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Featured Blog Posts – November 2010 Archive (6)

Bringing the discussion on The Commons to Dakar In February 2011 at the World Social Forum

Via Frederic Sultan:

The World Social Forum and the World Forum on Science and Democracy will be two opportunities for the commoners to interact with other civic and social movements.

Discussion on the Commons in the World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD)

The World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD) will be held on February the 4th and 5th. Its objective is twofold : questioning the functioning of the scientific institutions and funding (science and technology… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Networked utopias and speculative futures

Via Tiziana Terranova:

CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked utopias and speculative futures

Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller

http://fibreculturejournal.org/

abstract deadline: February 20, 2011

article deadline: May 30, 2011

publication aimed for: November,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 9:45 — 1 Comment

The full documentation of the International Commons Conference in Berlin

Via Silke Helfrich:

Dear ICC participants,

(including those who had to decline at the very last moment)

After more than two days of intense work and discussion, the International Commons Conference is over. But perhaps not really:

as some of you already may have noticed in their mailboxes, the conference may, in truth, be just beginning!

Before the next stage of the ICC begins, however, I want to say a few thank-yous:

Thank you so much for taking… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:41 — No Comments

Announcing the DYNDY monetary rhizome project

Via Jaromil:

I'm writing you to bring to your attention the public launch of DYNDY,

for now consisting of this website and various ongoing code

experiments http://dyndy.net

The launch was well followed by interest in the audience in Amsterdam

at the De Balie center for political discourse…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:36 — No Comments

CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES"

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Arlene Luck <aluck@law.usc.edu>

Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM

Subject: [IJoC] Open Call for Papers—"Piracy Cultures"

To: aluck@law.usc.edu

Dear IJoC Readers,

+++OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES" +++

An International Journal of Communication Special Section on “Piracy

Cultures” to be published in 2011.

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011.

Manuel Castells, IJoC… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 11, 2010 at 9:28 — No Comments

Some Thoughts on the Commons for reflection by the Commons movement

* Document: Some Thoughts on the Commons. Prepared by the Steering

Committee, International Commons Conference, to stimulate discussion

and reflection. (David Bollier, Beatriz Busaniche, Silke Helfrich, Julio

Lambing, Heike Löschmann) October 31, 2010

Key Thesis: Commons are the enabler for all other social goals, including environmental ones, which in essence are social.…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 4, 2010 at 20:32 — No Comments