"The Zero Marginal Cost Society - The internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism" by Jeremy Rifkin.
A well articulated explanation about why our potential way out of the terrible mess in which we have gotten ourselves into -both socially and environmentally- could be in the leverage of our most profound instincts of empathy and collaboration in the Commons, and the extension of our conscience to the whole of the biosphere of Earth, of which we and all the other creatures are part of.
Rifkin, while optimistic in his views and predictions, he is not naive and acknowledges the huge challenges, potential pitfalls and the gigantic work ahead of us for at least the next 3 generations.
I came a bit late to read this book -first published in 2014- but it is still extremely relevant today.
15.02.2024, 11:00–17:00
Ventilator Bar (OT301, Amsterdam)
Free / on donation (~10€)
Next week, Thursday 15th Feb, I'm giving a small workshop about licenses and alternative copyright statements in collab with Spookstad, an experimental publishing platform focused on radical politics. We will dive into the incredibly messed-up world of copyright alternatives, from forgotten underground publishing trivia to FLOSS and the more recent post-open source/post-free culture practices. Then in the afternoon we make zines.
#Commission
I will (human-made) art for you for few dozens of bucks.
Tell me a few words and…
-for $20 (or 10 if you're from a non-western country), I’ll hand-draw what comes to my mind and send it to you, before later releasing it under Creative Comrades Agreement (CCLA) probably in an art-pack. CCLA includes commercial rights for everyone except cryptobros and corpos.
I'm all hears about your opinion on this type of commissions! (Low-stress + becoming later an art pack)
I'm not sure this is something you find cool? Or if you got better ideas!
To be honest I just want to draw things we both love, without too much stress, and receiving a few bucks for my work. Creating something valuable for you (as a person and as a part of the TTRPG community), useful in your games or projects as long it's not some bigotry or crypto stuff.
I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up the material infrastructure.
I'm looking for collaborators, please DM me!
Here it is briefly:
We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.
For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.
Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.
*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.
In the end we would have boosted the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 foci for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.
The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward.
it's interesting to see how some anarcho-communists treat Elinor #Ostrom's work on #commons management. it seems for them, resricting access to ressources is suddenly obviously the right thing to do, and everything else is just a vicious strawman.
yet, restricting access to ressources unless you give/do something for it is this awful thing and completely unnecessary.
“#Indigenous people have so much to give, if people would just stop taking it,” the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians' senior tribal #climate resilience liaison Amelia Marchand (Colville) told me.
She said that while we might possibly survive climate change without Indigenous leadership, that future is not a good one. “It’s business as usual, with more of the same terrible history that’s led us here,” she said. A better future will require a focus on equity.
@Toastie So happy to come across you here. This article on #IndigenousLeadership is really great and important - it’s not just about indigenous knowledge, and definitely not about extracting bits of it, but leadership. I hope you don’t mind but it really chimes with this (by me), about how the climate emergency is really a Tragedy of the NON Commons - the wrong people are in charge