Blog Essay of the Day Archives 2012

January 2012

• Wikileaks' Liquid Information Leaks for a Liquid Society. Nathan Jurgenson. - January 2, 2012
• Towards Economy 3.0. By Chris Cook. - January 4, 2012
• The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons. Joline Blais. January 6, 2012
• Seeds and the Laws Against the Commons. Shabnam Laure Anvar - January 10, 2012
• Towards a System of Resilent Finance and Banking based on Peer Credit. Chris Cook. - January 12, 2012
• The Beachhead Hypothesis. Mr. Teacup's Critique of the Beachhead Hypothesis: Peer Production as neoliberalism - January 14, 2012
• Urban Affairs and the Commons in India. - January 16, 2012
• Is Demonetization a Good Idea? by Andreas Exner. - January 18, 2012

* Ten Peer_Production_Patterns. Stefan Meretz. Part 1, Pattern 1 to 5 - January 20, 2012 * Ten Peer_Production_Patterns. Stefan Meretz. Part 2. Pattern 6 to 10 - January 22, 2012 * The Networked Future of Urban Agriculture. Nevin Cohen. In special issue: Hacking_the_Food_System. - January 24, 2012 * Michael Gurstein: On the Failure to Measure the Contributions of the Internet Economy - January 26, 2012 * How the OccupyWallStreet Movement is Evolving from Networked Individualism to Empowered Communities - January 28, 2012

• Occupy Wall Street and the Decline of the Professional Managerial Class. by BARBARA EHRENREICH AND JOHN EHRENREICH - January 30, 2012

* Occupy Wall Street as a Culture Change Movement. William Gamson. - February 2, 2012 * Collective Sense-Making as Negotiated Agreement. Harold jarche - February 4, 2012

• The Materiality of the Intellectual Commons. By Malcolm Harris - February 6, 2012
• The Feudal Aspects of the Social Capital Market. By Marc Dangeard - February 8, 2012
• http://bollier.org/michel-bauwens-marxism-capitalism-and-commons - February 12, 2012
• Top-down Smart Cities vs. P2P Sensor Commons. AJ Fisher
• Space,Subjectivity, Enclosure and the Commons‎‎
• Newspaper Paywalls
• From Common Goods to the Common Good of Humanity
• How Open Source Has Changed the Software Industry
• From Ideology-Led Organizing via Action-Led Organizing to Behavioural-Led Organizing
• Deflationary Effects of the Web Economy
• How Open Source Abundance Destroys the Scarcity Basis of Capitalism
• Civic Design. Marvin Brown.

All January is Done

February 2012

Done:

• The Digital Divide in User-Generated Content. Mark Graham:
• Internet and Democracy. Matthew Champion
• Anonymous as an Antinomian Movement
• Autonomy, Labour, and the Political Economy of Social Media. By Dmytri Kleiner
• Commons as a Challenge for Classical Economics
• Occupy as a Movement of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
• Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society
• Concept of the Commons and the Convergence of the Social Movements
• Thrivability as a Critique of Sustainability

* Should we go back to the Public Creation of Money? * Why Localization is Inevitable in a Resource-Scarce World * Product-Centered Business Supply Chain Development vs People-Centered Business Network Ecosystem Development,use title: Towards People-Centered Business Ecosystems

March 2012

* Piracy as Marketing: "Piracy is the new radio" * Open Market Sustainability * Is There Such a Thing as Ethical Capitalism? * Openness Undermines Advertizing * Four Stages of Temporal-Spatial Organization in Human History. Jason F. McLennan. * How the Law Is Used To Stifle the Sharing Economy. Chris Laroche. * Is Peer Production a Real Mode of Production?

• http://p2pfoundation.net/Privacy#Why_the_market_fails_to_protect_privacy

* Qualitative Easing Through Stock Issuance * Exploring the Emergence of the Cyberhero Archetype * Why the Occupy Movement Represents a New Politics * http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201228715322807.html * Reproducible Science Needs Open Source Software‎ * http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2012/02/the-civic-as-the-foundation-for-the-commons-markets-and-governments/ * Facilitating Smarter Crowds for Stronger Networked Commons * We the Web Kids. Piotr Czerski. We, the Web Kids. (translated by Marta Szreder) * Jean Lievens on the P2P Revolution in Media * From Open Source to Open Sourcing Digital Medical Devices. Glyn Moody * Get Rid of Banks and Build Up a Modern Financial World * Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age * Notes on Spiritual Leadership and Relational Spirituality. John Heron.

To Do:

April 2012

• Copyright, Ethics and Theft
• Argentine Worker Cooperatives in Civil Society

June 2012

• Wouter Tebbens: Producing Industrial Goods Through the Commons
• What Have We Learned From MOOC's? Stephen Downes.
• Dmytri Kleiner on Radical Openness
• Regenerating the Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in the Commons Renaissance
• Land Ethics
• The Happiness Treshold and Economics as a Science of Infrastructure
• History of Community Asset Ownership
• Designing an Economy of Provision, perhaps in 2 parts ?
• Linux and the Management of Decentralized Networks
• Five Ways Government Can Help Collaborative Consumption
• http://english.lasindias.com/five-argumentative-fallacies-and-one-methodological-fallacy-without-which-degrowth-cannot-stand/
• P2P and Marxism, the Berlin Debate, http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/peer-to-peer-and-marxim-the-berlin-debate?
• next steps for the commons economy: http://commonslearningalliance.org/content/commonsp2p-next-steps-creating-sustainable-commons-based-institutions
• Commons and World Governance
• Moving from the National Interest to the Global Interest

July 2012

• A critique of Socially Responsible Investment
• Correcting Negative Myths about Renewable Energy
• Mediating_Democracy_Through_Proxy_Voting_and_Shadow_Parliaments
• How Renewables Will Change Electricity Markets‎‎
• Open Media Literacy Manifesto
• Tom Atlee on the New Sharing Economy

* Authority in Peer Production * On the Importance of Architectures in Social Studies of Peer-to-Peer Technology. Francesca Musiani. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 1, 2012. [1] * Jakob Rigi on the relation between p2p and communism, Peer to Peer Production as the Alternative to Capitalism * Do-It-Yourself Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech-Economies

August

• Introduction to Energy Economics
• Capitalism as a Transformation of Slavery
• Insurgent Tactics and their Responses
• Democracy and Revolution in the Thoughts of Marx and Zizek
• Compositionism as a replacement of critique. Bruno Latour
• Impact of Open APIs at Four News Organizations + Impact of Crowdfunding on Journalism
• Cognitive Democracy
• On_the_Failure_of_the_Environmental_Movement
• On the Need for Global Deterritorialized Counter-Struggles
• in 2 parts: * Article: The Commodification of Information Commons. By Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Said Vieira.
• Community Governance in Digital Commons ; An Introduction to the Digital Commons: From Common-Pool Resources to Community Governance. Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay and Hervé Le Crosnier.
• Urban Public Spaces as Commons
• Long-Term Discounting Frameworks
• Microfinance and the Illusion of Development
• The Brain Physiology of Egoistic and Empathic Motivation

October 2012

• On the Need to Scale Up Anti-Poverty Strategies
• Toward a Global Social Contract
• Eight Principles for a Sustainability Rights Framework‎
• Self-Unfolding through peering and the commons
• Virtual Guilds and the Future of Craft
• White Paper on Fractional Scholarship
• Thomas Olsen on the New Taxation Paradigm
• Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons
• Peer Producing Plenty in the Physical World
• Non-State Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-Territorial Sovereign Organizations
• Rebirth of Guilds
• Paul Hartzog on the Advantages of Scale of Openness and Peer Production
• Making Piracy Obsolite Through the Payright System

December 2012

• Historical Reflections on Patronage, Autonomy, and Transaction