On Wednesday 19 February, Alexandros Kioupkiolis will be a guest of Rosa Nera in Chania for a very interesting discussion on the subject of the ‘commons, movements and cultural goods‘. You can find more information about the event (in greek) on the Rosa Nera website.
Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Issue of the Common: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Just stumbled upon this recently published (Oct. 2019) issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ), which is dedicated to the commons. Featuring articles by theorists such as Silvia Federici, Massimo De Angelis, Ugo Mattei and Carlo Vercellone, which explore various themes related to the commons from a theoretical as well as historical perspective, it is a must-read for those who wish to delve more deeply into the subject.
TripleC: Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism
Readers of our blog will find the latest issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, which has just been posted online, of great interest: edited by Christian Fuchs, this special issue includes 15 articles centered on the analysis and theorization of ‘communicative socialism and the communication of socialism in the
digital age.’
Materialities and socialities of postcapitalism: Commons, peer to peer sharing and solidarity
With the aim of inquiring ‘into the organising for the potential collapse of the current dominant mode of production and consumption’, this year the annual Ephemera Conference will be held in Tzoumerka, Greece on 25-26 March 2020. Here’s the call for participation: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/events/materialities-and-socialities-postcapitalism-commons-peer-peer-sharing-and-solidarity
Call for papers: (Un)doing the Commons
An interesting event for researchers focusing on the commons is (Un)doing the Commons , a two-day multi-disciplinary research conference, which will be held on 27-28 February 2020 at Shiv Nadar University in India. Read more on the conference and the call for papers here.
If I Only Had a Heart: Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations
We just finished reading If I Only Had a Heart: Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations, a brilliant synthesis of the ideas of the Commons and P2P, open cooperativism, open value accounting and feminist economics. Written by Stacco Troncoso and his colleagues from the Guerilla Translation team, this is a must-read for those interested in the theory and practice of commons-based peer production.
Demystifying the Digital Economy
The Research Group for the Digital Economy and Private Law (at the Faculty of Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) is hosting a very interesting seminar cycle that begins tomorrow at 19:00 (Room 8, 3rd Floor) with a presentation from Alex Pazaitis (of the P2P Lab) themed “Demystifying the Digital Economy“.
The seminar cycle includes three more talks:
- Fri 8 Nov: Alex Pazaitis – The Commons and peer production: A short introduction
- Fri 15 Nov: Alex Pazaitis – The political economy of peer production: Two general approaches
- Fri 22 Nov: Angelos Kornilakis – Legal mapping of small-scale economic networks of peer production
Who Owns The World? The 5th Platform Cooperativism conference
The 5th conference on platform cooperativism will be held on November 7-9 at the New School in New York. Convened by Trebor Scholz, the conference will bring together researchers and founders of platform cooperatives to explore topics such as “worker power in the platform economy, antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops, ecological sustainability, best practices for cooperation including the allocation of startup funding, the potential of platform co-ops for data trusts, data co-ops, new models for distributed governance, and data sovereignty”.
Industrious modernity
Readers of our website are familiar with the work of Adam Arvidsson, which explores the relationship between Capitalism and Commons-based peer production. In his new book titled Changemakers: The Industrious Future of the Digital Economy, which has just been published by Polity, Arvidsson “argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity”.