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Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Movie and Q&A
by P2P Foundation mailing list 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Beyond Consumer Capitalism: A Movie and Q&A with Justin Lewis CAMRI Seminar Wed, February 11 14:00 Univ of Westminster Room A7.01 Registration per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/justin-lewis-beyond-co… Justin Lewis’ book “Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media andthe Limits to Imagination” shows how consumer capitalism is unsustainable, inhibits quality of life, and limits critical thinking and the envisioning of alternatives.   Accompanying the book, the Media Education Foundation has released the film “Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination”. In this event, Justin Lewis will introduce the book and the film, and there will be a screening of the movie, followed by a Q&A session. What are consumer capitalism’s problems? What is the role of the media in consumer capitalism? What are alternatives to consumer capitalism’s negative impacts on social life, the environment, the quality of life, the economy, culture, and democracy? How can we organise media and communications so that they foster a cultural environment that encourages rather than impedes human imagination? What are alternatives to consumer capitalism and capitalist media? Can we envision a different world and a different media landscape beyond consumer capitalism? This event will focus on the discussion of and new insights into such questions, which is crucial for the future of communications and humanity. Professor Justin Lewis is Dean of Research in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He has written many books about communication, the cultural industries, news and politics, including Constructing Public Opinion and Citizens or Consumers: The Media and the Decline of Political Participation. He is in the editorial board of nine journals and his latest book, Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination was published in 2013. He has led a number of research projects for the BBC, the BBC Trust, Channel 4, the Office of Science and Innovation, the AHRC, the ESRC and Rowntree. He was a panel-member for the 2014 REF (as he was for the 2008 RAE) and the Welsh First Minister’s Broadcasting Advisory Panel.

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Another Politics - After Syriza
by P2P Foundation mailing list 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Thanks for this response. What I sense is that it's OK to pursue this topic as long as it is kept separate from the efforts focussed on political and theoretical change. Yet my point is that this is absolutely intrinsic to what p2p is about, the inner and outer aspects of the same thing. Nothing needs to be added, just allowing what is already there to be revealed, and not putting energy into resisting it. Focussing on external achievements, as in the example of Podemos you gave, can lead to frustration and despair. Unless these feelings are addressed they can sabotage movement solidarity. Likewise the joy and excitement of sharing and collaboration are an integral part of our evolving humanity. “Without developing the inner culture of the human being, we cannot develop a sustainable future.” E F Schumacher The inspiring review of Chris Dixon's book by Garces points to the same need to include a more wholistic consciousness in our relationships. Otto Scharma makes the same point. 'We might say it this way: The success of our actions as change-makers does not depend on what we do or how we do it, but on the inner place from which we operate.' Anna On 2 Feb 2015, at 17:46, P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: from my own engagement with integral theory and clare graves work on the evolution of consciousness, I think it is totally illusory to expect a general shift of consciousness to collective wisdom .. people who feel ready to do so, should do it with those willing to follow them; but changing the general culture of society and social movements is a long and arduous road, taking generations ... you have to start above all with what is, warts and all ... see how the democratic structure of podemos has already changed, even before and power shift, towards a shift conducive to the leadership ... you can wish otherwise, but the shift was endorsed by 80 perent or more of the membership ... this is what you have to work with, making progress wherever you can ... and compared to the barbarians in power now, it is already a substantial shift, Michel <<Subject: To: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Cc: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org>, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com>, "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Message-ID: <276254C6-3BEE-433C-970B-C30C72E154F3(a)shsh.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Otto Scharma's book 'Leading from the Emerging Future' is available for free download. Here is the Intro which is well worth reading. In my opinion, while this approach is not complete in itself, it would make an enriching addition towards the collaborative commons. http://www.ottoscharmer.com/sites/default/files/e2e_ulab.pdf -- 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 Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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What_s Love Got To Do With Transformative Education-10-31-14-Revised.pdf
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Here's the link, hope it comes through. Anna

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Re: [P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] [Networkedlabour] Another Politics - After Syriza
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Probably I am the worse in that sense. I mean tempering my fluctuating enthusiasms, is not my strong side, but I can be very agree with you Bob, and Anna on the points you make. May be there is also a phycological or personality wise labour division we are in need of, between femininity and masculinity, modesty and pride, ego and id.. What is certain though is that not everyone will reach at a certain level of wiseness, self- and general awareness, consciousness at the same time, and even one reach there it is hard to get it stabile -at least under this mode of production or for me :) but sure, this is something that was causing, from the agency side, so much trouble in terms of getting somewhere, understand in each other, and standing together. The worse thing is that is doesn't matter who is saying these words, like me myself, the same person can be the one loosing her his awareness-less at most. what makes difference is if he or she holding a point in power structure or network -like me moderating of this list (although i do not own the server where the list is hosted :)) can be the one bullying. And sometimes people doing this kinds of things can be ones doing this out of worry, they grow in their minds our of ignorance, so futile worries, for protective purpose. But sometimes these kind of behaviors are hard core elements established and there to stay. Anyway, there were at one point a reference to molecular, radical inner chance -as part of changing whole at community, societal, and global levels- may be what is happening or needs to get stronger these days is the emergence of new form of social labour division, distributed in a way it transcends artificial borders dividing social relations by identities like gender, class, geographies, ethnicities so on. those border that are built to reproduce disempowerment. p2p, cooperation, commons,... the more intensified and open the exchange between people is the more possible to realize such labour division. and to develop awareness of our awareness of how these borders being built, function, and overcome. > Anna, > > I appreciate when people temper their enthusiasm with experience. I see too many people being unwilling to critically reflect on their enthusiasms. > > Thank you, > Bob > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Anna Harris <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> wrote: >> After my enthusiastic foray into Otto Scharma's U.Lab I have to report that I found it another liberal attempt to encourage people to become 'change makers', supporting them in a self blaming exercise, where fear and greed are seen as the problems of our social dis/ease, without linking this to social and economic pressures. >> >> Some good ideas of deep listening, connecting head, heart and will, moving from ego to Eco, focussing on what is emerging, but falling short of a radical critique which could reveal the enormity of the task in hand. >> >> Going beyond the shift in consciousness required to let go of old habits of thinking, takes us to an unexplored place on the edge of what we know. Few are willing to go there, because everywhere we judge, and we are judged, by what we know. In this culture ruled by science, there does not seem to be any room or any relevance for not knowing. Yet I persist in trying to bring it to the attention of those on this email list. >> >> Anna >> >> >> >> On 28 Jan 2015, at 10:57, Anna Harris <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> wrote: >> >> A very different answer to the same question from Otto Scharma : >> >> [–]rodneyrod 6 points 6 days ago >> Otto, as you have worked with change makers across the globe where have you seen the most resistance/discomfort in people as they attempt to enter the "presencing" stage of listening? How can those observations assist us as we open this journey to others? >> perma-link >> [–]OttoScharmer[S] 5 points 6 days ago >> i have found that most people who, regardless of their sector, are exposed to real world change, and have to hold the space for people related changes (or are exposed to the creative process one way or another) are already well prepared to drop to these deeper levels of operating. so where is it not the case? with people who are stuck in powerpoints worlds of headquarters and politics--sometimes also people that are just very remote of real reality, like old style academia... but overall i am VERY surprised how significant the readiness for these deeper levels are --although that readiness is usually not conscious (yet) >> perma-linkparent >> >> >>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:01 PM, P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: >>> hi Anna, >>> >>> At the p2p foundation we stress personal and interpersonal change and facilitation, but at the same time, we have to be realistic in this, what is already possible but very difficult in small groups of committed people may not be possible for society at large ... For understanding this, and though I'm critical of the authoritarian interpretations of that tradition, the integral psychology of clare graves remains fundamental .. >>> >>> Detailed studies by Susan Cook-Greuters have determined that at most 2% of the population have integrative consciousness, with 30% more or less having this as a aspirational consciousness .. >>> >>> I take great comfort in the growth of participative culture and skills now evident in the new mutualized working spaces but this is far from being the general culture .. >>> >>> Again, referring to the scheme of John Heron, I would say that for the greater masses, we are at the potential change of stage 2 to 3, with significant minorities at four .. >>> >>> so here is how I see it: >>> >>> * develop fully participative cultures for mature peer producing communities >>> >>> * develop deeper participative potentialities for the aspirational parts of the population (active citizenship) >>> >>> * embed participative process in the general social technology of our time, to upgrade the general culture .. >>> >>> A lot then further depends on the relative positioning of scarcity vs abundance dynamics ... >>> >>> for abundance context, the generalization of peer governance is very realistic >>> >>> for scarcity contexts, the choice between hierarchical, democratic-representative, and market-driven allocation mechanisms remains entirely open >>> >>> see for example how the wikipedia re-introduced a rather toxic bureaucracy by re-introducing artificial scarcity ... (notability requirements to be decide by elite editors) >>> >>> just today, I am involved in a frustrating dialogue with a feminist activist who did not even want to share even excerpts of her book on 'moneyless living' .. in other words, she is creating a artificial scarcity of her own book, that is technically freely copyable, in order to 'swap' it in exchange for something else ... reproducing the artificial scarcities in so-called advanced milieus ... moneyless living for those that have the money to buy it .. >>> >>> I'm sure you can find similar contradictions in all of us, including me .. >>> >>> in conclusion, we are not ready to shed relative domination processes for any pure egalitarianism any time soon, >>> >>> Michel >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Anna Harris <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> wrote: >>>> Amid all the euphoria in celebrating the Greek landslide, and following Michel's integrative approach, the points in the article below need to be emphasised. We all carry within us the wounds of oppression however much we feel we have cast them aside, and they will surface again in the new post capitalist structures unless we put some focus individually and collectively on healing ourselves and becoming whole. >>>> >>>> 'the wounding through oppression that we all experience shows up in our organizing, and have permeated organizational culture except where the influence of feminists and others committed to transformational work has created a different way of creating structure, that prioritizes a strategy and collective struggle rooted in healing and wholeness.' >>>> >>>> Pauli Friere spoke about this in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed. >>>> >>>> What does that mean? How do we do that? Often it seems there isn't time to go into this now, let's get into power first, then we can see to these issues. That's when the multitude becomes an instrument, and arguments between hierarchy and horizontality appear to be abstract concepts with no people involved. >>>> >>>> How do we become more fully human in our relationships with each other? What makes it particularly difficult is that there is no ready made formula - follow these steps and you will get there. No. This is a step into the unknown. But that also makes it an exciting exploration. >>>> >>>> Anna >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 25 Jan 2015, at 11:38, P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/andrew-willis-garc%C3%A9s/anot… >>>>> Another Politics-from anti-colonial to Occupy >>>>> Chris Dixon's new book identifies four principles that underpin the success of transformative social movements. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Willis Garcés 7 January 2015 >>>>> >>>>> [This article originally appeared in Waging Nonviolence.] >>>>> >>>>> Seven years ago I worked at a tenant and worker organizing group in Washington, D.C. We referred to ourselves as a "movement-building" organization, but weren't always clear what we meant by that. One evening I was out door-knocking with one of our members, James, an African American man in his 50s. He asked me about a conference some of us had attended in Atlanta the previous week, the U.S. Social Forum. >>>>> >>>>> "What was the big theme there that stuck out to you?" he asked. >>>>> >>>>> It was a good question. At that moment, the DJ Unk song "Walk It Out" was booming from a nearby car. >>>>> >>>>> "Well, I was most impressed by the groups that really try to walk out their beliefs-connecting all the dots between racism, capitalism, even imperialism, and the inner work we have to do as people to overcome the things we've learned." >>>>> >>>>> I explained more about what that meant to me. >>>>> >>>>> He shook his head, amused. >>>>> >>>>> "That's a tall order!" He thought about it a little more. "When will we get time for all that?" >>>>> That tall order is the subject of Chris Dixon's book Another Politics, newly released by University of California Press. The product of dozens of interviews conducted with community organizers over the last decade, the book is an excellent distillation of what Dixon calls "another politics," a shared political orientation that unites grassroots organizers working from similar principles in the United States and Canada across issue, movement, sector, strategy and identity. >>>>> >>>>> Through the interviews, he identifies four core principles that unite left "anti-authoritarian" organizers across different "strands" of struggle, transcending traditional notions of issue-based organization: >>>>> . being against domination of all kinds; >>>>> . prioritizing the development of new social relations and forms of social organization in the process of struggle; >>>>> . linking struggles for improvements in people's lives to long-term transformative visions; and >>>>> . grassroots organizing from the bottom-up. >>>>> >>>>> In regards to these different strands, he writes, "We braid them together as we work collectively and build relationships across politics, campaigns and movements: anarchist labor organizers draw on analytical frameworks from women of color feminism; radical queer activists use community-based models for dealing with violence, developed by anti-racist feminists and prison abolitionists." >>>>> >>>>> He explores how Occupy Wall Street, anti-colonial movements, and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, among other groups, have contributed to developing "another politics" across decades. >>>>> >>>>> Dixon digs even deeper, characterizing organizations practicing "another politics" as being explicit about their "collective refusal" of oppression-specifically, as incorporating "the four anti's" of : anti-authoritarianism; anti-capitalism; anti-oppression; and anti-imperialism, into their work. This left me wondering how some organizations might "fit" this taxonomy-what if your group has a handle on economic exploitation, for instance, but relies on charismatic leadership? >>>>> >>>>> But Dixon is nevertheless clear about organizations that he sees as practicing "another politics," and the book is most compelling when he recounts movement-building victories, like the story of Canada's multi-city immigrant rights group No One is Illegal: >>>>> "In a stunning December 2007 action, some 2,000 people, largely South Asian, blockaded the Vancouver International Airport to stop Singh's impending deportation. And starting with an 'Education Not Deportation' campaign in 2006, NOII-Toronto launched a multi-year fight for Toronto to become a solidarity city, where all people can access city services regardless of immigration status. Organizing across sectors and services, they finally won in 2013." >>>>> >>>>> Dixon also uses the book to highlight "ideas rarely in writing," exploring dynamics of movement-building organization that don't get much print. For instance, he writes about the process of integrating not just issue lenses but our whole selves-creating community and organization that operates at the speed of the whole. >>>>> >>>>> As Dixon writes, "recognizing and deliberately fostering feelings and relationships as essential ingredients for transformative struggle" is still not a widespread practice, and he points out that this is not a new phenomenon, as the Black Panthers and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee also sought "to develop common expectations about how people should treat one another." >>>>> >>>>> Continuing this thread, he also counts as emergent practices among "another politics" practitioners, forms of organizing that affirm families and domestic and reproductive work simultaneously with challenging systemic inequity, and moving beyond an individual-focused anti-oppression politics. >>>>> >>>>> Dixon and the people he interviews point out that the wounding through oppression that we all experience shows up in our organizing, and have permeated organizational culture except where the influence of feminists and others committed to transformational work has created a different way of creating structure, that prioritizes a strategy and collective struggle rooted in healing and wholeness. This increasing focus on wholeness and wellness, seen in the recent popularity of integrating somatics and other healing disciplines into community organizing, can only make us more adept at building a broader and more resilient web of movements. >>>>> >>>>> And Dixon helps unpack the challenges unique to movement-building organizations, which, he says, must move towards specific victories and goals, while also moving through a process that creates new ways of being, doing and relating, that avoid replicating oppressive practices. All while avoiding "ruts" common to anti-authoritarian groups, like knee-jerk non-hierarchy, and the "burn bright, burn out" cycle of organizations that rise and fall quickly. >>>>> >>>>> Dixon illustrates this point with a fantastic metaphor offered by Project South's Steph Guillioud, comparing different forms of organization to different kinds of cars suited to particular functions: >>>>> "The variations in vehicles don't change the map, they don't change the road, they don't change the need for people to drive and people in the back or the people moving it. We will always have and need the people who can push it and the people that can work on the insides, the people who can never get a ride, et cetera." >>>>> >>>>> It's rare to find a book on social movements written explicitly for people with less academic credentials than its author. Dixon, who wrote the book for a PhD program, takes care to explain terms as they come up; he doesn't assume we know about ethnography ("analyzing lived culture while experiencing it"). And he gives his interviewees plenty of airtime to put their own spin on, for instance, "affective organizing," which becomes "not being a fucking asshole," in the wonderfully succinct words of Bay Area activist Harjit Singh Gill. >>>>> >>>>> Still, the number of concepts he introduces feels overwhelming at times, and I longed for a glossary or flow chart when concepts like "non-instrumental organizing" popped up (which, it's worth noting, refers to the analysis and strategies people can create when they come together in dialogue and struggle as peers, as opposed to treating people as instruments to be manipulated, or pieces on a figurative chess board to mobilize toward a predetermined end). >>>>> >>>>> "Anti-authoritarian," then, could be shorthand for "principled organizing"-organizing that gets down to the roots, that refuses to settle for electing a slightly better candidate, for selling out our potential allies to scoop up a superficial win, or that sees the path to victory as anything less than the destination itself. >>>>> >>>>> Towards the end of the book, I was reminded of my exchange that day with James. Clearly, as Dixon demonstrates, there are mixed-class organizations that make time for individual and collective healing practices, for skillshares and strategy seminars, for discussion groups, for intentionally developing and evaluating leadership, and for developing organizational structure. But increasingly, as people are forced to work longer hours for lower incomes, I have to wonder: How are organizations adapting to support their people to do more with less? >>>>> >>>>> I longed for more detail on what day-to-day life is like for an organizer in the six specifically-chosen cities from which Dixon chose his interview subjects. What does it look like to practice "another politics" in Atlanta, for instance? It's worth asking, given that the book is structured around questions like, "How can we most productively manifest our visions through our organizing work?" Like a good organizing mentor, Dixon (and his interviewees) gives us insight without "right" answers, helping to deepen our understanding of commonalities and remind us of the deep roots of the "another politics" leftist lineage. >>>>> >>>>> (((((( ))))) >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Willis Garcés works with Training for Change and has led trainings for immigrant activists in several US states on campaign strategy and civil disobedience. Read more of his work at www.porvida.org/. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >>> >>> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >>> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >>> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkedLabour mailing list >> NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org >> http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour

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Re: [P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] [Networkedlabour] Another Politics - After Syriza
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

yes, since the space we do occupy is on a server that belongs to a free information activist and long time squatter friend that I came to know via TNI, Albi. Who is generously hosting several key e-lists for the movements and networks. So that is why the size limit was low and attachment is not allowed. I did express this before but may be good to repeat sometimes to bag understanding from all on the list, might be frustrated by the limitations, bouncing emails, and unsent attachments. thanks again for the understanding! orsan > On 2 feb. 2015, at 23:24, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Anna Harris <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> wrote: >> Thanks for your contribution. The attachment you gave is only the abstract >> of the article you mention. Can you give a link to the full article? > > Yes please. The attachment didn't make it over to networkedlabour, either. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour

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Re: [P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] [Networkedlabour] Another Politics - After Syriza
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

from my own engagement with integral theory and clare graves work on the evolution of consciousness, I think it is totally illusory to expect a general shift of consciousness to collective wisdom .. people who feel ready to do so, should do it with those willing to follow them; but changing the general culture of society and social movements is a long and arduous road, taking generations ... you have to start above all with what is, warts and all ... see how the democratic structure of podemos has already changed, even before and power shift, towards a shift conducive to the leadership ... you can wish otherwise, but the shift was endorsed by 80 perent or more of the membership ... this is what you have to work with, making progress wherever you can ... and compared to the barbarians in power now, it is already a substantial shift, Michel <<Subject: To: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Cc: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org>, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com>, "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Message-ID: <276254C6-3BEE-433C-970B-C30C72E154F3(a)shsh.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Otto Scharma's book 'Leading from the Emerging Future' is available for free download. Here is the Intro which is well worth reading. In my opinion, while this approach is not complete in itself, it would make an enriching addition towards the collaborative commons. http://www.ottoscharmer.com/sites/default/files/e2e_ulab.pdf -- 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: [2011movements-fsm discussion] Global square meeting on Friday 6th of February
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

fyi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: 2 February 2015 at 17:56 Subject: Re: [2011movements-fsm discussion] Global square meeting on Friday 6th of February To: 2011movements-fsm <2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion(a)lists.openfsm.net>, squares <squares(a)lists.takethesquare.net>, "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Thanks Marita, for the work, also thanks Rami, Carminda, Jasper, myself, Marisa, Dean, Piran, Miki, Vica and others who has joined and collaborated on this! Here is the working pad, where participants can suggest and modify the agenda: https://titanpad.com/globalsquare17 Below suggestions, to kick of the wiki 'agenda setting' process, that is open to everyone, made by me. "Proposed Agenda 0. Check-ins and deciding who will do the moderation, notes, stacks, and follow up work. 1. Updates and feelings about, as well as any relevant input re the transnational networking at the grasroots level towards, in, around, and beyond Tunis WSF 2015 > Quebec 2016 > as well as other events like ECB action, COOP15, or election of Syriza, and support for Podemos? the return of Hong Kong protestors,... 2. [Orsan] Presentation of Global Square, on social media, email lists, to WSF participants and in general. Adding somehing like this to text, and site, to welcome new people, inform them more openly. Hosting initiatives and individuals: Global Square is an open idea and action to create collaborative and inspiring commons spaces in around and beyond the World Social Forums. Anyone who you like to join and collaborate with us ismore then welcome. Please ask and request anything you need and like to know about the backgound, processes, and vision we put forward collectively. [Here I suggest we could give links from engaged people, their initiatives, and from the GS website - adding these to FB event as host, making collaboration and core info visible] 3. Proposed events: [Orsan] Proposal for an open, horizontal, transnational work-group for an event: "Networking alternative modes of productions bottom up": inviting those people directly involved in commons, floss, p2p communities, worker and ciziten coops, and autonomous alternative solidarty economy networks coming to Tunis, as well as the ngo/cso type oganisations that for any purposes supporting these groups in one way or another (draft text is in progress, inc. description, process, targe groups, content.. will be posted here tomorrow or the day after). 4. 5. 6. Round up: Follow up work (and who will do what) Nest meeting date Checking out" Bst, Orsan On 2 February 2015 at 13:34, marita <maciacia50(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/events/425777997575039/ > > event in facebook to invite people to the meeting > > Marita > > > > El 29/01/2015, a las 13:02, marita escribió: > > Call for the next Global square meeting on Friday 6th of February 6pm CET > time > > Check your local time here: time zone converter > (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) > > Proposal to open a ''Global Square'' during the World Social Forum 2015 in > Tunis > > ENG > Our squares are homes to our ideas and aspirations, in them we struggle, in > them we shout at injustices, in them we share alternatives and build > dreams. During the World Social Forum 2015 in Tunisia, the '' Global > Square '' will be open to all those who are fighting in the streets to > build the necessary change. > Using the ''open space'' methodology, the program (clearly indicated on a > board during the WSF) will be permanently open to the organization of > assemblies, workshops, creative activities, sharing of knowledge and > methodologies, etc. > And this space will also encourage spontaneous meetings, music and > creativity... > > ESP > Nuestras plazas son los albergues de nuestras ideas y esperanzas, en ellas > luchamos, en ellas gritamos las injusticias, en ellas compartimos > alternativas y construimos suenos. Durante el Foro Social Mundial 2015 en > Tunes, la ''Plaza Global'' (''Global Square'') se convertira en un espacio > abierto para todos aquellos y aquellas que luchan en las calles por el > cambio. > Usando la metodologia ''foro abierto'' a programacion (claramente indicada > en un tablero durante el FSM) estara permanentemente abierta para la > organizacion de asambleas, talleres, actividades creativas, compartir de > saberes y metodologias, etc. > Y este espacio estara también abierto para favorecer encuentros > espontaneos, musica y creatividad... > > FR > Nos places publiques sont les hôtes de nos idées et de nos aspirations. On > y lutte, on y crie les injustices, on y partage des alternatives et on y > construit nos rêves. Au cours du Forum Social Mondial 2015 en Tunisie, > ''Global Square'' (''Place Globale'') deviendra un espace ouvert pour tous > ceux et celles qui luttent dans les rues pour construire le changement > nécessaire > Utilisant la méthodologie de ''forum ouvert'', la programmation (clairement > indiquée au cours du FSM) sera ouverte en permanence à l'organisation > d'assemblées, d'ateliers, d'activités créatives, au partage de > connaissances et de méthodologies, etc. > Cet espace encouragera aussi les rencontres spontanées, la musique et la > créativité... > > Pad: https://titanpad.com/globalsquare17 > > The meeting will be on Mumble > > Mumble is a voice chat Open Source software > How to join Mumble: http://www.global-square.net/how-to-join/ > download Mumble and go to: > Label: tomalaplaza.net > Server: tomalaplaza.net > Port: 64738 > Channel: International/plaza de los pueblos > Nickname: Your name/nick > > Signs we use in the text chat during our mumble meetings: > > WWWW or +1 = agree > MMMMM or -1 = disagree > ****turn**** = ask for turn > +++++ = direct response > TTTTT = technical point > ##### = please kindly try to conclude your intervention, I > understood you :) > > Some information about GlobalSquare > web site: http://www.global-square.net //website down???? > Mailing list: You can subscribe here / vous pouvez vous inscrire ici: > http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-w… > All from Global Square in Tunis: > http://titanpad.com/globalsquaresassembliesTunis > > > > > -- > Archive: http://openfsm.net/[…]/1422881418921 > To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to > 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion(a)lists.openfsm.net. Please contact > 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion-manager(a)lists.openfsm.net for questions.

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C. Fuchs: Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
by P2P Foundation mailing list 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

New book: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media. New York: Routledge. 424 pages. ISBN Paperback 978-1-13-883931-1. ISBN Hardcover 978-1-13-883929-8 More info (plus possibility to order review copies, library copies, and examination copies for courses) http://fuchs.uti.at/books/culture-and-economy-in-the-age-of-social-media/ This book applies Raymond Williams' approach of Cultural Materialism to critically analyse cultural labour, digital labour, ideology, politics, democracy, the public sphere, globalisation, social media in China, the international division of digital labour, productive labour, and social struggles in the age of digital capitalism. Table of Contents 1. Introduction PART I: Theoretical Foundations 2. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval: Culture and Work 3. Communication, Ideology, and Labour PART II: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Time 4. Social Media and Labour Time 5. Social Media and Productive Labour PART III: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Global Space 6. Social Media’s International Division of Digital Labour 7. Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China PART IV: Alternatives 8. Social Media and the Public Sphere 9. Conclusion Related books: Christian Fuchs (2014): Digital labour and Karl Marx, http://fuchs.uti.at/books/digital-labour-and-karl-marx Christian Fuchs (2014): OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism http://fuchs.uti.at/books/occupymedia-the-occupy-movement-and-social-media-…

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Call ESA 2015 Conference: “Critical Media Sociology Today”
by P2P Foundation mailing list 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

Call: RN18 Panel “Critical Media Sociology Today” 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association August 25-28, 2015. Prague Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb 1 Submission: http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission Call text: http://fuchs.uti.at/1338/ Critical Media Sociology Today We live in times of ongoing crisis, the extension and intensification of inequalities concerning class, gender, and race, a return of the importance of the economy and political economy, a lack of imaginations of alternatives to neo-liberalism and capitalism, an intensification of right-wing extremism and fascism all over Europe, a lack of visions and power of the political Left, an intensification and extension of extremely repressive forms of state power such as communications surveillance conducted by secret services, ideological scapegoating conducted by conservative and far-right parties, and law and order-politics. Left-wing movements and parties have in some countries emerged or been strengthened, but the crisis has overall brought a further political shift towards the right and an intensification of capitalism and inequality. We today require politically a renewal of the Left. For critical media sociology this means that it needs to ask questions, theorise, and conduct critical analysis of media and communications in the context of capitalism, class, ideologies, racism, fascism, right-wing extremism, gender, state power, activism and social movements, challenges for public service, media reforms, crisis, globalisation, the rise of China, digitalisation, consumer and advertising culture, information/cultural/media work, digital labour, the new international division of cultural and digital labour, warfare and military conflicts, the new imperialism, financialisation, etc. ESA RN 18 calls for contributions that shed new light on questions that Critical Media Sociology needs to ask today and on theoretical and analytical insights that help to shape Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century. RN18’s panel at the ESA 2014 Prague Conference “Differences, Inequalities Sociological Imagination” and its contributions are organised in the form of specific session topics. ESA RN18 calls for contributions to the following sessions: RN18_1: Critical Media Sociology and Karl Marx Today: What is the role and legacy of Karl Marx’s works and Marxist theory for critical media sociology today? RN18_2: Critical Media Sociology and Capitalism Today: How does capitalism shape media and communications today? RN18_3: Critical Media Sociology and Critical Theory Today: What is a critical theory of 21st century society? What role do communication, media and culture play in such a theory? RN18_4: Critical Media Sociology and Stuart Hall Today: How do Stuart Hall’s works, projects, and collaborations matter for critical media sociology today? RN18_5: Critical Media Sociology and Cultural Materialism Today: How does Raymond Williams’ approach of cultural materialism matter today for understanding the sociology of media and communications? RN18_6: Critical Media Sociology, Patriarchy and Gender Today: What is the role of and relationship of identity politics and anti-capitalism for feminist media sociology today? RN18_7: Critical Media Sociology and the Critique of the Political Economy of the Internet and Social Media: How does capitalism shape the Internet and social media? RN18_8: Critical Media Sociology and Ideology Critique Today: What are the main forms of ideology today and how do they operate in the media? Which forms and approaches of ideology critique do we need to understand them? RN18_9: Critical Media Sociology, Right-Wing Extremism and Fascism Today: What is the relationship of far-right movements and parties, the media and communication? RN18_10: Critical Media Sociology and Digital Labour Today: What forms of digital labour and digital class struggles are there and how can they best be theorised, analysed, and understood? RN18_11: Critical Media Sociology and the Left: How could a 21st century Left best look like and what is the role of media and communications for such a Left? What is the historical, contemporary, and possible future relationship of critical media sociology to the Left? What is the role of media, communications, the Internet, and social media in left-wing movements? What problems do such movements face in relation to the media, communications, the Internet, and social media? RN18_12: Critical Media Sociology and China: How can critical media sociology understand the media in China and the role of China and Chinese media in global capitalism? What are differences and commonalities between European and Chinese media understood with the help of critical media sociology? RN18_13: Critical Media Sociology, Democracy and the Public Sphere Today: How can we best theorise and understand potentials and limits for the mediated public sphere in the 21st century? RN18_14: Critical Media Sociology, the Commons, and the Alternatives Today: What are the problems and post-capitalist potentials of alternative projects such as cultural and media co-operatives, left-wing and radical media projects, alternative social media, alternative online platforms, alternative media, community media projects, commons-based media, peer production projects, etc.? RN18_15: Critical Media Sociology and State Power Today: How does the relationship of media, communication and state power’s various forms of regulation, control, repression, violence and surveillance look like? RN18_16: Critical Media Sociology, the University and Academia Today: What are the challenges and problems for teaching and conducting research about the media and communication from a critical perspective? What can be done to overcome existing limits and problems? RN18_17: Critical Media Sociology and Cultural and Communication Labour: What are characteristics of cultural and communication labour in capitalism today? Are there potentials that they can transcend precarity? What is the role of alternative economic models such as co-operatives (self-managed companies) in this respect? RN18_18: Critical Media Sociology and Political Communication: What is the role of political communication for a critical sociology of the media? Notes Please submit only to one session. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Each paper session will have the duration of 1.5 hours. Normally sessions will include 4 papers. Abstracts must be submitted online to the submission platform, see below. Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and selected for presentation by the Research Network; the letter of notification will be sent by the conference software system in early April 2015. http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission Conference fee: http://esa12thconference.eu/fee ESA/RN18 membership: Paying members of ESA and RN18 have strongly reduced conference fees: http://www.europeansociology.org/membership.html Mailing list, Facebook: You can join RN18′s media sociology mailing list http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/esa-rn18 and follow RN18 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/esarn18?ref=ts&fref=ts

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