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Fwd: FW: LA RESTAURACIÓN CONSERVADORA EN MARCHA - "El Telégrafo"
by Michel Bauwens 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francois Houtart <houtart(a)hotmail.com> Date: 2014-09-16 21:05 GMT+07:00 Subject: FW: LA RESTAURACIÓN CONSERVADORA EN MARCHA - "El Telégrafo" To: Christophe Ventura <christophe.ventura(a)gmail.com> Un articulo del Telegrafo, periodico cercano del Gobierno. François François Houtart houtart(a)hotmail.com Fundación Pueblo Indio del Ecuador Calle Ruiz de Castilla N. 26-92 170520 - Quito ECUADOR Tel. (593) (2) 32.12.100 (593) 09.69.55.06.40 Rue Kelle, 192/6 - B-1150 Bruxelles Tel. (32) 476.31.50.53 ------------------------------ From: juan(a)pazymino.com To: jpazymino(a)puce.edu.ec Subject: LA RESTAURACIÓN CONSERVADORA EN MARCHA - "El Telégrafo" Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:28:55 -0500 Editorial de Diario El Telégrafo. Juan J. Paz y Miño C. No puede ver este e-mail? Ver en su navegador <http://pazymino.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c3e3bed0077c1d7adb5463ee…> . La restauración conservadora en marchaJuan J. Paz y Miño Cepeda EL TELÉGRAFO - Primer Diario Público Ecuador, lunes 15 de septiembre de 2014 En América Latina habrá elecciones presidenciales en Brasil (octubre 5), Bolivia (octubre 12) y Uruguay (octubre 26); y en 2015 en Argentina. Inquieta la posibilidad de que la “socialista” Marina Silva venza a Dilma Rousseff, con lo cual terminarían 12 años de hegemonía del Partido de los Trabajadores. En Bolivia luce indetenible el triunfo de Evo Morales. Parece segura la victoria de Tabaré Vásquez en Uruguay. Nada está claro en Argentina. Pero inquietan las elecciones legislativas de Venezuela en 2015. Aunque todavía es temprano para delimitar tendencias, la sucesión presidencial de 2017 en Ecuador ha comenzado a calentar el escenario político. Hay que tomar en cuenta que el gobierno de Rafael Correa inició un nuevo ciclo histórico. Sin embargo, van quedando claras dos fases: durante la primera (2007-2013) se impuso la rápida transformación institucional, económica, política y social del país. Pero desde 2013, con el nuevo período presidencial, va perfilándose la segunda fase, en la que se acentúan contradicciones, dogmatismos y errores. Las elecciones del pasado 23 de febrero fueron una alerta, pues se habían acumulado reacciones que convergieron en una especie de “voto-castigo”, que provocó que Alianza PAIS perdiera varias alcaldías y sobre todo la de Quito. Aunque el presidente Correa minimizó ese revés, también reconoció el daño del “sectarismo”. Con el paso de los meses quedan dudas sobre los avances. Porque si bien es cierto que en la economía se ha afirmado un tipo de “capitalismo social” inédito en América Latina y que se demuestra válido como transición hacia el “socialismo del siglo XXI”, hay sectores que han acumulado frustraciones y desengaños sobre la segunda fase iniciada en 2013, cuyas consecuencias políticas son impredecibles, a pesar del enorme reconocimiento social que existe para el presidente Correa. En ese marco, la “restauración conservadora” (que no es nueva) se ha acelerado, porque intuye que ahora puede sacar mejor provecho. Por eso, sus voceros llaman a un gran frente del que no excluyen a las izquierdas opositoras; proponen detener las enmiendas constitucionales y evitar una tercera reelección presidencial; y llaman a “descorreizar” la sociedad y echar abajo la Constitución de 2008 con una nueva Asamblea Constituyente, como lo ha planteado, sin escrúpulos, el exbanquero Guillermo Lasso, el más visible precandidato de las derechas oligárquicas, que además pretende adelantarse a la gestación de una nueva derecha, que se perfila en torno a Mauricio Rodas, Alcalde Quito. Ahora también convergen las reuniones de antiguos políticos de la “partidocracia” y hasta se reúnen los alcaldes de oposición. La restauración conservadora es un peligro para Ecuador. Pero tendrá posibilidades de actuar en la medida en que persistan, sin querer advertirlo, las intemperancias, imposiciones, sectarismos, arrogancias y hasta errores en los distintos niveles del manejo del Estado, que solo acumulan daños contra el propio gobierno. ____________________________________________________________________ En la página web del THE: artículos y libros de interés: http://puce.the.pazymino.com <http://pazymino.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c3e3bed0077c1d7adb5463ee7…> . seguir enTwitter <https://www.twitter.com/JuanPazyMino/> | *seguir en Facebook* | reenviar a un amigo <http://us7.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=c3e3bed0077c1d7adb5463ee7&id=583…> *Copyright © 2014 Taller de Historia Económica, Derechos Reservados.* Usted recibe este mensaje porque su correo está registrado en la lista de distribución del THE. 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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] Humanitarian agencies: passing relics of an imperial model of charity?
by Michel Bauwens 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:39 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] Humanitarian agencies: passing relics of an imperial model of charity? To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org This kind of critique can be applied to NGOs in general, to 'Development Cooperation' NGOs in particular and, with a little adaptation to the commonly state-dependent activity of international trade union 'development cooperation' with the Non-West. PeterW ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian K. Murphy <brian(a)radicalroad.com> Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:09 PM Subject: [WSF-Discuss] Humanitarian agencies: passing relics of an imperial model of charity? To: worldsocialforum-discuss(a)openspaceforum.net *http://aeon.co/magazine/society/can-humanitarian-agencies-reinvent-t <http://aeon.co/magazine/society/can-humanitarian-agencies-reinvent-t>hemselves-in-a-network-age/* *The humanitarian future* *Can humanitarian agencies still fly the flag of high principle, or are they just relics of an imperial model of charity?* by Paul Currion | Aeon | September 2014 I became an aid worker in the 1990s, just as the break-up of Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda cast a long shadow over the humanitarian sector. Those highly visible political failures were a major influence on my decision. I was possessed of a distressingly youthful belief that we could do better in the core humanitarian mission of saving lives, feeding the starving, healing the sick, and sheltering the displaced from natural disasters and armed conflicts. I worked on co-ordination with the United Nations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs): identifying gaps and overlaps in the delivery of aid, then persuading humanitarian organisations to avoid those overlaps and fill those gaps, a slow and frustrating process of herding cats. Co-ordination had become increasingly important as the humanitarian sector expanded dramatically following the end of the Cold War. In Kosovo, after the NATO bombing campaign of 1999, we registered one NGO for every day of the year. A decade later, after the 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, an estimated 3,000 NGOs descended on Haiti. It wasn't just the size of the humanitarian sector that was increasing - the scope of humanitarian work was widening as well. In the post-Cold War world, humanitarian organisations were increasingly enlisted as government sub-contractors in a larger political project: the post-conflict reconstruction of entire countries. After Kosovo I found myself in Afghanistan, where Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to NGOs as a 'force multiplier' for the US military; then Iraq, where Andrew Natsios, then head of US overseas aid, asserted without apparent irony, that NGOs were 'an arm of the US government'. Some took this assertion literally. On 19 August 2003, the UN headquarters at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad was bombed by enemies of the US government. The bomb - placed outside the information office that I had helped to set up - killed 22 and injured more than 100 people. I had left Baghdad a few weeks earlier, precisely because I was worried by deteriorating security. My youthful belief that we could do better was still intact (even if my youth was not), but it now seemed clear that humanitarianism had taken a wrong turn somewhere. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the first Geneva Convention, it's worth stating that humanitarian aid is not a waste of money - it can mean the difference between life and death - and for the most part that money is well-spent. While some criticism is warranted, the humanitarian community is not blind to its shortcomings, and has sought to improve its work since the mid-1990s. One of the most important initiatives in this regard was the publication in 1994 of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief. The Code was welcomed by NGOs as a largely successful attempt to articulate core humanitarian principles, but it also doubled as a field guide to the tensions inherent to the sector. After the more obvious principles - humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence - the last of the Code's 10 points goes in a surprising direction: 'In our information, publicity and advertising activities, we shall recognise disaster victims as dignified human beings, not hopeless objects.' It's now widely acknowledged that affected communities don't wait around for outside help, but actively develop their own strategies for coping with disaster. Yet the humanitarian community has struggled to embody this realisation. To their public donors, charities continue to present a Black Box of Suffering. On the front of the box is the single image of a suffering child that serves as a proxy for all the suffering that can be imagined. 'What's happening inside this box is terrible,' it says, 'and you don't want to see inside.' Then, the pitch: 'Give us your money, and we'll put it into the box, and that will end the suffering.' The Black Box is effective in terms of raising funds, but its platonic ideal of suffering obscures the wider context in which that suffering takes place. The lack of context leaves the public with little understanding of how the aid industry works - when questioned, most people offer some variation on the theme of 'Whites in Shining Armour' - which in turn prevents NGOs from being fully open about the problems of delivering aid in the most challenging environments on Earth. Because all NGOs rely on public support, they face a dilemma: more nuanced messages will not reach their public, but less nuanced messages leave them open to criticism. Humanitarianism has been intimately linked to the media from the beginning. The Swiss businessman and social activist Henry Dunant, who inspired the early Red Cross movement, had his book* A Memory of Solferino* (1862) printed at his own expense as an advocacy tool to spread the humanitarian message across Europe, arguing that 'in an age when we hear so much of progress and civilisation, is it not a matter of urgency, since unhappily we cannot always avoid wars, to press forward in a human and truly civilised spirit the attempt to prevent, or at least to alleviate, the horrors of war?' Pressure on governments to adopt the Geneva Conventions came from popular sentiment, as the public gained greater access to information about the reality of modern war through the popular press. The growth of mass media in the 20th century enabled spectacles such as the Live Aid concerts in 1985 for famine relief in Ethiopia. NGOs realised that they could shape the humanitarian narrative using their access to disaster-affected areas. Today, writers from the Sunday supplements of UK newspapers accompany NGO staff to health clinics in inaccessible places, returning with stories of stoic suffering and sterling effort. This worked well into the 1990s, when communication was still controlled by corporations and information sources were scarce. With the information revolution, however, individuals and groups affected by disasters have increasing access to digital communications that provide alternative perspectives not mediated by humanitarian organisations. The Black Box is breaking open, exposing the humanitarian community to more public scrutiny than ever before. Humanitarianism was shaped by specific historical circumstances that no longer exist. Global economic and political developments - including the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China - put a question mark over the assumptions on which the system was built. The same technologies that have given disaster-affected communities a voice also enable them to organise themselves more effectively, which in certain places means less need for external organisations to become involved. While there will always be those caught in the wake of natural disasters and human conflicts who need some form of outside assistance, the 'rich West giving to the poor rest' no longer makes so much sense. It might simply be that humanitarian NGOs are no longer the right type of organisation to meet the needs of the future. It's not merely that they are no longer fit for purpose: it's increasingly uncertain what that purpose is. What are humanitarian organisations* for*? Are they delivery vehicles for humanitarian* assistance* - logistics companies with a side order of social concern? Or are they delivery vehicles for humanitarian* principles,* with any tangible assistance they provide is just a manifestation of those principles? Focused on the next emergency rather than the last, unable to draw easily on past experience, plagued by a high turnover of staff, it seems as if each new generation of aid workers suffers from a kind of 'Year Zero' thinking. This continues despite efforts to professionalise aid work. If we fail to pay attention to how history has shaped the humanitarian sector in the past century, we cannot begin to understand what is needed to shape it to meet the needs of the coming century. The modern humanitarian movement began on 24 June 1859, at the Battle of Solferino in Italy. For the last time in European history, monarchs were in direct command of both sides of the battle. After Solferino, the European states began their trek towards the horrors of total war in the 20th century. Yet a parallel history also began that evening: businessman Henry Dunant, horrified by the carnage he'd witnessed in the battle's aftermath, organised a relief effort to care for the injured and the dying - regardless of which side they had fought on. >From this gesture the modern humanitarian movement was born, in the form of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The First Geneva Convention (1864) was the first international agreement to cover the treatment of the sick and wounded on the battlefield. It covered only military personnel, but laid the foundations for an entire body of international humanitarian law. It wasn't until the First World War that the ICRC began to systematically address the needs of civilian populations affected by war, and the word 'humanitarian' itself appeared in law for the first time only in the 1929 Convention. Between the two world wars, elements that we would recognise today began to appear, such as the League of Red Cross Societies (forerunner of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) and early NGOs such as the Save the Children Fund. It was only after 1945, however, that a new political order emerged, and the desire to avoid another ruinous world war led to the creation of the United Nations. As the exhausted old empires began to unravel, international affairs were re-shaped in the bipolar image of the Cold War. In this context, the Marshall Plan for the recovery of Europe during 1948-51 was both a means of rebuilding shattered nations and of demonstrating the superiority of democracy. It set a precedent for overseas development assistance. At this point 'humanitarian' aid (the lifesaving work) was not emphasised, and the focus was on development (longer-term social and economic growth), although new international organisations were created, such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1950) and the UN World Food Programme (1961). Legal rights were extended to protecting 'Civilian Persons in Time of War' by the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1949, and further by Additional Protocols in 1977. This legal framework relied on the responsibilities of nation-states, but governments could not always be relied upon to abide by the law. Newly decolonised countries inherited the trappings of government, but not the capacity required to administer their responsibilities, particularly in the face of disasters; and unresolved problems caused or exacerbated by colonial policies led to civil wars in which civilians tended to suffer disproportionately, whether through design or neglect. The UN agencies were bound by mandate to work only with governments, leaving space that was filled by NGOs who positioned themselves as giving voice to the voiceless, 'speaking truth' to the power of the Western bloc. NGOs were tolerated, even encouraged, by Western governments as living proof of the superiority of democracy with its freedom of expression and association, in contrast to their absence in the Soviet bloc. They were also a channel for defusing potentially revolutionary sentiment in emerging nations. Released into the marketplace, NGOs competed for the public's attention - and their cash - during large-scale disasters such as the Biafran war of 1967-70 and the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85. In both Biafra and Ethiopia, NGOs were in fact being manipulated by national governments to achieve wider political ends. The evidence suggests that humanitarian aid enabled the secessionist Biafran government to continue fighting Nigerian forces even after it had lost militarily, prolonging the suffering of local communities who were caught up in the conflict. In Ethiopia, humanitarian aid was also politicised during a famine that was in part caused by government policy, although the full extent of aid agency complicity remains an open question. Aid workers who were aware of these problems could never explicitly acknowledge them without jeopardising public (and therefore) financial support; many NGOs were simply naīve about the political dynamics of the Four Horsemen. Humanitarianism had come of age during the Cold War, but the end of the Cold War meant that NGOs continued to be useful footsoldiers for the democratic project. After the diplomatic catastrophe that was Bosnia, politicians appropriated the language of humanitarianism, leading to the oxymoron of NATO's 'humanitarian intervention' in Kosovo. Some argued that this use of 'humanitarian' showed that the word had lost its meaning, but what it really showed was that the word still had power, albeit not in a straightforward sense. We found ourselves in Afghanistan and Iraq precisely because humanitarian action was being shoe-horned into a security agenda. Since the 1960s, there had been tension between what have been called Dunantist and Wilsonian NGOs. Perhaps more usefully described as 'principled' and 'pragmatic' respectively, Dunantists (named after Henry Dunant, and usually European) claim an apolitical stance aloof from state interests, while Wilsonians (named after the US President Woodrow Wilson, and usually American) accept some level of compromise and involvement with those interests. The Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad made clear that this internecine debate was no longer theoretical but very, very practical. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, many governments exploited the Wilsonian approach to humanitarianism, using NGOs as Lego bricks - interchangeable not just with each other, but also with government, military or private-sector actors. The NGO response has been an implicit acceptance that humanitarian assistance is a market, and they need to maintain their market position, primarily though professionalising, in order to fit the technocratic logic of donor governments. So far, so good: according to the 2014 Global Humanitarian Assistance report, funding for humanitarian crises remained high throughout the global financial crisis, and in 2013 reached a record high of $22 billion. Still, it's worth putting this in context. In 2013, the size of the US pet industry was nearly three times that value: just under $56 billion. The money available for humanitarian aid is still nowhere near what is required to meet the needs of disaster-affected communities today, when there are more ongoing major disasters than any time since the mid-1990s. The humanitarian community is wrestling with the future: multiple reports over the past decade have tried to identify future challenges, but failed, instead responding belatedly to existing trends - climate change, urbanisation, demographic shifts. More worryingly, the solutions proposed by these reports are more of the same: more professionalisation, more decentralisation, more regulation; the organisational equivalent of re-arranging the deckchairs on the* Titanic*. Modern humanitarianism is one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought yet, as the international development entrepreneur Paul Polak has pointed out, institutions are simply 'radical ideas cast in concrete', and the institutions that have been built around humanitarianism now struggle to support it. Our network age demands a network model. It demands that we shift away from the old industrial, imperial model of delivering material relief along a supply chain from rich to poor countries. We need a post-industrial, post-imperial model that mobilises resources through global networks. Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's* The Starfish and the Spider* (2006) provides a starting point: the decentralised structure of what they call 'starfish' organisations makes them more resilient, compared with more centralised 'spider' organisations. Humanitarian organisations must become hubs, connecting individuals and communities to enable them to share knowledge and resources more freely, and using their position to embed humanitarian principles within their networks. Those networks are not just about providing cash, or medical support, or shelter kits, but about creating the opportunity for a more inclusive discourse what it means to be humanitarian: how to create a 'people's humanitarianism', rather than the private club that exists now. This is particularly important since problems at the global level (such as climate change, financial crises and population movements) affect all of us, albeit unequally; and its urgency has been underlined this year, as multiple, overlapping emergencies in the Central Africa Republic, Iraq and Syria, and South Sudan - as well as the Ebola outbreak in Africa - have stretched the system further than at any time since I first entered the sector. New communication technologies create opportunities to engage both disaster-affected communities and the giving public on a more equal footing - indeed, the web begins to break down the distinction between the two. There are promising developments: the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities initiative is looking at outreach efforts; the Humanitarian Innovation Fund is testing novel approaches; the Digital Humanitarian Network is bringing together newer, tech-focused organisations; and the Start Network of UK NGOs is experimenting with new ways of working. In 2016, the UN-organised World Humanitarian Summit offers an opportunity to set a new course for the community, bringing together many of these threads. This is not a techno-utopian view of the future in which the internet sweeps away all the injustices of the world. The web could lead to a dead end of corporate monocultures, but part of our struggle against that must be the continual renewal of these grassroots connections. We can't predict the future, but we can shape it by forming alternative narratives. Humanitarianism is not a pile of Lego blocks to be re-arranged as required, but a set of organising principles that tell a compelling story about what we want our civilisation to look like; about how we wish to act towards each other. For decades now, humanitarian organisations have been approaching the public to ask for coins in the purse or signatures on the page. As the Black Box breaks open, this will no longer be enough, and NGOs should lead the shift away from institutions, and towards a peoples' humanitarianism. It is quite likely that at least a few of those organisations will not survive the transition but that isn't a reason for not making the change. Of the Fortune 500 firms first listed in 1955, nearly 90 per cent no longer exist in 2014, and this type of creative destruction is sorely lacking in the humanitarian sector. The alternative is a zombie humanitarianism, going through the motions but lacking the spirit, the same spirit that spurred Dunant to action: the simple belief not just that we could* do* better, but that we could* be* better. *~ 10 September 2014* *Paul Currion** is a consultant to humanitarian organisations, having previously worked on responses in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Indian Ocean Tsunami. He lives in Belgrade.* _______________________________________________ ** WSFDiscuss is an open and unmoderated forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practise, and theory of the World Social Forum at any level (local, national, regional, and global) and on related social and political movements and issues. 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open sources ecologies
by Michel Bauwens 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Glad to learn OSE is doing well, it's an important project and it would be great news if the organisational problems reported repeatedly by various people who had to leave the project, were overcome in a substantive way, go for it Gordon, we are interested in your updates, Michel -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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why did the p2p blog attack open sources ecologies on April 1 2013?
by Gordon Cook 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Michel or whomever wrote this? whatever were you thinking? I will publish a 45 page report on them in about two weeks. Has anyone in the p2p community paid them a visit in the past 15 months? You attempted to sign their death knell by talking the 6 most nasty comments out of 82 on their public forum very much out of context. Did you ask anyone what had happened or did you just grab only the most negative of the malcontents remarks? You have an item in your wiki on them that also features the nasty attack of april1 2013. Why? Do you want them dead? You have the added flourish of ethical issues 6.1 Ethical Issues at OSE there have been repeated departures at the compound you claim and list five entries - 3 related to the same 2009 incident and two related to march 2013 why? have you ever stopped to think what could now be written about YOU in ecuador and the ethical issues in the way you presented that project? I spent a half a day at factor e farm obj june 25. The place was thriving. OSE is perhaps as popular or more so than P2p. Is the world not big enough for you both? You took the worst writing of people who felt burned by their experience and when some said of their compatriots said in effect that the worst criticism were exaggerated and where there were some defenders as well as critics of marcin and you presented only the dark side… WHY? were you ever curious about what happened to him? I was…. and he learned from the problems that his attempt to push ahead too rapidly in 2012 caused. Did you? what follows is a partial draft of my exec summary for the FeF issue. I am trying to do due diligence here and asking you to comment just incase i misinterpreted something. Will you? April 1 2013 Michel Bauwens P2P Foundation Blog posted an item called “crisis at open source ecologies” see http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Ecology and http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-there-a-crisis-in-open-source-ecology/2013… that described the third mass leaving in the organizations history with the conclusion this time there would be bad press and the organization’s sources of funding would dry up and it would likely not survive, I was extremely disappointed. At that point in time i had no way of checking for myself. Also prior to Bauwens’ Ecuador fiasco I had no reason not to believe what he wrote. Consequently I put it out of my mind until in June of this year, when visiting Kansas City, it also became possible to visit Marcin. Fifteen months after Bauwens’ report, Marcin was still very much in business. I made it my objective to find out as best i could what had happened. There was a crisis. But it seems not to have been as grim as Bauwens described it. My best conclusion follows: in 2011 Marcin had another Ted appearance where the video truly went viral and he became a senior Ted fellow got some serious monetary support. This led Marcin to develop an very ambitious schedule to pursue about 3.5 million in funding to embark on a schedule that would finish all the tools within two years. Marcin began to spend a lot of the time away from the “farm”. Two of the three of his lead designers rebelled. Although the Hab Lab and Workshop construction had begun, life at the farm was physically difficult. Finally in March of 2013 in the OSE Forum someone announced that it had become very quiet lately and asked what was gong on. This prompted an outpouring of grievances all written in the month of March 2013. In my interview with Marcin I tried to find out his take on what had happened. Marcin was quite candid, especially considering the fact that I had not located the original P2P blog piece by the time of the visit and was gong on memory. As Marcin explained it a major part of the problem was that they did not have a business model. But they were developing one that involved a slower and more deliberate pace of builds focused on workshops held at the farm and also focused on profit sharing with the developer. Based on what i saw and have documents with photos that I took, I can say that it seems to me that he has a solid infrastructure in place that should very adequately support the plans he described. One thing that I do not understand and is somewhat tangential to the overall issue is the role of Michel Bauwens in using material from OSE’s forum to savagely attack it. The way the page is formatted it appears as though the comment about 3rd leaving is written by Michel as his introduction. It is not. It is a quote from one of the complainers. Michel’s post is made-up of 6 quoted excerpts from the forum. Six comments out of 82. It appears to me that he choose the nastiest 6 quotes in the while discussion. Why I don’t know. What he was thinking i don’t know. There were several positive quotes. Michel used none and provided no context for what he was doing. Very strange when 5 years earlier he had written about Marcin with gushing praise. “The most important project in the world of which i am aware . . .” Did he ask anyone in his rather large group for opinions or for independent information? Not that I know of.

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Fwd: ZNet Commentary: Pete Dolack: The Lag In Wages Vs. Productivity
by Michel Bauwens 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ZCommunications <no-reply(a)zcomm.org> Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:09 PM Subject: ZNet Commentary: Pete Dolack: The Lag In Wages Vs. Productivity To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…>. Pete Dolack: The Lag In Wages Vs. ProductivityZ Communications Daily Commentary Working harder and making less isn’t a great deal for you, although it certainly is good for corporate profits. The ongoing pattern of stagnant pay as worker productivity increases, having raged unabated since the 1970s, now costs an average United States household $18,000 per year in lost income. By no means a pattern limited to the U.S., the average Canadian household is short at least $10,000 per year because of pay lagging productivity gains. Wages have begun to decline in Britain, as well as elsewhere. By now, studies demonstrating these trends risk finding themselves in the category of “the Sun will rise in the east tomorrow.” But although the Earth’s rotation is an immutable phenomenon of nature, getting screwed at the workplace need not be. For now we are, and for North Americans in particular this has gone on for more than three decades. A new study by the Economic Policy Institute <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…>, written by economist Elise Gould, reports: “Between 1979 and 2013, productivity [in the U.S.] grew 64.9 percent, while hourly compensation of production and nonsupervisory workers, who comprise over 80 percent of the private-sector workforce, grew just 8.0 percent. Productivity thus grew eight times faster than typical worker compensation.” [page 4] As a result of that under-compensation, according to the Economic Policy Institute study: “By 2007, the growing wedge between economy-wide average income growth and income growth of the broad middle class (households between the 20th and 80th percentiles) reduced middle-class incomes by nearly $18,000 annually. In other words, if inequality had not risen between 1979 and 2007, middle-class incomes would have been nearly $18,000 higher in 2007.” [page 3] Might your personal finances be easier with that extra money? Another way of conceptualizing this trend is the share of wages and salaries as a percentage of gross domestic product. Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster, writing in the March 2013 edition of *Monthly Review*, calculate that wages and salaries constituted 53 percent of U.S. GDP at the start of the 1970s but only 44 percent in 2011 <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…>. The authors, however, caution that even that statistic understates the decline in wages because it includes the salaries of chief executive officers and other high-level executives, whose compensation has risen. They write: “Thus, although the wage share of income has sharply dropped in the U.S. economy, this decline has not been shared equally, and applies mainly to what is properly called the working class, i.e., the bottom 80 percent or so of wage and salary workers.” [page 7] *The problem is bigger than your degree* The canard that an “education gap” is responsible for rising inequality — perhaps the favorite excuse of Right-wing commentators, simply isn’t true. The Economic Policy Institute study reports real (inflation-adjusted) hourly wages for workers with a college degree has increased all of 1.6 percent from 2000 to 2013. As a result: “[T]he gap between the wages near the top of the wage distribution and the middle … has grown much faster since 1995 than has the wage gap between those with a four-year college degree and those with a high school degree.” [page 21] It’s not as if there is no money for raises: U.S. publicly traded companies are sitting on $5 trillion in cash <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…>, five times the total during held during the mid-1990s. Canadian workers have fared little better. A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives paper <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…> found that, although Canadian wages are flat since 1991, the average weekly wage would be $200 per week higher if wages had kept up with gains in productivity. That adds up to about $10,000 per year. As in the U.S., low-wage workers fared the worst, the paper said: “After adjusting for inflation, the average provincial minimum wage has decreased from $9.14 to $7.32 between 1976 and 2006 in terms of 2006 dollars.” [page 8] Wage decay is a more recent pattern in Britain, but wages there have suffered what the London School of Economics and Political Science calls “unprecedented falls.” A school study <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…>, lamenting that “the long US experience of stagnant real wages might be viewed as a warning sign for the UK,” found that British wage growth has lagged productivity growth for more than a decade. The study, released earlier this year, says: “The real wages of the typical (median) worker have fallen by around 8-10% — or around 2% a year behind inflation — since 2008. Such falls have occurred across the wage distribution, generating falls in living standards for most people, with the exception of those at the very top.” *There is no returning to a Keynesian past* It’s not uncommon for those angered or depressed by the neoliberal onslaught of recent decades to advocate a return to Keynesianism. Alas, it is not so simple to do that, nor would it actually provide a solution to today’s economic crises. For one thing, it is not a matter of a leader somewhere decreeing that we shall now have neoliberalism instead of Keynesianism, or that another leader can simply reverse the policies. The mid-20th century Keynesian moment was a product of a particular set of circumstances <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…> that can’t be repeated. The New Deal and the rising wages following World War II were the products of mass movements — communist, socialist and union — that simply do not exist today. Mid-20th century Keynesianism depended on an industrial base and expanding markets. A repeat of history isn’t possible because the industrial base of the advanced capitalist countries has been hollowed out, transferred to low-wage developing countries, and there is almost no place remaining to which to expand. U.S. capitalists could tolerate rising wages then because of enormous export opportunities in the wake of the destruction of European and East Asian industry due to World War II and because of long pent-up domestic demand that couldn’t be fulfilled during the Great Depression and the war. The rest of the world eventually got on its feet, increasing competition, and eventually profit rates began to come under pressure. The neoliberalism that began to take hold in the 1970s, and the accompanying financialization of the economy, were a response by capitalists to what, for them, were deteriorating conditions. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan may have ushered in the age of neoliberalism, but they were the political instruments of corporate offensives. In the U.S., neoliberalism could be said to have begun during the Carter administration, when then Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker unilaterally began to raise interest rates sky high, inducing the deep recession of the early 1980s. We are living in very different times than the post-war years; the neoliberal offensive is the natural development of capitalism and the manic competition that mandates capitalists to grow or die. Even were it possible to bring back Keynesianism through legislation, it would at best be a temporary balm; the capitalists who are saved through such policies re-gain the power to again impose their preferred policies. There is no salvation in attempting to “stabilize” what is inherently unstable nor any realistic prospect that what is structurally unfair and unequal can be made just. The advances that are the fruits of the 20th century’s mass movements have largely been erased, with no end to the race to the bottom. This century’s mass movements will have to aim much higher than mere reforms. ZCommunications, 18 Millfield St., Woods Hole, MA, USA, 02543 Unsubscribe <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…> | Manage Subscription <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/click?upn=9PHos1J7-2FD2Lw6jereECeNLGs3ocss1O2kcgD4…> If you'd like to unsubscribe and stop receiving these emails click here <http://send.zcomm.org/wf/unsubscribe?upn=V-2FUUiW5KvBPNV-2FItFYsbuIFOqr58Na…> . -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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{Filename?} Fwd: Human Ecosystems in S. Paulo
by Michel Bauwens 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (HE_SPaulo_VilaMariana.doc.pdf). Warning: Please read the "ourproject-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s) for more information. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: oriana persico <oriana.persico(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:38 PM Subject: Human Ecosystems in S. Paulo To: hartsellml <hartsellml(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens < michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Human Ecosystems in São Paulo: the Real Time Museum of the City *** What: An interactive installation. A 12 hours workshop on the Human Ecosystems project and the city of San Paulo Who: Art is Open Source (Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico) and The Citizens of San Paulo Why: Understanding, Digital Public Space, Research, Expresssion, Civic Toolkit When: 23-28th September 2014 Where: SESC Vila Mariana, San Paulo (Brazil) *** From September 23rd to 28th, as a parallel program of the International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies <http://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/42109_ENCONTRO+INTERNACIONAL+CULTURAS+…>, the SESC Vila Mariana will hosts the Human Ecosystems project <http://human-ecosystems.com/home/>, by the Italian artists Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source <http://artisopensource.net/>). Human Ecosystems is a global project which captures the real-time public conversations happening on major social networks in cities, to analyse them, to create real-time interactive visualisations, and transform them into a source of open data. “This is a crucial point”, states Iaconesi currently in Yale as a World Fellow 2014 <http://worldfellows.yale.edu/salvatore-iaconesi> “Social networks are our new Public Spaces: citizens are the only ones who do not have access to all this information. In Human Ecosystems we transform this information into a new digital commons, accessible by everyone”. The event marks the launch of the project in Brazil, in partnership with the Metodista University of Sao Paulo <http://portal.metodista.br/>, under the leadership of Dr. Fabio Josgrilberg <http://fabio.jor.br/> and his research group, according to which “It is an innovative and provocative project. Working with Salvatore and Oriana will stimulate research, as well as opportunities for collaboration with civil society”. In Vila Mariana the Relational Ecosystem <http://human-ecosystems.com/home/relations-in-the-human-ecosystems-cultures…> of the City will become a work of art in the “Real Time Museum of the City <http://human-ecosystems.com/home/the-real-time-museum-of-the-city-and-the-u…> “. Situated in the beautiful Atrium, visitors will be immersed in the real-time city, exploring the emotions,desires and issues discussed by citizens, understanding the flows of information and knowledge, and how people constantly form networks, and human constellations. “It directly engages people’s perception and imagination”, points out Persico. When confronted with visualizations, people are surprised to discover that they are close or distant from each other, how people and organizations in the city are connected or distant, and more. Immediately new set of opportunities becomes possible: to identify communities with similar, dissonant or complementary perspectives; people who are discussing issues of common interest; establishing contacts and forming new relationships. You can even start asking questions to the city: where do people go to have fun? Where do they talk about football, ecology, or punk music? Which roles do they assume in their communities? Possibilities for research and to gain a better understanding of the city’s social dynamics are endless”. Together with the installation, a two day open workshop completes the experience. Participants will learn how to use the Human Ecosystems platform to extract and visualize data, and use it to create new scenarios for the city of San Paulo: for culture, business, knowledge, policy making, participation, freedom. According to Bruno Rondani <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brunorondani>, chair and founder of Wenovate <http://wenovate.com.br/>, “the exhibit, together with the workshop, will allow people to interact with data in a human and artistic perspective. This possibility itself is a great source of new other possibilities. We are very interested in the potential of the Human Ecosystems project to become a source, and even a tool, for people to develop projects and ideas related to the concept of innovative cities.” Human Ecosystems is a global initiative. It has already started in Rome, Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Istanbul, Cairo, and it is being used as a tool for planning, cultural policies, art, civic engagement. In 2013 Human Ecosystems has been awarded the “Consequential Outcomes” <https://efworld.org/alumni/consequential-outcomes> Grant of the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowships <https://www.efworld.org/>. Attached, a full description of the exhibit and the workshop program. *** Links - Human Ecosystems official website: http://human-ecosystems.com/home/ - Art is Open Source: http://www.artisopensource.net/ - International Meeting on Culture and New Technologies on SESC: http://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/42109_ENCONTRO+INTERNACIONAL+CULTURAS+… Info&Contacts For press, information about the project, the installation and the workshop, email: oriana.persico(a)gmail.com To interact directly with the AOS team and other participants, subscribe the Human Ecosystems Page on FB: https://www.facebook.com/HumanEcosystems?fref=ts Credits Human Ecosystems San Paulo is an event sponsored by: SESC Vila Mariana in collaboration with: Universitade Metodista of San Paulo supported by: Wenovate Concept & Realization: Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico [ AOS - Art Is Open Source ] Brazilian producer: Daniel Gonzalez Technical & Infrastructure supervision: Caleb Luporini Storytelling & Communication Team: Fábio Botelho Josgrilberg Luiz Fernando Ramalho Silmara Sgoti -- contacts mob: +39 3477126928 phone: +39 06 97600324 skype: penelope.di.pixel FB: penelope di pixel -- site www.fakepress.it www.artisopensource.net www.angel-f.it -- contacts mob: +39 3477126928 phone: +39 06 97600324 skype: penelope.di.pixel FB: penelope di pixel -- site www.fakepress.it www.artisopensource.net www.angel-f.it -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [transversal] Politics and tactics within displacement. Autumn Laboratory, Barcelona, 1-5 Oct
by Michel Bauwens 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Mair <mm(a)mediaweb.at> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 5:02 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [transversal] Politics and tactics within displacement. Autumn Laboratory, Barcelona, 1-5 Oct To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [transversal] Politics and tactics within displacement. Autumn Laboratory, Barcelona, 1-5 Oct Datum: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:57:01 +0200 Von: Manuela Zechner <manuela.zw(a)googlemail.com> <manuela.zw(a)googlemail.com> An: transversal-list(a)eipcp.net Politics and tactics within displacement. An international laboratory exploring the embodied politics of relating across places, contexts and social spheres. 1-5th Oct, Barcelona/ES *What does is mean to struggle within and against precarity, globalization and neoliberalism in embodied terms? How do we forge networks of care, post-national struggles and solidarities in our everyday? When do we resist displacement and how do we resist through displacement? How do we think consistency and sustainability? **What terms serve us to think an ethics and politics of displacement – situated/adrift, local/global, intimate/alienated, individual/collective, independent/interdependent, coming/going, flight/promise, transversality/intersectionality? What are the ways in which contemporary practices of displacement are produced by the neoliberal paradigm an**d embedded within structures and systems of governance?* */ with Manuela Zechner, Marcelo Expósito, Paula Cobo-Guevara, Imayna Caceres, Daniela Ortiz, Marc Herbst, Esquizo Barcelona Group (tbc), and Bue Rübner Hansen. Hosted by La Electrodoméstica* * /// Registration deadline *15 September 2014. Write to politicstactics(a)gmail.com * /// * *Costs* *Normal 120€ /// Supporter 150€ /// Acampada-Sleepover 230€ /// Hyperprecarious – write us if you really want to join but can’t afford the above. */// more info*: web <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/See%20also:%20%20web%20%20fb> https://laelectrodomestica.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/situating-oneself-autum… & la electrodoméstica on fb <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004829688426&fref=ts> *///programme* *Day 1 \\ Introduction, methodologies and definitions *2-5pm Defining concepts and stakes: situatedness and displacement. Sharing experiences and stories. Methodological considerations. Manuela Zechner & Paula Cobo-Guevara 6-8pm How to tell the story of a collective trajectory. To produce or not to produce? Grupo Esquizo Barcelona *Day 2 \\ Positionalities *2-5pm Where we stand, how we move. Diagrams of class/race/gender, inhabiting the social. What bodies can do in context. Manuela Zechner 6-8pm Materialist dispositions, questions of orientation: what it means to be positioned. Bue Hansen *Day 3 \\ Trajectories *2-5pm Mapping, tracing and telling trajectories. Giving account of itinerancy. The role of care/affective/work networks. Paula Cobo-Guevara & Manuela Zechner 6-8pm Diagrammatic currents: mapping and thinking through diagrams. Examples from within and between art, activism and social movements in South America and Europe. Marcelo Expósito *Day 4 \\ Thinking context, composition and organisation *2-5pm Crossing contexts: between arts, activism and academia. Movement workers within their ecosystems. Marc Herbst 6-8pm Composition and organisation in difference: struggling around migration. Derootedness and its potentials for remapping borders and limits. Disrupting codes of exclusion, discrimination and injustice. Imayna Caceres and Daniela Ortiz *Day 5 // Strategies, politics and ethics *2-5pm The ethics and politics of situatedness and displacement. thinking across nano, micro and macropoltics. Conclusions and final discussion. All _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Launching of the “P2P and Innovation” magazine in Brazil
by Michel Bauwens 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

thanks Janice, I posted it for the 18th, could you send the cover as a jpg so that stacco can add this graphic to the article ? Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janice Figueiredo <janicefigueiredo(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 5:17 PM Subject: Launching of the “P2P and Innovation” magazine in Brazil To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com Launching of the “P2P and Innovation” magazine in Brazil The first issue of the “P2P and Innovation” (“Revista P2P & INOVAÇÃO”) magazine in Brazil has just been launched. The magazine brings together eight articles, which are the result of the course Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, ministered in Brazil in November 2012. During the course - made possible through a partnership between the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Bauwens discussed with the students the collaborative practices around the world based on open knowledge, peer production and the commons. At the end of the course, the Collaborative Economy and P2P Production Research Group in Brazil was constituted, aiming to promote the ethical, political and academic debate around the collaborative practices of peer production and the commons. The “P2P and Innovation” magazine is published twice a year (biannual) and is linked to the “Collaborative Economy and P2P Production Research Group in Brazil” from IBICT. Its mission is to offer a space for reflection and debate about all sorts of experiences in collaborative production among pairs with focus on innovation in culture, social and political environment. The 8 articles can be accessed at the following link: http://revista.ibict.br/cienciadainformacao/index.php/p2pinovacao The Collaborative Economy and P2P Production Research Group in Brazil can be reached here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/133310776823326/ You may submit articles to futures issues of the maganize through this link: http://revista.ibict.br/cienciadainformacao/index.php/p2pinovacao/about/sub… . Articles in either English or Portuguese can be published. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [CommonGood] Info on AEPF-event Oct. in Milan
by Michel Bauwens 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

hi kevin, thanks for checking if this should be announced on our blog, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgit Daiber <bir.dai(a)hotmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:09 PM Subject: [CommonGood] Info on AEPF-event Oct. in Milan To: "commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de" <commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de> Dear Friends and Colleagues, at the 10. Asia-European-People's Forum (AEPF) conference from 10 to 12 Oct. in Milan a debate on Common Goods will take place. Please find attached the motivation for this debate and a very interesting narrative on struggles in India. Yours, Birgit Daiber *bir.dai(a)hotmail.com <bir.dai(a)hotmail.com>* *www.birgitdaiber.eu <http://www.birgitdaiber.eu>* *Fon: 0039-090-9452432 <0039-090-9452432>* *Mobile: 0039-366-4207762 <0039-366-4207762>* *Brussels: Rue du Canal 19, B-1000 <1000> Brussels* *Sicily: Casella Postale No. 28, I-98055 Lipari* _______________________________________________ CommonGood Mailingliste JPBerlin - Politischer Provider CommonGood(a)listi.jpberlin.de https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/commongood -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine by Matteo Pasquinelli
by Orsan 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

imo a must read: https://www.academia.edu/5945089/Italian_Operaismo_and_the_Information_Mach…

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