搜尋結果
2014年1月12日 · The vectoral class comes into its own once it is in possession of powerful technologies for vectoralising information. The vectoral class may commodify information stocks, flows, or vectors themselves. A stock of information is an archive, a body of information maintained through time that has enduring value.
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Typology of Capital
- Typology of Currencies
- More Information
Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua: "These eight forms of capital help us map our understanding of the world. The map clarifies that money is not the only form of capital flowing around and through us. This map expands the concepts of wealth (and poverty) to include the ‘valuable resources’ of personal connections, natural resources, land, knowledge, ex...
The Ethics of Capital Flow
Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua: "Although Bill Mollison originally stated the third ethic of permaculture as “Setting limits to population and consumption,”(6) many of us (especially in the more recent waves of permaculture) have been taught different forms of the third ethic. Some learn 1. “Fair Share,” a toned-down and friendlier version of “Limits”. 1. Others learn “Resource Share,” which directs attention away from scarcity and towards re-investment of abundance. And more recently I’ve see...
Social Capital
Influence and connections are social capital. A person or entity who has ‘good social capital’ can ask favors, influence decisions, and communicate efficiently. Social capital is of primary importance in politics, business, and community organizing. Jason Eaton of Social Thread LLC explained to me that Capital can be in the form of equity or debt. In social capital, a person can ‘owe’ favors or decision-making influence to another person or entity.
Material Capital
Non-living physical objects form material capital. Raw and processed resources like stone, metal, timber, and fossil fuels are ‘complexed’ with each other to create more sophisticated materials or structures. Modern buildings, bridges, and other pieces of infrastructure along with tools, computers, and other technologies are complexed forms of material capital.
Financial Capital
We are most familiar with financial capital: Money, currencies, securities and other instruments of the global financial system. The current global society focuses enormous amounts of attention on financial capital. It is our primary tool for exchanging goods and services with other humans. It can be a powerful tool for oppression, or, (potentially) liberation.
Graphic at http://www.appleseedpermaculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Fig_3_Eight_Forms_of_Currency.png By Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua: “There are two types of flow between pools capital: 1. Intra-capital flows, between the same type of capital. For example, using US dollars to purchase a stock or bond, or exchanging heirloom tomato seeds fo...
Financial Permaculture Blog: www.financialpermaculture.orgSource Text below is slight reworking of a compilation and overview by Amanda Jansen and Timothy Holborn: Existing open value accounting initiatives Gitter Room for ...
Definition. "In Fab Labs, local users download electronic blueprints or design their own objects to fabricate complex and everyday objects they need in their daily lives ." [1] Official definition of the International Fab Lab Association : "A Fab Lab, short for Fabrication Laboratory, is a workshop for digital fabrication that: is free and open ...
Book: The Hacker Manifesto. McKenzie Wark. Harvard University Press, 2004 A class analysis of contemporary society, which counterposes the vectoral class and the hacker class, in his book The Hacker's Manifesto. More information in this interview with the ...
Description From Jeff Howe, from chapter 8 of his upcoming book on Crowdsourcing: "There's a story people like to tell about Bruce Livingstone. In late 2005 Getty Images, the world’s largest photo agency was looking to acquire Livingstone’s company, iStockphoto ...
The clue to the source of the unusual inflation is that it is happening (over 5%) in a majority of advanced economies and emerging economies, all around the world. As the World Bank's Chief Economist notes "the most salient feature of today’s inflation is its ubiquity" (Reinhart and Graf Von Luckner, 2022). That implies a globally systemic cause.
