CEDEM 15 Conference Website click here.
Read the paper
Liquid separation: three fundamental dimensions within LiquidFeedback and other voting technologies here.
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The Sihuhata (สี่หูห้าตา)
The Sihuhata is the creature with four ears and five eyes. It inhabits the hills of Chiang Rai, eats red hot coal and poops gold!
The P2P Democracy research project at Leuphana Inkubator
I have joined the German research center Leuphana Inkubator as Research Fellow. The project is titled P2P Democracy, and forms part of a wider initiative, Grundversorgung 2.0.
More on the Inkubator Website : http://www.leuphana.de/inkubator.html
And the Grundversorgung 2.0 blog: http://digitale-grundversorgung.de/
Updates on this project as it develops.
TEDX Costa Rica
I will be speaking about the Collaborative Economy at the upcoming 2013 TEDx event in Costa Rica. (Feb. 2013)
Update: Here’s a pic!
(It must be noted that the image behind me corresponds to a diagram made by Rachel Botsman, whose work I was referencing at the moment this picture was taken.)
Call for Papers – Value and Currency in Peer Production
I am Co-editing an issue of the Journal of Peer Production, together with Nathaniel Tkacz and Francesca Musiani.
The title of this issue is Value and Currency in Peer Production.
See the full info on the Call for Papers at:
http://peerproduction.net/value-and-currency-in-peer-production/
“Asia Deep Dive on Commons” event organised by CSG in Bangkok
Organised by the Commons Strategy Group, hosted by the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
More about this event at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Asia_Commons_Deep_Dive
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The Commons Strategy Group has recently published a great compilation of essays, very useful for anyone looking to get started on the topic of ‘the commons’.
The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State
http://www.wealthofthecommons.org/
“Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy”, Published by Orange France
P2P Foundation Coop research project co-authored by Michel Bauwens, Franco Iacomella and me (Nicolás Mendoza).
See the announcement at Orange.com including brief description and audio.
Direct link to the full report in PDF
IEEE Conference on Technology and Society in Asia 2012
I will present a short version of “Awakening from Capitalism”, with added comments on Paul Baran and Norbert Wiener at the IEEE Conference on Technology and Society in Asia 2012
Download “Awakening from Capitalism” Full 12.000 word version here
Organised by IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
r/KarmicAssemblages
Take a (fuzzy) look at the state and content of my research. I’ve decided that Reddit might be better than Instapaper, hence r/KarmicAssemblages. Feel free to comment, subscribe or post stuff I might need to check.
I have joined Team WIKISPEED
WIKISPEED designs and builds cars with a fuel-efficiency of over 100mpg. What is truly groundbreaking is that it is done through a global team of collaborating volunteers, using methodology initially used for software development.
Watch WIKISPEED founder Joe Justice’s amazing TEDx presentation here.
Karmic Assemblages and the Network Society – PhD Research Project
My research proposal has been approved by the School of Creative Media at City University, Hong Kong. The project will beging in Nov. 2012. Click on the image to download the PDF.
Schoolgirls and the Rosetta Stone
London, UK
To Feel Like Paying: A visit to the anomaly of happiness
An analysis of Lentil as Anything, a pay-as-you-feel restaurant in Abbostsford Convent, Melbourne Australia
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55987973/To-Feel-Like-Paying-Def-Oct-14-2010
Tourists outside a temple
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A Tale of Two Worlds: Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the silent protocol wars
Paper published in Radical Philosophy 166, March/April 2011
Life in a Network for Survivors: The Thermonuclear Apocalypse and the Protocols of Freedom
Paper presented in the “Apocalypse and its Discontents” Conference at the University of Westminster, London. Dec 11 2010
Taming PedoBear
The structures of the cultural fringe, hyperspace jumping, and the loop of capital
This paper is an attempt to understand the structures of web-based cultural production, specifically the activity that takes place in sites like 4Chan and Reddit, and the flows and transformations that content goes through as the mainstream deals with the indigestible. The case of PedoBear and its paradoxical relation with Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ is used as a case study that illuminates on the complexities that inform these realms of contemporary culture.
PDF: Taming PedoBear
KJF ads (drafts)
See more here
Tourists waiting for the sunset
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Beyond Sabotage
Of newspapers, migration, and finding happiness
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Among the different ways in which Marx described the crisis of capital accumulation (overproduction, the law of diminishing returns, etc.), there is one that goes largely unrecognized: the workers’ desertion of the factory.
Paolo Virno –About Exodus
There was a time, not long ago, when one eagerly picked the day’s newspaper in the morning with the feeling that it was a sort of magic object that contained the world. Not only because journalists narrated the joys and disasters of the day, but to a great extent because of the exuberance and timeliness of everything else inside: current movie listings and reviews, art shows, judicial news, sporting results, opinion columns, the stock market and exchange rates, ongoing comic strips, fresh crossword puzzles; even the recently deceased were made relevant one last time. The newspaper was a unique heterotopia (Foucault 1986) that compressed the social space; a sort of ephemeral aleph that allowed you to hold the Zeitgeist in your hands thus infusing a comforting sense of orientation within the daily labyrinth. The crisis of newspapers perhaps really is the result of the fact that, due to the explosion of information technology, most of those attached features now feel redundant, and the whole magic is gone.
Nicolás Mendoza 