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is it possible that Klein’s analysis is right on the politics and the solutions, but incomplete in terms of an overarching strategy for how to get there? 
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The sharing events happening around the world this fall are bound to spark ideas for new ways to engage in the collaborative economy.
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For many centuries, the most important thing in an artistic work wasn’t beauty but its message and functionality.
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The discussion around companies like Uber and Airbnb is too narrow. The issue isn’t just employment, but a huge economic shift led by software and connectedness.
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The Independent Practititioners Network is an example of commoning as a form of neoliberal heresy
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Source – https://discourse.swarm.fund/t/suggestions-for-the-swarm-community-on-basic-income-voluntary-basic-capital/183 These are only suggestions. It is meant to provoke discussions and to enhance the potential for the voluntary basic income experiments. 1) Create a new software license called the voluntary basic capital license (VBCL). This would be similar to the GPL but would designate by law that anyone using the source code …
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Our rapid advances in technology have been aided by the power of the network effect.
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Cloudflare and Yahoo! among companies accused of enabling the spread of Islamic State propaganda.
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Studying 40 years' worth of data on rat brains, scientists found that the rat cerebral cortex has hubs and 'local area networks,' much like the Internet.
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Almost any contemporary group could be positioned on this two axis based in its proposals and practice on economy and network architecture.
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GlobalNet21 is the leading forum in the UK for discussing the major issues in the 21st Century. We share a common concern for the sustainability of both our planet and the people on it. With almost 20,000 network members in the UK and abroad, we are making the debate, and democracy, more accessible by enlarging the Public Square and using social networks.
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Pluriarchy and community confederalism are simultaneously the result of, and a guide to, the path towards abundance.
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The disappearance of the “consumer” in the new productive models drives a growing social space of productive networks and egalitarian oriented to abundance.
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Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model. By Vasilis Kostakis, Vasilis Niaros, George Dafermos, Michel Bauwens. Futures, Volume 73, October 2015, Pages 126–135. Abstract This article aims to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on post-capitalist construction by exploring the contours of a commons-oriented productive model. On the basis of this …
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I interviewed Alison Powell last month during IAMCR in Montreal, Canada. We spoke about the Community Wireless Network Île Sans Fil in Montreal, the changing role of Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) in reclaiming the city and why creating a P2P society needs much more than the right technical infrastructure.
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As the Argentinians learned, crisis is an incubator of inventions.
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China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law on Wednesday that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security, a move likely to rile foreign
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We cannot look at the 2020 workplace merely from the perspective of what will be different from today, as if these five years will pass in splendid isolation. How we think of work has changed over the millennia and one major factor has been our communications technologies. When communication changes, work does too, as well as our understanding of what is knowledge, and what it means to be knowledgeable.
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* Book: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey. Verso, 2015 URL = http://www.versobooks.com/books/1737-state-of-insecurity Description “Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of …
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* Book: Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. URL: http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/021_04/13908 Review Astra Taylor: “But as an anthropologist deeply embedded in the Anonymous community, Coleman could discern things that were invisible to casual observers. These other facets of Anonymous only began to come into focus for me on the first day of …
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Can we possibly control digital data to serve our own desires and purposes? Or will we be modern-day techno-peasants controlled by the neo-feudal masters?
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Fire Chat has already been mentioned here in the context of enabling peer-to-peer networking during the recent protests in Hong Kong, now I am glad to see that they are planning to produce a device which will further empower this mesh networking concept: “Open Garden, the company behind FireChat, is taking mesh networking beyond our …
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