Graphic: P2P World & Its Challengers
Access, Architecture, Culture, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, ResilienceJoe Quirk: Seasteading – Aquapreneurs
Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, ScienceJean Lievens: Anarchist David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs, Rule-Bound Lives, and Importance of Play
Access, Culture, Design, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
He coined the phrase, “We are the 99%.”
David Graeber: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’
I found myself asking: is this what ordinary life, for most people, is really like?” writes the 53-year-old professor of anthropology in his new book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. “Running around feeling like an idiot all day? Being somehow put in a position where one actually does end up acting like an idiot?”
Open Power: The National Conversation on Electoral Reform, Honest Government, and Our Future
Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency
Joan Blades, the brilliant human that created MoveOn and Moms Rising, is now leading a new movement and meme, Living Room Conversations. Below is the first draft of what has gone forward for possible elevation to a national conversation about THE issue of our day.
NOTE: The critical genius of Joan's concept is the conversation first focuses on building understanding and trust face to face without regard to any issues. Appreciation for one another comes first. We consider this vastly more important than any transpartisan or activist movement because it crosses all boundaries and goes directly to “root” — our shared humanity.
Open Power: Strategy for Public Victory
Access, Culture, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, TransparencyThe question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while demonstrating a model that could work around the world, over time eliminating the 42 dictators that are now “best pals” of a very corrupt US merged network of crime and politics.
Below are bullets on Strategy, Principles, Money, Timing, Principals, and Outcomes.
Open Power: A Notional Coalition Team to Force Electoral Reform in 2015 and Run for Reform in 2016
Access, Culture, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, TransparencyIMAGINE a Coalition Team led by an Independent but in fact a team of equals whose sole mission in life was to restore the integrity of the electoral process in 2015 and thence of the government, economy, and society in the USA in 2016 and beyond. Below is such a team as a starting point for national Living Room Conversations about the possibilities. The point of this conversation is to talk about how an honest government might function on the basis of ethical evidence-based decision-support, where the public interest, not special interests, are central.
President: Angus King
Vice President: Jill Stein or Elizabeth Warren
Antechinus: Open Access Antiquarianism
Access, Culture, Design, Science, Sources (Info/Intel)
“Open Access Antiquarianism is the collective madcap efforts of an archaeologist, a computer scientist, and a structural engineer to push the boundaries of what is possible in the interface between technology and cultural heritage, art and diagnostics.
Excerpts from Stephen Wilson’s Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology that aptly illustrate why Open Access Antiquarianism is seeking to blend our study of technology and archaeology with art:
