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Fwd: 📄 "Reimagining New Socio-Technical Economics Through the Application of..."
by Michel Bauwens 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Academia <updates(a)academia-mail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:00 AM Subject: 📄 "Reimagining New Socio-Technical Economics Through the Application of..." To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> [image: Academia.edu] <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-NG2Jx11-UBGY7/> ------------------------------ Dear Michel, Welcome to your Academia Research Brief! We found 3 papers you might be interested in. Your Daily Highlight Based on your recent reads and downloads on Academia We've found a new recommended paper for you. Reimagining New Socio-Technical Economics Through the Application of Distributed Ledger Technologies <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Sarah Grace Manski <http://ucsb.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> 2020, Frontiers in Blockchain 19 Views [image: Paper Thumbnail] 17 Pages <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Download <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Save to Library <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> ABSTRACT Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is increasingly proposed as a powerful tool to address the social and ecological challenges in the Global South. DLTs are opening up possible futures, one of which is a wave of infrastructure decentralization with common-centric and cosmo-local production. Shared logistics and... Blockchain • Blockchains • Blockchain Technologies View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Continue Reading... Want to give these papers another shot? Collaboratively mapping alternative economies Co-producing transformative knowledge <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Adrien Labaeye <http://hu-berlin.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3Y…> 2017, Netcom 34 Views [image: Paper Thumbnail] 31 Pages <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Download <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Save to Library <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to inform practitioners and researchers alike about the emerging practice of collaboratively mapping alternative economies. The paper draws from an inventory of over 200 maps, action research, and semi-structured interviews to explore how collaborative mapping – a practice that is largely... Commons • Mapping • Action Research • Digital Commons • Knowledge Commons + 2 more View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Sector Theory 1.0 – Todd's Take on Epistemology <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> T Collins Logan <http://independent.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ…> 84 Views [image: Paper Thumbnail] 17 Pages <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Download <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Save to Library <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> ABSTRACT Pieces of this particular interlocking puzzle have been knocking around in my head for some time, and a critical part of the exercise is applying what is outlined here to how we approach epistemology itself. In particular, those already familiar with my essay on Constructive Integralism will encounter a familiar... Philosophy • Epistemology • Integral Theory View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> ------------------------------ <https://academia.app.link/xzTUSeHxQX> 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 Unsubscribe <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/NjBib0I4SCs0OCszZW4wbFFkL3pBTzR2ZVQ3YWpEYl…> Privacy Policy <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-NG2Jx11-UBGY7/privacy> Terms of Service <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-NG2Jx11-UBGY7/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: [echanges] Livre (2020) - Incorporating the Digital Commons : Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
by Michel Bauwens 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sebastien Shulz <sebastien.shulz(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 12:43 AM Subject: [echanges] Livre (2020) - Incorporating the Digital Commons : Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software To: Biens communs, réseau francophone <echanges(a)bienscommuns.org> Bonsoir à toustes, Un livre (en accès libre) qui pourrait en intéresser quelques un.e.s. Il traite des interactions entre communs numériques et capitalisme numérique. Une suite aux réflexions déjà entamées par Sébastien Broca, Lionel Morel, etc. https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book39/ ---- Birkinbine, B. J. (2020) *Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software*. The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software, and IBM, Intel, Cisco, Samsung, Google are some of the largest contributors to Linux, the open-source operating system. This book explores the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism. Just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians, and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. The book concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle, and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors. -------- *Sébastien Shulz* *Doctorant en sociologie * *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés* *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-shulz>* Liste du réseau francophone des biens communs * Archives et gestion de votre compte (désabonnement, changement d'adresse,...) https://listes.cfcloud.fr/bienscommuns.org/arc/echanges (lors de la première connexion : obtenez un mot de passe par le lien en haut à gauche de l'écran) * Pour se désabonner, envoyer un mail à sympa(a)bienscommuns.org avec comme sujet et comme message le texte suivant : unsubscribe echanges -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: [bgcon] "Algotaylorism"
by Michel Bauwens 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:45 AM Subject: [bgcon] "Algotaylorism" To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, writer and curator Aude Launay – who has been member of the bgcon network and participants in Berliner Gazette conferences for some years now – has curated an exhibition and an accompanying series of talks about the future of work in what she calls "a growing algorithmic Taylorism". The title is ALGOTAYLORISM and it takes place at La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (F), Feb.13 _ April 26 2020. And there is more to come. The teaser reads as follows: “In the past the man has been first ; in the future the system must be first.” wrote Frederick W. Taylor in The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911. From his scientific management of work to Amazon/Uber/Deliveroo’s algorithmic management, the evolution has mainly been technological, while on the ideological level, one notices rather a continuity. What is work in the globalized digital age? On the one hand, a growing algorithmic Taylorism—the extreme division of labor among clickworkers—and, on the other hand, a persistent machinic illusion—many tasks thought to be performed by computers are in fact performed by human beings in a more or less concealed way. In the age of algorithmic management, what about performance measurement and worker optimization tools? Also, in what is now called the “attention economy”, it is not anymore only workers who work: any online activity is likely to add to the capital accumulation of the internet giants through its commodification. All data is monetizable. Every internet user is profitable. Being online = working? With : Emanuele Braga & Maddalena Fragnito (MACAO), Simon Denny, Elisa Giardina Papa, Sam Lavigne, Silvio Lorusso, Jonas Lund, Michael Mandiberg, Eva & Franco Mattes, Lauren McCarthy, Julien Prévieux, RYBN.ORG, Sebastian Schmieg, Telekommunisten. http://kunsthallemulhouse.com/evenement/algotaylorism/ Stay tuned, Krystian (for the BG team) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- SILENT WORKS – The Hidden Human Labor in AI-Driven Capitalism BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Text Series https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD – How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change? Results from BG’s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts https://more-world.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de mailing list %(list_address)s https://ml-cgn05.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.… -- 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: Applied Craftsmanship
by Michel Bauwens 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Schumacher Center for a New Economics < schumacher(a)centerforneweconomics.org> Date: Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 9:48 PM Subject: Applied Craftsmanship To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> view this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/centerforneweconomics.org/applied-craftsmanship-504345?e…> <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> BerkShares posters line the hallway of the newly renovated Schumacher Library Dear Michel Bauwens, In a January 2020 article for *Craftsmanship Quarterly,* “Could Small Still Be Beautiful?”, Bryce Bauer writes of the continuing influence of economist E. F. Schumacher. In the process he captures the forty-year sweep of the work of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. An excerpt of his article is reprinted below with permission of the publisher. You can read the full article here <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> and, on The Craftsmanship Initiative’s website <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>, become a follower of the magazine at no fee. On February 3rd the contractors completed their 10 months of work renovating the Schumacher Center’s Library <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> and Offices. <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>The cleaning crew worked all day on the 4th to make everything sparkle. Then that Thursday it was all hands on deck to move books and archival collections into their new climate controlled environment; unpack dishes and place them on shelves in the new kitchen; wash linens covered in sawdust and set them in order in the two new bathrooms; arrange the librarian’s workspace downstairs; hang paintings; unroll rug, table, and chairs for the video conferencing room; and re-arrange the “big” room upstairs now with more space for convening. Team Schumacher was up to the task, even adding a new flowering jasmine in celebration! Painters and carpenters from left to right: Dan Ferron, Kealan Rooney, Tim Seddon, Steven Seddon Sr., Bob Hartman, Devon Guy All just in time for a group of twenty-two persons arriving from around the country on that Friday for a two-day gathering to discuss the cultural roots of the climate crisis and how philanthropists could best engage in creating solutions. It was a perfect setting for the discussion facilitated by Otto Scharmer and Arthur Zajonc. The conversation moved from inside the library to the walking trails outside and uphill on Jug End Mountain with stunning views across the Berkshire valley. Break out groups found plenty of corners in the stacks of books downstairs, and the office spaces upstairs for one on one conversations. Gathering in the "big" room at the Schumacher Library It is a building meant to serve the next forty years of the Schumacher Center’s work. Our thanks to the many friends of the Center that donated to make Bob Swann’s original vision for the building a reality. Gratefully, Schumacher Center Staff View photos of the renovation on our website <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>. >From the January 2020 edition of Craftsmanship Quarterly By Bryce Bauer *Located in the undulating hills of the Southern Berkshires, off the charmingly named Jug End Road near Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the Schumacher Center is a living emblem of Schumacherian modesty and elegance. When I arrived there for a visit of several days, to check up on what has become of Schumacher’s ideas in the four decades since his death, Witt, the center’s director, began her answer by touring me through two of the center’s buildings — its library and her own house. Both had been designed and partially built by the center’s co-founder and her late partner Bob Swann, a carpenter who had previously worked on houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. And both displayed the famous architect’s human-scale gracefulness. The grounds feature a large garden, surrounded by an extensive apple orchard. After “Small Is Beautiful” came out, Swann helped organize Schumacher’s 1977 tour of the United States; Schumacher, in turn, asked Swann to help carry out his ideas in America. Originally designed to be the forum for a Schumacher-inspired lecture series, the scope of the organization grew over the years, as did the intellectual spheres from which it drew. Critical among the ideas it subsumed were those of the great urban development theorist, Jane Jacobs, who spoke at the center in 1984. In one of her books, “The Economy of Cities,” Jacobs argued that places develop when they start to produce products locally that they previously imported from far away. Following her speech, Jacobs became a supporter of the center and wrote about its projects in her later books. When I asked Michael Shuman, an economist and consultant who has written several books on local economies, how he viewed the center’s work, he said, “I think the Schumacher center under Susan’s leadership has been the most important laboratory for social invention that serves the local economy in the world.” Shuman credits the center with helping to push forward ideas that have now become mainstream, like crowd funding, and for keeping work on local economies anchored in an intellectual context. Today, the Schumacher Center operates primarily as a library and think-tank, focused on three broad areas: helping communities gain greater control over their land; supporting businesses that provide products and services for local consumption, so that profits stay at home; and fostering face-to-face relationships to offset, or even reverse, the harms of scale that Schumacher identified. 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Fwd: Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find
by Michel Bauwens 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham(a)bioscienceresource.org> Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:42 PM Subject: Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find To: <BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1(a)gn.apc.org> Dear Friends and Colleagues It has come to light that we have had a mailing list malfunction. The following email messages were never sent to subscribers, so this is a catch-up email with the missing articles. None of them have dated in any appreciable way so please feel free to share them. Indeed we would be very grateful for this. Following this email your mailings will resume as normal. My sincere apologies, most especially to the authors. *In chronological order the articles were:* 1) Published Mon, Sept 23rd, 2019 by* Independent Science News* *Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find* by Jonathan Latham, PhD https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/gene-editing-unintentionally-… *Synopsis:* Japanese researchers have discovered that standard methods of animal and plant gene-editing introduce DNA from unexpected sources. Inadvertently incorporated into the genomes of their edited mouse cells they found DNA from the *E.coli* genome (a bacterium) and from the cow genome, along with goat DNA. The researchers traced this adventitious presence to contaminants of standard components of the gene-editing process, such as cell culture media. The discovery suggests not only that edited organisms may acquire random foreign DNA, but that present methods of gene-editing can transmit genetic elements, viruses, and other pathogenic agents between species. These findings therefore have very important implications for biosecurity and for the regulation of gene-editing. ***** 2) Published on Mon. Nov 4th by *Independent Science News*: *Interview With Mackenzie Feldman of Herbicide-Free Campus* https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/interview-with-mackenzie-feld… *Synopsis:* Mackenzie Feldman, youthful Executive Director of Herbicide-Free Campus, has successfully persuaded University of California campuses to end use of the herbicide glyphosate. Her campaign is now spreading to other campuses. How did she do it? ***** 3) Published Thur. Nov 7th, 2019 by *Independent Science News*: *The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa* By Million Belay and Timothy Wise https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-battle-for-the-futur… *Synopsis:* Policies such as outlawing the saving and sharing of seeds, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, are intended to open Africa to multinational seed companies in the name of modernization. But they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers. *The authors:* Million Belay is the coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa. Timothy A. Wise directs the Land and Food Rights Program at the U.S.-based Small Planet Institute and is a Senior Researcher at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute. Wise is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press). ****** 4) Published Mon, Jan 20th, 2020. by *Independent Science News*: *Another Disease Outbreak Threatens U.S. Pigs, But Big Ag Would Rather Talk About Bacon Prices* by Martha Rosenberg https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/another-disease-outbreak-thre… *Synopsis:* The latest food animal pandemic is African swine fever (ASF), caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV). This disease in 2019 killed one-fourth of the world’s pigs, including half of all China’s factory farm pigs. So far, mainstream media’s coverage of ASF has skirted questions about the pandemic disease potential of intensive animal agriculture. ****** 5) Published Feb 13th, 2020 by *Independent Science News*: *Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory* by Jonathan Latham https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/extensive-chemical-safety-fraud… *Synopsis:* The German company LPT Hamburg is prominent in the business of animal testing for the pesticide and pharmaceutical industries. Following an initial investigation by the German magazine FAKT, which featured filming by an undercover employee, five former employees of LPT Hamburg have come forward. The stories told by these employees are of routine fraud intended to show that harmful compounds were, in fact, safe. One of the compounds tested by LPT Hamburg was glyphosate. ****** 6) Published Mon Feb 17th, 2020 by *Independent Science News*: *We Need to Connect the 2019-nCoV Coronavirus to Agriculture* By Rob Wallace, PhD https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/we-need-to-connect-the-2019-n… *Synopsis: *Did the latest novel coronavirus originate in a wet animal market? We don’t know that and even if it did not we have a massive problem of intensive indoor farms creating novel pathogens. Essentially nothing is being done about this problem, however. The writer is the author of: Big Farms Make Big Flu <https://www.amazon.com/Big-Farms-Make-Flu-Agribusiness/dp/1583675892/ref=sr…> Please share these articles if you find them to be of value: *All the content of Independent Science News is shareable under a Creative Commons licence*. Yours sincerely and apologies again. Jonathan Jonathan Latham, PhD Executive Director The Bioscience Resource Project, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA Websites: www.independentsciencenews.org www.poisonpapers.org www.bioscienceresource.org Tel: 1-607-319-0279 Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp Please sign on to our mailing list: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/subscribe/ “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda _______________________________________________ BSR-project-elist1 mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1 To unsubscribe, email bsr-project-elist1-unsubscribe(a)gn.apc.org -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: Latest Headlines post to Ethical Markets
by Michel Bauwens 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Larae Long <larae.long(a)ethicalmarkets.com> Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 9:21 PM Subject: Latest Headlines post to Ethical Markets To: Larae Long <larae.long(a)ethicalmarkets.com> Dear Advisors and Colleagues: Please consider helping us by circulating this proposal with your added comments! *Call for Maria Yovanovitch as US Ambassador to the UN! <https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/call-for-maria-yovanovitch-as-us-ambassador-…>* Cheers! Hazel [image: cid:[email protected]] LaRae Long Executive Director Ethical Markets Ethical Markets Overview <http://4a5qvh23tbek30e0mg42uq87.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/…> 904-829-3140 -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS – BG's 2020 annual project
by Michel Bauwens 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:09 PM Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS – BG's 2020 annual project To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, What Is the Hidden Human Labor In AI-Driven Capitalism? Looking for answers, the SILENT WORKS project launches an intervention encompassing an exhibition, a conference, and a text series. The Berliner Gazette's 2020 annual project will be launched with a transmediale-talk taking place on January 31, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin. Speakers include the filmmaker/media artist Benjamin Heisenberg and philosopher Janina Loh. For more info on SILENT WORKS visit this website: https://silentworks.info And please read the introductory essay in English on Mediapart: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog/270120/silent-works-what-… or in German on Berliner Gazette: https://berlinergazette.de/silent-works-verborgene-arbeit-im-ki-kapitalismu… Stay tuned, Krystian (for the BG team) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- SILENT WORKS – The Hidden Human Labor in AI-Driven Capitalism BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Text Series https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD – How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change? Results from BG’s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts https://more-world.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de mailing list %(list_address)s https://ml-cgn05.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.… -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] Very important trend for cosmo-local production
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

wow, what synchronicity, I am very enthusiastic indeed about their vision, which you have yourself beautifully formulated! here a copy of their emails mentioned in the report, if you connect with them, thanks for mentioning my interest for getting in touch as well, see here for the emails: - Lorenza Victoria Salati <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Lorenza_Victoria_Salati> holds a masters degree in Political Sciences (with focus on economic history and visual anthropology) and a specialisation at the School of Cinema and New Media of Milan. She has developed methods derived using visual anthropology as a support to the self-perception of individuals as change makers. Lorenza was formerly a documentary ﬁlmmaker and explored agricultural and ethnic issues in Africa (Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Senegal). Since then she has been considering the new communication needs that have arisen from the opportunities oﬀered by the Web 3.0. She has also investigated new forms of expression and innovative methods of storytelling. She has made many documentaries and is the co-author of several books. Lorenza is the co-founder of the Italian ﬁrm Osun WES and is the co-owner of a German based company specialising in technological tools to support collaborative projects. She is one of the founders and vice-president of R84 Multifactory Mantova." Email: lorenza(a)osunwes.eu - Giulio Focardi <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Giulio_Focardi> holds a masters degree in Economic History and his main topics of professional and research interest are in the ﬁelds of Community Economy, Collaborative Economy and Social Economy. He promotes urban regeneration through the creation of value chains by developing local projects involving micro-enterprises, artisans, artists and cultural managers. He has worked as a consultant, mostly in the HR, strategic development, and multidimensional planning. He has developed various mathematical models of social systems and is the co-author of several books. His working method starts from the systemic analysis of situations, developing intervention models through a trace-back process, starting from the phenomena to reaching to the causes. Since 2009 he has been interested in researching organisational models that contribute to guaranteeing artists economic sustainability and, at the same time, freedom to research and experiment. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Osun WES, a consulting ﬁrm specialising in developing companies as collaborative systems, and is one of the founders and president of the board of R84Association in Mantova." Email: giulio(a)osunwes.eu On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM Evi Swinnen <evi(a)timelab.org> wrote: > Dear all > > I read the book this week. > It is very interesting. Very practical also, what I like. A lot of the > places they mention I visited or at least know what they do. Their movie is > also very well made and finally something else than talking about shared > machines and fablabs but about people, diversity, new economy and > innovation. > Their vision is resembling one of our conclusions going through different > iterations of the school of commons development. More specific on the > definition of resources in commons. > One of the conclusions we came up during our last sprint on commoning arts > with the group of artists/activists was that we misinterpret resources as > fixed and scarce. (that this is a market perspective). That the true > resources are emerging from relationships and interaction and that building > resources means, maintaining and caring. The researchers of multifactory > state that exactly that is the difference between community economy and > shared economy. That insight I can support from our practice and > experience. It will be incorporated in the school of commons module on > 'resources' . > I'm seriously thinking to build our Schuur as a multifactory or at least > get a lot of inspiration from the research in Italy. > > Thank you Michel for bringing it into my eyesight. > Trying to get in touch with the writers, so if you can help? > > All the best > Evi > > Op do 23 jan. 2020 09:05 schreef jose ramos <actionforesight(a)gmail.com>: > >> looks great Michel >> >> will have a look >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:48 PM Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> >>> *Very important, 'this is it' in terms of (one of the important) forms >>> taken by cosmo-local production; this report counts 120 initiatives in >>> Europe alone,* >>> >>> >>> *summarized at * >>> https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy >>> >>> >>> *Michel* >>> >>> >>> ** Article: The rise of community economy : from coworking spaces to the >>> multifactory model. By Lorenza Victoria Salati, Giulio Focardi. - >>> Sarajevo : Udruženje Akcija, 2018.* >>> >>> URL = >>> https://www.academia.edu/41043179/THE_RISE_OF_COMMUNITY_ECONOMY_From_Cowork… >>> >>> "We want to understand and to show this new idea of workplaces: local, >>> fast, easy, versatile, sustainable under a social and environmental point >>> of view. ... The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model >>> of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, >>> from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual >>> aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge" >>> >>> >>> Contents [hide >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> ] >>> >>> - 1 The Context >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 2 Description >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 3 The Questionnaire >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 4 Contents >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 5 Excerpts >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 5.1 The Multifactory Model >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 5.2 The Invisible Factory >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 5.3 Community Economy >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 6 Case Study >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 6.1 R84 Multifactory Mantova >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 7 More information >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 7.1 Bibliography >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 7.2 Video >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> - 7.3 Author Bios >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> >>> >>> The Context[edit >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_…> >>> ] >>> >>> By Lorenza Victoria Salati and Giulio Focardi: >>> >>> "We reject the distracting pessimism of those who see a grey future >>> subjugated to global and sprawling multinationals, but also of those who >>> uncritically superimpose the concept of “enterprise”on the stereotyped >>> image of seventeenth-century steelworks and consider every entrepreneur as >>> a ruthless and predatory subject. The reality is very diﬀerent and is made >>> up of innovative and environmentally friendly business models, and new >>> sustainable companies led by a new social class that perceives itself as a >>> driving force for social change and takes up the traits of crafts-people, >>> artists, professionals and entrepreneurs, hybridizing and adapting them to >>> the times. These pioneers of a new way of doing business are among us and >>> successfully lead companies and projects based on concepts of community, >>> social inclusion, professional exchange,mutual help, and responsibility >>> towards the community.How did we come to these conclusions? By exploring, >>> touching, and traveling to discover innovative projects. Between 2012 and >>> 2018 we visited over 120 diﬀerent workspaces, travelling across 20 >>> countries and three continents in search of successful models, inspirations >>> and experiences.We made traveling the core of our research, adopting an >>> ethnographic approach and using many theoretical tools from visual >>> anthropology and participatory anthropology. To some places we went only >>> once, to others we went back regularly. At some we stayed half a day, at >>> others for months at a time. >>> >>> *The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of >>> intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from >>> scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid, >>> social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge*. >>> >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Since 2014 we have begun proposing the Multifactory Model to both >>> institutions and to private individuals as a tool for urban regeneration >>> and as a means of generating local job opportunities. Some of the resulting >>> negotiations have come to an end,while others are still ongoing. Between >>> 2014 and 2016 we spent several months working at FreiLand, Potsdam, to >>> continue reﬁning the model. In the meantime we have visited many other >>> spaces across Europe and we have begun to lay the foundations of the >>> Multifactory Network and for the development of the ‘Invisible Factory’, a >>> project designed to scale the Multifactory Model. The Multifactory Network >>> is a project aimed at fostering and enabling direct collaborations between >>> members of workspaces in diﬀerent countries. The Multifactory Network aims >>> to re-move obstacles in terms of design, sustainability and work-life >>> balance that usually makes it diﬃcult for artists, >>> craftspeople,professionals and small economic players to travel and develo >>> international projects. The idea of the Invisible Factory ﬁrst came to us >>> at MAGE in 2013. Currently our focus is to consolidate a transnational >>> structure of companies, artists and professionals linked by stable >>> relationships that is able to imagine, design, develop and produce complex >>> products and services, utilising horizontal coordination between small >>> local producers. Our research continues on other bases to the current day, >>> our aim being the implementation of the Multifactory Network and reﬁning >>> the development of the Invisible Factory. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited >>> a total of 120 spaces of all kinds in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the >>> UK, the Czech Republic,Slovenia, Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, >>> Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the United States and Ecuador. " >>> >>> >>> Description[edit >>> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_…> >>> ] >>> >>> This book is an examination of a collaborative production space in >>> Milan, called Mage, and a quest to find similar places abroad: >>> >>> "MAGE in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), also known in Italy as the “Town of >>> Factories”. MAGE is an industrial building of 1700 square meters, formerly >>> used as warehouses. At MAGE now you can ﬁnd 17 small companies and/or >>> associations: crafts makers, sewers, dressmakers, two bag factories, a >>> bikefactory, laser cutting, 3D printing, photographers, architects, >>> jewellers, ﬁlmmakers, and artists. We produce goods, ideas and culture >>> since 2010. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> What emerged from the interviews was that our interviewees viewed MAGE >>> as more than just a collaborative space. It was areal organisational >>> structure based on exchange, mutuality and sharing. To some extent, it >>> seemed as if these diﬀerent artists,companies and craftspeople, working >>> horizontally together,were part of a single, large “invisible factory”, in >>> which everyone could represent a company function.Perhaps MAGE was a unique >>> experience, an anomaly, a particular combination of factors that had led to >>> that result. Or perhaps, if that structure had taken place, there were >>> reasons linked to a more general change and it was the expression of >>> asocial change, related to people who began to have other values and other >>> priorities than in the past.In any case, if it had been possible to >>> identify the basic mechanisms underlying the relationships between the >>> diﬀerent components of the system, to understand which ones were functional >>> with respect to an increase in the overall level of competences, it might >>> have been possible to identify solutions to make these mechanisms >>> reproducible, so as to deﬁne a model that could be exported. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> FROM ROME WE TRAVELLED TO POLLINO, FROM POLLINO TO NAPLES,FROM NAPLES TO >>> SALERNO, FROM SALERNO WE JOURNEYED TO EBOLI, AND FINALLY, AFTER MANY HARD >>> MILES, WE REACHED OUR DESTINATION, LAURIA. Here, we would get to know the >>> farmers who were participating in the Micro Supply Chain project. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> To continue with the work, we decided to follow a double path. On one >>> side, we decided to propose the same interviews to a group of farmers from >>> the South of Italy, in Basilicata, who were all part of a project meant to >>> create a local supply chain, to see what the answers would be in a totally >>> diﬀerent place from Milan. From diﬀerent people, in a diﬀerent context, we >>> expected that we would receive diﬀerent answers.On the other hand, we >>> decided to look for a space outside Italy. That period was economically >>> very diﬃcult in Italy, so we speculated it might only be the lack of money >>> that was pushing people to get together and then, once they had started to >>> earn enough money again, all these experiences would be doomed to disappear. >>> >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> After Pollino, we anticipate results in London. We needed to understand >>> if, in a land of social experimentation, we would ﬁnd something similar to >>> what we had observed to date in Italy. Our departure was scheduled for >>> February 27th 2013. We had the ticket, but not destination. Yet! Our >>> journey into the world of shared workspaces has only just begun: we needed >>> to focus ourresearch and we decided to concentrate on spaces that had the >>> three characteristics that we considered important:First of all, they >>> should be places where something concrete is being produced: objects, >>> prototypes, small scale production. They could also be somewhere to >>> accommodate ‘workers of the intangible’, those who might only need a desk >>> and a computer,but a productive element would be mandatory. Then, they >>> should be places characterised by broad heterogeneity; young and old, >>> artists and craftspeople, start-ups and established companies, traditional >>> craftspeople and 3D printers,architects and cyclists, local companies and >>> companies with aglobal outlook.Finally, they should be community projects. >>> We are not prescriptive about which governance structure would be >>> acceptable. Be it privately owned, perhaps with an established management >>> structure or typically anarchic, our only concern is that the bodies or >>> individuals using the space should be an active part of the space’s >>> governance. The ethos of ‘from below’or ‘grassroots’is non negotiable. >>> >>> On 9 February we contacted Building BloQs, a new-born space in the >>> North-East suburbs of London" >>> >>> -- >>> P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> >>> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >>> >>> Discuss: >>> http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >>> >>> Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >>> >>> Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: >>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Very important trend for cosmo-local production
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> *Very important, 'this is it' in terms of (one of the important) forms taken by cosmo-local production; this report counts 120 initiatives in Europe alone,* *summarized at * https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy *Michel* ** Article: The rise of community economy : from coworking spaces to the multifactory model. By Lorenza Victoria Salati, Giulio Focardi. - Sarajevo : Udruženje Akcija, 2018.* URL = https://www.academia.edu/41043179/THE_RISE_OF_COMMUNITY_ECONOMY_From_Cowork… "We want to understand and to show this new idea of workplaces: local, fast, easy, versatile, sustainable under a social and environmental point of view. ... The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge" Contents [hide <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> ] - 1 The Context <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 2 Description <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 3 The Questionnaire <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 4 Contents <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 5 Excerpts <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 5.1 The Multifactory Model <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 5.2 The Invisible Factory <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 5.3 Community Economy <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 6 Case Study <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 6.1 R84 Multifactory Mantova <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 7 More information <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 7.1 Bibliography <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 7.2 Video <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> - 7.3 Author Bios <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Econom…> The Context[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_…> ] By Lorenza Victoria Salati and Giulio Focardi: "We reject the distracting pessimism of those who see a grey future subjugated to global and sprawling multinationals, but also of those who uncritically superimpose the concept of “enterprise”on the stereotyped image of seventeenth-century steelworks and consider every entrepreneur as a ruthless and predatory subject. The reality is very diﬀerent and is made up of innovative and environmentally friendly business models, and new sustainable companies led by a new social class that perceives itself as a driving force for social change and takes up the traits of crafts-people, artists, professionals and entrepreneurs, hybridizing and adapting them to the times. These pioneers of a new way of doing business are among us and successfully lead companies and projects based on concepts of community, social inclusion, professional exchange,mutual help, and responsibility towards the community.How did we come to these conclusions? By exploring, touching, and traveling to discover innovative projects. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited over 120 diﬀerent workspaces, travelling across 20 countries and three continents in search of successful models, inspirations and experiences.We made traveling the core of our research, adopting an ethnographic approach and using many theoretical tools from visual anthropology and participatory anthropology. To some places we went only once, to others we went back regularly. At some we stayed half a day, at others for months at a time. *The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge*. ... Since 2014 we have begun proposing the Multifactory Model to both institutions and to private individuals as a tool for urban regeneration and as a means of generating local job opportunities. Some of the resulting negotiations have come to an end,while others are still ongoing. Between 2014 and 2016 we spent several months working at FreiLand, Potsdam, to continue reﬁning the model. In the meantime we have visited many other spaces across Europe and we have begun to lay the foundations of the Multifactory Network and for the development of the ‘Invisible Factory’, a project designed to scale the Multifactory Model. The Multifactory Network is a project aimed at fostering and enabling direct collaborations between members of workspaces in diﬀerent countries. The Multifactory Network aims to re-move obstacles in terms of design, sustainability and work-life balance that usually makes it diﬃcult for artists, craftspeople,professionals and small economic players to travel and develo international projects. The idea of the Invisible Factory ﬁrst came to us at MAGE in 2013. Currently our focus is to consolidate a transnational structure of companies, artists and professionals linked by stable relationships that is able to imagine, design, develop and produce complex products and services, utilising horizontal coordination between small local producers. Our research continues on other bases to the current day, our aim being the implementation of the Multifactory Network and reﬁning the development of the Invisible Factory. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited a total of 120 spaces of all kinds in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the UK, the Czech Republic,Slovenia, Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the United States and Ecuador. " Description[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Multifactory_Models_for_the_…> ] This book is an examination of a collaborative production space in Milan, called Mage, and a quest to find similar places abroad: "MAGE in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), also known in Italy as the “Town of Factories”. MAGE is an industrial building of 1700 square meters, formerly used as warehouses. At MAGE now you can ﬁnd 17 small companies and/or associations: crafts makers, sewers, dressmakers, two bag factories, a bikefactory, laser cutting, 3D printing, photographers, architects, jewellers, ﬁlmmakers, and artists. We produce goods, ideas and culture since 2010. ... What emerged from the interviews was that our interviewees viewed MAGE as more than just a collaborative space. It was areal organisational structure based on exchange, mutuality and sharing. To some extent, it seemed as if these diﬀerent artists,companies and craftspeople, working horizontally together,were part of a single, large “invisible factory”, in which everyone could represent a company function.Perhaps MAGE was a unique experience, an anomaly, a particular combination of factors that had led to that result. Or perhaps, if that structure had taken place, there were reasons linked to a more general change and it was the expression of asocial change, related to people who began to have other values and other priorities than in the past.In any case, if it had been possible to identify the basic mechanisms underlying the relationships between the diﬀerent components of the system, to understand which ones were functional with respect to an increase in the overall level of competences, it might have been possible to identify solutions to make these mechanisms reproducible, so as to deﬁne a model that could be exported. ... FROM ROME WE TRAVELLED TO POLLINO, FROM POLLINO TO NAPLES,FROM NAPLES TO SALERNO, FROM SALERNO WE JOURNEYED TO EBOLI, AND FINALLY, AFTER MANY HARD MILES, WE REACHED OUR DESTINATION, LAURIA. Here, we would get to know the farmers who were participating in the Micro Supply Chain project. ... To continue with the work, we decided to follow a double path. On one side, we decided to propose the same interviews to a group of farmers from the South of Italy, in Basilicata, who were all part of a project meant to create a local supply chain, to see what the answers would be in a totally diﬀerent place from Milan. From diﬀerent people, in a diﬀerent context, we expected that we would receive diﬀerent answers.On the other hand, we decided to look for a space outside Italy. That period was economically very diﬃcult in Italy, so we speculated it might only be the lack of money that was pushing people to get together and then, once they had started to earn enough money again, all these experiences would be doomed to disappear. ... After Pollino, we anticipate results in London. We needed to understand if, in a land of social experimentation, we would ﬁnd something similar to what we had observed to date in Italy. Our departure was scheduled for February 27th 2013. We had the ticket, but not destination. Yet! Our journey into the world of shared workspaces has only just begun: we needed to focus ourresearch and we decided to concentrate on spaces that had the three characteristics that we considered important:First of all, they should be places where something concrete is being produced: objects, prototypes, small scale production. They could also be somewhere to accommodate ‘workers of the intangible’, those who might only need a desk and a computer,but a productive element would be mandatory. Then, they should be places characterised by broad heterogeneity; young and old, artists and craftspeople, start-ups and established companies, traditional craftspeople and 3D printers,architects and cyclists, local companies and companies with aglobal outlook.Finally, they should be community projects. We are not prescriptive about which governance structure would be acceptable. Be it privately owned, perhaps with an established management structure or typically anarchic, our only concern is that the bodies or individuals using the space should be an active part of the space’s governance. The ethos of ‘from below’or ‘grassroots’is non negotiable. On 9 February we contacted Building BloQs, a new-born space in the North-East suburbs of London" -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism, ed. C. Fuchs
by Christian Fuchs 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Fuchs, Christian, ed. 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1-285. https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/41 The 15 contributions comprising this special issue analyse and theorise communicative socialism and the communication of socialism in the digital age. Table of Contents: Christian Fuchs: Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism, pp. 1-31 Christopher C. Barnes: Democratic Socialists on Social Media: Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Normative Strategies, pp. 32-47 Dimitris Boucas: Theory, Reality, and Possibilities for a Digital/Communicative Socialist Society, pp. 48-66 Christopher M. Cox: Rising With the Robots: Towards a Human-Machine Autonomy for Digital Socialism, pp. 67-83 Emiliana De Blasio, Michele Sorice: Spaces of Struggle: So Nick Dyer-Witheford: Left Populism and Platform Capitalism, pp. 116-131cialism and Neoliberalism With a Human Face Among Digital Parties and Online Movements in Europe, pp. 84-100 Donatella Della Ratta: Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care, pp. 101-115 Sai Englert, Jamie Woodcock, Callum Cant: Digital Workerism: Technology, Platforms, and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles, pp. 132-145 Christian Fuchs: The Utopian Internet, Computing, Communication, and Concrete Utopias: Reading William Morris, Peter Kropotkin, Ursula K. Le Guin, and P.M. in the Light of Digital Socialism, pp. 146-186 Hardy Hanappi: A Global Revolutionary Class Will Ride the Tiger of Alienation, pp. 187-203 Dmitry Kuznetsov, Milan Ismangil: YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought, pp. 204-218 Eleonora de Magalhães Carvalho, Afonso Albuquerque, Marcelo Alves Santos Júnior: Brazilian Blogosfera Progressista: Digital Vanguards in Dark Times, pp. 219-235 Joan Pedro-Carañana: Towards a Marxist Theory of Mediation: Contributions from Ibero-America to the Study of Digital Communication, pp. 236-253 Jamie Ranger: Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media, pp. 254-267 S. Harikrishnan: Communicating Communism: Social Spaces and the Creation of a “Progressive” Public Sphere in Kerala, India, pp. 268-285

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