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Re: [P2P-F] Syriza supports reciprocity-based licenses ?
by P2P Foundation mailing list 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

indeed, just the beginning <g> of course, from the program to the implementation requires extra steps! On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Vinicius Braz Rocha < vr.self.media(a)gmail.com> wrote: > What a incredible most surprising news Michel ! If I as you with the > confirmation of Vasilis understood well ! > > In a national state level this proposal has the potential to be an game > changer in many aspects for the commons transition growing ecosystem ! > > Cheers folks, 2015 is just beginning =) > > Vinicius > > 2015-01-22 5:38 GMT-02:00 Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>: > > ok, not a fatal mistake I hope <g> >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> No. You copied Yanis Varoufakis, who is, again, one of the key >>> economists and intellectuals of Syriza. I added Giannis M. now (and removed >>> the other :-) >>> >>> On 22 January 2015 at 09:33, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> wonderful vasilis! >>>> >>>> perhaps I didn't not copy the right yanis margaris ? >>>> >>>> Michel >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> That's true. Later in the day, I will write for the english p2p blog >>>>> a review of the issue based on the report provided by E/ELLAK (I will >>>>> schedule it to appear tomorrow EU morning - if you want, you may change >>>>> it). >>>>> >>>>> Michel, to read the full answers, you should click on a relevant and >>>>> download the pdf (attached). >>>>> >>>>> Vasilis >>>>> >>>>> On 22 January 2015 at 08:49, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> dear friends, >>>>>> >>>>>> if this is true, I urgently need an english translation !! >>>>>> >>>>>> via Dimitris Hoodakis >>>>>> >>>>>> "SYRIZA mentions it's will to pass P2P foundation proposed licenses >>>>>> into Greek law! And help open local fan/media labs... Sounds to good to be >>>>>> true." >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> Michel >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://ellak.gr/2015/01/giati-anichti-diakivernisi-ke-ta-kina-agatha-ine-i… >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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/ >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Vasilis Kostakis >>>>> >>>>> Senior Research Fellow >>>>> Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance >>>>> >>>>> Research Director >>>>> P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Vasilis Kostakis >>> >>> Senior Research Fellow >>> Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance >>> >>> Research Director >>> P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > > > > VR SELF MEDIA > *Vinicius Braz Rocha* > *Mobile **+5521 99197388* > *Skype **vr.self.media* > *Twitter @VRSS <http://Twitter.com/VRSS>* > > rede P2P de inteligência colaborativa em netweaving > *&** inovação em microeconomia cocriativa glocal* > -- 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: The Two Types of Lending: Why the Difference is Important
by P2P Foundation mailing list 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Crowl <culturalengineer(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:03 AM Subject: The Two Types of Lending: Why the Difference is Important To: Background for a longer "common sense" argument for why MMT (Modern Monetary Theory <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory>) may be the answer to the misuse of Keynesian Economics to expand a privately held financial sector. The Two Types of Lending: Why the Difference is Important http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-two-types-of-lending-why-d… *Tom Crowl* http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] 'Only one week left to contribute - Open the Omni Commons!'?
by P2P Foundation mailing list 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

done Jenny, thanks to everyone to spread this appeal and to contribute if you can, Michel On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 'Only one week left to contribute - Open the Omni Commons!'? via Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> [image: Attachments]5:11 AM (9 hours ago) to michel Hey Michel! Thanks for your support of Omni Commons' crowdfunding campaign. We're in the midst of our last week and blasting the below message to as many people as possible. If you think it's a good fit, could you forward along to the p2p foundation list, with the amended subject line, 'Only one week left to contribute - Open the Omni Commons!'? Many thanks <3 ------ Howdy, There’s only one week left to contribute to our crowdfunding campaign, and we’re really close to reaching our goal. Please donate now, and share this message as far as you possibly can! https://omnicommons.org/donate We only need another $12,225! Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’ve received $40,000 in major donations plus $27,775 in grassroots funding through our crowdfunding campaign page. That means, together, we’ve raised $67,775--approaching our overall goal of $80,000. What does it mean to forge a commons? Everywhere on the planet, those spaces, places, and resources that we share and hold in common are being targeted and exploited for personal gain and corporate profit. It is up to all of us to preserve whatever commons we still have, and to forge new ones whenever possible. The Omni Commons has tremendous potential to become a critical community space. In order to ensure our doors can open, and remain open, we need your help today. https://omnicommons.org/donate Although it is an important one, fundraising isn’t our only goal. Our collective of collectives includes many veterans of the Occupy movement who have developed effective community building and organizing strategies based on shared values: the commoning of space and resources, liberation of knowledge, transformative justice, and solidarity with struggles against capitalism, racism, misogyny, and other forms of violence. To spread awareness of the potential for decentralized, people-powered community spaces like this to run autonomously, not only in the East Bay, but all around the world, is part of our long-term mission. As for Oakland specifically, where economic disparity and displacement have pushed long-time residents out of the area, we see a real need for projects that provide space and resources in a manner more befitting of the city’s radical history of creativity, cooperation and social justice organizing. Love and Solidarity, The Omni Commons Fundraising Working Group-- ----- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson -- 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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Syriza supports reciprocity-based licenses ?
by P2P Foundation mailing list 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

dear friends, if this is true, I urgently need an english translation !! via Dimitris Hoodakis "SYRIZA mentions it's will to pass P2P foundation proposed licenses into Greek law! And help open local fan/media labs... Sounds to good to be true." ... Michel https://ellak.gr/2015/01/giati-anichti-diakivernisi-ke-ta-kina-agatha-ine-i… -- 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: Join Us For "The Future of Money" with Bernard Lietaer
by P2P Foundation mailing list 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- *From: *Public Banking Institute <info(a)publicbankinginstitute.org> *Subject: **Join Us For "The Future of Money" with Bernard Lietaer* *Date: *January 20, 2015 at 9:52:04 AM PST *To: *Michael Lewis <Lewiscccr(a)shaw.ca> [image: Public Banking Institute] <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/?e=9733f830bb66100f1c37a74cdc83665d&u…> ------------------------------ *This is shaping up to a very interesting year in world events, and the changes brewing are all about money.* [image: Greece.jpg]In her latest article <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/eu_showdown_greece_takes_on_the_vampi…>, Ellen Brown discusses the relationship between a nation's money and its sovereignty, specifically in the case of Greece. Greece has limited options to improve its economic prospects while it lives under the European Union and uses the Euro currency, so it is considering bringing back its Drachma. The problem is that doing this might lead to breakup of the European Union. Bernard Lietaer is one of the architects of the Euro, a former currency trader, and now a leading proponent of sustainable economics and local currencies - and a critic of private debt-money systems. He is author of several important books on money including *The Future of Money*, *New Money for a New World -* and *Creating Wealth*, which he co-authored with PBI Executive Director Gwen Hallsmith. Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating Cutting Edge Conversation tomorrow as Bernard is interviewed by Gwen at 9am Pacific/Noon Eastern (see below to RSVP). PBI courses and conversations are made possible by and developed for PBI Members <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/donate?e=9733f830bb66100f1c37a74cdc83…> - thank you for your support![image: Coming-Upx.jpg] [image: rsz_moneytree.jpg] *The Future of Money* - A Cutting Edge Conversation with Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer Wednesday January 21, 2015 - 9am PST/Noon EST: *RSVP Here <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/the_future_of_money?e=9733f830bb66100…>* ------------------------------ See you on the call tomorrow!Public Banking Institute http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/ <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/?e=9733f830bb66100f1c37a74cdc83665d&u…> Public Banking Institute · United States This email was sent to Lewiscccr(a)shaw.ca. To stop receiving emails, click here <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/unsubscribe?e=9733f830bb66100f1c37a74…> . You can also keep up with Public Banking Institute on Twitter <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPBIPro…> or Facebook <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F…> . Created with NationBuilder <http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnationbuilder.com&ut…>, the essential toolkit for leaders. -- 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: [Air-L] Ubiquitous Commons and Stakhanov at transmediale in Berlin
by P2P Foundation mailing list 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

hi Kevin, thanks for publishing this on our blog, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: tiziano bonini <tiziano.bonini(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:32 PM Subject: Fwd: [Air-L] Ubiquitous Commons and Stakhanov at transmediale in Berlin To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> maybe interesting for you ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd(a)gmail.com> Date: 2015-01-20 7:16 GMT+01:00 Subject: [Air-L] Ubiquitous Commons and Stakhanov at transmediale in Berlin To: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Dear all, sorry for crossposting: I think it could be of interest to many of us here. ---------------------- Ubiquitous Commons and Stakhanov at transmediale festival in Berlin. here http://human-ecosystems.com/home/arts-meet-data-at-transmediale-in-berlin-f… and here http://www.artisopensource.net/network/artisopensource/2015/01/14/stakhanov… **** about Ubiquitous Commons **** Ubiquitous Commons is an international research/action effort in which arts and sciences unite forces in the exploration of the ways in which the ubiquitous production of data and information is radically transforming our daily lives, and about the ways in which people can better position themselves in establishing how exactly they wish their data to be used, using technological and legal toolkits. In current times we are not producing data and information only under the form of texts, numbers, images video and other types of simple media. Today we find ourselves in the condition of constant and ubiquitous data and information production through our emotional expresions, our opinions, our bodies and organs, our movements, gestures, actions, traversals and more. This happens wether we realize it or not, through the constant action of sensors, service access points, cameras, and algorithms of multiple types. On top of that, algorithms constitute a radical opacity layer in this scenario. The data we produce is continuously interpreted, processed and categorised by multiple, progressive layers of algorithms, using it to produce even more data, meta-data, meta-meta-data and so on, in possibly endless progressions. This data is used to determine anything from our interest profiles, our economic evaluation, our health risk, our emotional profiles, our position and roles within communities, relational networks and cultures, and can be used without us even realizing it for anything from marketing, surveillance, social experiments, A/B testing of new service characteristics, and for evaluation of multiple types of analysis of our personality and social positioning, wether it is for our insurance policy, for our career, to determine wether we are terrorists or not and much more. On the other hand, this type of data and information could also lead to better understanding of our communities, to the possibility for emergent constructive action on multiple issues, to the opportunities to design inclusive participated actions and practices engaging citizens, administrations, companies, organizations, activists and more. Ubiquitous Commons is the Commons in the age of ubiquitous data and information. The UC initiative fosters collaborations across arts, sciences and humanities to create a philosophical approach through which a protocol will emerge in which people will be enabled in deciding how they wish their data to be used, and to make sure that this expression is enacted. UC does this through the progressive creation of legal, technological and aesthetic toolkits which can be easily and inclusively adopted and used. More information can be found at: http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/ (the website currently shows an early manifesto, and will evolve soon to reflect the actions and collaborations which have been established to achieve these objectives) **** about Stakhanov **** Stakhanov is a Data God. It constantly harvests information which is ubiquitously generated on social networks by people of all kinds. It uses multiple techniques and technologies to search for patterns in this data, and uses these patterns to predict the future. It is an Oracle for our emerging data-religion. Wether data and information is generated through sensors (for running, health, domotics), our activities and habits as we express them online, our geographical location, the patterns in which we use our time, or our emotions, opinions and relations, Stakhanov uses the processes and techniques which are commonly used by major social network operators, national security agencies and other operators to classify us and to construct predictive models which can be used, among other things, to attempt at making evidence-based predictions about where we will be, doing which activity, with whom, at what time, and more. An All-Seeing Eye, up above, in the Cloud. Stakhanov is a playful neo-religious data-invasion of privacy, and an exploration on false-hopes and on the ingenuity in contemporary data determinism. **** At Transmediale Festival in Berlin *** Stakhanov will be shown as an installation in the art exhibit of this year's edition of the festival, under the theme "Capture All". http://www.transmediale.de/content/ubiquitous-commons-open-workshop Ubiquitous Commons will be present under the form of an extensive two-phase workshop in which we will explore the subject and give better form to one of the first elements of the legal and technological toolkit which is being produced through the initiative. http://www.transmediale.de/content/ubiquitous-commons-open-workshop We will be more than happy if you could show up and take active part in the initiative. Feel free to contact us for more information and details. All the best -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi(a)artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *CEO Human Ecosystems LTD*: http://human-ecosystems.com/ *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ *Yale World Fellow 2014: *http://worldfellows.yale.edu/salvatore-iaconesi Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts and Media Department IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini -- 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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CAMRI seminar 28/1: Clint Burnham on Slavoj Žižek and the Internet
by P2P Foundation mailing list 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

CAMRI seminar Clint Burnham: The Subject Supposed to LOL: Slavoj Žižek and the Event of the Internet Wed, 28/1, 14:00 Univ of Westminster Harrow Campus Room A7.01 Registration is possible by e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/clint-burnham-the-subj… Is the Internet an Event? Does it constitute, as Žižek argues an Event should, a reframing of our experience, a retroactive re-ordering of everything we thought we knew about the social but were afraid to ask Facebook? In this talk Clint Burnham will engage with Žižek’s recent work (Less than Nothing, Event, Absolute Recoil) as a way to argue, first, that in order to understand the Internet, we need Žižek’s “immaterial materialism,” and, in turn, to understand Žižek’s thought and how it circulates today, we need to think through digital culture and social media.   As regards the Internet, then, no cynical disavowal, no Facebook cleanses, no shutting off the wifi: les non-dupes errent, or those who distance themselves from social media and the like are the most deceived. Next: the Internet’s two bodies: digital culture is both the material world of servers, clouds, stacks and devices and the virtual or affective world of liking, networking, and the mirror stage of the selfie. And here we must confront the “obscene underside” of digital culture: not only the trolls, 4chan porn, and gamergate bro’s, but also the old fashioned exploitation of labour, be it iPhone assembly-line workers at Foxconn, super-exploited “blood coltan” miners in the Congo, “like farmers” in India, or social media scrubbers in the Phillipines, who ensure your feeds are “clean” of porn, beheadings, and other #NSFW matter. These last concerns, then, mean we also have to think about what Žižek calls the “undoing of the Event” of the Internet, the betrayal of the Internet, its diseventalization. Clint Burnham teaches in the department of English at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of more than a dozen books of criticism, poetry, and fiction, including The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995), The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2011), editor (with Lorna Brown) of the public art catalogue Digital Natives (2011), and editor (with Paul Budra) of From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom (2012). His essay “Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher” is in the recent Palgrave collection Žižek and Media Studies (eds. Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis), and he is currently writing a book on Žižek and digital culture called Does the Internet have an Unconscious? In the winter of 2014-15 he is living and working in Vienna as part of a residency with the Urban Subjects collective. Forthcoming talks (open for registration) Feb 4: Marisol Sandoval - From Corporate to Social Media: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in Media and Communication Industries http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/marisol-sandoval-from-… Feb 11: Justin Lewis - Beyond Consumer Capitalism: A Movie Screening and Q&A with Justin Lewis http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/justin-lewis-beyond-co…

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Negri talks to ROAR
by P2P Foundation mailing list 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

very much worth reading: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:27 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Negri talks to ROAR To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> >From skepticism of egalitarian politics of communing to full fledge overcoming of it... Negri sounds like he is saying something like this: "well.. with the 2011 uprisings, good-will multitude made a good case for her master's quest, while she proven how foolish is she without the master.. Oh the commonwealth she produces... What does substructure mean without a mastermind to lead the production.. now shut up and give me the Ring, I will take care of the rest for you, as I guessed this was coming.." What I read in between lines here is the typical weakness before the real and concrete power, when it appears close by, transforming speeches and analysis to the transmitter of collective and individual 'will to power'. That makes one to say and do things even that are exact opposite of those things you did or say that brought one to that point where she or he is being listened, without seriously questioned.. Like a good domestic multitude... at least Negri gives a wink to Harvey, reflecting a possible power share, or power seizure from the multitude believes in Harvey.. Multitude is dead, long live Solitude... One chance the Dial-etude. My question would be to Negri, and those who similes at, and believes in these words; what is then the meaning of working, fighting, creating, and bundling together as equal brothers and sisters to you? What does commons and commons-wealth would mean in reality? *..* *From the refusal of labor to the seizure of power, the Italian militant and theorist talks to ROAR about class struggle in the contemporary metropolis.* *Editor’s Note: A few months ago, ROAR attended the annual Euronomade gathering in Passignano, which brought together dozens of activists and thinkers in the Italian post-workerist tradition. This year, Euronomade invited the Marxist geographer David Harvey to participate in the event alongside a number of other guests, including Michael Hardt and Srećko Horvat.* *We sat down with the legendary Italian militant and theorist Antonio Negri to talk about the recent convergence between his work and Harvey’s, the centrality of the metropolitan terrain to contemporary social struggles, the fate of the global uprisings of 2011, the state of the movements in Europe today, and the significance of new political forces like Syriza and Podemos.* *The interview was taken by Lorenzo Cini and Jerome Roos, with special thanks to Tommaso Giordani for the translation.* ::::::::::::::::::::::: *In recent years, there appears to be somewhat of a convergence between your approach and Harvey’s. What do you consider to be the most important overlaps in your work? And what do you see as the main differences or tensions?* It seems to me that there is a very clear and explicit convergence between Harvey’s positions and those of my own current of thought, most clearly on the contemporary transformation of productive labor, of living labor — that is, of labor capable of generating surplus value. If I may use Marx’s language from *The Fragment on Machines*, I would say that there is substantial common ground between Harvey’s work and my own in the analysis of the transformation of the forms of value, that is to say, in the step from value as connected to the structures of large-scale industry to the current situation, in which society is wholly subjected to the logic of capital — not only in the productive sphere, but also with regards to reproduction and circulation. Italian workerism [*operaismo*] already developed such an analysis in the late 1970s, suggesting, at the time, new forms of struggle that would deploy themselves within the larger social sphere, because we had understood that the social had become a locus of value production. Already in those years, we identified the crucial shift in the locus of surplus production: a shift away from the factory and towards the wider metropolis. And this same shift appears to me to have become central to Harvey’s work. This is the essential point: from here, both the question of surplus extraction and the question of the transformation of profit into rent have become central in the critical analyses of contemporary capitalism that Harvey and I have developed. What, then, are the differences? I believe it’s simply a question of genealogy, of the theoretical trajectory that has brought us to this shared analysis. I have reached these conclusions starting from the analysis of the transformation of the nature of labor, which is, in fact, the concept on which the entire workerist approach was based. In other words, I began from the workerist concept of the refusal of labor. With this idea, we meant two things. On the one hand, we took it as a rejection of the law of value as the fundamental norm of the capitalist order. On the other hand, we interpreted it in a more constructive way, as a call for the acknowledgment of new forms of productivity of work beyond the factory, at a wider social level. From this Marxian analysis of the internal transformation of labor, we arrived at the same conclusions at which Harvey arrived — and on which he developed a more thorough empirical analysis. *Starting from what you just said about the concept of productive labor, we would like to reflect with you on the forms and content of contemporary struggles. In your book Commonwealth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_%28book%29>, co-authored with Michael Hardt, you have written that today the metropolis is to the multitude what the factory was once to the working class. In light of this change of paradigm, does it seem accurate to you to identify in the recent uprisings that have erupted in countries like Brazil and Turkey a set of struggles linked to questions about the production and reproduction of metropolitan life, instances of a new class struggle conducted at the metropolitan level?* Yes, very much so. Both the Turkish and the Brazilian struggles are clearly *biopolitical* struggles. How, then, can we link this biopolitical dimension to the new forms of labor we discussed before? This is a question with which Michael Hardt and I have been dealing ever since 1995, when we began working on *Empire*. It appeared to us that if labor becomes social labor, if production and capitalist oppression were swallowing up the social sphere, then the question of *bios* became an essential one. The set of struggles developing around the welfare state was becoming one of the central aspects of class struggle. This discovery became even more important once we understood that productive labor was not only (or even mainly) a material activity, but also (and mostly) an immaterial one. That is, an activity linked to caring, affection, communication, and what we can loosely call ‘generically human’ processes and activities. It was this attention to the ‘generically human’ that helped us understand how the productive process had become fundamentally a *biopolitical* process. Consequently, the more politically significant struggles became those that deployed themselves on the biopolitical terrain. What did this mean in more concrete terms? We did not have an exhaustive and final answer. Yes, we had some intuition that one had to fight against, for example, the privatization of healthcare and education, but at the time we did not manage to fully grasp what was later revealed to us by the formidable struggles of 2011. It was those struggles that revealed the full articulation of the biopolitical discourse, that is, the new character of contemporary struggles. And it becomes very clear that the metropolis is its essential setting. This does not mean that it will always be so, but today it is certain that the metropolis is the crucial locus of this struggle. The metropolitan strike in Paris in 1995 was essential in making me understand this. A city as complex and articulated as Paris completely supported the struggle, which blocked the city in its entirety, starting from transportation. That struggle expressed in a paradigmatic sense the cooperative and affective elements of the forms of conflict and knowledge that were emerging on the metropolitan stage in those years. It is not a coincidence that these aspects, linked to cooperation and to affective production, are still central in contemporary metropolitan struggles, which are fully biopolitical struggles. *The cycle of struggles that began in 2011 briefly hinted at the possible birth of a new constituent process. Today it seems that many of these movements are confronted with what you and Michael Hardt have called a **‘thermidorian closure,’ bringing about the re-establishment of the old regime. What is your analysis of the current state of these struggles, and what could have been done differently to prevent the present outcome?* To start with, we need to establish some differences. The Spanish mobilization, for example, has a force and a degree of political originality that is still evident today, and constitutes an important phenomenon that must also be seen as partly emerging from the tormented history of Spain in the twentieth century, from the civil war, through the incomplete democratic transition, to the failure of the Socialist Party. On the other hand, there is a much more ambiguous phenomenon such as Occupy, which appears to be a mobilization of the so-called middle classes more than an expression of the cognitive working class. And yet, beyond these obvious weaknesses, even Occupy displayed an important degree of originality, especially in terms of the struggle developed on the issue of debt and financial capital. Finally, there is the Arab process, which has monopolized our attention for a long time, and which — unfortunately — has had an absolutely tragic ending. Strictly speaking, the only ‘thermidorean’ outcome has been the Tunisian one, where an apparently democratic but substantially falsified order has now been established. For the rest, we have witnessed merely the beginnings of revolution, that is, a taking of the Bastille more than anything else. At any rate, I believe that this extremely articulated revolutionary process has many days ahead of itself and is, at the moment, still completely open. So far, this revolutionary process has revealed the presence in the Arab world of new forces of freedom, of cognitive labor, that have tenaciously opposed the old military and feudal regimes. There is, however, still an enormous problem in Egypt, Syria, Libya, and Iran, and it is the problem of the “medieval” nature of these states — states that are extremely reactionary and repressive. Thus I have the impression that the seed of revolt planted in 2011 in various Arab states resembles, in some ways, the European 1848: a moment of anticipation of a revolutionary process. I hope, however, that it does not have the same consequences that it had in Europe, where it also produced nationalist thought and practice, which eventually fueled the rise of fascism and national socialism. In spite of this fear, I still strongly believe in a progressive dynamic of history, and I am confident that events of revolutionary rupture will, in the future, manage to break the feudal and reactionary political and social order of many Arab countries. *Let’s discuss the struggles in Europe today. Taking our cue from an article <http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1417> you wrote together with Sandro Mezzadra just before the European elections of 2014, and a follow-up piece <http://roarmag.org/2015/01/negri-interview-multitude-metropolis/www.euronom…> you just published ahead of the Greek elections, we wanted to ask you whether you see the European dimension as the only one in which the movements can possibly act to advance a project of the common as a genuine alternative to the present capitalist crisis.* This is certainly the most timely and important political question today. Currently, in Europe, we are in the lowest phase of the cycle of struggles. I do not believe in the theory that, the worse the political, social and economic situation, the stronger the revolutionary movement. We are faced with a serious economic crisis that has had extremely negative consequences. The capitalist establishment has, for the moment, successfully exploited the regression and the domestication of existing struggles, and has managed with ease to control the post-Fordist productive transformation that hailed the defeat of the Fordist mass worker. Today, we are experiencing the consequences of our defeat in the 1970s, in the absence of a political organization capable of expressing the interests of the contemporary workforce and, more generally, of the contemporary productive society that emerged from that process of capitalist transformation. However, in this negative situation, we still have to carefully consider if and how capital will be able to overcome the crisis. For example, I tend to agree with Wolfgang Streeck’s analyses, which examine the current crisis in the light of some 1970s literature such as that by Offe, Hirsche, and O’Connor, who saw the crisis of the times as a consequence of the falling rate of profit. This fall, however, is intimately linked to the devaluation of the workforce, to the incapacity of considering the workforce as a central player in development. It is necessary to be very careful on a number of points. When one says that some instances of the common, certain demands of the struggle for the common can be, and have been, reabsorbed by and into the “management crisis” and into all those mechanisms of management of the common, one often ignores that this absorption into capitalist management is not a creative one. It is not, for example, akin to the assimilation of the working class that occurred in the Fordist and Keynesian paradigm, when this absorption did generate a rise in demand and manifested itself in a strong and energetic economy. Today, we are faced by a capitalist contraction that leaves even those who operate the contraction breathless. In this context, we have to be extremely attentive, because the very real risk is that of giving a completely pessimistic reading to a situation that, of course, is characterized by an important crisis — but whose outcome is still completely open. *With this last question we would like to reflect with you on the innovation represented by a number of political phenomena that are occurring in some European countries at the moment. Do you see, in Europe today, a political organization capable of starting a constituent process and creating a transnational political project based on the communism of the 21st century — that is, a political project based on the practice of the common? And what do you consider to be the significance, in this light, of new political forces like Syriza and Podemos?* Before answering your question, I must confess that I have developed a problem in recent years. If I am asked to assess the struggles of 2011, I can’t help but concentrate my critical remarks on the question of horizontality — or of exclusive horizontality, at least. I have to criticize it because I think that there is no project or political development capable of transforming horizontal spontaneity into an institutional reality. I think, instead, that this passage must be governed in some way or another. Governed from below, of course, on the basis of shared programs, but always bearing in mind the necessity of having, in this passage, an organized political force capable of constituting itself and of managing this transformation. I think that the present state of the movement forces us to be self-critical about what happened in 2011, and I think this self-criticism must focus on the question of political organization. We need to acknowledge, for example, that the Lista Tsipras <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Europe> experiment in Italy has been a tragic failure, even if I, together with Sandro Mezzadra and other comrades, welcomed it with faith and hope. However, on the other hand, it should have been clear, from the beginning, that with organized parties such as SEL or Rifondazione Comunista it would have been impossible to find political forms capable of channeling and allowing spontaneous forces from below to affirm themselves. With Podemos, however, we are probably dealing with something different. Beyond the questionable ideologies around which Podemos constituted itself, I believe that — maybe because of the goodwill of its leaders, or perhaps thanks to the situation in which it finds itself — Podemos is infinitely more powerful than it is organized. It is producing, for the moment, an extremely interesting and active movement that might be capable of contributing to a healthy institutionalization of the struggles. On this question of struggle at the institutional level and of political organization, I would like to conclude with two more general propositions. The first one is that after 2011 horizontality must be criticized and overcome, clearly and unambiguously — and not just in a Hegelian sense. Secondly, the situation is probably ripe enough to attempt once again that most political of passages: the seizure of power. We have understood the question of power for too long in an excessively negative manner. Now we can reinterpret the question of power in terms of multitudes, in terms of *absolute democracy* — that is to say, in terms of a democracy that goes beyond canonical institutional forms such as monarchy, aristocracy and “democracy.” I believe that today the problem of democracy is best formulated and addressed in terms of the multitude. *Antonio Negri **is an Italian militant and theorist in the post-workerist tradition. He is the author of many books, including his highly influential trilogy with Michael Hardt, Empire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_%28Negri_and_Hardt_book%29>, Multitude <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitude:_War_and_Democracy_in_the_Age_of_Emp…> and Commonwealth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_%28book%29>.* :::::::::::::::::::: On January 28, Toni Negri will be giving a lecture titled *From the ‘Operaio Sociale’ to the Multitude: A Marxist Approach to Social Movement Theory?* <https://www.facebook.com/events/1555501571360568/> as part of a lecture series organized by the Marxism(s) in Social Movements working group at the European University Institute in Florence. The event is open to the public. ABSTRACT: Widely known to be one of the founding fathers of autonomist Marxism, Prof. Antonio Negri will elaborate on the way in which he has conceptualized the notions of labor, social struggle, and class struggle within contemporary capitalist society in the light of his Marxist framework. In this regard, he will discuss some of his most compelling and debated concepts such as the mass worker, the social worker (“*operaio sociale*”), the multitude, exodus, and the common/commonwealth, among many others. These concepts are part of one of the most powerful attempts to rethink the political project of critical theory today and to reformulate a Marxist tool-kit in contemporary post-industrial societies. The lecture that Prof. Negri will give at the EUI will also be a good opportunity to open up the discussion on whether and how some of these concepts may be used to enrich the current field of Social Movement Studies. Discussants: Daniela Chironi (EUI) Helge Hiram Jensen (EUI) _______________________________________________ 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: [members] Stallman on Uber
by P2P Foundation mailing list 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris P2Pvalue <chris(a)p2pvalue.eu> Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:31 PM Subject: [members] Stallman on Uber To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> For your delectation and delight - RMS on Uber! https://stallman.org/uber.html -- *Chris Pinchen * P2Pvalue <http://p2pvalue.eu/> -- 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] Kink-Starting the Exodus and colonizing capitalism with forms of emancipation
by P2P Foundation mailing list 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:14 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Kink-Starting the Exodus and colonizing capitalism with forms of emancipation To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, squares < squares(a)lists.takethesquare.net>, Discussion list about the WSF < WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net>, transcollab(a)lists.so36.net Last week saw two major internet stories from ‘Robin Hood’ (aka, Enric Duran) and his plans to *short circuit Capitalism.*[image: capitalism-is-obsolete] <https://thefreeonline.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/capitalism-is-obsolete.png>‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system. At his trial the State banned his witnesses who aimed to expose the multi billion frauds of the banks themselves, So Robin (Enric) ‘did a runner’, and he’s still free. [image: mosaico-aurea-social-aitor-fernandez-date-cuenta-revolucion-integral-635x425] <https://thefreeonline.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/mosaico-aurea-social-aito…>‘He presently lives as a fugitive outside Spain, and is currently busy organizing the *FairCoop – Open Cooperative*, a community-built effort to alleviate global economic inequalities through the use of mutual credit, reputation systems and cryptocurrencies’. (here’s lots more about Fair Coop http://commonstransition.org/portfolio/faircoop/) *FairCoop Introduction <http://vimeo.com/106382024> from Radi.ms <http://vimeo.com/user26025844> on Vimeo <https://vimeo.com/>.* The key to going global is the *Commons Transition* (new website here http://commonstransition.org/ <http://commonstransition.org/>), linking up commons projects like CIC, the P2P Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikipedia, the makers movement, occupy, etc.Read all the dirty details and join in here: Fairness and the Commons, an Interview with Enric Duran <http://commonstransition.org/fairness-and-the-commons-an-interview-with-enr…> .[image: abo-de-gato-cooperativa-integral] <https://thefreeonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/abo-de-gato-cooperativa-i…>FairCoop: virus of cooperation infects a new economyCoops have failed in the past, being shriveled or swallowed by capitalism, like fruit trees in a desert. ‘Robin Hood”s answer is Faircoin, a socialised bitcoin project which is currently taking off. [image: Fair Coop] <https://thefreeonline.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/fair-coop.png> *‘……..A new economy begins with a new kind of money. If you’ve managed to live in something close to a gift economy: congratulations, you’ve made it! This only works for some of us, though, living in relatively small communities, and not on a global scale. You have to realize that you’re not really changing your neighbors’ world by trading Ubuntu installs for massage; you’re not overthrowing the hyperarchist system of human domination by paying for your tofu in rainbowcoins, now, are you?[image: Collaborative-Consumption-Rachel-Botsman] <https://thefreeonline.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/collaborative-consumption…>* *While complementary currencies do a great job at local level, they’re just that: they complement other parts which together make up a whole. And what we really need is to build up a whole new way to live in this world.* https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/robin-hood-to-crack-capitali… _______________________________________________ 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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