[P2P-F] islands as paradigmatic responses to globalism

Sun Oct 16 20:52:58 CEST 2011

We made some close references in this book to the islands question I 
dont know if the could be of your interest: Minerva Republic, Sealand, 
libertarians atempts to build «floating republics»...

On 16/10/11 10:43, { brad brace } wrote:
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> thanks Michel -- very good reference although geographic
> islands would be preferred...  /:b
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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>>   Dear Brad,
>>
>> david and lasindias.net have a book on the history of non-state sovereignty,
>> see http://p2pfoundation.net/From_Nations_to_Networks
>>
>> I'm assuming that he/they  paid some attention to island developments,
>>
>> Michel
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>>
>>
>> (see also
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Rights_of_Nature?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, { brad brace }<bbrace at eskimo.com>  wrote:
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>>>
>>> [I've been researching this aspect of "islandness" for
>>> several years and would appreciate any other references.
>>> /:b]
>
>
> Island 7.0 is now available online!
> ====================================
> http://bbrace.net/islands/island7/island7.html
> http://bradbrace.net/islands/island7/island7.html
>
> Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media
> pdf-ebooks/field-recordings -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic
> elicitation of island parameters. An intensive examination of small
> islands and their paradigmatic solutions to globalism.
>
> Your feudal-world is based on mutual relief at your common corruption. Maybe
> some cultures are based on even worse. But that wouldn't change the bad
> faith of it and as years go by, you wake at night in terror of your whole
> life being an act of bad faith, where everything is self-interest and
> nothing more, where every human interaction is driven by a silent, even
> subconscious calculation of some ulterior motive, to the point that a sea
> of bad faith has taken over your whole life, there's no small island left
> from which you can even try to build a bridge of good faith, because even
> that effort becomes suspect, even good faith is nothing but
> self-interested, even altruism is nothing but solipsistic, even your
> professed agonizing right here right now is nothing but a gesture, made to
> the conscience in order to assure it that it exists.
>
> http://bradbrace.net/id.html
> http://bbrace.net/id.html
>
> Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize
> Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand
> Island 3.0 is Lamu, Kenya
> Island 4.0 is Narikel Jingira, Bangladesh
> Island 5.0 is Isla Mais, Nicaragua
> Island 6.0 are The Grenadines, West Indies
> Island 7.0 is Hateruma (Yaeyama), Japan
>
> Global Islands Project:
>
> Island 1.0 ->  http://bbrace.net/islands/island1/island1.html
> or http://bradbrace.net/islands/island1/island1.html
> -- over 800 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 69mb -- (acrobat 6)
>
> Island 2.0 ->  http://bbrace.net/islands/island2/island2.html
> or http://bradbrace.net/islands/island2/island2.html
>   -- over 535 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 78mb -- (acrobat 6)
>
> ***
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_5.0
> http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_6.0
>
>
> ***
> Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a
> pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters...
>
> Vientos del pueblo me llevan
> Vientos del pueblo me arrastran
> Me eparcen mi corazon
> Ye me aventan la garganta
>
> http://www.bbrace.net/id.html
> http://bradbrace.net/id.html
>
> bbs: brad brace sound
> http://69.64.229.114:8000
> http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.html
>
> Waters Colours:
> http://bradbrace.net/webgallerywc/wc.html
>
> Eroticized Japanese/Malaysian Snack Foods:
> http://bradbrace.net/greenscreen.html
>
> Additional GIP texts/blog:
> http://bbrace.net/wordpress/
> http://bradbrace.net/wordpress/
>
> 12 mailing list:
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> You cannot politically defy the institutions when all you really wanted
> was to be clasped to their bosoms and hope in time to be cherished under
> the very framework of oppressive values you are thinking of overcoming.
> That would be co-optation, revolution only in the sense of a circulation
> of elites rather than the extirpation of the very impulses of elitism.
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> /:b
>
>

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