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Ugo Mattei on the Commons, Market and State | David Bollier - 0 views

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    "The real problem is that the State and Market are locked in a symbiotic alliance to the detriment of the commons. This unholy alliance so tenacious because it is embedded in our very phenomenological understanding of life, writes Mattei. We perceive the world as a mechanistic system in which subject and object are separate and distinct, and we supposedly have individual autonomy to do what we wish to act upon the world. As subjects, we tend to pracel out and commodify the world into units that are isolated from the larger whole; thus we see humanity as separate from Nature and the various elements of it (wetlands, atmosphere, genes) as isolated objects. "
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OnTheCommons.org » The Commoners of Crottorf (Part III) - 0 views

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    This is the third of a three-part installment of a report on the future of the commons, which is based on conversations at a retreat held at Crottorf Castle in Germany, in June 2009.
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OnTheCommons.org » The Commoners at Crottorf (Part II) - 0 views

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    This blog post continues the one started yesterday - a report on the future of the commons as discussed by the commoners who met at Crottorf Castle in Germany, in June 2009.
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OnTheCommons.org » Art, God and Copyright - 1 views

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    Two examples of copyright and religion in conflict: Indonesian batik designers, and sermon sharing sites.
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OnTheCommons.org » How Shall We Govern the (Online) Commons? - 0 views

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    David Bollier outlines some possible online governing strategies for the commons.
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OnTheCommons.org » Sharing the Work, Spreading the Wealth - 0 views

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    essay by Janet Hively To create a commons-based society, people need more than exposure to new ideas. They need tangible ways of practicing and living out these bright possibilities. Old habits about how we organize and pay for work maintain the sharp divisions between rich and poor and tie us to the consumer values of the market-based society. At this time when unemployment due to layoffs is growing, we should try out some new ways to share the work and spread the wealth.
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OnTheCommons.org » "The Commons is About 'Commoning'" - 0 views

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    The commons, said Wolcher, citing Linebaugh, is not simply a conflict over property rights. It is about "people expressing a form of life to support their autonomy and subsistence needs." The commons is a verb - "commoning." It's about "taking one's life into one's own hands, and not waiting for crumbs to drop from the King's table."
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digital digs: from immaterial labor to immaterial profits - 0 views

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    Perhaps what is going on here is a new kind of crisis/tragedy of the commons. Unlike the old commons that gets fished-out or over-grazed, the digital commons appears to be this endless supply of storage and bandwidth. However obviously those things do cost money to someone, and while both have gotten cheaper, in the volume being used by YouTube or Facebook, it adds up quickly.
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Commons Blog - 0 views

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    commons blog from Germany
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OnTheCommons.org » More than just jobs, we need meaningful work. - 0 views

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  • We are today surrounded by an abundance of productivity that the market does not recognize or value. In this consumer society, we think about “work” as what people do to pay for goods and services in the marketplace. If our work doesn’t earn money, it’s not counted as an economic asset. The power of the market is so strong that we often don’t recognize or value work that is essential to society’s future. The unpaid contributions of homemaking, parenting, volunteering, care giving and citizenship are not valued or nor appreciated. Americans (and many others in the modern world) have internalized a limited definition of work defined exclusively as employment in the market economy. As a result, we have discarded the real and potential productivity of young people and retirees—and everyone else who is outside of the paid workforce.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Where Sweatshops Are a Dream - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York times writes in praise of third world sweatshops. I swear I'm not making this up, and he does an excellent job of selling something truly monstrous to those who think that Economics is a science. Found on Furl.
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Op-Ed Columnist - An Economy of Faith and Trust - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09
     
    David Brooks, in an op / ed piece to the New York times, discovers that participation in the market does not magically transform human beings into the rational beings that one could easily see that they aren't by ... oh, say, talking to them.
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The Invisible Adjunct - 0 views

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  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09
     
    The site has been allowed to expire, but can still be found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The personal blog of one of academia's many "adjuncts", those who've responded to the stubborn refusal of many institutions to create full time teaching positions by stringing together part time teaching jobs. The author eventually left teaching.
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VDARE.com: 10/10/04 - Economics: Science or Religion? - 0 views

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    A little reality for a chance. Blog post about outsourcing. No, it's not good press.
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