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Re: [P2P-F] FW: The end of Murdoch media
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

thank you Wrio! On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Wrio Russell <wriorussell(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > Let's help to improve the quality of our society by signing this. > > Ciao, > > Wrio > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:12:40 -0400 > From: avaaz(a)avaaz.org > Subject: The end of Murdoch media > To: wrio(a)reikiway.com > > Dear friends, > > <http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?cl=1157071339&v=9574> > > *Yesterday Murdoch pulled a last minute manoeuvre* to exclude his > company's outrageous hacking practices from the BSKyB deal review. Let's > call on the government to immediately rule that the *Murdochs aren't fit > and proper to own half our commercial media*. Tomorrow this will be > debated in Parliament. Let's beat the Murdoch mafia - *sign the urgent > petition now*: > > [image: Sign the petition]<http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?cl=1157071339&v=9574> > Hacking murdered children's phones, paying off police, destroying evidence > of crimes, threatening politicians -- MPs are saying *the Murdoch empire > has "entered the criminal underworld"*. But Murdoch is still calling the > shots and could still get the BSkyB prize. > > Yesterday, he pulled a cunning manoeuvre at the last hurdle, meaning > regulators will review the deal solely on plurality, not the outrageous > immorality of his company's practices. But *British law says media owners > must be "fit and proper" to be trusted with broadcast licenses*. If we > demand that now, we can influence the debate tomorrow in Parliament and kill > the deal once and for all. > > *People power has brought this deal to its knees* -- our 160,000 letters > last week were critical in getting the deal referred to the Competition > Commission. *But we cannot stop now*: the hacking scandal is our best > chance in a generation to end Murdoch's reign of fear and smear over our > democracy. *Let's make sure Cameron and Hunt immediately ensure the BSkyB > deal is assessed on whether Murdoch is "fit and proper"* to be given half > our country's commercial media. *Click to sign the urgent petition* and > forward this email to everyone -- we have just 24 hours until the > Parliamentary debate: > > http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?vl<http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?cl=1157071339&v=9574> > > *Murdoch's media -- From the News of the World to the Sun to the Sunday > Times -- has corrupted our society, our politics and our police*. His > staff have listened in to grieving widows of soldiers who died in Iraq, a > war that Murdoch's global media empire promoted. They stole a sitting Prime > Minister's bank information and his family's medical records, and hacked > into the phones, computers and homes of thousands of people. They paid the > police for information, and *got the first hacking investigation stopped > after meeting senior officers*. And James Murdoch approved cheques to hush > up victims who threatened action -- a criminal obstruction of justice. > > As the Murdoch empire's vile dealings have been uncovered, *he has fought > back to try to save his lucrative BSkyB TV deal*. First, he pulled the > News of the World. Then, yesterday, he surprised Jeremy Hunt at the last > minute by withdrawing his proposed undertakings for Sky News, forcing Hunt > to refer the deal to the Competition Commission and buying time for the > political temperature to cool to *ensure the deal he so badly wants is > judged only on market share, not his company's criminality*. > > So far the Murdochs have been protected by fear. They run smear campaigns > against their enemies, threatening the career of any politician who > challenges them. But *the fear is melting away*, and for the first time > our politicians could take steps to stop him, by ruling Murdoch unfit to own > our media and forcing him to give up control of his empire in the UK. *Tomorrow > Parliament could make this move -- it's a breathtaking chance to improve > British media and democracy in one fell swoop -- let's bring a massive > outcry to achieve it*: > > http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?vl<http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_murdoch_mafia_2/?cl=1157071339&v=9574> > > It won't be easy. When the hacking scandal broke in earnest a few months > ago, David Cameron spent much of his Christmas week socializing with Murdoch > executives. Murdoch's mafia power extends deep into our government. But > together we have already pushed this deal to the limit -- now let's bury it. > *But if we act fast now, the government and regulators will have to > subject this deal to the fullest public interest tests - which it simply > cannot pass. * > > With hope, > > Alex, Sam, Ricken, Alice, Amy, Brianna, Laura and the rest of the Avaaz > team > > > More Information: > > Murdoch fights to stop hacking rot > > http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c46e34a-abd3-11e0-945a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Rp… > > Bid referred to Competition Commission > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/news-corp-bskyb-bid-hunt-compet… > > Murdoch in danger of sky falling in on his empire > > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23969208-murdoch-is-in-dange… > > Analysts Cut BSkyB As News Corp Deal Seen Dragging Into Next Year > http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110712-703304.html > > Legal opinion on Hunt’s option to trigger fit and proper test > http://www.avaaz.org/bskyb_legal_opinion > > Decision on BSkyB could take weeks after surge in online campaigning > http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/07/07/decision-on-bskyb-takeove_n_8922… > > > Public just don’t trust Murdoch > http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/07/11/public-just-don-t-trust-murdoch > > News International papers targeted Gordon Brown > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-internationa… > > > *Support the Avaaz community!* We're entirely funded by donations and > receive no money from governments or corporations. 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Fwd: Social Semantic Web
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM Subject: Social Semantic Web To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com http://sharewiki.org/en/Transaction_Graphs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Semantic_Web The *social-semantic web* (s2w) aims to complement the formal Semantic Web vision by adding a pragmatic approach relying on description languages<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_language> for semantic browsing using heuristic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_%28computer_science%29> classification and semiotic ontologies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29>. A socio-semantic system has a continuous process of eliciting crucial knowledge of a domain through semi-formal ontologies, taxonomies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomies> or folksonomies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomies>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Map The semantic expressivity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_power> of Topic Maps is, in many ways, equivalent to that of RDF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework>, but the major differences are that Topic Maps (i) provide a higher level of semantic abstraction <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_data_model> (providing a template of topics, associations and occurrences, while RDF only provides a template of two arguments linked by one relationship) and (hence) (ii) allow n-ary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-ary#n-ary> relationships (hypergraphs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph>) between any number of nodes, while RDF is limited to triplets<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple> . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work Over the years, CSCW researchers have identified a number of core dimensions of cooperative work. A non-exhaustive list includes: - *Awareness*: individuals working together need to be able to gain some level of shared knowledge about each other's activities.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> - *Articulation work*: cooperating individuals must somehow be able to partition work into units, divide it amongst themselves and, after the work is performed, reintegrate it.[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> [7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> - *Appropriation* (or tailorability): how an individual or group adapts a technology to their own particular situation; the technology may be appropriated in a manner completely unintended by the designers.[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> [9]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> [10]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-…> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy *Stigmergy* is a mechanism of indirect coordination<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination> between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment> by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. -- 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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equity-based crowdfunding in the UK
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

http://www.crowdcube.com/pg/how-it-works-4 Dear Sepp, Vinay tells me this is quite important in the UK, perhaps you could look into it for our p2p blog? Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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contributions for 'p2p and postmodernism'
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I wonder if I could interest anyone in writing some contributions for a blog miniseries on p2p and postmodernism, both outlining positive connections, or eventually, negative critiques about their opposition? -- 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-URBANISM WA] Postmodern / post-structuralist philosophers and P2P Urbanism
by Ken Wark 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Michel, et al, In answer to your question Michel, yes my book The Beach Beneath the Street is, among other things, about urbanism, seen through the work of the the people who would become precursors or founders of the Situationist International. I thought there was still something to be said about their practice of the dérive, about psychogeography, about unitary urbanism, that was not coming through in the existing literature on all that. There's extracts up now on the p2p-foundation website, although not the parts about p2p urbanism. regards Ken _____________ Prof. McKenzie Wark Culture & Media, Eugene Lang College 65 w11th st New York NY 10011 USA >>> "Julio Cesar Perez" <jcesar(a)cubarte.cult.cu> 07/11/11 6:18 PM >>> I join Nikos! Both writers have nothing to do with our ideas and conceptions and they frankly influenced negatively a lot of youngsters with their confusing and almost inextricable texts... Best regards: Professor Julio César Pérez Hernández Harvard University Loeb Fellow'02 President Cuban Chapter C.E.U (Council for European Urbanism) President Cuban Chapter I.N.T.B.A.U (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism) Architect and Urban Planner/Designer www.cigarclub.lu/perez e-mail: jcaesar_2002(a)yahoo.co.uk Phone: 047 382727 Cell phone: 52373606 -----Mensaje original----- De: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Nikos Salingaros Enviado el: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:21 PM Para: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com CC: p2p-foundation; Ken Wark Asunto: Re: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Postmodern / post-structuralist philosophers and P2P Urbanism Hello everyone, I'm entering this debate late, and on an immediately personal note. As one of the workers in p2p urbanism, I do have a clear vision of what we are trying to do. Please note that I have criticized both Derrida and Deleuze in the harshest possible terms -- calling them intellectual impostors in several articles and books. So I'm not going to consider any positive influence of their thought on p2p urbanism. Of course this is my opinion. Best wishes, Nikos On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ken has a new book on the situationists, which you may want to check out, > > will be book of the week soon on the p2p blog, > > Michel > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Geo Scripcariu <geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot Michel and Audun. Great suggestions to research further, >> excellent links! I read partly, some time ago, "The Society of the >> Spectacle" and I felt (avant la lettre, before embarking in this PhD, that) >> Debord is the kind of thinker that has a lot to do with my own >> interpretation of Open Source / P2P Urbanism. >> >> Best, >> >> Geo >> >> 2011/7/3 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>> >>> Dear Ken, >>> >>> is your new book on the situationists dealing with this topic? >>> >>> Michel >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Audun Engh <audun.engh(a)gmail.com> >>> Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:17 PM >>> Subject: Re: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Postmodern / post-structuralist >>> philosophers and P2P Urbanism >>> To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>> >>> >>> I suggest the french writer Guy Debord - 1931 - 1994 >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord , >>> >>> and the Situationist International movement that he was part of. SI had >>> an important role in initiating the May 68 rebellion in Paris. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International >>> >>> Guy Debord and other Siuatinists were among the first to criticise le >>> Corbusier and modernist planning, and hail the uncontrolable diversity of >>> historic cities, from a radical, anti-authoritaran perspective. >>> >>> See for example "Nine Situationist theses on traffic", from 1959, >>> >>> FULL TEXT BELOW >>> >>> ----- >>> >>> Psychogeograp>>> precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, >>> consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography >>> >>> ------ >>> >>> The Situationist City, book published 1999 >>> >>> >>> http://books.google.com/books/about/The_situationist_city.html?id=lR_MiZPhT6 4C >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Early Situationist critique of le Corbusier: >>> See page 157 of this book: >>> >>> >>> http://books.google.no/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=guy+debor d+corbusier&source=bl&ots=OpizpIvHm8&sig=Raiw0fhYgciq6B-xdBwl2GZ24lA&hl=no&e i=qVgQTrHtGoWcOsCawaML&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CE8Q6AEwB g#v=onepage&q=guy%20debord%20corbusier&f=false >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> Video: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftL-hHPttQ >>> >>> Society of the Spectacle, part 1 >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6k_SKkHKQ&feature=related >>> >>> Parts 2 - 8, and other Situationist films, - see the menu >>> >>> ---------- >>> >>> Guy Debord >>> >>> Situationist Theses on Traffic (1959) >>> >>> >>> http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Guy_Debord__Situationist_Theses_on_Traff ic.html >>> >>> 1 >>> >>> A mistake made by all the city planners is to consider the private >>> automobile (and its by-products, such as the motorcycle) as essentially a >>> means of transportation. In reality, it is the most notable material symbol >>> of the notion of happiness that developed capitalism tends to spread >>> throughout the society. The automobile is at the center of this general >>> propaganda, both as supreme good of an alienated life and as essential >>> product of the capitalist market: It is generally being said this year that >>> American economic prosperity is soon going to depend on the success of the >>> slogan “Two cars per family.” >>> >>> 2 >>> >>> Commuting time, as Le Corbusier rightly noted, is a surplus labor which >>> correspondingly reduces the amount of “free” time. >>> >>> 3 >>> >>> We must replace travel as an adjunct to work with travel as a pleasure. >>> >>> 4 >>> >>> To want to redesign architecture to accord with the needs of the present >>> massive and parasitical existence of private automobiles reflects the most >>> unrealistic misapprehension of where the real problems lie. Instead, >>> architecture must be transformed to accord with the whole development of the >>> society, criticizing all the transitory values linked to obsolete forms of >>> social relationships (in the first rank of which is the family). >>> >>> 5 >>> >>> Even if, during a transitional period, we temporarily accept a rigid >>> division between work zones and residence zones, we must at least envisage a >>> third sphere: that of life itself (the sphere of freedom and leisure — the >>> essence of life). Unitary urbanism acknowledges no boundaries; it aims to >>> form an integrated human milieu in which separations such as work/leisure or >>> public/private will finally be dissolved. But before this is possible, the >>> minimum action of unitary urbanism is to extend the terrain of play to all >>> desirable constructions. This terrain will be at the level of complexity of >>> an old city. >>> >>> 6 >>> >>> It is not a matter of opposing the automobile as an evil in itself. It is >>> its extreme concentration in the cities that has led to the negation of its >>> function. Urbanism should certainly not ignore the automobile, but even less >>> should it accept it as its central theme. It should reckon on gradually >>> phasing it out. In any case, we can envision the banning of auto traffic >>> from the central areas of certain new complexes, as well as from a few old >>> cities. >>> >>> 7 >>> >>> Those who believe that the automobile is eternal are not thinking, even >>> from a strictly technological standpoint, of other future forms of >>> transportation. For example, certain models of one-man helicopter>>> The breaking up of the dialectic of the human milieu in favor of >>> automobiles (the projected freeways in Paris will entail the demolition of >>> thousands of houses and apartments although the housing crisis is >>> continually worsening) masks its irrationality under pseudopractical >>> justifications. But it is practically necessary only in the context of a >>> specific social set-up. Those who believe that the particulars of the >>> problem are permanent want in fact to believe in the permanence of the >>> present society. >>> >>> 9 >>> >>> Revolutionary urbanists will not limit their concern to the circulation >>> of things, or to the circulation of human beings trapped in a world of >>> things. They will try to break these topological chains, paving the way with >>> their experiments for a human journey through authentic life. >>> >>> ---------------- >>> >>> Audun Engh >>> INTBAU Scandinavia >>> www..intbau.org >>> >>> --- >>> >>> 2011/7/3 Geo Scripcariu <geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com> >>>> >>>> Many thanks to Stefano and Michael for the very interesting comments >>>> along my question. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Geo >>>> >>>> >>>> 2011/7/3 Michael Mehaffy <michael.mehaffy(a)gmail.com> >>>>> >>>>> Dear Geo et al. >>>>> I would point to Virilio as much more related to P2P urbanism, in >>>>> several respects. He points out the failures of technology and the role of >>>>> competition and conflict between people as a key dimension of urbanism -- >>>>> and the converse of that is their cooperation, and the strategies they adopt >>>>> to mitigate conflicts. (In his criticism of technology's unintended >>>>> consequences he is a bit more related to Ellul too if you know his work.) >>>>> Broadly speaking, and at the extreme risk of over-simplifying, I think >>>>> the structuralist project is finally recovering from a period that can best >>>>> be characterized as epistemological muddle, that rose up around the central >>>>> problem of meaning, and the false positivist expectations that language >>>>> could somehow arrive at a clear position outside of external meaning. As is >>>>> implied by Godel and others, this was a misunderstanding of what language is >>>>> or how it really works. In this I think Whitehead especially (and Alexander, >>>>> who is essentially a Whiteheadean) point the way out of this Kantian muddle. >>>>> (I won't name names, but would include some of the folks you mentioned!) >>>>> I am very interested in this topic and have been nibbling away at it >>>>> since grad school days. Here is a paper I gave recently on it, if you're >>>>> interested. At a conference with Nikos, as a matter of fact. (I don't >>>>> dwell on the latter structuralists (or "post-structuralists" as they are >>>>> known more commonly in the States) but I think you will see the >>>>> implications.... >>>>> >>>>> http://athensdialogues.chs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/athensdialogues.wo a/wa/dist?dis=47 >>>>> Cheers, m >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Stefano Serafini >>>>> <stefanonikolaevic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Dear Geo, >>>>>> >>>>>> it's hard to give an answer to such a question, yet I cannot see any >>>>>> relation between p2p urbanism and Derrida and Deleuze. All the other Authors >>>>>> you quoted can be in some way related. First of all, Foucault, then >>>>>> Baudrilard, and in a traditionally meant "political sense", Zizek. I don't >>>>>> know enough the thought of Leach. Would add Henri Lefebvre. >>>>>> >>>>>> Nevertheles, at the first place I would put Christopher Alexander. >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> >>>>>> Stefano >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2011/7/2 Geo Scripcariu <geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Which of the following philosophers have anything to do -- in your >>>>>>> opinion -- (and what) with P2P Urbanism? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. Baudrillard >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2. Michel Foucault >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 3. Jacques Derrida >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 5. Gilles Deleuze >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 6. Slavoj Zizek >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Geo Scripcariu >>>>>>> PhD Student / Open Source Urbanism >>>>>>> UAUIM Bucharest >>>>>>> Mobil: +40745-09.61.91 >>>>>>> Direct: +4031-401.29.42 >>>>>>> Tel/Fax: +4021-410.54.15 >>>>>>> E-mail: geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com >>>>>>> Str.Sabinelor 123 Bl. 119 Suite 16 >>>>>>> Bucuresti-5 050854 Romania >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>>>>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>>>>>> to register to the group >>>>>>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>>>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>>>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>>>>> to register to the group >>>>>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Michael Mehaffy >>>>> Visiting Faculty, ASU >>>>> NEW ADDRESS to July 1, '11: >>>>> 4630 S. 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State Street, Suite V-440 >>>>> Lake Oswego, OR 97034 >>>>> www.tectics.com >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>>>> to register to the group >>>>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Geo Scripcariu >>>> PhD Student / Open Source Urbanism >>>> UAUIM Bucharest >>>> Mobil: +40745-09.61.91 >>>> Direct: +4031-401.29.42 >>>> Tel/Fax: +4021-410.54.15 >>>> E-mail: geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com >>>> Str.Sabinelor 123 Bl. 119 Suite 16 >>>> Bucuresti-5 050854 Romania >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>>> to register to the group >>>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>> to register to the group >>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>> to register to the group >>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >> to register to the group >> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en > > > > -- > P2P Fou> 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 > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. > to register to the group > http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. to register to the group http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ To post to this group, send email to p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en

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Fwd: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Postmodern / post-structuralist philosophers and P2P Urbanism
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Dear Ken, is your new book on the situationists dealing with this topic? Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Audun Engh <audun.engh(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Postmodern / post-structuralist philosophers and P2P Urbanism To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com I suggest the french writer Guy Debord - 1931 - 1994 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord , and the Situationist International movement that he was part of. SI had an important role in initiating the May 68 rebellion in Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International Guy Debord and other Siuatinists were among the first to criticise le Corbusier and modernist planning, and hail the uncontrolable diversity of historic cities, from a radical, anti-authoritaran perspective. See for example "*Nine Situationist theses on traffic"*, from 1959, * FULL TEXT BELOW ----- * *Psychogeography* was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord>as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography ------ *The Situationist City*, book published 1999 http://books.google.com/books/about/The_situationist_city.html?id=lR_MiZPhT… -- Early Situationist critique of le Corbusier: See page 157 of this book: http://books.google.no/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=guy+debo… ---- *Video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftL-hHPttQ Society of the Spectacle, part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6k_SKkHKQ&feature=related Parts 2 - 8, and other Situationist films, - see the menu ---------- *Guy Debord* Situationist Theses on Traffic (1959) http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Guy_Debord__Situationist_Theses_on_Traf… 1 A mistake made by all the city planners is to consider the private automobile (and its by-products, such as the motorcycle) as essentially a means of transportation. In reality, it is the most notable material symbol of the notion of happiness that developed capitalism tends to spread throughout the society. The automobile is at the center of this general propaganda, both as supreme good of an alienated life and as essential product of the capitalist market: It is generally being said this year that American economic prosperity is soon going to depend on the success of the slogan “Two cars per family.” 2 Commuting time, as Le Corbusier rightly noted, is a surplus labor which correspondingly reduces the amount of “free” time. 3 We must replace travel as an adjunct to work with travel as a pleasure. 4 To want to redesign architecture to accord with the needs of the present massive and parasitical existence of private automobiles reflects the most unrealistic misapprehension of where the real problems lie. Instead, architecture must be transformed to accord with the whole development of the society, criticizing all the transitory values linked to obsolete forms of social relationships (in the first rank of which is the family). 5 Even if, during a transitional period, we temporarily accept a rigid division between work zones and residence zones, we must at least envisage a third sphere: that of life itself (the sphere of freedom and leisure — the essence of life). Unitary urbanism acknowledges no boundaries; it aims to form an integrated human milieu in which separations such as work/leisure or public/private will finally be dissolved. But before this is possible, the minimum action of unitary urbanism is to extend the terrain of play to all desirable constructions. This terrain will be at the level of complexity of an old city. 6 It is not a matter of opposing the automobile as an evil in itself. It is its extreme concentration in the cities that has led to the negation of its function. Urbanism should certainly not ignore the automobile, but even less should it accept it as its central theme. It should reckon on gradually phasing it out. In any case, we can envision the banning of auto traffic from the central areas of certain new complexes, as well as from a few old cities. 7 Those who believe that the automobile is eternal are not thinking, even from a strictly technological standpoint, of other future forms of transportation. For example, certain models of one-man helicopters currently being tested by the US Army will probably have spread to the general public within twenty years. 8 The breaking up of the dialectic of the human milieu in favor of automobiles (the projected freeways in Paris will entail the demolition of thousands of houses and apartments although the housing crisis is continually worsening) masks its irrationality under pseudopractical justifications. But it is practically necessary only in the context of a specific social set-up. Those who believe that the particulars of the problem are permanent want in fact to believe in the permanence of the present society. 9 Revolutionary urbanists will not limit their concern to the circulation of things, or to the circulation of human beings trapped in a world of things. They will try to break these topological chains, paving the way with their experiments for a human journey through authentic life. ---------------- Audun Engh INTBAU Scandinavia www..intbau.org --- 2011/7/3 Geo Scripcariu <geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com> > Many thanks to Stefano and Michael for the very interesting comments along > my question. > > Best, > > Geo > > > > 2011/7/3 Michael Mehaffy <michael.mehaffy(a)gmail.com> > >> Dear Geo et al. >> >> I would point to Virilio as much more related to P2P urbanism, in several >> respects. He points out the failures of technology and the role of >> competition and conflict between people as a key dimension of urbanism -- >> and the converse of that is their cooperation, and the strategies they adopt >> to mitigate conflicts. (In his criticism of technology's unintended >> consequences he is a bit more related to Ellul too if you know his work.) >> >> Broadly speaking, and at the extreme risk of over-simplifying, I think the >> structuralist project is finally recovering from a period that can best be >> characterized as epistemological muddle, that rose up around the central >> problem of meaning, and the false positivist expectations that language >> could somehow arrive at a clear position outside of external meaning. As is >> implied by Godel and others, this was a misunderstanding of what language is >> or how it really works. In this I think Whitehead especially (and Alexander, >> who is essentially a Whiteheadean) point the way out of this Kantian muddle. >> (I won't name names, but would include some of the folks you mentioned!) >> >> I am very interested in this topic and have been nibbling away at it since >> grad school days. Here is a paper I gave recently on it, if you're >> interested. At a conference with Nikos, as a matter of fact. (I don't >> dwell on the latter structuralists (or "post-structuralists" as they are >> known more commonly in the States) but I think you will see the >> implications.... >> >> >> http://athensdialogues.chs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/athensdialogues.w… >> >> Cheers, m >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Stefano Serafini < >> stefanonikolaevic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear Geo, >>> >>> it's hard to give an answer to such a question, yet I cannot see any >>> relation between p2p urbanism and Derrida and Deleuze. All the other Authors >>> you quoted can be in some way related. First of all, Foucault, then >>> Baudrilard, and in a traditionally meant "political sense", Zizek. I don't >>> know enough the thought of Leach. Would add Henri Lefebvre. >>> >>> Nevertheles, at the first place I would put Christopher Alexander. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Stefano >>> >>> >>> >>> 2011/7/2 Geo Scripcariu <geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com> >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Which of the following philosophers have anything to do -- in your >>>> opinion -- (and what) with P2P Urbanism? >>>> >>>> 1. Baudrillard >>>> >>>> 2. Michel Foucault >>>> >>>> 3. Jacques Derrida >>>> >>>> 5. Gilles Deleuze >>>> >>>> 6. Slavoj Zizek >>>> >>>> 7. Neil Leach >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> >>>> Geo Scripcariu >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Geo Scripcariu >>>> PhD Student / Open Source Urbanism >>>> UAUIM Bucharest >>>> Mobil: +40745-09.61.91 >>>> Direct: +4031-401.29.42 >>>> Tel/Fax: +4021-410.54.15 >>>> E-mail: geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com >>>> Str.Sabinelor 123 Bl. 119 Suite 16 >>>> Bucuresti-5 050854 Romania >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>>> to register to the group >>>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >>> to register to the group >>> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael Mehaffy >> Visiting Faculty, ASU >> NEW ADDRESS to July 1, '11: >> 4630 S. Lakeshore Dr., #267 >> Tempe, AZ 85282 >> >> Permanent Address: >> 333 S. State Street, Suite V-440 >> Lake Oswego, OR 97034 >> www.tectics.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. >> to register to the group >> http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Geo Scripcariu > PhD Student / Open Source Urbanism > UAUIM Bucharest > Mobil: +40745-09.61.91 > Direct: +4031-401.29.42 > Tel/Fax: +4021-410.54.15 > E-mail: geo.scripcariu(a)gmail.com > Str.Sabinelor 123 Bl. 119 Suite 16 > Bucuresti-5 050854 Romania > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. > to register to the group > http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. to register to the group http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ To post to this group, send email to p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en -- 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: free culture topics podcast in berlin
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

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Fwd: urban hacks design competition
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:19 PM Subject: urban hacks design competition To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com ( thanks to seth for the link ) http://scottburnham.com/2011/07/urban-hacks-design-competition-e500-for-bes… To encourage and celebrate resourcefulness in the city, EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! <http://exchangeradicalmoments.wordpress.com/>Live Art Festival is awarding a prize for the most innovative re-use of an urban object or area for a new purpose. The GO11 Award is a €500 prize for the best examples of design hacks and re-use in the city -- 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: [fcf_discussion] monitor the ep for internet developments
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: stef <stefan.marsiske(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:20 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] monitor the ep To: fcforum_discussion <fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net> hey, i'm proud to shamelessly plug this (it was already mentioned, but not properly documented): http://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/Announcing_Parltrack.html this is direct result of the "tools for policy reformers" workshop in barcelona. it does track everything in the ep, and automatically links up with pippi longstrings. if you care about internet, you might consider joining this: http://parltrack.euwiki.org/notification/internet for me that workshop was useful, thanks! i hope the results will be useful for you ;) s -- gpg: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg gpg fp: F617 AC77 6E86 5830 08B8 BB96 E7A4 C6CF A84A 7140 ----- +info http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum_discussion ---- -- 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] [Open Manufacturing] are hackers complicit in their exploitation?
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

thanks paul, sharing your comments with the list On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Paul D. Fernhout < pdfernhout(a)kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote: > On 7/9/11 8:21 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote: > >> see item 2 from the moral economies conference, >> http://www.moraleconomies.**leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/<http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/> >> >> links on the authors and their thesis would be appreciated, >> > > Interesting, and there is some truth to it, but here is the bigger picture > as I see it, that we are seeing the balance shift between five different > sorts of economic transactions and our technology and culture changes: > "Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and > Theft" > http://www.pdfernhout.net/**media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.**pdf<http://www.pdfernhout.net/media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.pdf> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=4vK-M_e0JoY<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY> > > Unless an analysis looks at how all five economies are changing, it will be > incomplete. For example, the work of these hackers is increasing people's > ability for local subsistence, as well as strengthening the gift economy and > related new peer-to-peer networks and governance, so both of those changes > diminish the need for an exchange economy, which in turn will ultimately > diminish the power of big exchange-oriented and artificial-scarcity-oriented > and addictive-oriented corporations in most people's lives. > > So, while there is some truth that companies build on gifts by hackers in > proprietary ways, there is a lot more going on. > > --Paul Fernhout > http://www.pdfernhout.net/ > ==== > The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of > abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity. > -- 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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