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2013年8月23日 · By Joe Kloc: "In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece has created its own private Internet. Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30 ...
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From an interview of co-author Michael Hardt conducted by Allen White for the Great Transition Initiative: " * Your most well-known book with Negri was Empire. How does the understanding of the contemporary world structure it presents differ from conventional definitions of globalization? Three hypotheses constitute the foundation of the book: (1) ...
Tim Rayner: "I read Empire in 2001, in the final year of my doctoral research. I was writing on the relationship between Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, two of the most important European thinkers of the 20th century (some years later I published a book on this topic, Foucault’s Heidegger). Meanwhile, I was following the progress of the anti-...
Alex Callinicos
Excerpted from an in-depth analysis, "Toni Negri in perspective", at http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj92/callinicos.htm "The scale and complexity of Empire mean that I can only focus here on its main themes. Three in particular stand out. In the first place, Hardt and Negri accept what is sometimes called the hyperglobalisers' view--that economic globalisation has turned the nation-state into a mere instrument of global capital. Thus they write of the multinational corporations: The...
The other volumes of the trilogy
From an interview of co-author Michael Hardt conducted by Allen White for the Great Transition Initiative: " * Your next book with Negri was Multitude. How did this book build on the ideas presented in Empire? Although we were relatively satisfied with the broad overview of the globe and the forces of domination that Empire articulates, we felt that we had not sufficiently developed the possibilities of democracy, liberation, and revolution in this new context. Just as we must recognize the m...
2003 Reading Notes from Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens, on the personal impact of reading Empire: - Reading 'Empire' was one of the milestones in my life, signalling a new period of social engagement. It came at exactly the right time, when I had to critically re-examine the radical (Marxist-Trotskyist) roots of my youth. I had abandoned my commitment to radicallly change the world, at age 23, when I was in a strong personal impasse and I felt that the world was not moving in any of the ways I had expected it to. But this rejection...
(Meade 1993, 85–86) In addition to this benefit of aligning interests of outside shareholders and insider workers, Meade’s labor–capital partnership has an added main advantage of introducing flexibility into the labor market. The current social democracy in the ...
Description Alan Avans: "New Impressions of Emilia Romagna--a Global Leader in Innovative Approaches to Development and Economic Democracy In the 1940s, the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy—Bologna is its center—was one of the poorest regions in ...
The Irish experience in 1970 (studied by the Irish economist Antoin Murphy) provides an interesting counterexample. In that year, a major strike closed all Irish banks for a period of six and a half months. All the indications from the start, moreover, were that this would be a long closure. As a consequence of the strike, the public lost ...
2019年8月24日 · Enspiral Website - lots of good stuff in every section, links to articles and video content, etc. Enspiral Blog (on Medium) is regularly updated Open Enspiral - a series of short video presentations from different Enspiral Ventures, which we did as part of the Open Source // Open Society conference (which I organised earlier this year) - good way to get a sense of the people and diversity of ...
If content is created 'at the edges' by multiple authors, and if the participatory platforms are living of the content created by all, it makes sense to develop revenue sharing schemes that benefit the individuals, communities and corporate organizers of the platform.
