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Re: [P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] NEW FROM VERSO: INVENTING THE FUTURE BY NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS
by Orsan Senalp 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Perfectly put Jakob! I was thinking, while watching sheer amount of recent Hollywood (and some Bollywood) movies about automata-AI-robots and while my brain and body is becoming a part of a fully automated system of a call center I work at, about the similarity between the automation we are dealing here and the motoric (as human cognitive-physiologic ability) development. My practical experience shows these two can be today combined in an extremely efficient way by modern corporations around highly complex production-consumption-recycle systems (value chain) where all feedback harvested in form of data, monitored and used as feed back to maximize the absolute and relative exploitation rate. This private ownership of Data and means of automation and ultra socialization of networked labour -during the production and in the whole value cycle- is the key indeed. Thus full automation without overcoming this contradiction might very well mean full fledge slavery in a digital feudalism like environment. Best. Orsan > On 06 Nov 2015, at 20:20, "Jakob Rigi" <Rigij(a)ceu.edu> wrote: > > I have not read the book, but for me full automation means to automate any process that technically can be automated. Now, two problem arise immediately: 1) Automation makes people unemployed; 2) it deprives people from physical activity. But both are false problems. Reduce labour day in the same rate as you automate then everyone will have a job. further, everyone should be entitled to products that machines produce since the labour contribution is minimal. Automated must be commons and privately owned. Concerning physical activity, automation will provides a technical ground for its flourishing. The craft as hobby-art will flourish, people will spend a good portion of their free time on enjoyable and creative physical activities, various forms of sport, exploration of nature and craft. > > best > Jakob > > >>> Ursula Huws <ursulahuws(a)analyticaresearch.co.uk> 11/02/15 11:23 AM >>> > What do you mean by ‘full automation’? Ursula > > From: Anna Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 November 2015 09:19 > To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org; p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org > Cc: Ursula Huws <ursulahuws(a)analyticaresearch.co.uk> > Subject: NEW FROM VERSO: INVENTING THE FUTURE BY NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS > > This book offers the framework of building a campaign strategy around the demand for full automation and a basic income for all. This is not a short term demand but a vision of what can be achieved if labour groups come together with academics and supporters to design the future. > > Personally I believe they have drawn the supporting network too narrowly. But that only makes the case for this campaign even more strongly. I wrote some time ago: > > BIG (basic income guaranteed) may be revolutionary, but it does not need the economic system to change drastically in order to be introduced. In that sense it is reformist, although the effects are revolutionary. > The big advantages are that > 1. it can be introduced without massive changes to the economic system. > 2. It is a very simple idea which can be appreciated by people without much knowledge of the economy. > 3. It has been tried in pilot experiments, and found to be successful in stimulating economic activity. (Brazil) > 4. Many economists agree (James Robertson, Jeremy Rifkin, Edward Snowden, Richard Swift) that with technology replacing many jobs that previously required human labour, BIG of some sort is necessary. > 5. Naomi Klein highlights it in her latest book This Changes Everything, as one of the game changing battles that 'don't merely aim to change laws, but changes patterns of thought.'(p 641) > > > The authors are coming to Leeds for an open discussion on Nov 14. > > > https://www.facebook.com/events/1624336424483090/ > > I believe that this campaign could appeal widely across all political spectrums, and would welcome more discussion on this list. > > Anna > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour

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Fwd: The Activist Ashram - The Rules Global Fellowship Application is Live - Deadline November 22
by Michel Bauwens 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alnoor Ladha <alnoor(a)therules.org> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:24 AM Subject: The Activist Ashram - The Rules Global Fellowship Application is Live - Deadline November 22 To: Dear friends and family of /TR, We have finally launched the application for our year long fellowship, the Activist Ashram. The fellowship has been created for activists on the frontline of the struggle against neoliberal capitalism. We are looking for young leaders and organizers from social movements from around the world, with a particular focus on those based in the global South. There will be an opening circle in February in Morocco and a closing circle 12 months later. There are no obligations required from the fellows except to continue to do the work they are doing. There will be a small monthly stipend, and the support and resources of /TR, including our network of journalists, writers, artists, researchers, policy wonks, etc that will help amplify aspects of the fellows' work. If you know any potential candidates, please encourage them to apply. And if you can offer to be a reference, that would be helpful context for us as well. Here is the application: http://therules.org/activist-ashram-application/ The curriculum will cover the following four areas: (1) the expansion of a *constellational world view* focused on how all oppression is connected as well as exploring where the key acupuncture points in the neoliberal system are (through systemic analysis, relevant case studies, theories, etc.) (2) enhancement of *tools of expression* (especially through *meme warfare*, political writing, research, citizen journalism, artivism etc.) (3) building on *tactical repertoire* (through sharing organizing tactics and strategies, engaging people’s power, tech security etc.) (4) valuing *holistic activism* and the spiritual aspects of the struggle (e.g. Original Wisdom from Indigenous Communities, meditation, yoga and ayurvedic principles to avoid activist burnout etc.). As always, thank you for your counsel and support. Love and solidarity, A -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Aaron Sorkin's Dilemma, or How Digital Media Killed Hero's Journey
by Michel Bauwens 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <douglas(a)rushkoff.com> Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:46 PM Subject: Aaron Sorkin's Dilemma, or How Digital Media Killed Hero's Journey To: rushkoff(a)simplelists.com Happy Wednesday, I've been spending my evenings watching the Mets (lose) instead of attending to communications. Emails have piled up, Twitter notifications sit unread, and LinkedIn has gone into a higher level of robo-Defcon notifications no doubt triggered by my statistically alarming lack of activity. I have been writing a lot, though. I also corrected the final galleys for Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and collected some gratifyingly enthusiastic blurbs from people who are under no obligation to deliver false praise. And that means a lot to me. (Yes, you can pre-order if you're so inclined: http://www.amazon.com/Throwing-Rocks-Google-Bus-Prosperity/dp/1617230170 ) I started a new column at Digital Trends - an website that does mostly technology reviews - but I'll be doing reviews of technology itself. Some favorite members of my posse will be joining me there, including Dave Weinberger, David Zweig, and maybe even David Pescovitz. I banged out my first piece last week and pasted it below - but you can read a prettier version with video here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/how-technology-has-dulled-our-taste-fo… Meanwhile, I'll be speaking at next week's Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School. http://platformcoop.net (I'm on the evening of Nov 14, with Astra Taylor. My new friend, Political Economist and Chair of Media Studies at Queens College, Rick Maxwell, will be speaking there, too.) It'll be a great gathering of people who understand how the digital economy has exacerbated the worst of corporate capitalism, as well as how to reconfigure the economy for way more distributed wealth creation. The irony is that what we're asking for is actually good for business, even though they fight against these principles at every turn. Okay - gotta run to teach my class and then do a talk at SUNY Purchase tonight, about Generation Like. I think it's open to the public, so come if you can: https://newmedia.purchase.edu/new-media-lecture-series-douglas-rushkoff/ -- You Can't Handle The Truth Digital culture seems up in arms about the ways the new Steve Jobs movie diverges from factual history. Unlike the film, nothing ever failed in an Apple demo, Jobs didn’t get into fights with people before going on stage, Wozniak never said any of the things his character does in the movie, and engineers simply don’t work and speak the way they do in the movie. For people who knew Jobs or Apple well – or have even read Walter Isaacson’s book – the poetic license taken by the film feels like an inaccuracy being entered into the historical record. In that sense, it’s worse than a time-travel inconsistency in the Star Trek universe. But is that really why people are so disturbed? Biopics have always taken liberties with real lives of their subjects; the dismay over this fictional take on the Jobs legend rivals the hoopla over a lustful Jesus in Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ. Something else is going on: We’re dissatisfied with how movies work, because digital media has rendered them – or at least the way they tell stories — obsolete. Bedtime tales Aaron Sorkin is probably our best living cinematic storyteller. In full disclosure, I grew up with the guy, directed him in high school musicals like Pippin and Charlie Brown, and sat next to him in the American History class where he got the idea for A Few Good Men. I really do love him and respect his work. But there’s something about his writing that has always struck me as, well, almost too perfectly theatrical. The stories in his TV shows and movies are impeccably engineered to set up conflicts that conspire to bring out the precise inner flaws of each character involved. Superhuman dialogue – everyone has the perfect thing to say in every scene – increases the stakes until we reach an emotionally cathartic resolution that is both unexpected yet – in retrospect – inevitable. Sorkin is today’s master of Aristotelian narrative, that beginning, middle, and ending in which a character and his or her entire world descend into chaos then just come together, make absolute sense, and make us cry. It’s why we love such stories. Or did. Because the real world just isn’t tidy like that. Conflicts don’t resolve; they linger and fester. Like terrorism or global warming. In real life there’s almost never a sigh of ultimate relief. The cathartic self-knowledge of the sort depicted at the end of every perfect drama doesn’t even happen in the shrink’s office, much less the night before a trial (A Few Good Men), an election (An American President) or an iPhone demo. At best, good drama of this sort is escapist. It gives us a way to see life the way we’d like it to be: Justice prevails, evildoers get their comeuppance, and honor is rewarded. Sorkin shows like The West Wing or The Newsroom succeed not because they show us what those environments are really like, but because they show us what they should be like. In stark contrast to the calamity defining George W’s tenure, we get President Martin Sheen on a heroic journey on par with Shakespeare’s Henry V. While the ratings-driven newsmedia boggles the Gulf War and misreports elections in progress, The Newsroom was an homage to journalistic ethics and integrity trumping ratings and profit. But these worlds must be depicted this way in order for them to serve as the perfect engines for heroic drama of a very particular type. They are shot in a photorealistic style, but they are backdrops for the classical well-made play. As Sorkin recently told Wired, he is not really a screenwriter, but a “playwright who pretends to be a screenwriter.” What he may not fully realize is that this makes him not just one, but two full media revolutions behind the times. We are living in a digital-media universe, where the rules of drama described by Aristotle 2,000 years ago no longer hold. For decades now, interactive media devices, from the remote control and the VCR to Netflix and the DVR have changed our relationship to filmed stories. If we don’t believe something, we can change the channel. If we don’t understand something, we can pause and go back. We have a freedom we couldn’t enjoy as live broadcast viewers – much less as movie theater goers. We don’t have to sit through the rising tension, the plot twists, or the frustration of the protagonist unless we want to. We can watch three shows at once, cutting back and forth between them as TV operators rather than as mere TV viewers. We watch movies on YouTube, less as immersed audience members than as distanced critics. That’s why traditional sitcoms and hour dramas with weekly happy endings gave way to stories broken up into lots of little pieces, or serialized over years. The Simpsons was written for the channel surfer. We don’t care about whether Homer gets out of the nuclear power plant before it blows up; we are watching the show scene by scene, trying to recognize which commercial, movie, or other show is being satirized. It’s like Mystery Science Theater 3000, where the satisfaction comes not from getting to the end, but getting the reference. The implied hyperlink. Meanwhile, premium channels like HBO are filled with shows that don’t ever really resolve. We don’t watch Game of Thrones to see who is going to win the war, but to watch the game in progress. Look at the opening titles over a map of the seven kingdoms: It may as well be a fantasy role-playing game or World of Warcraft. The object of such a game isn’t to win, because that ends the play. It’s to keep the game going. Likewise, our real lives in the digital era have become less traditionally structured. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman tells us to dispense with the notion of a career, and to think in terms of 18-month gigs and a constant search for new opportunities. You never get to the promised land. There is no end. The only ones still left hawking a story with an ending are VCs pushing the millionaire-minting “exit potential” of their startups – and, thanks to Mike Judge’s show Silicon Valley, most of us are coming to realize what malarkey that turns out to be, too. The truth is, we have outgrown the kinds of bedtime stories that have placated us and assuaged our anxiety for centuries. We don’t need the contrived resolution of Mark Zuckerberg sending a friend request to his ex-girlfriend at the end of Social Network, or the emotional catharsis of Steve Jobs forging a relationship with the daughter he neglected. Besides, our digital technologies and the sensibilities they foster have made us less likely to want to watch someone else’s story than to experience our own in a video game. When we do turn to media today, it is less likely in order to hear some story than to check a fact. In this age of transparency, we want to know what’s really going on. To Sorkin’s credit, it was the villain in his first great play who argued that we “can’t handle the truth.” Reality, Jack Nicholson’s character explained, is just too messy, too dirty, too violent for us innocents to behold. We require pretty stories. But as members of the digital generation, we have learned to interact with the worlds behind the screen. We have become the masters of the most powerful technologies humankind has ever known, and eaten from the tree of the knowledge. Indeed, we have bitten into the apple. And for that, we have the real Steve Jobs to thank. Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/how-technology-has-dulled-our-taste-fo… ---- This is RushkoffList, a monthlyish update and advance look at work in progress. Feel free to forward to your friends as long as you include this footer. To subscribe, use this link: http://www.simplelists.com/subscribe/rushkoff To unsubscribe: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=grdK4Lvi7veNxafT2DxZrw1oAyoTFsEc -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: 10 years of the "Davos of the SSE" / 10 ans du "Davos de l'ESS" / 10 años del "Davos de la ESS"
by Michel Bauwens 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rencontres du Mont-Blanc <contact(a)rencontres-montblanc.coop> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:04 AM Subject: 10 years of the "Davos of the SSE" / 10 ans du "Davos de l'ESS" / 10 años del "Davos de la ESS" To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/1/D7kbIalxXGZpWSRkPatTfA/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…> *Les Rencontres du Mont-Blanc (RMB) – Forum International des Dirigeants de l'Economie Sociale et Solidaire* *The Mont-Blanc Meetings (MBM)– International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs* *Los Encuentros del Mont-Blanc (EMB) – Foro Internacional de l@s Dirigentes de la Economía Social y Solidaria* *From November 26th to 28th, come celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Mont-Blanc Meetings, also called the "Davos Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy"!* *In 2013*, at the 6thedition of the Mont-Blanc Meetings (RMB) - International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneur, you have made this unmissable meeting point for the SSE! In addition to numerous cross-border collaborations in the social and solidarity economy (SSE) who were born in Chamonix, it is also on this occasion that, along with his counterparts from Ecuador and Morocco, Benoit Hamon, former French Deputy Minister Social and Solidarity Economy, launched *the <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/2/fXdwmHmOPxwlN3JQ5MWKVw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>International Leading Group on SSE <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/3/Kcu6zMHO2qPLUo8LQZLNnw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>* chaired by the French President of the Republic. Since then, several steps have been undertaken to promote the SSE towards international institutions and governments, including: *In 2014*, as part of the 8th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the MBM organized a side event at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New-York. This meeting was an opportunity to present *the final declaration of the 6th edition of the Forum <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/4/o3BjTZRf6N7WzOpbOj_b3w/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>*, the creation of the International Leading Group on SSE and the recent creation of the *UN inter-agency Task Force on SSE* <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/5/zRq_WYf6CnZc7pLuF4Indw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>, of which the Mont-Blanc Meetings are an observer member. *In 2015*, several States have joined the International Leading Group on SSE which met on 4 occasions to exchange and elaborate common responses to various international issues. At *the last <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/6/nUw2qd1I0qiF6JxoI4Gopw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…> <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/7/0lvh2UJ7cfyZgsejOTbaGQ/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>meeting <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/8/so-ITRADwlC5Yu1nYUHDcg/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>* chaired by the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, held in parallel of the 70th Session of United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, a *joint statement <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/9/1D5UF7_QhP-_0aBXLHWqxw/aHR0cDovL3d3dy…>* was signed by several States and international organizations. It encourages the public policies of states to support and integrate the structures of the Social Solidarity Economy, acting for sustainable development. This year again, let us carry on promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy at the international level, by building together cross-family and cross-border projects, and thus contribute to prove by example that the social economy makes it possible to do business differently, consistent with an overall objective of sustainable development! *It is still possible to register!* Come celebrate *the 10th anniversary of the association <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/10/UvSt40p1mphnXyDVqSC5Ow/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* at the 7th edition of the International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs from *November 26th to 28th, 2015 <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/11/IfwG9Hfq-p_me9wTV9IUdQ/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> *in the town of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in France, with a main theme : Human and sustainable development of cities and territories! *=>Register<= <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/12/n7cFmkQAWT-0nvTaUSoS-A/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* *Program <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/13/XQYO8iZEw58DS9oR0m5a9g/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* *Practical information <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/14/ZiWU8cjPHlIce0Dq4hhZqA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* www.rencontres-montblanc.coop/en <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/15/vZYmff-hCYc8FYzBdn3LRQ/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> ***** *Du 26 au 28 novembre, venez fêter les 10 ans des Rencontres du Mont-Blanc, aussi appelé « le Davos de l'économie sociale et solidaire» !* *En 2013*, lors de la 6ème édition des Rencontres du Mont-Blanc (RMB) – Forum International des Dirigeants de l’ESS, vous avez rendu ce rendez-vous incontournable pour le secteur de l’ESS ! En plus des nombreuses collaborations transfrontières dans l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) qui ont vu le jour à Chamonix, c’est également à cette occasion que, aux côtés de ses homologues marocain et équatorien, Benoit Hamon, ancien Ministre français délégué à l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, a lancé le *Groupe Pilote International de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/16/enLvl-OpesTwfZeJMu1v1A/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>*, présidé par le Président de la République française. Depuis, plusieurs étapes ont été franchies afin de promouvoir l’ESS auprès des institutions internationales et des gouvernements, notamment: *En 2014*, dans le cadre de la huitième session du *Groupe de Travail Ouvert sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD)*, les RMB ont organisé une réunion (« s*ide event »)* à New-York au siège des Nations Unies. Cette rencontre a été l’occasion de présenter *la <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/17/tX4i2W5-PUmfxWm9s6N1ew/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>**déclaration finale de la 6° édition du Forum <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/18/H2RUmTaUFkOyJogcHh6e9w/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>**, <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/19/VSG77Tigbu7gxH6uTr4Q4A/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* la création du Groupe Pilote International de l’ESS et la récente création de *la Task Force inter-agences des Nations Unies <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/20/iosQyVcleq_puHFNksJSEw/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> sur l’ESS* dont les RMB sont membre observateur. *En 2015*, plusieurs Etats ont intégré le Groupe Pilote International de l’ESS qui s’est réuni à 4 reprises pour échanger et co-construire des réponses aux différents objectifs internationaux. Lors de la dernière réunion présidée par le Président de la République française, François Hollande, qui a eu lieu en parallèle de la 70ème AG de l’ONU, *une déclaration commune <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/21/oVofWiBjsVL2fimtMN6Q3Q/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* a été signée par plusieurs Chefs d’Etats et organisations internationales. Elle encourage les politiques publiques des Etats à soutenir et intégrer les structures de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, qui agissent pour le développement durable. Cette année encore, continuons à promouvoir l’ESS à l’international en venant co-construire des projets transfamilles et transfrontières, et apporter ainsi la preuve par l’exemple que l’économie sociale et solidaire rend possible d’entreprendre autrement, en cohérence avec un objectif global de développement durable*! * *Il n’est pas trop tard pour vous inscrire *et venir fêter les 10 ans de l’association lors de la 7ème édition de son Forum International des Dirigeants de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire du *26 au 28 novembre 2015 <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/22/kj3xPKpqF-L-snA_VVicjA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> *dans la ville de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, en France, qui a pour thème le développement humain et durable des villes et des territoires*. * *=> Inscrivez-vous <= <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/23/krV2ITtVuKgWoVbLePn4ow/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* *Le programme <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/24/EFi6bRk4y8Yn5Loqp7nTMA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> * *Les infos pratiques <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/25/nvfS2pnqotISWEleJHlmjQ/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* www.rencontres-montblanc.coop <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/26/Xv0ht8tRCCzZkdXVl4wYbQ/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> ***** *Del 26 al 28 de noviembre de 2015, **¡**celebramos juntos el décimo aniversario de Los Encuentros del Mont-Blanc, también llamados "el Davos de la economia social y solidaria"!* *En 2013*, en la 6ª edición de los Encuentros del Mont-Blanc (EMB) – Foro Internacional de los Dirigentes de la Economía Social y Solidaria, han hecho de este evento una cita ineludible para la Economía Social y Solidaria (ESS) internacional. Además de numerosas colaboraciones transfronterizas en la ESS que nacieron en Chamonix, también es en esta ocasión que, al lado de sus contrapartes de Ecuador y de Marruecos, el Sr. Benoit Hamon, el ex ministro francés delegado para la Economía Social y Solidaria, puso en marcha el Grupo Piloto Internacional de la Economía Social y Solidaria <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/27/_5o-YlSrnW-OtVFXp9VAoA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>, presidido por el Presidente de la Republica francesas de la Desde entonces, se han tomado varias medidas para promover la ESS ante las instituciones internacionales y los gobiernos, entre otras: *En 2014*, en el marco de la octava sesión del Grupo de Trabajo Abierto sobre los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), la asociación de los EMB organizó una reunión ("evento paralelo") en Nueva York, en la Sede de las Naciones Unidas. Esta reunión fue una oportunidad para presentar la declaración final de la sexta edición <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/28/AOTA58XasJZo2jfwWsN-_g/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> del Foro y para anunciar la creación del Grupo Internacional sobre la ESS y de la Task Force interinstitucional de las Naciones Unidas sobre la ESS <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/29/0h9dF-tBXojEU8oL4zzaag/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> (los EMB están miembro observador). *En 2015*, varios Estados hicieron entrada en el Grupo Piloto Internacional de la ESS, que se reunió en 4 ocasiones para intercambiar y co-construir respuestas a varios desafíos internacionales. En la última reunión presidida por el Presidente de la República Francesa, François Hollande, que se celebra en paralelo a la 70a Asamblea General de la ONU, una declaración conjunta fue firmada por varios Jefes de Estados y organizaciones internacionales. Anima a las políticas públicas de los estados para apoyar e integrar las organizaciones de la economía social y solidaria, cuales actúen para un desarrollo sostenible. Este año, sigamos promoviendo la Economía Social y Solidaria internacional y construimos juntos proyectos transfamilias y transfronterizos, para demostrar con el ejemplo que la economía social hace posible emprender de manera diferente, de acuerdo con un objetivo global de desarrollo sostenible . *¡Todavía hay tiempo para registrarse! *Venga a celebrar el décimo aniversario de la asociación en la séptima edición del Foro Internacional de los Dirigentes de la ESS del 26 al 28 de noviembre de 2015 <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/30/YLGX1nToSNT9-cYRKkONyg/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> en la ciudad de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Francia, cual tema es “el desarrollo humano y sostenible de ciudades y territorios”. *=> Regístrese <= <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/31/1wDsfQvvPhIvPiUrdHjdqw/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>* *Programa* <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/32/OCmGsUShtEdFn52tBz9bxA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> *Informacion Pratica* <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/33/8WVpdwWQUTGfF0HVUnwiaw/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> www.rencontres-montblanc.coop/es <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/34/cEJYTD9dvKnACk_n5z3yIw/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/35/pLe10jTuiIXnXfqNkIXPnA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> Les Rencontres du Mont-Blanc <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/36/de1e_tFq6LyyPFL9J4xAOQ/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/37/QXbhskpw8Dgyxyn4Da9t_w/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> @montblancforum <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/38/YdhXt4Wc-peZ7VdrPLq9Qg/aHR0cDovL3d3d…> Si vous souhaitez vous désinscrire de nos contacts, cliquez ici <http://xsnm.mj.am/link/xsnm/q6nn5tu/39/JR-WLVQkznhMXkntG4J96A/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>. Pour toutes informations sur les Rencontres du Mont-Blanc : +33 (0)1 73 05 26 64 ou contact(a)rencontres-montblanc.coop -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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Local Food Takeaway and Co-operative
by Kevin Flanagan 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Our friends at Stir to Action are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to start a Local Food Takeaway on wheels. Check out the video: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/local-food-takeaway-project http://stirtoaction.com/ -- https://twitter.com/flgnk Skype: kev.flanagan Phone: +353 87 743 5660

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[Enspiral] Michel Bauwens Visit to NZ / melbourne query
by Michel Bauwens 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

<< [Enspiral] Michel Bauwens Visit to NZ (Angela Daly) yes, I will be in melbourne, the few dayhs before december 7, jose and layne would have details of my engagements there and give you access to my agenda, Michel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:48:28 +1100 From: Angela Daly <angela.daly(a)eui.eu> Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [Enspiral] Michel Bauwens Visit to NZ To: <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> Message-ID: <56392BAC.7020400(a)eui.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Michel, Are you coming to Australia as well - especially Melbourne? Angela On 3/11/15 1:56 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote: -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: [Enspiral] Michel Bauwens Visit to NZ
by Michel Bauwens 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alanna Krause (Loomio) <notifications(a)loomio.org> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:19 AM Subject: [Enspiral] Michel Bauwens Visit to NZ To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net The promo material is good to go! Please help spread the word. Here’s some sample text you can use it to let others know: *Michel Bauwens, founder and director of the P2P Foundation, is coming to Aotearoa New Zealand for a multi-city lecture tour. He is the foremost chronicler of commons-based peer production, and a global thought leader.* *From P2P design to open source collaboration to the sharing economy, new forms of cooperation, value creation, and distribution are emerging. What will this mean for New Zealand and the world?* *See the details of all the events and more info at http://www.enspiral.com/bauwens <http://www.enspiral.com/bauwens>* You can download higher quality versions of the promo flyer on the web link above. — Reply to this email directly or view it on www.loomio.org <https://www.loomio.org/d/w2N4MDVE/michel-bauwens-visit-to-nz?utm_campaign=t…>. Turn off emails <https://www.loomio.org/email_actions/unfollow_discussion/113762/rrFzFVx2JMf…> for this discussion. Change your email preferences <https://www.loomio.org/email_preferences?unsubscribe_token=rrFzFVx2JMf92XWW…> to unsubscribe from these emails. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: [lfowhattheflok] Invitation projection, table ronde, atelier Transformaking, du 5 au 7 novembre à Marseille
by Michel Bauwens 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alphabetville <alphabetville(a)orange.fr> Date: 2015-11-02 23:37 GMT+07:00 Subject: [lfowhattheflok] Invitation projection, table ronde, atelier Transformaking, du 5 au 7 novembre à Marseille To: lfowhattheflok <lfowhattheflok(a)zinclafriche.org>, Reso-nance < fenshu(a)reso-nance.org> Cc: Eric resonance <eric(a)reso-nance.org>, jerome <jerome(a)reso-nance.org>, olivier(a)lespacedunmatin.info, sebastien(a)labaixbidouille.com, aethaniel(a)sam-geek.org, julien(a)pobot.org, hemard(a)tvt.fr, epn(a)lourmarin.com, roseline(a)lafabulerie.com, mlataillade(a)industries-culturelles-patrimoines.fr, contact(a)reseau-tedee.org, gilles.orazi(a)loogix.net, jpcarmona(a)catchu.fr, contact(a)lacharbonnerie.com, yannick.vernet(a)ensp-arles.com, contact(a)fablalpes.org, ekrane(a)tvt.fr, y.sanchez(a)lespetitsdebrouillards.org, guillaume.perocheau(a)isen.fr, fablab.marseille(a)gmail.com, j.hautemaniere(a)sictiam.fr, quentin.destieu(a)lab-gamerz.com, sylvain.huguet(a)lab-gamerz.com, laurent.malys(a)crans.org, jnm(a)autistici.org *Transformaking* International summit for critical and transformative making Jogjakarta / Marseille Aller-Retour Du 5 au 7 novembre à Marseille En septembre dernier, avec le soutien de *l’Institut Français et de la Ville de Marseille*, Alphabetville participait au sommet international Transformaking (international summit for critical and transformative making), organisé par HONF et CATEC à Jogjakarta en Indonésie. L’objectif de ce sommet consistait à observer, expérimenter, restituer les mutations technologiques actuelles des processus de fabrication développés dans les mouvements de la culture ouverte (open culture) et qui appellent dorénavant à envisager une « fabrication critique » (critical making). *Ici et maintenant à Marseille, Alphabetville invite deux artistes du collectif de HONF à Jogjakarta à rendre compte de ces activités et partager leurs pratiques, au travers de quelques événements et ateliers.* *Projection et table ronde « Transformaking, fabrication critique et transformation de la production » le jeudi 5 novembre à 18h00* *Atelier ouvert « Ville innovante, énergie, environnement », les vendredi 6 et samedi 7 novembre de 11h00 à 18h00* *En partenariat avec Design the future now/La Fabulerie, et avec la participation de l’Office.* Détails du programme : *Jeudi 5 novembre à 18h00 à la Fabulerie, 4 rue de la Bibliothèque 13001 Marseille* *- Transformaking - Fabrication critique et transformation de la production* *P*remier sommet des critiques et des alternatives pour de grandes transformations technologiques, économiques, sociales, culturelles, environnementales Projection de la vidéo du sommet à Jogjakarta réalisée par Benoit Lahoz. Table ronde avec Venzha Christ, artiste et directeur de HONF, Argha Mehandra, co-responsable de HONF fablab, Colette Tron, critique et directrice d’Alphabetville, Benoît Lahoz, artiste et directeur de L’ange Carasuelo. Modération : Emmanuel Vergès, l’Office Entrée libre Transformaking : www.transformaking.org Lire l’article dans Makery « Pour une grande transformation » par Colette Tron : http://www.makery.info/2015/09/29/pour-une-grande-transformation-par-colett… *Vendredi 6 et samedi 7 novembre de 11h00 à 18h à la Fabulerie, 4 rue de la Bibliothèque 13001 Marseille* *- Innovative city, energy, environment* Atelier ouvert La ville innovante en lien avec des questions énergétiques et environnementales, à quelques semaines de la COP21 à Paris, conférence des Nations Unis sur le climat : cela du point de vue d’artistes et activistes indonésiens, dont ces thèmes et actions sont structurants dans leurs pratiques à Yogyakarta. Sous forme d’atelier ouvert, il s’agira, à partir de matériaux usagés, de contribuer à imaginer ensemble une ville comme un espace de et pour la vie. Atelier mené par Venzha Christ et Argha Mahendra Enfants, adolescents, tout public Gratuit. Sur inscription à *contact(a)lafabulerie.com* <contact(a)lafabulerie.com>ou *http://lafabulerie.com/?p=2801* <http://lafabulerie.com/?p=2801> Précédentes actions de HONF autour de l’énergie et de l’environnement *. Micro/Macro nation, democratizing energy *: http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&lay… *. Soya c(o)u(l)ture : http://xxlab.honfablab.org/soya-coulture/ <http://xxlab.honfablab.org/soya-coulture/>* Prix Ars electronica 2015 Plus d’informations Alphabetville : http://www.alphabetville.org/ Alphabetville à Transformaking : http://www.alphabetville.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=49 Transformaking :http://transformaking.org/ HONF : http://www.natural-fiber.com/ <http://www.natural-fiber.com/> HONF fablab : http://www.honfablab.org/ Contact : alphabetville(a)orange.fr *ALPHABETVILLE Friche la Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin 13003 Marseille 0495049623* *alphabetville(a)orange.fr* <alphabetville(a)orange.fr>* / www.alphabetville.org <http://www.alphabetville.org/>* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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 Church of Economism and Its Discontents (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:08 AM Subject: The Church of Economism and Its Discontents (GTN Discussion) To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com >From Herman Daly <hdaly(a)umd.edu> ------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Richard Norgaard for an insightful and provocative essay. I would just like to add a reference of likely interest to others, and to raise a question regarding the puzzling quote from Frank Knight. It is becoming more usual nowadays to analyze various fields of thought “as a religion.” Sometimes this is just a rhetorical ploy to discredit a field of thought in the eyes of secular post-modernists who consider all religion as fantasy or lunacy. But other scholars develop logically well-founded and instructive parallels, as is the case with Norgaard’s essay. Another economist who has cogently and extensively developed this line of thought regarding economics is my former colleague, Robert H. Nelson (see his Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars (Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion). Also, I recently learned that there is an emerging field devoted to this kind of study, with its own Journal of Implicit Religion. The occurrence of implicit religion is by no means limited to economics, but can equally be found in other fields, including biology and ecology. Regarding the puzzling quote from Knight: “To inquire into the ultimates behind accepted group values is obscene and sacrilegious: objective inquiry is an attempt to uncover the nakedness of man, his soul as well as his body, his deeds, his culture, and his very gods. Certainly the large general [economics] courses should be prevented from raising any question about objectivity, but should assume the objectivity of the slogans they inculcate, as a sacred feature of the system.” I found this obscure and submit for discussion my attempt to interpret it: namely that Knight has assumed that “ultimates” are either unreal or destructive, and therefore any objective inquiry into their nature would only undercut, the ““principles” by which a society or a group lives in tolerable harmony.” This, of course, is implicit religion from Knight—the metaphysical proposition that there probably are no objective values, and even if there are, we are better off not inquiring about them. The social goal of “tolerable harmony” justifies our conventional economic ideology, which cannot withstand objective questioning. Alternatively, Nelson suggests that Knight was less a cynical pragmatist than a secular Calvinist who believed that original sin renders natural man incapable of achieving objective goodness even if it exists. However, that original sin would not also preclude attainment of pseudo-ultimate free market values seems to have been assumed as well by Knight. Perhaps Knight’s hope was that market principles, although flawed as he recognized, would allow a society in which people, though unable to perceive or agree on the objective authority of the ultimate good, could nevertheless exist in “tolerable harmony”. The “explicit religion” of Christianity (including Calvinism) affirms that ultimate value really does exist, and that by divine grace man may, albeit with error, recognize it, and respond to its lure. However, in fairness to Knight, who was not a Christian, one must admit that, from the perspective of today’s politics, “tolerable harmony” looks pretty good. --Herman Daly ************************************************************************ Friday, October 30, 2015 >From Paul Raskin <praskin(a)tellus.org> ----- GTN Friends: I write to launch our NOVEMBER DISCUSSION, which will consider Richard Norgaard’s new GTI essay, “The Church of Economism and Its Discontents.” Please read it at www.greattransition.org/publication/the-church-of-economism-and-its-discont…, and consider commenting. Is orthodox economics akin to a secular religion? Are we living in the “Econocene”? Is there a way out? Norgaard, a founder of ecological economics, argues yes, yes, and maybe. In so doing, he guides us further into the terrain of alternative economics we’ve explored recently in our discussions of GTI pieces by Herman Daly, Giorgos Kallis, Peter Barnes, and John Bellamy Foster. I wonder, though: * Is economism still a monolithic ideology? Or are critical currents within the economics mainstream increasingly questioning its reductionist framework and false predictions? * As a framing for our contemporary condition, is “the Econocene” a useful corrective to the geologic emphasis of “the Anthropocene”? How do these compare to GTI’s term, “The Planetary Phase of Civilization,” which aims to convey the multi-dimensionality of the globalizing social-ecological system? I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts on these and other issues raised by Norgaard’s stimulating essay. Comments are welcome through NOVEMBER 30. Looking forward, Paul Raskin GTI Director NOTE ON GTI’S PUBLICATION CYCLE: GTN discussions occur in ODD-NUMBERED months, and GTI publishes in EVEN-NUMBERED months. Each discussion takes up a new essay or viewpoint prior to its publication. After the discussion closes, GTI publishes the piece, edited comments from the discussion, and a response from the author (along with other new articles). You can review all GTN discussions at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-forum. ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at http://www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/171-the-church-of-econ… Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Story from the thestar.com: Uber makes us the bosses from hell: Mallick
by Michel Bauwens 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: webmaster(a)thestar.ca <webmaster(a)thestar.ca> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:33 AM Subject: Story from the thestar.com: Uber makes us the bosses from hell: Mallick To: "ne_atl(a)onebox.com" <ne_atl(a)onebox.com>, "michel(a)p2pfoundation.net" < michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Nurul has shared a story with you from thestar.com: "FYI - A Canadian opinion on the for-profit "sharing economy" - Nurul" <http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/11/02/uber-makes-us-the-boss…> Uber makes us the bosses from hell: Mallick <http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/11/02/uber-makes-us-the-boss…> Would Tory MPP Tim Hudak still like the sharing economy so much if we were forced into the precarious labour on which it depends? --Nurul (ne_atl(a)onebox.com) -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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