September 2017 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Fwd: Issue no. 81
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

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Fwd: [commoning] CFP AAG 2018: Enacting Postcapitalist Futures & Nurturing Life in Common
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich via Commoning <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:53 AM Subject: [commoning] CFP AAG 2018: Enacting Postcapitalist Futures & Nurturing Life in Common To: COMMONING LIste engl <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ursula Lang <lang0294(a)umn.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:08 PM Subject: CFP AAG 2018: Enacting Postcapitalist Futures & Nurturing Life in Common To: GEOGFEM(a)lsv.uky.edu Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers AAG 2018 – New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018 *The Commons, Commoning and Co-becomings: Enacting Postcapitalist Futures and Nurturing Life in Common* Session Organizers: Ursula Lang (Rhode Island School of Design), Gustavo Garcia (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras), and Neera Singh (University of Toronto) There has been an explosion of interest in the commons not just as a viable model for environmental governance, but also as nurturing grounds for postcapitalist politics. Scholars working on the commons in common-pool resources theory in the Ostrom tradition have traditionally focused on the commons as shared natural resources, highlighting “rules-in-use” and institutional arrangements. However, recent work in autonomous Marxist tradition focuses on the shared commonwealth of humanity and the role of the commons in nurturing postcapitalist subjectivities, alternate forms of production and provisioning, and ways of relating and valuing life in common (Caffentzis and Federici 2014, Linebaugh 2009, Bollier and Helfrich 2014). Geographers have contributed and responded to growing scholarship and praxis on the commons, where the commons and commoning are seen as advancing other-than-capitalist community economies (Gibson-Graham, 2006); counter hegemonic common senses (Garcia Lopez et al 2017); challenging enclosure and accumulation by dispossession (Jeffrey et al 2012, Hodkinson 2012, Paudel 2016,); as nurturing grounds for collective subjectivity (Singh, 2017); and as creation of new urban commons and hybrid forms of governance (Chatterton 2010, Baviskar and Gidwani 2011, Eizenberg 2012, Lang 2014, Turner 2016). We are especially drawn to scholarship that views the commons and commoning as practices for fostering postcapitalist subjectivity and life in common. In this session, we invite empirical and conceptual papers that examine the role of the commons in fostering other-than-capitalist ways of being and relating to the more-than-human world – of nurturing subjectivities of ‘being-in-common’ with the rest of the world. We seek to connect lived practices with emerging academic attention on affective and relational ecologies of living and being in common. Some possible themes include: 1. The commons as nurturing grounds of subjectivity. 2. The commons as a source of sustaining life through relations of care and cultivation. 3. Different conceptions of human in the Anthropocene. How do ways of being in common and relating to the commons recognize or enable different ways of being human to emerge and flourish? (e.g. the Anthropo-not-seen, la Cadena) 4. What work do commons do – in the world, on commoners, on capacities for co-becomings? 5. Rhythms and temporalities of commons. How might new commons emerge, and how are commons sustained? 6. Struggles against enclosure of the commons. 7. What are the limits of the commons? 8. Value and commoning. How does engagement with the practices of commoning lead to different ways of conceptualizing value? Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words by October 10, to Ursula Lang (ursula.a.lang(a)gmail.com) Neera Singh (neera.singh(a)gmail.com) and Gustavo Garcia Lopez (garcial.gustavo(a)gmail.com) We will let participants know by October 15, and you will need to submit an AAG pin to us by October 20. *References* Baviskar and Gidwani (2011) Urban Commons. Economic and Political Weekly 46(50) Bollier and Helfrich (2014) Patterns of Commoning. The Commons Strategies Group. Chatterton (2010) Seeking the urban common: Furthering the debate on spatial justice. City 14: 6, 625-628 Eizenberg (2012) Actually existing commons: Three moments of space of community gardens in New York City. Antipode 44(3):764-782 Caffentzis & Federici (2014) Commons against and beyond capitalism. Community Development Journal, 49(suppl 1), i92-i105. García López, Velicu, & D’Alisa (2017) Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating Democracy, Community and Forests in Puerto Rico. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1-20. Gibson-Graham JK (2006) A Postcapitalist Politics. Univ of MN Press. Jeffrey, McFarlane, Vasudevan (2012) Rethinking Enclosure: Space, Subjectivity and the Commons. Antipode 44(4):1247-1267 Lang (2014) The common life of yards. Urban Geography 35(6):852-869 Linebaugh (2009) The Magna Carta Manifesto. Univ of CA Press. Paudel (2016) Re-inventing the commons: community forestry as accumulation without dispossession in Nepal. Journal of Peasant Studies. 43(5): 989-1009 Singh (2017) Becoming a commoner: The commons as site for affective socio-nature encounters and co-becomings. Ephemera. (forthcoming) Turner (2016) Political ecology III: The commons and commoning. Progress in Human Geography. Aug 26, 2016 - - - - Dr. Ursula Lang Assistant Professor in Residence of Political Ecology & Design Studies RISD - Rhode Island School of Design ulang(a)risd.edu ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: cern(a)lists.communityeconomies.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: cern-unsubscribe(a)lists.communityeconomies.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.communityeconomies.org/lists/info/cern _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. 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Fwd: Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: piqd - your piqs of the day <dailydigest(a)piqd.com> Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM Subject: Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280 To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> <https://www.piqd.com/> News from your channels Technology and society <https://www.piqd.com/technology-politics> <https://www.piqd.com/users/yavuz.baydar> piqer: Yavuz Baydar 5 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double…> Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double…> Phew. For many, it can be a cause for a sigh relief. Twitter has announced that the it has been testing a 280-character tweets, to give the users more space and flexibility to express themselves. “Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause of frustration for people tweeting in English,” the company said in a blog post. “When people don’t have to cram their thoughts into 140 characters and actually have some to spare, we see more people Tweeting — which is awesome!” The current limit of 140 characters was inspired by SMS messages which by routine were limited to 160 characters. Twitter reserved the remaining 20 for the username. As often happens in creative mediums, the constraint spurred creativity, and Twitter became a fast-moving, newsy, jokey, weirdo playground. The new magic number 280 comes with a package of new questions. - Will those multi-message “tweetstorms” shrink into a smaller number of tweets, or will the expanded real estate encourage people to write even more - What new kinds of jokes and memes are possible at 280 characters that were not possible at 140? - Will 280 characters allow for just enough nuance and diplomacy that we may be able to avert global thermonuclear war? The answers, our friends, will be blowing in the big-size tweets. We will see what the new world will look like. <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Twitter%20Decided%20To%20Double%20Its…> <https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.piqd.com%2Ft…> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double…> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double…> Source: Casey Newton | theverge.com on 09/26/2017 Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280 Read article <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double…> Your newsletter Not enough information in your newsletter? Don't receive it often enough? Not enough to read? change now <https://www.piqd.com/settings> <https://www.facebook.com/727049527395062> <https://twitter.com/piqd_com> piqd GmbH | Widenmayerstr. 38 | 80538 Munich <https://maps.google.com/?q=Widenmayerstr.+38+%7C+80538+Munich&entry=gmail&s…> Tel.: +49 (0) 8152 99 86 564 | Fax:+49 (0) 8152 9986571 | Email: contact(a)piqd.com Managing director: Marcus von Jordan | Seat and court of jurisdiction: Munich HRB 217337 Tax number: 143/134/81256 | VAT numer: DE 300221320 Imprint <https://www.piqd.com/imprint> | Privacy <https://www.piqd.com/privacy> | Unsubscibe <https://www.piqd.com/settings/mail/token/cc8d4d3e2bb11eb2582646d8df9f832372…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [xnet-news] News about rights in Catalonia - We realease an How-to Guide
by Michel Bauwens 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Simona Xnet <simona(a)xnet-x.net> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 6:40 PM Subject: [xnet-news] News about rights in Catalonia - We realease an How-to Guide To: xnet-news(a)listas.xnet-x.net Dear friends, Taking the situation in Catalonia as an example, we have made this basic How-to guide for protecting fundamental rights on the Internet, very basic for non-digital friendly people. In the next days, the situation here could be very violent because of the police actitud against peaceful movements. The dissemination from aboad of the how-to (that would meant that is a tool valid in general and not only in Catalonia) would be useful in order to avoid censorship from the authorities (they are shutting down an average of 10 sites per day). If you find any inaccurate info or if you have any suggestion, please, let us know asap. Thanks a lot. https://xnet-x.net/en/how-to-guide-for-preserving- fundamental-rights-internet/ [More info about our opinion on the situation of Catalonia here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/simona- levi/we-just-want-to-stop-pleading ] All the best, Xnet ----- XNET https://xnet-x.net/en/ https://twitter.com/X_net_ https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net ----- If you do not want to receive more email from this list please click the next link and send the email letting the subject or body untouched. UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=SIGNOFF%[email protected] &body=SIGNOFF%20xnet-news(a)listas.xnet-x.net Sorry for any inconvenience. -- 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: Commons Space Hackpad Credentials
by Michel Bauwens 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jon r <jon(a)allmende.io> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:55 PM Subject: Commons Space Hackpad Credentials To: wsf2016(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net Dear all, in course of Hackpad's upcoming shutdown, I am trying to backup all pads¹. Unfortunately one needs admin permissions to do so. May the administrators of commonsspace.hackpad.com please give administrator rights to the user almereyda(a)gmail.com, in so I can proceed with a backup of all those precious pads? I'd feel sorry if we would see them go, just because we used to put our documentation into a proprietary platform. Thanks in advance, Jon ¹ https://github.com/kcwu/hackpad-backup -- j*r -- 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: Global Government Revisited (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:24 AM Subject: Global Government Revisited (GTN Discussion) To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com >From Lucie Edwards <lucie.edwards(a)bell.net> ------------------------------------------------------- [Moderator's Note: The open discussion period will be ending on Saturday, Sept 30, after which Luis will have the opportunity to respond. We look forward to your contributions! -- Jonathan] There are (at least) two approaches to global governance. The first, exemplified by Luis Cabrera’s, belongs to the Kantian “perpetual peace” School, advocating an evolution to cosmopolitan political and economic institutions, replacing the current model of sovereign states. It is based, as the author says, both on principles of justice and on effectiveness: Only such a system of world government could bring about peace and prosperity for all. Another key argument in favour of perpetual peace 2.0 is the nature of the wicked problems facing the world today: climate change, maritime pollution, and biodiversity crash. These problems can only be addressed if all societies are harnessed to the task and can’t be left just to nation-states. The second School of Global Governance takes a more anthropological (or butterfly collector) approach and seeks to identify, document and explain the new institutions of governance, many of them well outside the ambit of the sovereign state, where governance is taking place. Many of the institutions that govern our lives from day to day are nongovernmental, private or public/private, and operate under club rules (coalitions of the willing) rather than universal rules. They include the institutions that set global accounting rules; set standards for most industrial and consumer products (the International Standards Organization); resolve conflicts in transnational transactions—the International Chamber of Commerce’s arbitration service—and govern the Internet and the underwater cables that cinch the world together. Yet most people would be hard-pressed to name these organizations. Other key areas of rule-setting are enacted by transnational organizations, notably the European Union, which holds a mighty sway over most health, environment and safety issues, particularly in the developing world. And there are fields where subsidiary organizations hold sway—notably California, in issues of transportation and environmental protection, such as vehicle emission controls. In these cases, the governing institutions are mobilizing three kinds of power: economic power; the capacity to mobilize ideas, which speaks to legitimacy; and the capacity to convene other agencies to communicate their ideas, which speaks to leadership. In addition to documenting new institutional types, students of global governance examine how ideas are diffused across national states, through transnational epistemic communities (climate scientists, for example, or gay rights advocates), advocacy agencies (Greenpeace, Amnesty International) or transnational media agencies like Russia Today, Al Jazeera or Wikileaks. These may, or may not, take their direction from nation-states, but they exercise agency and enjoy considerable legitimacy at popular levels. While the nation-state remains a powerful, indeed perhaps THE most powerful actor in global governance, it is striking how much decision-making has slipped out of its control. The trend began with the rise of environmental problems, which could not be effectively addressed at state level, and has accelerated with the rise of the cyberworld. This has led a number of experts to question whether the state system is decaying, and in the process of being replaced by a new dominant power; perhaps a form of neo-medievalism where effective control is centred in powerful city states which set the rules and diffuse the ideas to the rest of us. I should add there is a debate in global governance over whether the current system is too untidy and obscure and would be better replaced by big transnational regulatory agencies like the WTO governing all especially of the global digital economy and environmental politics. But there are equally strong voices that argue that big agencies routinely fail; the current system, with all its redundancies and byzantine rules, provides many avenues to address and solve emerging problems. So personally, I am not convinced that our choices are either/or at this stage of global governance: the continued dominance of the nation-state vs. more formal world government. If current trends continue, we are likely to see ever more diffuse and informal governance arrangements which fail to meet the objective of effectiveness in securing justice, democracy and transparency, but may meet the basic requirements of efficiency in addressing tangled global problems. Lucie Edwards ******************************************************** Thursday, August 31, 2017 >From Paul Raskin ----- Dear GTN, The world confronts grievous global-scale risks with feeble global-scale institutions, or, as I’m fond of putting it, Earthland resembles a failed state (www.greattransition.org/publication/journey-to-earthland) This dangerous incongruity demands reconsideration of the fraught project of global government, a task Luis Cabrera takes on in his new GTI essay, “Global Government Revisited: From Utopian Vision to Political Imperative.” Surely any rigorous Great Transition vision must address the need for supranational decision-making, but what are the contours of new institutions appropriate for the task? What intermediate steps can move us down that road? Read Luis’s answers at www.greattransition.org/ publication/global-government-revisited. Please share your reactions and comments by SEPTEMBER 30. Looking forward, Paul Raskin GTI Director HOW WE WORK GT Network discussions of new essays occur in odd-numbered months. You receive comments via email, and can review all postings at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-forum. Then, in the following even-numbered month, we publish the essay along with a “Roundtable” (edited commentary drawn from the discussion and the author’s response). ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at http://www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/192- global-government-revisited/2451 Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [commoning] SNOWDEN COMMONS > recap #1
by Michel Bauwens 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:35 PM Subject: [commoning] SNOWDEN COMMONS > recap #1 To: commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org Hi commoners, the documents of the greatest intelligence leak in history can now be viewed for the first time in an exhibition survey in Berlin, the former 'capital of the spies' and the present retreat of many digital dissidents. Launched at the beginning of this week under the title SIGNALS – The Snowden Files in Art, Media and Archives, the exhibition shows that there is a great need for talks! But also knowledge gaps, which want to be filled. Some heard of the Snowden Files for the first time, someone else believed so far, that Snowden was only a fiction, and for those who are already involved with the subject matter, many questions remain open: What do these documents actually look like? Why is it attractive to use them as artistic material? And how do archivists work with the secret documents? SIGNALS addresses such questions and provides answers. Lively exchange, intensive interaction and not least astonishment, especially among those who for the first time took a look at the actual documents and their commoning in art, media and archives. The Berliner-Gazette photographer Andi Weiland has recorded the opening days in pictures:https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/7215768902651… Please click + re-tweet:https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/908258841674043392 Please save the following dates: September 25, 2017 | 6 p.m. | Talk feat. social critic Max Haiven (CAN) & culture theoretician Joseph Vogl (GER) September 26, 2017 | 6 p.m. | Finissage feat. performance by Sazae Bot (JPN); talk by archivist Andrew Clement (CAN) & artist Simon Denny (NZL) Both events will be held at: SIGNALS – an Exhibition of the Snowden Files in Art, Media and Archives September 12-26, 2017 | DIAMONDPAPER Studio | Köpenicker Straße 96 | Berlin More info:http://berlinergazette.de/signals Stay tuned, Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BG BOOKS OUT NOW: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES http://diamondpaper.net/title_26 AFTER THE PLANEShttp://diamondpaper.net/title_25 -------------------------------------------------------------- BG EVENTS COMING UP: SIGNALS – Exhibition of the Snowden Files | Sept. 12-26, 2017 http://berlinergazette.de/signals FRIENDLY FIRE – BG Annual Conference 2017 | Nov. 2-4, 2017https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Digi-yards_berlinergazette.de mailing [email protected]://ml06.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany Commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- 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: Money for the People (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:55 PM Subject: Money for the People (GTN Discussion) To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com >From Mary Mellor <m.mellor(a)northumbria.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------- [NOTE: In July, we had a lively discussion on Mary Mellor’s essay “Money for the People.” Please find Mary’s response, delayed due to illness, below. You can review all comments on her piece at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/191-money-for-the-people. Now back to the discussion of Luis Cabrera’s “Global Government Revisited.” --- Paul Raskin] Response to Reponses – Mary Mellor First, I would like to thank everyone for their responses. I found them both helpful and challenging. It was particularly encouraging that the topic of money was seen as important, even if the perspectives varied. In my response, I want to focus on a few key themes. Large-Scale Public versus Human-Scale Social This dichotomy was picked up by a number of people. I agree with Gwen Hallsmith’s point that “public, private, global, local, large and small—all of these demand definition and rethinking.” This is as true of assumptions about the local and social as it is of the large and public. Is small always good? What will be the ownership patterns of local economies? Is the core assumption that they are market systems? The fact that British “building societies,” akin to credit unions but focused on home mortgages, are social banks did not save them from privatisation or the German public banks from dabbling in securitisation. I think the pessimism about political parties, the state, and public structures generally plays into the hands of market fundamentalists. This is not to ignore the limits and failures of the public sector. What we need to do is socialise public money and ensure that social money has a public focus. Who will care for the elderly in the decentralised economies? Who will train the medics? I focus on public, national currencies because that is where we are now. It is the point from which the transition must begin. An alternative scenario would be to abandon national money systems in favour of a plethora of local monies, but I don’t think that would be wise. If we are to see local initiatives as parallel or complementary, then this must assume they are parallel to a continuing public currency. In that case, we need to have a perspective on how the public currency would operate both in the transition and in the future. Although my essay focuses on money, my underlying proposition is about the nature of the economic system. The circulation of social money leaves open the fundamental nature of the economy. Is it a self-organising market based on individualised choices, or is it a social/public provisioning system involving collective decision-making? If it is a market, then the social money is purely a medium of exchange. This fits well with the emergence of cryptocurrencies. I agree with Michel Bauwens that these are anarcho-capitalist in orientation. Is it possible to have more socially responsive markets as several people suggest? Can the blockchain model or innovative commons-based systems such as crowd funding, peer-to-peer networking, or open platform cooperatives provide a decentralised alternative to the private market? Do they still depend on individualised spontaneity, or can they produce coordinated provisioning systems? The process that dares not speak its name in this neoliberal world is planning. The core assumption of my perspective is that there is a need for a democratically planned public economy that would be organised through the allocation of publicly created debt free money. This is not the same as wholesale nationalisation of the economy. A major area of debate would be what is appropriate to be delivered though some version of the market (hopefully transformed by all the innovative ideas above) and what should be provisioned through the public sector. For me, the important potential of public money is that it allows for democratic planning in decisions about how money is to be allocated or spent. I hope it proves possible to build from the ground up as many of the suggested approaches envisaged. I see my focus on democratising and decentralising from the top down as supportive of these initiatives not in competition with them. I agree with Howard Richards that a vibrant social economy can empower the state. The British Labour Party has benefitted from a strong historical relationship with the consumer cooperative movement. The social economy also can (re)emerge when states and markets fail. Reforming Money Among the comments, there were many suggestions for issuing new currencies or providing basic incomes. Some combined both. Alf Hornborg suggests that a basic income should be issued by the state in a currency that can only be circulated locally. He sees this as overcoming the problem of having public currencies as general purpose money that can be used in destructive ways. David Schweickart, by contrast, outlines his reservations about a basic income, and although supportive of a basic income, I share such concerns. The danger is that it dissipates without producing either an individual good or public good. What matters are the provisioning structures that exist, and these cannot be created by the mere distribution of money. With multiple currencies, I also worry how they will be coordinated at the boundary between them. My approach is to keep the general purpose money and deal with destructive uses through regulatory and fiscal measures. As Hornborg himself argues, what is important is the value system that underpins the currency. What and How Several commenters emphasized the need to clarify the “what” and the “how”. The “what” for me is the public money system and the public economy—in short, funding public welfare and public provisioning (services and infrastructure). I don’t see this as the only focus for change and transition, or even a determining one. There are plenty of others as many people pointed out. However, I think it is an important one and a major area of challenge to neoliberalism. Public welfare has been undermined by a shift to a blame culture rather than an entitlement culture (i.e., the widespread belief that people are in need through their own inadequacies). It is claimed that welfare cannot be afforded and public services are inefficient. Taxes are increasingly framed as voluntary. Although I imagine the respondents will have little sympathy with neoliberalism, many expressed reservations about public money, representative democracy, and large-scale structures generally. I think what matters is wellth—how can the goods and services people need for wellbeing and flourishing be provided. What structures will best serve the most needy/troubled members of society? What happens to those who are sick or have disabilities, those who are old with no family, those who are poor, or those off the net with no computer literacy? Until I am convinced that the techno-optimists of the blockchain and open-source era have a strategy for those “others,” I will defend the principle of a comprehensive welfare state. And funding that state is a key issue. The “how” is twofold. The first is campaigning for social justice and the right to livelihood for all (including other species)—promoting sufficiency provisioning for all and reversing the emphasis on individualism and bootstraps (shared by conservatives and progressives in their different ways). This cannot be done on a purely ad hoc basis: there needs to be policy and planning, responsibility for the well-being of others, etc. I think some respondents may be very uncomfortable with this. None of this is new; there have been welfare campaigners for centuries. The second “how” is overturning neoliberal ideology and neoclassical economics. I am often described as a monetary reformer, but I consider myself more a monetary re-thinker. While there is certainly need for a new approach to monetary policy, I see this as being based on how money really works rather than prevailing economic myths. What I have tried to show in my books is that public money does exist, states do print money, money is not in short supply, public expenditure does not rest on taxation, the public sector is not funded by the private sector, banks do not link savers and borrowers, a debt-based money supply is not viable, public sector deficits (surplus expenditure) are usually a good thing—among many other points. Re-thinking alone cannot achieve change—this will come from the exposed failures of current thinking and practice, if we are ready with an alternative analysis and framework for action. I think most respondents agreed broadly with my analysis; differences came in what should be done. As Susan Butler says, the “how” is preparing our own minds for deep change. The Interest Problem The question of the relationship between debt, interest, and destructive economic growth caused major disagreement. I asserted several times in the paper that there is a link between the three. I was referring to what seems to be a commonsense notion that if all the money supply is created as interest-bearing debt in total, then the banks must always want back more money than they create. Further, as people have to find the money to repay debt, this is likely to include destructive forms of growth. Evidence and modelling seems to disprove both ideas. Clearly, debt-based money expansion can occur without triggering more resource damage—as in the example of the growth in finance. Peter Victor and Tim Jackson have shown that debt-based money creation does not trigger growth. I don’t think these reservations undermine my other two critiques of a debt-based money supply. It is socially unjust as only the “credit-worthy” (according to the banks) can access new money, creating “left behind” people and communities. And it is economically unsustainable because it is crisis-ridden. A credit crunch threatens the money supply requiring the state to step in, thus revealing the myths of market adequacy and state dependence. I don’t think a capitalist steady state economy is possible for the reasons David Schweickart says: investor confidence and constant demand are key drivers. How Should Money Be Created? Brent Ranalli asked how I envisage the creation of money post-transition. He lists the possible alternatives as (a) the state’s fixing the whole money supply (100% reserve), (b) money creation by nationalised banks, (c) banks as independent utilities with windfall profits, and (d) banks as agents of the central bank or treasury. My position is at a slight angle to these choices. My focus is on public expenditure, which I see as essentially a process of money creation. In the same way that banks create money when they lend, states create money when they spend. The idea that banks create money through loans is becoming generally accepted; that states create money when they spend has yet to be widely recognised. States do “print money” as they spend, but this only becomes obvious if public expenditure is not matched by a retrieval of that money through taxation (balancing the books). The fact that surplus expenditure (deficit) is recognised and allowed even by the neoliberal EU Maastricht Rules shows that money creation through public expenditure takes place. Public borrowing to cover any deficit is post hoc and is a monetary rather than a fiscal exercise. It is therefore the democratic demand for public expenditure that will drive money creation. The level of tax retrieval will be a major determinant of the size of the private sector. Any public expenditure not retrieved will either be held as savings/investment or spent in the market sector. This would have repercussions for the balance of payments if there were no controls. As Schmaltz points out, Bernard Lietaer’s solution is to have a separate global currency, particularly as most current global monetary transactions are purely speculative. In my recent book, I make a similar suggestion. Schmaltz also favours alternative forms of exchange to avoid the monetization of care and other altruistic activities. As with my earlier comments about alternative internal currencies, I am not sure if this will solve problems or prove a bureaucratic nightmare as different types of currency butt up against each other. My hunch is that it may be simpler to minimize the number of currencies but make their use more democratic. This would include making the rules and regulations under which the market operates a matter for public debate. This could include social, public, or commercial banks. Whether these operate on the basis of revolving loan funds or money creation would, again, be a matter for democratic debate. I think the difference between my approach and that of most monetary theorists is that they see the market as the predominant economic form whereas I see the public economy as more important (including within the present system). For example, modern monetary theory (MMT) sees public money creation as supportive of the market sector in its role as employer of last resort. I would see money creation as enabling social and public provisioning as employment of first resort. ****************************************** >From Paul Raskin <praskin(a)tellus.org> ----- Dear GTN, The old proverb—money is the root of all evil—may overstate the case, but money is, indeed, implicated in the iniquitous debt/growth spiral now degrading Earthland. Mary Mellor explains in her new GTI essay, “Money for the People,” that it needn’t be so. The modern money system is a social construct that evolved to spur capital accumulation, but lingers on in an era needing, instead, to throttle consumerism, debt, and the economic growth machine. Rather than creating money privately through bank lending, as the current system does, an alternative approach—public money—can undergird an economy oriented toward people and use value, not profit and exchange value. I think you’ll find Mary’s vision of a critical institutional pillar of a Great Transition economy illuminating, intriguing, and inspiring. Please read it at www.greattransition.org/publication/money-for-the-people, and let the comments and questions begin! How would public money work in practice? How would it interface with the market? How might its pursuit contribute to strategies for system change? Comments are welcome through JULY 31. Looking forward, Paul Raskin GTI Director HOW WE WORK Odd-numbered months are for internal GT Network discussions; even-numbered months are for public dissemination. You will receive all comments via email, and can review the entire thread online at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-forum. The essay will be published alongside a “Roundtable,” comprised of selected comments from the GTN discussion and a response from the author. PS: Apologies for any difficulties getting to the website over the past couple days. It’s back up and running! ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at http://www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/191- money-for-the-people/2442 Need help? 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Fwd: State Machines - a new European collaboration
by Michel Bauwens 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Furtherfield <info(a)furtherfield.org> Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:05 PM Subject: State Machines - a new European collaboration To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com View e-mail in browser <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=173> [image: State Machines Logo] <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1278…> [image: Privacy Gift Shop by Adam Harvey] <http://www.statemachines.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Adam-Harvey_Think-Pr…> Announcing State Machines - a new European collaboration At this critical juncture for debates on nationalism, freedom of movement, borders and law, we are delighted to announce a new EU Culture Fund Cooperation project: *State Machines - Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation*. Five partner organisations - *Aksioma* <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1279…> (SI), *Drugo more* <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1280…> (HR), *Furtherfield* <http://../Newsletters/furtherfield.org> (UK) *Institute of Network Cultures* <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1281…> (NL) and *NeMe* <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1282…> (CY) - will lead an ambitious and far-reaching programme that investigates the new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. Over the next two years the programme will empower the digital subjects of today to become active, engaged and effective digital citizens of tomorrow. Activities include: *workshops* on blockchain technology; *research* into new cognitive models and forms of citizenship; *conferences* on democratic participation and networked cultural production; *art exhibitions*; new *commissions*; and *publications* building new kinds of literacy for digital understanding and participation. Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes across national borders, in which every personal expression is framed and mediated by digital platforms, and where new kinds of currencies, financial exchange and even labour bypass corporations and governments. At the same time, the same technologies increase governmental powers of surveillance, allow corporations to extract ever more complex working arrangements and do little to slow the construction of actual walls along actual borders. *What tools do we need to understand this world, and how can art assist in envisioning and enacting other possible futures?* We hope that you will join us on our adventure. To keep updated and join State Machines activities you can: - Join the email newsletter <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1283…> - #statemachines on Twitter <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1284…>, Instagram <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1285…> and Facebook <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1286…> - Visit www.statemachines.eu <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1278…> to find out more about the project ------------------------------ This project has been funded with the support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Unsubscribe <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=834&qid…> McKenzie Pavilion Finsbury Park London, N4 2NQ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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