Peer2Politics

Benjamin and Francesca share how they collaborate as a large-scale international distributed community. (The conversation was conducted by Alanna Krause in the context of an investigation of how organizations use Loomio.) Watch the video here:

Felix Stadler explains that: “In this lecture, I try to untangle the differences between resources that managed as “public” and are thus connected to notions of the state and citizens and those that are managed as “free” and are thus based on notions of the commons and community. The differences are subtle, but in their …

Great presentation by the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, on the democracy deficit in EU institutions. Watch the video here:

Community Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos explains how “We The People” are exercising the authority to govern ourselves and fight corporate rule. When small farmers in rural Pennsylvania wanted to say “no” to a corporate factory farm coming into their community, they learned they couldn’t, because it would violate the corporation’s “rights” and state pre-emption laws. So they did something technically illegal — their town passed an innovative ordinance banning corporate factory farming.

—Assembly democracy has limited roots in Kurdistan history and geography. As I’ve said, the society’s village character was and is still fairly strong. Some villages had hierarchy and aghas (feudal big land owners), but in others, where these factors were absent, villages organized common meetings in the kom (village community) in which they made decisions. In many cases, older women participated in these meetings, but not young women.

This talk explores how high-tech non-profits are creating infrastructure and services for a peer-productive world.

Slavoj Zizek, making a lot of sense as usual. Watch the video here:

Interesting conversation with Marvin Brown and Smàri Mc Carthy, conducted by Michel Bauwens and produced by Alain Ambrosi, at the Economics and the Commons Conference which took place in Berlin from 22 to 24 May 2013.

This is a 30-minute video where Janelle Orsi, of the Sustainable Economy Law Center, describes, in draft form, 8 proposed legal structural principles for commons-based organizations. Watch the video here:

The author of several books including Seeing Like a State, Professor Scott’s research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. We talk with Professor Scott about his newest book, The Art of Not Being Governed. It is the first-ever examination of the volumes of literature on state-making that evaluates why people would deliberately remain stateless.

Joshua Vial, founder of Enspiral, one of the icons of the collaborative economy, explains what he has learned about network-based, peer-based organizational forms that can enable people to change the world and make a living from it.

What do I mean? I mean that distributed autonomous corporations and organizations are the next step in Blockchain evolution. The digital currency revolution is moving beyond currency and into evolving the nature of governance.