Category Archives: Theory

Networks Without a Cause; A Critique of Social Media by Geert Lovink

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

 (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Description With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to … Continue reading →

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Organizing P2P organizations

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

April 7, 2011 — Poor Richard Image via Wikipedia I probably should have titled this “Hacking the Organization”. What follows is not a primer of organizational design but simply a back-of-the-envelope sketch of how a number of organizational design and … Continue reading →

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A Trotskyist Take on the New Anti-Capitalism – and Networking (P. Waterman)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

The shock of the new: anti-capitalism and the crisis Issue: 134 Posted: 27 March 12 Jonny Jones In February of this year the Tory employment minister, Chris Grayling, launched an astonishing attack on the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) while live … Continue reading →

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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation by Michel Bauwens | Al Jazeera

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities. In Zuccotti Park, protesters created an ‘ethical economy’ based on the group’s shared values [GALLO/GETTY] Chiang Mai, Thailand - Last week I … Continue reading →

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Occupy the Production Process | New Unionism Network

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

The Transnationals Information Exchange (tie) was set up by a group of union activists at a meeting held at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam in 1978. Today there are groups working to strengthen democratic and pluralist unionism in Bangladesh, … Continue reading →

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Democracy instead of the Fiscal Treaty! | AkG

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

We need a different approach to tackle the crisis, and a different Europe The call for democracy not the fiscal treaty was initiated by the German-speaking Assoziation für kritische Gesellschaftsforschung. Contact: demokratie-statt-fiskalpakt@akg-online.org Spring 2012. Merkel and Sarkozy rush from summit meeting to … Continue reading →

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The EU Fiscal Pact and the Constitutionalisation of Austerity Forever | via Real World Economics-Transnational Institute

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Real World Economics/Transnational Institute invite you to the public debate: May 7 2012 @ CREA Amsterdam The economic crisis has reached a new momentum with the EU heads of government signing the  Fiscal Pact on 2 March. What German Chancellor Angela Merkel … Continue reading →

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Weighs Like a Nightmare | Historical Materialism Ninth Annual Conference

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

The Ninth Annual HM Conference will take place in Central London from 8-11 November 2012 Has Marx been reanimated once again? From mainstream media to academia, this question hangs in the air. The old ghosts of revolution appear to be shaking off … Continue reading →

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Call for papers – Interface volume 4 issue 2 – For the global emancipation of labour: New movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Posted on June 19, 2011 by laurence Special issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys, Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Ana Margarida Esteves Once, the labour movement was seen as the international social movement for the left (and it was the spectre haunting capitalism). Over the last century, however, … Continue reading →

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Autonomy, Labour and the Political Economy of Social Media with Dmytri Kleiner and Tiziana Terranova

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

Center for Gender Studies of the Department of Social Policy of Panteion University and the European research project MIG@NET invite you to the event titled: «Autonomy, Labour, and the Political Economy of Social Media». Presentations by: Dmytri Kleiner Tiziana Terranova_ … Continue reading →

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