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Fwd: Futurized - 1 Dec 2020: The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, Startup mentoring in the UAE, Future Tech preview
by Michel Bauwens 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Trond Arne Undheim <info(a)yegii.com> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 11:28 PM Subject: Futurized - 1 Dec 2020: The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, Startup mentoring in the UAE, Future Tech preview To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [image: Futurized podcast - preparing you to deal with future disruption] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-r/> *Hi Michel. * This week, Futurized tackles *The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, and Startup mentoring in UAE*, in three intriguing interview episodes, plus has a preview of *Future Tech*, Trond Undheim's upcoming book: - The Future of AR <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-y/> with Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential AR/VR conference since 2010. - The Future of Peer-to-Peer <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-j/> with Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto. - Startup Mentoring in UAE <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-t/> with Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring. - Future Tech - a preview <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-i/>, a mini-episode where futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-d/>, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021 As usual, please find imagery and brief summaries below. If you like the show, subscribe to Futurized in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio or Pandora, review it with a sentence, and ideally give it a 5 star rating. Also, if you would give our YouTube channel some love, that would be appreciated, since we'll be moving aggressively into that format over the next three months. -- TROND JOINS GROWTH STARTUP TULIP AS LEAD ECOSYSTEM EVANGELIST This week, I'm excited to share that I have joined one of the leading startups of our time. Tulip empowers the frontline worker providing a no-code platform everyone can use, improving efficiencies, sharing best practices, reducing downtime, and increasing the consistency and safety of manual processes. My role is to work across the industrial ecosystem worldwide to *usher the new era of the augmented worker*, matching societal needs during and post-COVID-19. Together with the World Economic Forum, Tulip is fostering a global network and learning community (MFG Works) for manufacturing leaders. The vision is to, by the end of this decade, if not sooner, empower any worker who has not yet received the full benefits of technology, and especially restore the tremendous agility and humanity of frontline workers, through *augmented reality-enhancing technologies* (e.g. industrial IoT, automation, digital factory, robotics, sensors, augmentation, industry 4.0, agile manufacturing, additive manufacturing, 3D printing). -- Have a great day! Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D. Author of *Pandemic Aftermath* (2020), *Disruption Games (2020), Leadership >From Below (2008) and Future Tech (2021, forthcoming). See Trond's books <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-h/>.* [image: Antler] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-k/> [image: The Future of AR] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-u/> In Anniversary episode #54, The Future of AR <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-o/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential AR/VR conference since 2010, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about community building in the no longer so embryonic AR/VR space, the emergence of spatial computing, the Augmented Reality Expo (AWE). They discuss AR/VR venture capital, exciting and emerging use cases and form factors, market size, mobile AR, and COVID’s impact on remote tech. They explore the world in 2030 and the threats that the world is facing. The takeaway is that augmented reality has come a long way and is no longer a fringe technology, and the COVID-moment has made progress in the field a global tech priority. As for VR, the community is growing but developing true killer apps will take time. Maybe a good thing, because we are not really ready for what is to come. Will we evolve into a virtual species? Neither Ori nor Trond think so at this point. Ask them in thirty years, though. Listen to Episode #54 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-b/> [image: Listen on Apple Podcasts] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-n/> [image: The Future of Peer-to-Peer] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-p/> In episode #52, The Future of Peer-to-Peer <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-x/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance between centralized and distributed activity as well as for profit and not for profit activity have overreached its boundaries. In Bauwens’ analysis, historically when this happens, with civilizations such as the Mayans, or the Chinese, a reversal of polarity happens, and society moves into healing mode. The difference this time, is that the system is global, and that we have nowhere else to go. Our challenge now is, whether we are capable of living within planetary boundaries. Bauwens, in this respect, subscribes to a functionalist pulse-wave theory of cyclical change. My takeaway is that the commons is indeed an interesting seemingly growing sentiment and a reaction to both big capitalism and libertarianism, a third way, if you will. I wrote about this phenomenon in my 2008 book Leadership >From Below. Arguably, an increased focus on developing the commons, would help foster a more egalitarian, just and sustainable world. I found Bauwens critique of the crypto-anarchic divide between commoners and libertarians, the latter underlying blockchain quite interesting, as I had earlier perhaps put that effort more in the commons camp than it deserves, because at the surface, they are both about getting rid of the middleman. Listen to Episode #52 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-m/> [image: Listen on Spotify] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-c/> [image: Startup Mentoring in UAE] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-q/> In episode #64, Startup Mentoring in UAE <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-a/>, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talk about startup mentoring in the UAE, in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman, and ostensibly in the MENA region as a whole. We discuss being a female entrepreneur in the Middle East and what the future holds. My takeaway is that the future of mentoring startups in the UAE, GCV, and MENA region is crucial for growing a healthy, thriving startup ecosystem. Having a home grown mentoring platform that caters to culturally specific mentoring needs is terrific. Listen to Episode #64 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-f/> [image: Listen on Google Podcasts] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-z/> [image: Future Tech - a preview] <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-v/> In this mini-episode #71, Future Tech - a preview <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-e/>, futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021. He also reads an excerpt from the book. Future Tech explains how the four forces of technology, policy, business models and social dynamics work together to create industry disruption and how this understanding can help to predict what is coming next. The book will be on the syllabus for an upcoming course at Cornell Tech and has already received raving endorsements. Listen to Episode #71 <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-s/> *About Futurized* Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Join Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, author, and serial entrepreneur as he tracks the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, life science and robotics.On the show, he interviews smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives, and emerging thought leaders. Each episode is a narrative journey marked by triumphs, failures, serendipity and insight — told by the people behind some of the world’s top emerging and established talent. Futurized.co <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-g/> is on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and Pandora, in fact it is, so far, syndicated to 20+ platforms <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-w/>. The show has listeners from 28 countries. Search for Futurized or put the RSS feed <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-yd/> into your podcast player of choice. 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Fwd: Why the Fed Needs Public Banks
by Michel Bauwens 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

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Fwd: Kin Chi and Jade's article on coronavirus and TCM
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LAU Kin Chi <laukc(a)ln.edu.hk> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:32 PM Subject: Kin Chi and Jade's article on coronavirus and TCM To: globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com < globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Global University for Sustainability <our.global.u(a)gmail.com> FYI [image: Lingnan University Hong Kong] <https://www.ln.edu.hk> [image: Transformation For Life] <https://www.ln.edu.hk/transformation-for-life> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlobalUFoundingMembers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to GlobalUFoundingMembers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/GlobalUFoundingMembers/HK0PR02MB3009D7D4F… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/GlobalUFoundingMembers/HK0PR02MB3009D7D4F…> . -- 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: Green Academy, Fair and Carbon Free Tourism, #GEJ20 and more.
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Green European Foundation <info(a)gef.eu> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:55 PM Subject: Green Academy, Fair and Carbon Free Tourism, #GEJ20 and more. To: *|FNAME|* <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Be the first to try out our upgraded e-learning platform - Green Academy. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/gef/gef-newsletter-december2020?e=e33317f743> DECEMBER 2020 Read through the newsletter to find out about our upcoming events in December and other exciting opportunities at GEF! Green Academy is live! *NEW E-LEARNING TOOL* We're excited to announce the launch of the long-awaited update of our e-learning website - Green Academy! The website was built with *curious Europeans of all ages and backgrounds* in mind. We enable them to develop *knowledge & skills*, to build meaningful connections, and to *put theory into practice*. What's new? We've improved overall *user experience* - from the easy sign up to learning without distractions. We've also enhanced the *content interactivity* - making learning deeper and much more exciting. We now offer access to completely *free, paid or closed courses* - to learn at your own pace or as part of a broader education programme. Be the first to take advantage of the improved e-learning experience. Start learning now! <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> Fair and Carbon Free Tourism This project seeks to identify and create conditions for collective action against detrimental social and environmental impacts of tourism. These impacts of tourism-induced economic activities are often underestimated, and while social impacts are increasingly being considered in some tourist hubs like Barcelona or Dubrovnik, environmental burdens in particular are often not (yet) addressed. COVID-19 has devastated the tourism industry, with many livelihoods at stake, but perhaps there is a window of opportunity to rebuild better. In December, we offer three webinars that strive to build a community interested in transforming this sector and steering it towards low or zero-carbon intensity, while keeping a specific focus on the social dimension and lessons from the pandemic. 3 DEC 2020 Towards a Fair and Low Carbon Tourism Join us as we chart a course Towards a Fair and Low Carbon Tourism, with a particular focus on tourism-dependent Spain. *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 7 DEC 2020 Transformative pathways for tourism Take part in our webinar to engage in political and expert debate on how the tourism industry can be transformed in the midst of pandemic and climate crisis! *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 10 DEC 2020 Sun and Sand Tourism Decades of mass tourism have put the Mediterranean coast under tremendous environmental pressure, yet the livelihoods of millions depend on it. Join our webinar. *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> Upcoming events 4 DEC 2020 Civil society in action At this conference, we will discuss cooperation and activism, tackling pressing issues in Polish society from the European Green Deal to the protection of civil rights. *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 2 - 16 DEC 2020 In Search of a Green City Online Series Join us for a series of webinars that will search for a Green City across Eastern Europe and the Balkans. *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 11 DEC 2020 Evergreen: Restoring Europe’s Forests If forest losses continue to increase many ecosystem services in forests threaten to falter. Join our discussion on illegal logging and its place in our ecological crisis. *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 11 DEC 2020 Greening COP26: Five years after Paris We're marking the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement with this webinar, discussing what's next for the movement. Join the talk with an inspiring panel! *Register* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> 16 DEC 2020 Public Health and Green Recovery We invite Petra de Sutter, Belgian deputy prime minister and minister for the civil service and public enterprises to discuss COVID-19 and its impact on public health. *Save the date* <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> *GREEN EUROPEAN JOURNAL* Life Under Shock: Understanding the Pandemic *The new edition of the Green European Journal is out now!* The health crisis and its tragic consequences have radically changed every aspect of social life. The implications of Covid-19 go deep, worsening social inequalities, speeding up disruptive technological change, and exposing a broken relationship with the natural world. From the experience of urban areas to new solidarities such as the notion of essential workers, this edition traces its causes and effects, as well as our response. Spanning loneliness among the elderly, the future of public health, and biodiversity loss, it tracks how the pandemic shines a light on fundamental challenges for the 21st century. While some wish to return to business as usual, putting health over the economy has forced the politics of life and living together out into the open, and as this edition shows, the task for Greens and progressives are keeping them at the centre of our politics. Read online <https://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=…> or order your copy below. 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Fwd: 📄 "Commons Transition Policy Proposals for a P2P Foundation" by Leila Corina Videla
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: PDF By Leila Corina Videla <updates(a)academia-mail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:00 AM Subject: 📄 "Commons Transition Policy Proposals for a P2P Foundation" by Leila Corina Videla To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> [image: Academia.edu] <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PfivDrS-byo3dd/> ------------------------------ >From your Reading History: Commons Transition Policy Proposals for a P2P Foundation <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> [image: Paper Thumbnail] <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> [image: Author Photo] Leila Corina Videla <https://independent.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW…> 89 Views View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> Download PDF ⬇ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> Want fewer recommendations like this one? <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> ------------------------------ <https://academia.app.link/install?source=RelatedWorksStreamlined> 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 Unsubscribe <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/Y3hiVGlZRy8yMWRkTUZKdWRVek5GUlRORW9VRmU2RH…> Privacy Policy <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PfivDrS-byo3dd/privacy> Terms of Service <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PfivDrS-byo3dd/terms> © 2020 Academia -- 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: Why Did Youtube Censor Us?
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Douglas Lain from Critical Cuts from Zero Books < douglaslain(a)substack.com> Date: Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 3:30 AM Subject: Why Did Youtube Censor Us? To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Politics After the Death of Ideology ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Why Did Youtube Censor Us? <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkdGO4iAUhp_G3tlQWlt6wYVZ16yu7WY2k3Fmbw…>Politics After the Death of Ideology <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkEFuxCAMRU8z7BoRQggsWHTTa0QEnAwqgQhMq8…> Douglas Lain <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkEFuxCAMRU8z7BoRQggsWHTTa0QEnAwqgQhMq8…> Nov 28 <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUttu4yAQ_Zr4bSOMiS8PfkiTdtdR6yirblv3xc…> <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUl1vozAQ_DXhLZExDh8PPESXiy65wKmnqmnvBR…> <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkl2P4iAUhn-NvdNQirW96IVZ16yu7WY2k3Fmbw…> On Tuesday the 26th I released a video that I eventually titled “Christopher Lasch, Paul Sweezy, and the Great RESET” but it didn’t get many clicks or views. I watched the dashboard of our youtube studio closely as the video failed to perform and then, after an hour or so, as the video was removed by youtube. It had, according to them, “violated community standards on COVID.” That is, it was thought to have disputed the recommendations of the World Health Organization, specifically related to social distancing and social isolation. I appealed this action as the video did not dispute those recommendations. To be clear it is my opinion that masks are necessary. Lockdowns are often necessary. COVID is real and very dangerous. It’s much worse than the flu. However, despite the fact that anyone who watched the video and took in the argument being made within it would see that the video was not a critique of the World Health Organization nor an attempt to dispute their guidelines, our appeal of the decision to remove the video was rejected. For Zero Books as a youtube channel the takedown of our video and the attached warning, if we violate community standards again our channel could be entirely shut down, is worrying. We are in the position of having to second guess how the algorithm will interpret the videos we produce and what our guests say. Given how faulty the enforcement of community standards was this time producing videos tackling difficult subjects and engaging in ruthless criticism on youtube feels like a game of Russian Roulette. We are still hoping we can have the decision reversed and one of the aims of this video is to encourage viewers to get the word out, to use social media to alert people to the problem, and to communicate with Youtube that they’ve made a mistake. If you’re watching and want to help the channel please do share this video on social media and let people know what happened. The other aim of this video, however, is to figure out how we’ve arrived at a moment in history when nearly 2 billion people watch over a billion hours of youtube videos a day, a moment when four hundred million youtube users report that a platform curated by neural networks and machine learning, where editorial decisions are made by an algorithm that has a reading comprehension ability well below the average human, is very important to them as they attempt to understand what is happening in the world. We’ll take a look at Grafton Tanner’s critique of techno-utopianism from his upcoming book “The Circle and the Snake,” discuss the possibility of a rising anti-politics as explored in the upcoming book “The End of the End of History,” and take another stab at evaluating Christopher Lasch’s “The Agony of the Left.” [critical theory logo] It’s remarkable the degree to which history repeats itself. For the last thirty years, there have been multiple and increasingly loud objections to Fukuyama’s essay and book “The End of History,” a book that argued that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal democracy could be seen as the “end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution.” Thirty years before the collapse of communism another book, this one written by Daniel Bell, similarly announced that the development of ideologies had ended. And in his 1969 book “The Agony of the Left” Christopher Lasch took up this earlier end of history, evaluating both how the sixties had provided a refutation and a strange confirmation of Daniel Bell’s argument. Lasch was struck by the level of discontent there had been in the sixties. He noted that “The antiwar movement in the United States has grown to such proportions that it may prove impossible, in the future, to carry on American colonialism without resorting to wholesale repression at home.” And he noted that “riots threaten to become a permanent feature of urban life.” It is difficult to say whether it has become impossible to carry out colonial projects without wholesale repression at home as, even nearly 20 years after the attacks of September 11th, it is not clear just what counts as repression and what doesn’t. However we judge the consequence of the last 60 years of protest politics and direct action from the left, two facts are clear. First, the notion of an end of ideology has stuck around and gained traction, especially since 2016, and second, the dominant left is very nearly as anti-ideological as the right. This turn away from ideology came after the mainstream pronouncement of the death of ideology by Bell, but it did come. Lasch recognized it as taking two forms: The Radical Liberalism of Arnold Kaufman and the democratic socialism of Michael Harrington. In fact, Lasch characterized both men as radical liberals and recognized how both had emerged after the left had failed to revolutionize American society. In “The Death of Ideology” Bell, a self-described liberal, noted that the early 20th century socialists were ambivalent on the subject of reform, both taking up reformist demands as a means to be politically relevant and rejecting the reformist aims of their adversaries. In his book, Bell quotes Eugene Debs, who said the following during the election of 1896. “What but meaningless phrases are "imperialism," "expansion," "free silver," "gold standard," etc., to the wage worker? The large capitalists represented by Mr. McKinley and the small capitalists represented by Mr. Bryan are interested in these "issues," but they do not concern the working class.” For Bell, the Death of Ideology meant many things, but it definitely indicated that the spirit of Debs, his rejection of practical reforms, to a politics that accommodated itself to the realities of capitalism, was no either going or already gone. And in 1969 Lasch would agree with Bell’s assessment, even if he did not embrace the quietism of Bell, or the radical liberalism of those who symptomatically like Harrington and Kaufman, who pressed on as leftists even as the ideology of the left, the idea of revolutionary transformation that some like Bell would derisively call Messianic, had passed on. And this is what we should note at this moment, what I can’t help but notice as I read and reread the warning issued by Google after the takedown of our video. The death of at least the socialist ideology is a material fact that is operative in the world. And this fact is what two of our upcoming books are wrestling with or examining. In his book, the Circle and the Snake Grafton Tanner notices that capitalism is in the business of selling solutions to problems it creates, and those solutions, are increasingly technological. That is, while the ideology of socialism, or of overcoming capitalism and regrounding society on a new material foundation, has died, the dissatisfaction that had spurred on and justified socialist ideology, continues. As Lasch pointed out fifty years ago, the passive acceptance of society as it is was short-lived. What that leaves us with is a left project that, as The Aufhebunga Bunga gang (Alex Hochuli, Philip Cunliffe, and George Hoare) wrote in their upcoming *The End of the End of History* “understands the working class as the object of politics, with the welfare of the working-class majority to be improved through redistribution, large social projects, and economic development.” The old socialist idea that the working class is the subject of politics, that the working class had a political agenda that included self-government ultimately self abolition, has been driven back to near nonexistence. This is what we should understand when we consider the climate of censorship that we find online. Google, Facebook, the US government, and most other major institutions think of us not as politicized workers but as masses. We are conceived of as passive recipients of ideas and information and as the automatic generators and spreaders of memes and messages that must be analyzed and directed. Every post must be categorized and its path directed, based on an objective evaluation of its toxicity and/or authority. Every argument and fact shunted to the right demographic, not in order to keep an engaged citizenry informed, but in order to profit off of what can only be thought of as a kind of stasis. At this moment it’s worth considering how Lasch concluded his analysis of the sixties New Left and the radical liberal turn he witnessed. He wrote, “No matter what some militants think, a mass movement for radical change cannot grow up in a setting of repression. It demands that the avenues of discussion remain open, that limits be placed on the powers of the secret police and other agencies of “law enforcement,” and that the freedom to convince and persuade, in short, be protected both from vigilantes and from official attacks. So long as the “radical liberal” remains committed to the defense of these principles, he is the ally, not the enemy, of those who are seeking a deeper reconstruction of American life.” Back in 1969 Lasch may have had reason to be relatively confident that his liberal friends would remain allies, but fifty years later I think it is relatively clear that today’s radical liberals have firmly and resolutely abandoned these principles and are no longer to be treated as allies to those who seek a deeper or truly radical transformation of society. Instead, the task of would-be radicals must first be to disassociate with the radical liberals and their progressive allies in corporations and the state, even as we continue to operate within domains that are dominated by these factions within the capitalist order. 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Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism, edited by Christian Fuchs, special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/43 The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique’s special issue “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” was published on the occasion of Engels’s 200th anniversary. It consists of eleven articles that outline the relevance of Engels’s works and thought for the critical analysis of digital capitalism and show the relevance of Engels in the 21st century. In an episode of the tripleC podcast that accompanies the special issue, Christian Fuchs introduces the relevance of Engels for the critical analysis of digital capitalism: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-gizhy-f336e9 Table of Contents Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Introduction. pp. 1-14 Christian Fuchs Engels@200: Friedrich Engels and Digital Capitalism. How Relevant Are Engels’s Works 200 Years After His Birth? pp. 15-51. Christian Fuchs Engels’s Theory of Social Murder and the Spectacle of Fascism: A Critical Enquiry into Digital Labour and its Alienation. pp. 52-67 Aishik Saha Digital Capitalism and Coal Mine Workers. pp. 68-77 Akın Bakioğlu Revisiting Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in an Age of Digital Idealism. pp. 78-96 Christopher Leslie Break or Continuity? Friedrich Engels and the Critique of Digital Surveillance. pp. 97-112 Dimitrios Kivotidis The Digital Economy of the Sourdough: Housewifisation and Exploitation as Self-Exploitation. pp. 113-124 Julianna Faludi and Michelle Crosby On the Categories of Possibility, Limiting Conditions and the Qualitative Development Stages of Matter in the Thought of Friedrich Engels. pp. 125-139 Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski Freedom, Distribution and Work from Home: Rereading Engels in the Time of the COVID-19-Pandemic. pp. 140-153 Saayan Chattopadhyay and Sushmita Pandit The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class: The Continuing Relevance of Friedrich Engels to Theorising Platform Labour. pp. 154-170 Shahram Azhar The Political Economy of Working-Class Social Media Commerce: Digital Capitalism and the Engelsian Concept of Working-Class “Property”. pp. 171-194 Suddhabrata Deb Roy

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Fwd: Released: Read the New Foundations Whitepaper
by Michel Bauwens 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Platform Design Toolkit Team <hello(a)platformdesigntoolkit.com> Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:16 PM Subject: Released: Read the New Foundations Whitepaper To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Explore how Platform-Ecosystem thinking is changing, as the World is! Read the last updates on the Platform Design Toolkit View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/platformdesigntoolkit/whitepaper-released?e=b760eb623a> Your regular Newsletter on Platforms with updates from Boundaryless - Platform Design Toolkit Dear Readers, here's your latest newsletter on Platforms – a curated list of links and news brought to you by the Boundaryless - Platform Design Toolkit Team <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> . You should be aware already that, on 20 November, we reached a new milestone: we finally *released* *our new whitepaper:* *New Foundations of Platform-Ecosystem Thinking - Designing products and organizations for a changing world.* At the* live-streamed launch webinar,* we presented the *key findings of the paper*, described the whitepaper *journey*, and explained what's *coming next*. Building on these new foundations, we're going to create and prototype new tools and practices that resonate with the changing needs and priorities for organizations, platforms, and ecosystems in the 21st Century. In case you missed the launch, below you'll find all the *essential links.* Enjoy reading the *New Foundations of Platform-Ecosystem Thinking * whitepaper! <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> At the* live-streamed launch webinar,* we presented the *key findings of the paper*, described the whitepaper *journey*, and explained what's *coming next*. What's coming next? We're going to be in touch with you soon about upcoming webinars and other opportunities to explore the key questions emerging from the whitepaper in depth. Until then, please *save the date for 18 December 4-6pm CET*: *our next whitepaper webinar* [*save to calendar* <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>]. With special guests, we'll be unpacking the new and unfolding ideas and provocations from the whitepaper, and explore what else this peculiar year of 2020 has brought about in the fields of platform-ecosystem thinking and organizational design. <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> Watch a short documentary introducing the Whitepaper story and angle through some of the voices that contributed the research. *And now enjoy our ... PLATFORMS & ECOSYSTEMS * *KEY READS & MORE * *Our curated list of the best reads, videos, and podcasts to inform and transform your understanding **👇* *🗞️ Reads* *THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE ISSUE* *Engineering Scarcity ↴* <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> James Currier <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>recaps a recent podcast conversation with Eugene Wei. Status and other emotional aspects certainly play a great deal of a role in products (and networks) and many of these 12 points are essential to keep in mind as you design engaging platform strategies - "*engineering scarcity in a world of abundance*". *A Country-as-platform strategy for global influence ↴* <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> A great read from Sangeet Choudary <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>expands many of the initial conversations we recently had in our podcast: a fundamental read to really understand the role of digital technologies and ecosystemic agreements as a new field of geopolitics. *Etsy and the Pandemic ↴* <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> Interesting reflections on <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>Marketplace Pulse <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>on the pandemic and its impact on Etsy's numbers, driven by the need for Face Masks. 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A must-read if you're in a bank or insurance company - albeit similar considerations can be done for carriers and other major incumbents. *Bringing an Ecosystem to the Market ↴* <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…> In this short post <https://platformdesigntoolkit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e272a9d50c…>, Norma Watenpaugh catches one of the strategic choices you can make when bringing a new ecosystem strategy to the market: bring the challengers on board before the industry leaders. It reminded us of Google's choices with the early Android, dropping Nokia for newcomers such as Samsung, LG, and growing eastern brands (at that time) such as ZTE and HTC. 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Projects by P2P Foundation collaborator Rok Kranjc: Serious Gaming and beyond
by Michel Bauwens 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rok Kranjc <carniolanfox(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 7:12 PM Subject: Re: limits To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>I only hoped to relay a few projects I'm working on, very much aligned I believe with the spirit of your work - art, design, alternative economies, ecology, participation, games and co-design. Resources collated below signature. Happy to discuss them some time, if interested :-) Warm regards, Rok - *Game-Changers: The Game* a mixed digital and analogue generative board game and platform (description after list) - *Four Futures Festival + online Anticipedia* open-sourcing co-generated futures scenarios and scenario fragments to be creatively combined, and enacted as LARPs - *A Day in the Life: Public Luxury in 2035 <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIU-qQFvKc6ORaW9QBGyd6N_gd59N7S-/view?usp=…>* made and used to facilitate an exchange between local climate activists and George Monbiot, pdf worksheet attached - *Shared Futures <https://sharedfutures.app/> app and toolkit <https://sharedfutures.net/divistownsend/> *a work in progress, collaboration with dr. Peter Bloom - *Our Futures Game* <https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/our-futures/> in collaboration with the Global Swarm <https://actionforesight.net/global-swarm/> and NESTA (recent Space Edition here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-futures-a-game-about-participatory-futures…> ) --- 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞-𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 by RoK Kranjc FREE OF CHARGE / No special knowledge or skills required, however for PLAYERS critical thinking and knowledge about alternative economies will be an advantage Game-Changers: The Game is a project twining alternatives to capitalism, theories of transformation, participatory futuring techniques and the codesign of generative games – digital, real-world and hybrid – as sites, platforms and protocols of and for transformative knowledge, design and foresight commoning. It is at once a story-telling board game and a game codesign springboard, created to engage player-designers in conversations about the various discourses underlying emerging »new economy« signifiers, such as sharing, smart, circular and collaborative. To advance in and ultimately win the game, two teams embodying seemingly diametrically opposite discursive poles – e.g. Commonism vs. Capitalism / Degrowth vs. Green Growth – compete in creating compelling social and sustainability transformation storylines in order to secure primacy over playing fields, consisting of real-world initiatives, proposals or ideas. Players shape these storylines by combining Challenge and Intervention cards (pre-made and impromptu-made) within distinct playing fields, while JUDGES assess these stories for their “Plausibility” and “Inventiveness”. The game operationalizes transition theories such as cooptation and Trojan horses as mechanics, and includes Wildcards, i.e. chance “external” events which may hold benefits for either team or in other ways alter the game’s dynamics. Participants in this workshop will get the chance to learn about new directions in futures game design and try out Game-Changers: The Game, developed over a dozen playtests around Europe at venues ranging from conferences, summer schools to research institutes and activist meetings.

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Fwd: New issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation & survey about the future of the Journal
by Michel Bauwens 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Pluto Journals Ltd. <kush(a)plutojournals.com> Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:34 PM Subject: New issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation & survey about the future of the Journal To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> This latest newsletter from WOLG brings you details about a new issue of the Journal and a survey to help shape its future in the Open Access era. *New issue and a survey about the future of the journal in the Open Access era!* This latest newsletter from Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation brings you details about a new issue of the Journal. We are also looking for feedback from our contributors and readers about the Journal to help shape its future in the Open Access era, you can find details about this below. This newsletter also includes new call for papers for our upcoming special issue, a book promotion on Ursula Huws' new book with a discount for WOLG newsletter subscribers and a reminder about our previous issue. We are still accepting papers for our call for papers on our other special issue on platform labour in the post-COVID city so you can find more details below. <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80b…> The latest issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation brings together a collection of articles exploring the effects of work digitalisation and platformisation. Plus articles about high-skilled migrant workers and the ‘class ceiling’ faced by working class students entering professions. 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We are inviting you, as a member of our global community, to give us your views about how the journal should evolve in the future and help us develop initiatives that can open up new forms of dialogue among contributors and readers. Take the survey <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80b…> <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80b…> *Call for Papers* This special issue on *Researching Precarious, Virtual and Clandestine Labour: Methodological and Ethical Challenges *focuses on the challenges posed by researching non-standard work in the 21st century. We particularly welcome contributions that look specifically at the methodological and ethical challenges confronting researchers investigating labour in the context of digitalisation and globalisation based on recent quantitative or qualitative research, though this is not a requirement for submission. 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As the number of unemployed people in the UK rise, and we are heading towards one of the greatest recessions in the history of capitalism, now is the time to think seriously about rethinking and rebuilding the welfare state for a broken country. In this book, leading analyst Ursula Huws proposes new and original policy ideas, including critical discussions of Universal Basic Income and new legislation for universal workers' rights, as well as outlining a 'digital welfare state' for the 21st century. These fresh ideas breathe new life into an outdated system, and herald the start of a new and urgent discussion that could improve the lives of millions. *Pluto Press are offering 35% off Reinventing the Welfare State for WOLG Newsletter subscribers. To claim the discount, **visit the publisher’s website* <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80b…>* and enter the coupon code ‘FIREWORKS35**’ at the checkout. 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