Month: October 2018

Great article from @jasonpjason on decentralising the internet and the successes and failures of federation. Suggests some new approaches and some policy support (but not a StateBook) are needed for decentralisation that actually empowers. Platform coops play a role. We need counterantidisintermediation to prevent platform lock-in. I think the ‘centralised services win (partly) through better UX’ argument needs examining though. https://newsocialist.org.uk/decentralising-the-internet/
Good article. Feel like it straw man’s Srnicek and Williams in a couple of places but offers good critiques in others. I find the terms of the debate, accelerationism and degrowth, overly polarising. Also feel it’s wrong to see technology and ‘growth’ as synonymous. But overall the article is positive and looks at how to take good ideas from both. And there are definitely common aims to be built upon. I http://unevenearth.org/2017/01/accelerationism-and-degrowth/
Liked Inspired and energised from Fixfest UK (The Restart Project)

Plenary session at Fixfest UK
On Saturday in Manchester, 59 community repair activists from all over the UK got together to mingle, share, help each other out and think collectively about growing our movement and bringing down the barriers to repair and longer-lasting products. Twenty five different…

Bookmarked From Rojava to the Mapuche Struggle: The Kurdish Revolutionary Seed Spreads in Latin America by Pilar Villanueva (Toward Freedom)

Kurdish fighters, 2017. Photo by KurdishStruggle/Flickr
For several years, the Kurds have been at the forefront of a revolution in Western Kurdistan (Rojava). Their alternative system to capitalism has resonated all over the globe. Their society is organized according to Democratic Confederalism, an…

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From Rojava to the Mapuche Struggle: The Kurdish Revolutionary Seed Spreads in Latin America