The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Our aim is to make peer production autonomous in order to stimulate social and political movements rooted in that autonomy. Michel Bauwens: Here’s What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like 20 minute YouTube overview 4 videos with 4 minute intros on major themes
Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens. Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing This is an English translation of Arthur De Grave’s interview in French. Cross-posted from OuiShare. Michel Bauwens is one of the pioneers of the peer-to-peer movement. Theoretician, activist, and public speaker, he founded the P2P Foundation in 2005. His work, both …
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The aim of this book is not to provide yet another critique of capitalism but rather to contribute to the ongoing dialogue for post-capitalist construction, and to discuss how another world could be possible. It builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society, considering peer …
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LabGov Pioneers the Paradigm of City as Commons EXTRACT The goal is to build peer-to-peer platforms – physical, digital and institutional – to advance three main purposes: “living together (collaborative services), growing together (co-ventures), making together (co-production).” The CO-Mantova project may soon start a CO-Mantova Commons School.
I REALLY believe in this. This is serious shit. W UPDATE 5: Note from Winn with Link to Pilot Brief on Avionics Insecurity EXTRACT I am saying something very simple: I don’t know, and I don’t know anyone else who really does know, for absolutely sure, how secure the various networks and systems on airplanes …
Commonism @ P2P Foundation “Nick Dyer-Witheford (2007) has proposed the term Commonism for a society where the basic social form of production are the Commons (while in capitalism, commodities are the basic social form). As the success of commons-based peer production shows, commons and peer production go together very well. We can therefore expect peer …
The Nature of Leadership–An Essay PDF (8 Pages): Kearns Leadership Essay 94 Phi Beta Iota: New perspectives on leadership — long in gestation — are emergent. What jumps out to us are the convergence of leaders as facilitators and educators — not “bosses” — and the expectation that leaders are committed to real change, not …
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