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R: Re: hylozoic
by Bertram Maria Niessen 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

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commonwealth, critique by silvia federici
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear Michael, In her latest essay, Silivia Federici writes the following about your trilogy, and Commonwealth in particular: (http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113) .. The appeal of this theory is that it does not separate the formation of “the common” from the organization of work and production but sees it immanent to it. Its limit is that its picture of the common absolutizes the work of a minority possessing skills not available to most of the world population. It also ignores that this work produces commodities for the market, and it overlooks the fact that online communication/production depends on economic activities – mining, microchip and rare earth production—that, as presently organized, are extremely destructive, socially and ecologically. Moreover, with its emphasis on knowledge and information, this theory skirts the question of the reproduction of everyday life. .. I have read Empire and at least half of the two next books, and I must say I have not read into your book that you absolutize the work of a minority, nor that you ignore that it produces commodities for the market, nor a denial that such commons have a material basis, so it can only be based on a very skimpy reading. (one could of course argue more realistically that your books do not pay sufficient attention to those without access, does not pay sufficient attention to the material basis, and to the incorporation of value by capitalism, which, even if perhaps incorrect, would be an even more nuanced and productive debate) However, perhaps you have addressed such critiques in more detail, If so, thanks for sharing the links and I'll forward to our commoning list in cc, Eventually, if you address them or have addressed them, and I think you should as these kinds of claims are recurrent, I would eventually like to republish in the P2P FOundation blog, In addition, have you addressed anywhere the issue of capitalist commons and how we should address them (note to our friends in commoning: I'm writing a mini-article on the material basis of autonomy this afternoon) The P2P Foundation's approach (i.e. my own) is not exactly identical to yours in Commonwealth, but sufficiently related to have to converse about the same critiques. In our case, we have always favoured an alliance between knowledge workers and digital commoners with other commoners, have paid strong attention to the value capture issue (the Crisis of Value theory formulated with Adam Arvidsson) which is central to our thinking, as well as regular attention to the issue of the materiality of autonomy, through our monitoring and support for genuine p2p infrastructures, Michel Bauwens,P2P Foundation -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Reality Sandwich feature on monetary transformation
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: your Reality Sandwich feature Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:23:08 -0500 From: Steven Taylor <stevenxtaylor(a)gmail.com> <stevenxtaylor(a)gmail.com> To: Thomas Greco <thg(a)mindspring.com> <thg(a)mindspring.com> Hi Thomas, We featured your latest on Reality Sandwich today. Here's the link. http://www.realitysandwich.com/worlds_ominous_reckoning Thanks for sending in the work. Best, Steven -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: nonkilling.org Economics Research Committee
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Economics Research Committee These Committees have been established as consultative bodies to promote the advancement of interdisciplinary scientific evidence on the possibilities of nonkilling societies. These Committees provide creative input on research agendas, academic events, courses and publications. You can find a list of existing Committees at: http://www.nonkilling.org/node/7Your actual involvement as a member is flexible, ranging from simply supporting the idea with your name to actively participating in the development of publications and events. In 2011 CGNK intends to publish various edited volumes and also keeps an active working papers series ( http://nonkilling.org/node/20) . For further details on the Center and nonkilling, please take time to visit our website: http://www.nonkilling.orgYours sincerely, Joám Evans Pim Research, Global Team Leader Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK) P.O. Box 12232, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96828 http://www.nonkilling.org Board member, Brazilian Institute for Nonkilling http://www.naomatar.org "Die if you must, but never kill." Marechal (General) Cândido Rondon (1865-1958) -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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hylozoic
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi Kevin, just wondering if you are familiar with rudy rucker's latest books, like hylozoic and whether they are pertinent to p2p concerns? http://thecommandline.net/2010/10/27/rudy_rucker/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] How Grass Roots activism is developing in a different way - apols for X posts
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > *Frm Global Transition in Action by Les Squires > > Introduction:* > > Over the last decade widespread debate about environmental issues and > ethical consumer behavior has fostered the development of new grassroots > organizations. These organizations represent a departure from the more > hierarchical and institutionalized social movement organizations > (SMOs) operating within similar sectors. > > > > *Objective:* > > Investigating how new grassroots organizations differ from traditional SMOs > and how their diffusion is currently taking place are the broad goals of > this research. In particular, we want to show that these new social > movements are not primarily concerned with persuading the state to change > policies but with engaging individuals to adopt new lifestyles. Such > lifestyle changes will create new identities that will diffuse from the > market to the broader society. The internet is used for coordinating > individual changes into a collective action and for making possible the > recruitment of new people. > > > *Methods:* > > * *We used an online survey to collect data on the users of the following > website: http://transitionus.ning.com (now http://transitioninaction.com) > Data were collected from October 2009 to March 2010. Overall, 387 > respondents began the survey, and 243 completed it. > > > *Findings:* > > The survey showed respondents to be politically active, educated, white > adults, with women making up 58% of the sample. More than half of the > respondents have ever belonged to an environmental group or political/civic > organization, and over 80% have attended a political/civic event. However, > their responses to survey questions indicate that they are dissatisfied with > traditional means of political participation, such as street rallies and > letter writing, and that non‐contentious collective actions are preferred > (examples: food and gardening activities, energy saving activities, etc.). > Respondents perceive community organizing to be the most effective way to > bring about social change, deprioritizing connections to local government. > They generally distrust business corporations and political parties, > and explain their withdrawal from political/civic organizations as the > result of the failure of institutional organizations and means to effect > change. > > > Respondents are web‐savvy, using the internet for email, work, reading the > news, social networking, online discussions, and blogging. Cross tabulations > indicate that respondents that started a local chapter of Transition US, > i.e. the initiators, are slightly more likely to have first heard about the > movement from strong ties, such as close friends and relatives, while > joiners are slightly more likely to have first heard about the movement from > the internet and other weak ties, such as acquaintances or from flyers. > Indeed, joiners tend to continue to stay up to date with Transition via the > web while initiators tend to stay up to > date via local meetings. Furthermore, initiators spend more time with > people involved with Transition than people not involved, while joiners > spend more time with people not involved with Transition. > > > > These findings have implications for tactical shifts in the use of the > internet for organization and mobilization efforts on the parts of similar > lifestyle movement organizations. *The theoretical and practical aspects > of these implications will be the topic of a workshop on “The Mobilization > ofIdentities” held on February 15, 2011 at Stanford University. *More > information about this workshop will be made available closer to the date. > > > http://transitioninaction.com/forum/topics/stanford-transition-us-social > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Thimbl: Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be Fingered!
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

thanks for supporting thimbl: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. <dk(a)telekommunisten.net> Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:38 PM Subject: Thimbl: Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be Fingered! To: "Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. Subscriber" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ ##### Vote for Thimbl --> http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl ##### Watch the Thimbl video --> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform ##### What is Thimbl? --> http://www.thimbl.net ##### Get the Telekommunisten Manifesto --> http://bit.ly/telekommunist Hello! It's been a long time since I've sent out a email newsletter, hasn't it? As some of you may know, I've gotten drawn into the world of social media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few reasons for this, one, to explore those platforms as ways to communicate, but also to very large degree, to understand the enemy. Much of what's wrong with Web2.0 is covered in the Telekommunist Manifesto ( http://bit.ly/telekommunist) recently published by Geert Lovink and the Institute for Network Cultures. But now, Telekommunisten are going beyond criticizing the twitbooks, we have initiated a project to develop a truly social platform, one that is open source and decentralized, and perhaps best of all, based on the Finger Protocol, which was originally developed in the 1970s and is already support on pretty much every platform. /////// Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered! The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it's own: http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger & SSH client Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl project is just beginning, we need your to help spread the word. What's really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web Award from Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we'll be hanging around the OpenZone at Transmediale spreading the word and answering questions. Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, and we really need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the Award is being done on the drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, and is up against two projects that are far better known, so we're really need your vote. Please sign up to drumbeat and vote for Thimbl! Here's how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can see it on the home page of our drumpeat project. http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the Transmediale jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project and so are we! Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this on, share, blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social media! With your help, we can make this manifesto for the open web heard! Got Questions? Wanna Help? We've also launched a public community forum for the Thimbl project: http://www.thimbl.net/community.html Come by and say Hi! /////// Stammtisch! Also, for those of you in Berlin, I'll be at Cafe Buchhandlung tonight (Tuesday) for Stammtisch, so come by and have a drink for Thimbl! Stammstich remains at the usual place, Cafe Buchhandlug. (http://bit.ly/buchhandlung) I'll be there around 9pm. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --> http://www.thimbl.net --> http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html --> http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl [[[[ Telekommunisten. The Revolution is Calling ]]]] -- The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. using the following email: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com You may unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: http://freshsent.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/friends/michelsub2004/gmail.c… If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. 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Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum
by Wouter Tebbens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear all, first of all, I follow with great interest the activities going on in the P2P Foundation. And after some discussion with Michel, he suggested me to post here this small message, or better: an invitation. Let me first explain it briefly. With a network of universities and specialised groups we are working on the development of a shared master curriculum on Free Technologies (FT). We understand FT to include Free Software (OSS / Libre Software), Open Standards, Free Hardware. And with specialised tracks on Free Culture and Peer Production. Our aim is to help the adoption of these technologies and production methodologies through helping universities and higher educational institutes to participate and incorporate (parts of) the shared curriculum in their study programmes. One of the things we are looking for is people and organisations willing to contribute to the curriculum. A large part is already there, but especially in areas such as Free Hardware we could use more people who are in the frontline of developments. Maybe some of you know of existing courses and educational materials that may be of interest, or case studies about interesting projects. If you're interested, read on! This work builds further on what several universities and specialist groups have started years ago and that we are now continuing together under the umbrella of the Free Technology Academy (FTA). Let me summarise then a few main aspects that hopefully help to clarify our pursuit: * we are building a common framework for a shared master curriculum with shared norms, rules and procedures as well as copyleft educational materials * this facilitates the autonomy of each university interested in adopting parts of it, while assuring compatibility between programmes and courses * we like distance learning through the Internet, while also having face2face options at concrete locations * the developed educational methodology is based in full course books, that are openly published under free licenses * we are opening up the development process and feedback through web-based tools, open standards and team work * the books are generally worked through in (online) class rooms and continuous assessment activities are done by the participants, guided by a mentor from one of the universities * did I say that we practice what we preach? Indeed, the technologies used are free as in freedom. * we strive for recognition of the course certificates by universities * we strive for double degrees and ultimately for a joint degree * we build the curriculum with all interested parties willing to use and contribute to it. Only as a wider community or ecosystem can we develop this in a sustainable way. A draft for the shared curriculum we are developing in the FTA Campus Wiki: http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Master-Curriculum A substantial part of the courses are already active, here you can find the course books: http://ftacademy.org/materials and courses are conducted for example at the FTA: http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme and are recognised by the partner universities. If you would like to contribute, even by just adding some useful pointers, please do so in the course pages in the Master-Curriculum wiki-page. There are more people interested in working on this with us. And even more willing to take the courses. I look forward to hearing from you through this list, personal email or directly in the wiki. Your inputs are more than welcome and very much needed. best regards, -- Wouter Tebbens -- Free Knowledge Institute /Unlocking the knowledge society/ http://freeknowledge.eu/ Free Technology Academy /Online education about Free Software/ http://ftacademy.org/

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Re: [P2P-F] [OHANDA] Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

thanks Bryan, I'm the one working, with Franco Iacomella, on the peer production course, Michel On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Wouter Tebbens <wouter(a)freeknowledge.eu> > Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM > Subject: [OHANDA] Building a Shared Free Technology Master Curriculum > To: ohanda(a)piksel.no, j.neumann(a)junes.eu > > > Dear all, > > first of all, I follow with great interest the activities going on in > Ohanda. This is really exciting! I write to you about developing a > master programme including courses on Copyleft Hardware. Maybe some of > you know of existing courses and educational materials that may be of > interest, or case studies about interesting projects. Let me first > explain it briefly. > > With a network of universities and specialised groups we are working on > the development of a shared master curriculum on Free Technologies (FT). > We understand FT to include Free Software (OSS / Libre Software), Open > Standards, Free Hardware. And with specialised tracks on Free Culture > and Peer Production. > > Our aim is to help the adoption of these technologies and production > methodologies through helping universities and higher educational > institutes to participate and incorporate (parts of) the shared > curriculum in their study programmes. > > One of the things we are looking for is people and organisations willing > to contribute to the curriculum. A large part is already there, but > especially in the areas such as Free Hardware we could use more people > who are in the frontline of developments. If you're interested, read on! > > This work builds further on what several universities and specialist > groups have started years ago and that we are now continuing together > under the umbrella of the Free Technology Academy (FTA). > > Let me summarise then a few main aspects that hopefully helps to > clarify our pursuit: > * we are building a common framework for a shared master curriculum with > shared norms, rules and procedures as well as copyleft educational > materials > * this facilitates the autonomy of each university interested in > adopting parts of it, while assuring compatibility between programmes > and courses > * we like distance learning through the Internet, while also having > face2face options at concrete locations > * the developed educational methodology is based in full course books, > that are openly published under free licenses > * we are opening up the development process and feedback through > web-based tools, open standards and team work > * the books are generally worked through in (online) class rooms and > continuous assessment activities are done by the participants, guided by > a mentor from one of the universities > * did I say that we practice what we preach? Indeed, the technologies > used are free as in freedom. > * we strive for recognition of the course certificates by universities > * we strive for double degrees and ultimately for a joint degree > * we build the curriculum with all interested parties willing to use and > contribute to it. Only as a wider community or ecosystem can we develop > this in a sustainable way. > > A draft for the shared curriculum we are developing in the FTA Campus > Wiki: http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Master-Curriculum > > Many of the courses are already active, here you can find the course > books: http://ftacademy.org/materials and courses are conducted for > example at the FTA: http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme and > recognised by the partner universities. > > If you would like to contribute, even by just adding some useful > pointers, please do so in the course pages in the Master-Curriculum > wiki-page. > > There are more people interested in working on this with us. And even > more willing to take the courses. I look forward to hearing from you > through this list, personal email or directly in the wiki. Your inputs > are more than welcome and very much needed. > > best regards, > -- > Wouter Tebbens > -- > Free Knowledge Institute /Unlocking the knowledge society/ > http://freeknowledge.eu/ > Free Technology Academy /Online education about Free Software/ > http://ftacademy.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > OHANDA mailing list > OHANDA(a)piksel.no > https://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/ohanda > > > > -- > - Bryan > http://heybryan.org/ > 1 512 203 0507 > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: [Notification from Critical Studies in Peer Production] New item: "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study"
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CSPP Plone Administrator <cspp-plone(a)oekonux.org> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:59 AM Subject: [Notification from Critical Studies in Peer Production] New item: "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study" To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Hello, Item "The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement: A case study" has been created. http://cspp.oekonux.org/scientific-committee/latest-submissions/long-theory… Regards, -- Critical Studies in Peer Production -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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