more on our conference archive site<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247e…> . There will be more information in further newsletters, but we wanted to let you know before the holidays so you can do some diary planning over the break. Best wishes, Ben Brangwyn and the conference team Transition Network: 43 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5HN. Email: info(a)transitionnetwork.org Tel: 05601 531882 www.transitionnetwork.org<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=766036b57dc1247…> Unsubscribe<http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=766036b57dc1247e…> dante.monson(a)gmail.com from this list Forward this email to a friend<http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=766036b57dc1247e2964584bd&id=a68…> http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=766036b57dc1247e2964584bd&id=a68…

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Fwd: Mindfield - Remix : Culture Hacking Panel
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Dear friends, thanks for spreading the word, this is the event where I'll represent the Free Culture Forum, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:16 PM Subject: Mindfield - Remix : Culture Hacking Panel ======================== Remix : Culture Hacking The Remix is no longer solely the domain of the DJ. Culture is a conversation and today in the Internet age more people than ever are taking part contributing their own creative take on the sounds, images and texts that shape our world. Cheap access to digital tools and broadband means anyone can remix and publish online. Its become a part of everyday life. But this emergent culture of sharing and remixing is not without its challenges. Mashups and remixes are frequently taken down by popular websites like Youtube as a result of copyright infringement claims in effect censoring and destroying what is one of the 21st centuries most distinct and vibrant forms of counter-cultural creative expression. "Remix : Culture Hacking" brings together a diverse panel of artists, musicians, technologists and legal academics for a lively discussion and debate on the future of Remix Culture. Featuring Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation), Benjamin Gaulon (Artist), Darius Whelan (Creative Commons Ireland), Loughlin McSweeney (Choicecuts.com) Mark O Cular (ItisOn.net) and Faith Lawrence (Digital Humanities Observatory) the panel will be chaired by Kevin Flanagan. 8pm - 9.30 Friday April 29th, Ignition Tent @ Mindfield Festival of Ideas, Merrion Square, Dublin. (Admission is Free - however seating is limited so arrive early) Michel Bauwens will be representing the Free Culture Forum "Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge" and this years declaration on "Sustainable Models for Creativity in the Digital Age" http://fcforum.net . Michel is founder of the http://p2pfoundation.net http://twitter.com/mbauwens Benjamin Gaulon is an artist working with digital media http://www.recyclism.com . He is a lecturer at the National College of Art and Design and organises http://www.data.ie a regular meet up for artists and creative technologists at http://imoca.ie Dublin. http://twitter.com/recyclism Darius Whelan is a law lecturer in UCC and, with Louise Crowley, is responsible for the Irish port of the Creative Commons licence which is currently being finalised. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Ireland http://twitter.com/dariuswirl Loughlin Mc Sweeney is a DJ and he is co-founder of ChoiceCuts. Choicecuts.com is their music blog they are also promoters and organisers of club nights, festivals and events, they also offer a range of web development and design services. http://www.workwithchoicecuts.com ChoiceCuts also developed Ireland's first Crowd Funding Platform http://www.fundit.ie in conjunction with BusinessToArts.ie Mark O’ Cúlar is a remixologist and documentarian. Also known as videoist and dizzywizard, Mark has been working on alternative media outlets on itison.net and itison.tv over the past ten years, assembling a new media co-op and focusing on issues of social justice. His interest in remix culture ties in with the need to analyse how news is reported and shapes public perception. His work as a video editor and VJ has been the driving force in experimenting with storytelling using the mass media as source material. http://twitter.com/itison Faith Lawrence is a digital humanities specialist with the Digital Humanities Observatory. She did her first degree in ancient history with a special interest in comparative mythology. Progressing sideways she completed a masters in archaeological science (computing) before finding herself in a computer science department researching online communities, narrative and the semantic web. http://dho.ie/staff Kevin Flanagan is a visual artist with an interest in digital culture. He has exhibited in group shows at home and abroad with his first solo exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre in June 2010. He has lectured on digital culture, is a member of 091Labs.com hackerspace and holds a masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster Belfast. http://kevflanagan.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/flanagankev -- 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 Foundation
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

thanks Tim, Michel On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Tim Handorf <timhandorf7(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > We would love to share with you an article that we just posted on our own > blog! (*10 Reasons to Consider Couchsurfing this Summer*) is linked below > and could be a fun way to share this announcement with your readers. > > > > ( > http://www.bestcollegesonline.net/blog/2011/10-reasons-to-consider-couchsur… > ) > > > > It has been a sincere pleasure to read your great content. > > > > > > Sincerely > > Tim Handorf > -- 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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an economy without growth
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

looks interesting! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Facebook <notifications+pjiidwm(a)facebookmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:21 PM Subject: Daniel Araya shared a link on your Wall. To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> facebook Daniel shared a link on your Wall.Really excellent overview... http://vimeo.com/16906655<http://www.facebook.com/l/6a42aTsDc2vQDtxl-N43n6G_e8Q/vimeo.com/16906655>Peter Victor - Managing without GrowthPeter Victor (York University) explained how a non-growing economy can be successful in his keynote address at the Steady State Economy Conference in Leeds, UK. He offered critical insights about ways to maintain full employment, eliminate poverty, reduce...To see your Wall or to write on Daniel's Wall, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?mbauwens%2Fposts%2F196346117074557&mid=419053cG1…, The Facebook TeamThe message was sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future or have your email address used for friend suggestions, you can unsubscribe<http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=c05bf5&u=528245547&mid=419053cG1f7c632bGe5d…>. Facebook, Inc. P.O. Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 -- 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: New answer to "Are complementary currencies a likely remedy for economic problems?"
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <noreply(a)quora.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM Subject: New answer to "Are complementary currencies a likely remedy for economic problems?" To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: Quora] New answer to "Are complementary currencies a likely remedy for economic problems?" *Liz McLellan*: Terrence - That is a really interesting point. I am in rural Eastern Oregon in a very small town less than 300 people, hit very hard by the down turn. We are looking at time banks, local currency and other strategies to bolster our resilience. In our discussions we keep having to process very deep trust issues which we all bring to the group having been so roughly handled out in "the free market." And yes, I keep finding myself repeating - "The currency won't solve what is essentially a social problem, how we treat, see and relate to each other. We all understand the functional aspect of currency but what we are beginning to understand is the fact that it has no "magic healing properties." In a small town no one needs to explain reputation economics. It is how my new home works. As we work on this new way of doing things the most important thing we are doing is working together, getting to know each other and finding out where we are strong and reliable and where we need to reweave the threads...the currency and timebanks are, as I am coming to see, a way to write the rules that suit us better but also a way to talk about what was not working before. It is not a replacement but a layer of flexibility for all of us... *To see the question page with all answers, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/E7YHT3KE* Thanks, The Quora Team We sent you this email because you are following this question. To stop following it, click this link: http://www.quora.com/l/ZNRhNwCs/_STOP_FOLLOWING To control which emails we send you, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/iYYoNOnm This email was sent by Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: http://www.quora.com/l/TqpCpcvd -- 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: smart meter request for sepp
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

hi sepp, I wonder if you could cover the anti-smart grid movement? see http://refusesmartmeter.com/ http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/714/63/ http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/714/63/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM Subject: smart meter request for sepp To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> * Stop Smart Meters, refuse Smart Meters, Remove Smart meter PEOPLE 6 campaign against smart grids and smart meters EDIT|SHARE|DELETE TAGS SHARED * Smart-Grid * P2P-Healthcare * P2P-Movements * P2P-Activism * The Problems With Smart Grids: Dumb and Dangerous PEOPLE 3 is the Smart Grid really smart? The problem: smart metering will turn every single appliance into the equivalent of a transmitting cell phone, and this at a time when public concern about the safety of exposure to the radiofrequency radiation (RF) of wireless technologies is on the rise. Heads up: that’s every dishwasher, microwave oven, stove, washing machine, clothes dryer, air conditioner, furnace, refrigerator, freezer, coffee maker, TV, computer, printer, and fax machine. The average U.S. home has over 15 such appliances, each of which would be equipped with a transmitting antenna. EDIT|SHARE|DELETE TAGS SHARED * Smart-Grid * P2P-Healthcare * Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience? or Environmental Hazard ... PEOPLE 2 No community should be without this information because one thing is certain... Millions of people love cell phones, but no one loves the infrastructure needed to support a wireless, civilian phone system. New wireless technologies are already out of the gate--wireless TV, wireless computers, wireless faxes, wireless modems--to name a few. All will require additional spectrum and antennas with accompanying radiation--with no clear understanding of the biological consequences to humans or to other species. Working at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI Volunteering at the P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net - http://p2pfoundation.ning.com Monitor updates at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens The work of the P2P Foundation is supported by SHIFTN, http://www.shiftn.com/ -- 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: twitter forbids scholarship and research export of data
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Phoebe will do this, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM Subject: Re: twitter forbids scholarship and research export of data To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> I'm happy to do this Michel, when would you want it? Phoebe On 21 Apr 2011 05:42, "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> wrote: > COuld someone with academic or research concerns discuss this on our blog? > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_twitters_terms_o… > > -- > 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: "electracy"
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM Subject: "electracy" To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy* * * * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy>**Electracy describes the kind of “literacy” or skill and facility necessary to exploit the full communicative potential of new electronic media such as multimedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia> , hypermedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia>, social software<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software>, and virtual worlds <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world>. * * * *<< The transition from a predominantly literate culture to an electronic culture is already engendering changes in the ways in which we think, write and exchange ideas. Ulmer has been concerned with the kinds of changes that take place as a result of this transition and his primary concern has been a pedagogical one – that is, he is interested in how learning is transformed by the shift from the apparatus of literacy to the apparatus of what he comes to term ‘electracy’ >>* * * * External links - Gregory Ulmer’s homepage <http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/%7Egulmer/> - “Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and Other Information and Communication Technologies”<http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/leu/> - Tilson, William and John Craig Freeman. "Place and the Electrate Situation" <http://www.rhizomes.net/issue13/tilsonfreeman/>. Rhizomes 13 (Fall 2006). - Clips from video interviews with Ulmer<http://institute.emerson.edu/vma/faculty/john_craig_freeman/imaging_place/a…> - Imaging EmerAgency: A Conversation with Greg Ulmer<http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Interv/ulmer.htm> * -- 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: http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/
by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM Subject: http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/ To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/ This just out!<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/> Issue 17 – Unnatural Ecologies SHARE<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/> EPUB <http://fibreculturejournal.org/wp-content/ePubs/Issue%201.epub> <http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/print/> <http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/print/> PRINT<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/print/> This issue is an exercise in media ecology that is paradoxically unnatural. Instead of assuming a natural connection to the established tradition of Media Ecology in the Toronto-school fashion of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and the work of scholars involved in the Media Ecology Association (http://www.media-ecology.org/media_ecology/) our issue stems from another direction; its theoretical orientation is more inspired by the work of Felix Guattari and engages with several overlapping ecologies that are aesthetico-political in their nature. It stems from a more politically oriented way of understanding the various scales and layers through which media are articulated together with politics, capitalism and nature, in which processes of media and technology cannot be detached from subjectivation. In this context, media ecology is itself a vibrant sphere of dynamics and turbulences including on its technical level. Technology is not only a passive surface for the inscription of meanings and signification, but a material assemblage that partakes in machinic ecologies. And, instead of assuming that ‘ecologies’ are by their nature natural (even if naturalizing perhaps in terms of their impact on capacities of sensation and thought) we assume them as radically contingent and dynamic, in other words as prone to change. The concept of media ecology was revived in 2005 by Matthew Fuller’s theoretically novel take on the idea. His *Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture* set out to map the ‘dynamic interrelation[s] of processes and objects, beings and things, patterns and matter’ (Fuller 2005: 2) in a culture where the relation between materiality and information has been redefined. Steering clear of earlier celebrations of media as informational environments which dismiss any connection with the physical as for example with the cyberculture of the 1980s and 1990s – Fuller is keen to map out how we can develop a material vocabulary for media ecological processes. The roots of such a vocabulary—that bends itself to the intensive connections of pirate radios and voice, the photographic medium and the Internet as well as such informational entities as memes—come from Whitehead, Simondon, Nietzsche as well as Guattari and contemporary writers such as Katherine N. Hayles. What emerges is a different genealogy for theories of media ecology. What was demonstrated already in Fuller’s take on the concept was a special appreciation of material practices involved in establishing the regimes of media ecologies. Media ecologies are quite often understood by Fuller through artistic/activist practices rather than pre-formed theories, which precisely work through the complex media layers in which on the one hand subjectivation and agency are articulated and, on the other hand, the materiality of informational objects gets distributed, dispersed and takes effect. Media ecological platforms can be seen to range from network environments for philosophy and media activism as in Rekombinant ( http://www.rekombinant.org) to art platforms on the net such as Runme.org ( http://runme.org/) Related themes can be detected in the various negotiations of nature being remixed, resurfaced, revisualized or sonified through media environments. Examples include Natalie Jeremijenko’s work, the Harwood-Yokokoji-Wright Eco Media collaboration (featured in Parikka -this Issue), biological art projects such as Amy Youngs’s The Digestive Table (2006, http://hypernatural.com/digestive.html) the work of activist/artistic groupings like Critical Art Ensemble, the Yes Men or the Wu Ming foundation and various bioart projects of recent years. In all these cases a dynamic media ecology is generated, incorporating natural, technical and informational components and giving rise to singular processes of subjectivation that are equally an essential part of the media ecology. For Fuller, the question of affordances is a central way to understand the interaction of various regimes of materiality. Affordance is a term that stems from J. J. Gibson’s ecological psychology and is attributed to the capacities for interaction of living bodies. For Fuller, this concept is applicable more widely, and affording capacities became a methodological pathway to understanding various art/ecology-practices: Just as capacities of thought, of being, are made in lived bodies, in complex and delicately conjoined tissues and processes, and just as powers are inherent in all matter, materialism also requires that the capacities of activity, thought, sensation, and affect possible to each composition whether organic or not are shaped by what it is, what it connects to, and the dimensions of relationality around it. (Fuller 2005: 174) In this sense, artistic work, whether engaging with animal bodies, technological assemblages, or their combinations and relations, can be seen as an ecological – or even ecosophical – mapping of potential universes of enunciation as well as sensation (see also Parikka, 2010). More than a question of interpretation, media ecology addresses the crucial question of activity; what do media do? The classical media ecological theorists already asked similar questions about the effects of media environments on the human sensorium and mental capacities but increasingly, with this more recent wave of media ecological interests, we are attached not only to questions concerning such molar formations as the human organism, but also the molecular fluxes in which bodies are formed. We are as interested in ecologies of non-humans, whether on the microbial scale or on the scale of techno-scientific objects. All demand a new attitude tuned to matter and defined through its vibrancy (see Bennett, 2010). We are interested in bodies, and in forces (in)forming those bodies, in their state of emergence; the processes in which and through which bodies consolidate, stabilized, form, and further deform. In our view, theories of media ecology are closely linked with practice in the sense that theory itself is viewed as a media ecological practice.Fuller’s book opens with a key statement regarding theory itself as media ecological practice : ‘This is a media ecology made in bits of paper’ (Fuller, 2005: 1). His contribution to this issue extends this concern. He explores the generativity of ‘Faulty Theory’ – theory given over to the potential of the indeterminable, the anomaly, the ‘pata-physical’. Sites of enunciation, or indeed ecologies of enunciation in which both theory and practice take place become concerns from a media ecological perspective. The question of disciplines, institutions and, increasingly, of transdisciplinarity, haunts not only the theoretical mindset but the wider frameworks in which processes of subjectivation are to be situated within techno-capitalist contexts. As Matthew Fuller outlines in this issue, theory itself is a thick, materialist practice. It is far from immaterial or simply representational, displaying a unique affordance for ‘graspings and imagination’. The articles in this issue unpack related concepts and practices of media ecologies from a variety of perspectives. In Goddard’s article, ‘Towards an Archaeology of Media Ecologies’, an effort is made to distinguish the emergent paradigm of media ecologies (with an “S” as Goddard might say) from ‘actually existing’ media ecology. The appearance of Fuller’s book was understandably unsettling for those of the media ecological school and certainly marks at least a profound rupture in the media ecological paradigm, if not a total break. The article goes on to examine one of the key sources for this break, namely Felix Guattari’s engagements with both media and ecology. It especially focuses on the way Guattari’s media ecologies were energised by and engaged with free radio movements in both Italy and France. The media ecological dynamics surrounding free radios were inseparable from the radical political movements from which they emerged and of which they were a key component. The article traces how, with the decline of these political energies, these ecologies could no longer be sustained. Nevertheless, in examples ranging from the London pirate radio analysed so brilliantly in Fuller’s book to forms of tactical and sovereign media, the political potential of media ecologies remain active and effective in contemporary digital conditions, especially in relation to new and diverse modes of subjectivation. The politics of media ecology is picked up by Phoebe Moore in her article ‘Peer to Peer Production: Revolution or Subjectivation?’. Moore addresses P2P forms of organization in the context of media ecology, and mobilizes the force of change as part of the investigation; how is real social change possible, and how do alternative forms of organization – such as horizontal, non-hierarchical networks among peers – challenge and function in neoliberal digital media culture? Also proceeding from a Guattarian perspective to the multiple ecological spheres in which aesthetics, organization, political economy and activism co-function in complex ties, her article addresses media ecology as an analysis of subjectivation; responding to the question of how to invent such forms of productive relations which fall outside the proprietary logic and function according to an ‘open source model.’ Michel Bauwens, one of the theorists Moore draws upon, has elaborated the political economy of peer to peer as an ecology of peer production, governance and property – of the ‘Commons’. This is a crucial theme for contemporary political networks and social production. In her text on the concept of autocreativity and artistic media ecological platforms Olga Goriunova elaborates the specific modes of production/creativity that go hand-in-hand with ecologies of software and other technical platforms. Goriunova emphasises the work of art platforms in offering catalyst forces, coherence and maintenance to aesthetic processes and practices. Defining the notion of ‘art platforms’ as ‘a terminological solution for describing a website or an ensemble of human-technical objects reflexive of their own processual devising, which act as a catalyst in the development of an exceptionally vivid cultural or artistic current,’ she is able to address the multiplicities of forces engaged in what could be called the organization of creativity. Again, we can bluntly state that of course there has not been a lack of such organization in the midst of the hype surrounding creative industries, but Goriunova maps out the more ‘dirty’ and processual forms of activities that might self-conceptualise themselves as art—if not necessarily always as “art”. The article employs the idea of self-organization, but again in a Guattarian wake flags it as a process of differentiation; again, we are dealing with media ecologies that both resist hylomorphism (the technicality of such platforms is not detached from the artistic, the ideational), and employ an ‘unnatural’ ecology characterized by metastability, to use a term from Gilbert Simondon. Jussi Parikka’s text on nature reframed as media also employs theoretical support from Simondon among others to argue that projects such as EcoMedia (Harwood-Wright-Yokokoji) and Dead Media (Garnet Hertz) encourage a wider understanding of media. Here, media ecology is taken to be the investigation of the complex transformations, transactions and reemployments of “nature” as a force from which our understanding of media stems. The art projects themselves act as catalysts for a non-human perspective on contemporary media, and natural processes are used to investigate the idea of media as an affordance—less a substance than a process of affording spatial and temporal relations between people, but also between things non-human. In this context, Parikka’s text maps the relations between media ecology and media archaeology as well, through the question of the complex temporal timescales in which media and ecology take place. It seems that we increasingly need such perspectives that are able to analyze and understand natures and technologies as interlinked; for example the environmental contexts of information technology where it is quite rarely realized that social networks might run on coal powered energy [1]<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/#[1]>, or in the way in which supposedly immaterial information technologies are a key origin of a future ecocatastrophe of toxic chemicals [2]<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/#[2]>, or in the way in which natures and cultures are constantly mediated in networks of relations of *political* ecology, in what Jane Bennett calls aptly ‘a knotted world of vibrant matter’ (2010: 13). Hence, the translations and transpositions from biology to media ecologies and spheres need careful scrutiny. Such a critique is addressed in Matteo Pasquinelli’s article ‘Four Regimes of Entropy: For an Ecology of Genetics and Biomorphic Media Theory’. He investigates the figures of the biological inherent in our current vocabulary of political media cultures, and in concepts from multitudes to swarms. He also focuses on how inherently we have grown to think of the digital, and code, through notions that suggest a seeming universality adopted from biological research, especially from DNA. Pasquinelli argues for a detailed, multi-layered geneaology of entropy not only in relation to digital code, but also from the viewpoints of the biological, as well as the mineral. Hence, the article argues that instead of enthusiasm for ‘code’ as the final referent for media ecologies of network culture, we should turn to energetics, understanding political ecologies in the light of the life of micro-organisms. In order to avoid code reductionism, what is proposed is a “wetter” approach to bodies, and ecologies of machines of heterogeneous kinds, through which, methodologically, one is able to map the biopolitics of network organisms and their reliance on the processes of abstraction at the core of this ontology of code. In this way one can also provide alternatives that are more material, more heterogeneous in their ecology. The final contribution to this issue, and its concerns with the materiality of media ecologies, comes from Matthew Fuller’s already mentioned essay entitled ‘Faulty Theory.’ Rather than continue the exploration of media ecologies began in his earlier work, Fuller turns his attention towards “theory,” finding it every bit as thick and material as the other more obviously material ecologies dealt with in this issue. In particular, Fuller is interested in the anomalous theories and thinking machines of figures such as Gordon Pask, Alfred Jarry and Charles Fort, as modes of theory that do far more than disturb conventional distinctions between theory and practice. Rather, as “faulty theories” for which error is not so much a fault to be corrected as a fault-line to be followed, they constitute experimental engagements with the world that are perhaps more practical than practice itself since they consider language, ideas, thinking machines and the other components of theory as materials to be worked with rather than as representational abstractions. More than this, rather than just working through words and their conventional supports of the printed page, faulty theory also engages with, in Fuller’s terms, ‘forms of ideational devices, robots, blags, and the ruses of things, rules and jokes.’ As the articles in this issue argue, media ecologies is able to provide methodological clues with which to map the messy ontologies of contemporary culture—the translations and transpositions between nature and technology, but also between subjectivity and media, the social and the political, and the political economy in which such energetic processes take place. The articles show how media ecology, as a direction within media studies, has resonances with other new ideas—in new materialism, media archaeology and political philosophy—that deal with new kinds of bodies. These bodies are not always human, not always solid, and not always clearly visible/representable. Media ecology is able to analyse a media culture that is becoming less about apparatuses and solids, and more about waves, vibrations, streams, processes and movements. As such, media ecology is expanding the possibilities of where media studies can go. *References* Bennett, Jane. *Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things.* Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Fuller, Matthew. *Media Ecologies. Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture.* Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005. Parikka, Jussi.* Insect Media. An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.* Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). *Endnotes* [1]<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/#1> See ‘Facebook faces campaign to switch to renewable energy,’ The Guardian September 1, 2010 . See also the Harwood and Yokokoji project Coal Fired Computers (2010) which brilliantly maps the long networks in which coal and computers are interlinked. http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/coal-fired-computers. See also ‘Pits to Bits,’ Matthew Fuller interviewing Graham Harwood (July, 2010). [2]<http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/#2> See Garnet Hertz’s Dead Media Project, , and also Mel Chin’s Revival Field in which he uses specific plants to clean the soil of toxics through the process of ‘hyperaccumulation’ where the plant suchs heavy metals to itself. *When commenting on this article please include the permalink in your blog post or tweet; http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-17-unnatural-ecologies/* On 21 April 2011 08:31, Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm happy to do this Michel, when would you want it? > Phoebe > On 21 Apr 2011 05:42, "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > COuld someone with academic or research concerns discuss this on our > blog? > > > > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_twitters_terms_o… > > > > -- > > 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 > -- Personal email pvm.doc(a)gmail.com & Manchesterfilmcooperative(a)gmail.com Work email p.moore(a)salford.ac.uk Employment profile http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/Phoebe_Moore Manchester Film Cooperative http://www.manchesterfilm.coop/ -- 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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by Michel Bauwens 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

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