Please, sit down with me. Gather round and form a circle. If there are too many people, form another circular row behind the first. Leave yourself some space to be comfortable. Get cozy. Yes. You are reading and this is just a gathering in our respective minds. Feel...
This article was written by Kevin Carson and was originally published on Center for a Stateless Society (A Left Market Anarchist Think Tank and Media Center). Download the DisCO Elements here. As the Introduction explains, the first installment of the DisCO Trilogy —...
Can we tease apart the relationship between money, value, and the underlying physics around what we do? Can we create a precise physical definition to measure value like we have established for the measure of Volts and Amps? Or will money and economics be forever past...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm77AAagTM&feature=youtu.be Introduction What if your community had a way to organize itself, so that it better represented ALL the work that was happening? Not just which is deemed “economic value” but inclusive of commons care...
“There is growing consensus that capitalism is unsustainable and that something simply must change. It is not hard to point to the various reasons for this critique; from growing fears about the status quo’s inability to tackle climate change, to rising inequality on...
By Timothy McKeon and Sara Escribano. Originally published in Geo.coop. Guerrilla Translation is a P2P translation cooperative and collective based in Spain, but operating transnationally. We follow a unique governance model that enables us to work as a translation...
By Denise Thwaites. Originally published in P2P Models Over the past year, experiments in building and deploying Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) have proliferated, marking a transition (in many cases) from software design and development towards alpha...
MoneyLab#7 Session 4 BEYOND THE “BLOKECHAIN from Institute of Network Cultures on Vimeo. Right now: imagine a self-sustaining currency. What would its payment system look like? What values define its sustainability? What kinds of ways of relating to people, things and...
By David Bollier. Republished from Bollier.org For too long, discussions about how blockchain software could change the world have been dominated by libertarian-minded techies and market-driven startups. No wonder they are dazzled by Bitcoin, the currency for...
What are DisCOs and why do we need them? DisCO stands for Distributed Cooperative Organization, a way for people to work and create value together that's cooperative, creates commons and is based on feminist economic principles....