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If I Only Had a Heart:

A DisCO Manifesto.

“Serious in its explanations and polemics, accessible and fun in its presentation, and a timely vision of how people might design tech platforms and social norms for a world of commoning.” – David Bollier

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Groove is in the Heart:

The DisCO Elements.

The DisCO Project is a friendly and carefully planned approach for organizations that want to create and share value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics.

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Stop! In The Name Of Love (Before You Break Our Heart):

The DisCO Pink Paper.

What does Anticapitalist, Decolonial and Intersectional Feminist Tech look like? This is a journey into sound, a journey which, along the way, will bring you new color, new dimension, new value. Pump up the volume! Pump that bass!

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Stories.

All aboard! The New DisCO Website is Live

Welcome to the new DisCO Website! Here to accompany you through the Burning 20’s and beyond. Also features the DisCO Basics – our new interactive introduction to DisCO.

DisCO Beats, DisCO Tech, DisCO CATs in Space

What does Anticapitalist, Decolonial and Intersectional Feminist Tech look like? Are you in San Francisco or Oakland on Monday June 26th? Join us for a journey into sound, a journey which, along the way, will bring you new color, new dimension, new value. Pump up the...

Dancing on Moss – DisCO Underground Regenerative Economix

A journey into solarpunk, lunarpunk, and twilight, reflecting on governance and self-organisation in times of dire social and economic need. Let’s envision transformative resilience from the very decay of values in the current dominant system.

Carework: the heart of good governance

In many organizations, workers are in such a hurry to meet their individual goals, which are often tied to their income, that they don’t see it as strategic to move the stone out of the way for the next person who walks by. Although a system of individual results promotes efficiency in operations, it often does not reserve time or energy to write down what has already been done to generate collective learning.

All Your DAOs Are Belong to Us – The DisCO CAT Speaks

This epic interview with myself, the DisCO CAT, was originally published in Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts edited by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty. Go buy three copies now and enjoy this exclusive director’s cut of my purr-tastic diatribes.

DisCOmposting: from rotten systems to regenerative imagination

Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as sun is to moon. Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as day is to night. Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as science and technology are to occult and spirituality. Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as solar panels are to bioluminescence. Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as flowers are to fungi. Solarpunk is to Lunarpunk as orange, red, and yellow are to black, silver, and blue.

What a year, hoomans!

The New Orbit is just around the corner and we thought it would be thoughtful and nice to offer you faithful hooman readers a little recap on all things DisCO, especially those things that weren’t included in previous issues of the newsletter. So, consider this a chance to get a glimpse behind the curtains… (cat-damn maze of curtains, once got lost there for half a day…!)

Love in the Middle of a Firefight: DisCO’s most played tracks of 2022

In a world of vectorial succubi worse than capitalism, where a badly scripted Bond supervillain with a phallic rocket fixation welcomes fascists to networks which ought to be commons based and peer produced, where 80-hour work weeks and bunking in the office are the new normal… who wouldn’t want to “quiet quit” or just flat-out quit and move on? We have to rebel, we have to dance and, as much as we’re able, also rest, gather and conserve strength.

Decentralised Governance: either a collective learning journey or no journey at all!

We want to build healthy cultures for regenerative organisations, alternative ownership models and equitable governance design, developing better tools, solutions & infrastructure for these models, ethical marketing and growth for good and regenerative practices for self-care.

We’ve received a transmission from a better future, but we need your help to decode it!

The DisCO CAT is honored to inform you that our Mothership will land on Amsterdam on November 26th for the 6th Envisioning Free Space 2022 Conference. Along with the amazing crews from SODAA, Guerrilla Media Collective and Space of Urgency that have already embarked upon our DisCO Journey.

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Decentralised Governance: either a collective learning journey or no journey at all!

We want to build healthy cultures for regenerative organisations, alternative ownership models and equitable governance design, developing better tools, solutions & infrastructure for these models, ethical marketing and growth for good and regenerative practices for self-care.

Get DisCO! Ann Marie Utratel and Stacco Troncoso at the Metagov Seminar

This edition of the Metagovernance Seminar features Ann Marie Utratel and Stacco Troncoso giving an overview of DisCO, highlighting the need for person to person relationality as the baseline for designing coded, algorithmic, governance tools and practices.

DisCO at Platform Coops NOW!

Silvia López from the DisCO.coop gives a rocking presentation on the origins of DisCO, its main features and roadmap for the near future.

Stacco Troncoso | Who Owns the World? Platform Cooperativism, The New School University Center

2019’s Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism was the most international gathering of its kind. The event summoned scholars and founders of platform cooperatives — businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell goods or services while relying on democratic decision-making and shared ownership of the platform by workers and users.

DisCO.coop – Ann Marie Utratel, The Future of Distributed Work | Radical Practice Conference 2020/21

In the midst of building “recovery plans”, we argue we need to design “long emergency” development models to achieve this different future.

Uninspired by bullshit jobs? Make your own DisCO

Uninspired by bullshit jobs? Tired of working for absentee shareholders and investors? While many of us are leaving our workplaces to create better models and methods of governance and value distribution, the devil is in the details.

DisCOs Dancing Together: Value Flows and Future Economies

Lisha Sterling is the executive director at Geeks Without Bounds, a USA, non-profit, humanitarian organization of technologists, first responders, policymakers, and volunteers who work toward improving access to communication and technology.

Take back the App! A dialogue on Platform Cooperativism, Free Software and DisCOs

Laura Flanders talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement.

Beyond the “Blokechain”: the Cryptofeminist Agenda

What does an organization which prioritizes mutual support, cooperativism and care work among people and the environment do? What does another day in such a DisCO look like? How could our modes of expression within such communities dismantle phallocentric systems? And what about putting feminist economics to practice by starting a people’s bank that works with (fin)tech to encode feminist values into its currency network. Yay or yay?

Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction: a video introduction to DisCOs

Video and podcast from one of the first public outings of DisCO. The crowd couldn’t have been more appropriate with many experts on the commons and feminism among the panelists, organizers and attendees.

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Get DisCO! Ann Marie Utratel and Stacco Troncoso at the Metagov Seminar

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DisCO at Platform Coops NOW!

Stacco Troncoso, Micky Metts and Ela Kagel at The Laura Flanders Show

Take back the App! A dialogue on Platform Cooperativism, Free Software and DisCOs

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Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction: a video introduction to DisCOs

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Beyond the “Blokechain”: the Cryptofeminist Agenda

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Stacco Troncoso | Who Owns the World? Platform Cooperativism, The New School University Center