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Description. Cadell Last: "Metasystems occur as a step function separating two qualitatively different levels of organization that can be approximately measured as a sigmoid (S-shaped) curve (Modis, 2012) (i.e. as quantity of interconnections increases, a new qualitative organization must emerge to maintain a new level of complexity).
Description. David Korten: "The private-benefit corporation is an institution granted a legally protected right--some would claim obligation--to pursue a narrow private interest without regard to broader social and environmental consequences. If it were a real person, it would fit the clinical profile of a sociopath. The basic design of the ...
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- The Concept of Commonism as Introduced by Nick Dyer-Witheford
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Christian Siefkes: "Nick Dyer-Witheford (2007) has proposed the term Commonism for a society where the basic social form of production are the Commons (while in capitalism, commodities are the basic social form). As the success of commons-based peer production shows, commons and peer production go together very well. We can therefore expect peer pr...
"One of the more sustained renditions of a new commons is the notion of ‘commonism’ elaborated by Dyer-Witheford (2006, 2007), who, in a number of articles has sought to promote the concept of commonism as a way to avoid the bad history of authoritarian state communism, while, at the same time, providing an antidote to centralised planning and the ...
Commonism as Ideology and an Aesthetic of the Real
Pascal Gielen: "‘Commonism is not a narrow-minded one-party ideology. Just as the Rhineland and neoliberal model it could shape society though and in that respect it is political ideological in nature, or perhaps we could say it is ‘meta-ideological’, as it accommodates multiple party political ideas.’ – Gielen & Lijster, 2015 Every ideology is good at hiding the fact that it is one. That’s what makes it an ideology. To paraphrase Mark Fisher (2009): Every ideology claims realism. So it claim...
A critique of commonism
The Other Spiral: "Rather than address these problems head-on, the commonists tend to give us an overly-optimistic portrait of how socialism is spontaneously arising out of capitalism, and is just around the corner (luckily we don’t have to figure out how it will work!). The article “The Emergence of Benefit-driven Production” by Von Christian Siefkes is very much indicative of this intellectual tendency, which is utopian and best, and dishonest at worst. Christian Siefkes combines the work o...
Steven J. Lawrence: "In her 2005 article “Essentialism in Everyday Thought” written for the American Psychological Association (APA), Dr. Susan A. Gelman, a professor of psychology and linguistics, defines essentialism in the following way: “Essentialism is the view that certain categories (e.g., women, racial groups, dinosaurs, original ...
The Evolution of Modes of Exchange in the Context of P2P Theory. Michel Bauwens : Karatani, in The Structures of World History, makes a key argument that the key underlying structure is less the mode of production, than the ‘mode of exchange’. The mode of exchange point of view, allows him to talk about the Capital-Nation-State nexus ...
Description. Jay Walljasper: "The water commons as a concept is easy to understand. And in a time when our planet is threatened by global warming, the importance of the idea is all-too-obvious. Put simply, the water commons means that water is no one’s property; it rightfully belongs to all of humanity and to the earth itself.
Cooperative ownership: Livelihood Pods are cooperatives and follow the 7 cooperative principles. Limited size: A Livelihood Pod has an upper limit - we don't know what this should be but somewhere in the 6 - 12 people range. Scoped purpose: The purpose of a Livelihood Pod is to create livelihoods for its members. That's it.
