This article has been written by Timothy McKeon. If you ever needed a wake-up call about the dangers of capitalism, the past year is sure to have delivered. Though it is exciting and inspiring to see more and more people standing up against the greed, racism, violence...
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Dance it Yourself: a 7 DisCO Principles Builder
So, you want to create a DisCO? You've come to the right place! The only conditions are that: You don't do it alone; it takes two to tango, but at least three to DisCO. They are designed for collectives, not individuals. You find creative ways to address the 7 DisCO...
Come, Let’s Build a World Together
Please, sit down with me. Gather round and form a circle. If there are too many people, form another circular row behind the first. Leave yourself some space to be comfortable. Get cozy. Yes. You are reading and this is just a gathering in our respective minds. Feel...
Book Review: Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements
This article was written by Kevin Carson and was originally published on Center for a Stateless Society (A Left Market Anarchist Think Tank and Media Center). Download the DisCO Elements here. As the Introduction explains, the first installment of the DisCO Trilogy —...
What is value and how should we value things?
Can we tease apart the relationship between money, value, and the underlying physics around what we do? Can we create a precise physical definition to measure value like we have established for the measure of Volts and Amps? Or will money and economics be forever past...
DisCOs Dancing Together: Value Flows and Future Economies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm77AAagTM&feature=youtu.be Introduction What if your community had a way to organize itself, so that it better represented ALL the work that was happening? Not just which is deemed “economic value” but inclusive of commons care...
Introduction to Economic Networks
“There is growing consensus that capitalism is unsustainable and that something simply must change. It is not hard to point to the various reasons for this critique; from growing fears about the status quo’s inability to tackle climate change, to rising inequality on...
Tales of a DisCO, Straight from the Dancefloor
By Timothy McKeon and Sara Escribano. Originally published in Geo.coop. Guerrilla Translation is a P2P translation cooperative and collective based in Spain, but operating transnationally. We follow a unique governance model that enables us to work as a translation...
A DAO of One’s Own? Feminist strategies for P2P Organisations
By Denise Thwaites. Originally published in P2P Models Over the past year, experiments in building and deploying Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) have proliferated, marking a transition (in many cases) from software design and development towards alpha...
Beyond the “Blokechain”: the Cryptofeminist Agenda
MoneyLab#7 Session 4 BEYOND THE “BLOKECHAIN from Institute of Network Cultures on Vimeo. Right now: imagine a self-sustaining currency. What would its payment system look like? What values define its sustainability? What kinds of ways of relating to people, things and...