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Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History is an astonishing work of synthetic historical theory: world history is the history of modes of exchange. 
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Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
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Erik Olin Wright, from a 2007 text in ‘Compass Points’: “Capitalism would be an unreproducible and chaotic social order if the state played the minimalist role specified in the libertarian fantasy, but it would also, as Polanyi argued, function much more erratically if civil society was absorbed into the economy as a fully commodified and... Continue reading →
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An excellent documentary, with english subtitles, coming from Sweden: “This is a solid, thought provoking documentary covering a relevant economic topic in-depth. The question of capitalism’s grip on the modern world is highly relevant today and the film questions if we should be pushing for a democratic cooperative way of doing business, showing case studies... Continue reading →
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The growth of information continues exponentially until it exceeds the social processes (institutions) and technological structures that produced it.
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Over the past 10+ years, thousands of people have asked me “what is wirearchy?” There’s one common misconception that I’d like to clear up first, which is that wirearchy is mainly about technology. If anything, wirearchy is about the power and effectiveness of people working together through connection and collaboration … taking responsibility individually and collectively rather than Read More →
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It is time to systematically dismantle this wealth hoarding system. Now that we know what it is and how it was built, we can tear it apart piece by piece.
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If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy.
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On the convergence of the blockchain and the commons, with the blockchain as the new institutional technology that makes the commons scale.
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The use of the concept of self-management has connotations with great ideological weight, rather than concrete.
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Excerpted from Carlos Eduardo Martínez: To refer to this topic, and to try recreate this subject with the greatest clarity possible, it seems important to us to establish what kind of of phenomenon and/or activity we’re referring to...
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Decentralization simply means building mechanisms which allow for a group of peers to efficiently arrive at decisions without having to rely on fixed hierarchies, central coordination and single points of failure. From an excellent article on the “Mike Hearn” controversy in the promising magazine Backfeed, excerpted from Julian Feder: “Since Hearns post mid january, the …
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If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. Excerpted from Isabell Lorey: (from the book: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey. Verso, 2015) “If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. …
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Perhaps the simplest lesson is that even decentralized networks need, and have, governments. Every network is a state. Every state has a government.
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It's indeed a remarkable synthesis of where the P2P movement is at, and how it is both grappling with the tensions in the world and within the movements.
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Marshall Ganz is a ‘social movement scholar’ and author of the book, Why David Sometimes Wins.He shares his general thoughts on the use of social media in the Arab spring.
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Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.
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The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
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The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs. Far from being anti-bureaucratic, the neoliberal regime... Continue reading →
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Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.
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The founding groups, the pioneers in almost any community, hold a different status: equal rights, more responsibility, and more prominence.
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Mainstream neoconservative integral theory predicts a next state of civilisation which is hyper-individualist and is a reaction against collectivist excesses
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The whole blockchain development is a very good example of ‘value-sensitive design’, i.e. how the material interests and visions / intentions of various human groups enter into design decisions. The underlying cyber-libertarianism is a composite of different sensibilities, all of which are competing for the design direction of our new technological systems. The original Bitcoin/Blockchain …
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An interesting spoken review by LectionARIC. Watch the video here:
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