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Stacco Troncoso is an avid synthesizer of information and a radical polymath working towards elemental, people-led change on a burning planet. Stacco lives, breathes,…
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Neoliberalism is a game we didn’t consent to. Let’s play a different game!
The following interview was conducted by Inte Gloerich as part of Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future a new anthology on arts, culture and subverting decentralized tech for radical purposes.
Fair, Feminist, Futuristic – Platform Models for a Digital New Deal
Mounting a successful challenge to the extractivist economics of platform capitalism requires a whole-of-economy approach. Feminist research and worker initiatives on the platform economy emphasise the need to reinvent dominant business models of the platform firm in order to re-appropriate the gains of digitalisation.
A Dialogue on Feminism, Solidarity Economics, and the Peer-to-Peer Commons
How can technological innovation and labor be reconfigured to center care, rest, and all of our other concrete needs? An interview for Signals, a digital magazine transmitting future frameworks for cross-cultural design.
DisCO Governance, Syncretic Economies and Economic LARPs
What does DisCO governance accomplish? It encourages and rewards all types of work: care, love and livelihood. It values forms of power to act and highlights effective and movement building work, which is often hidden. It optimally balances the workload to avoid activist burnout. It creates community empowered platforms for sustainable activism.
The Open Source Conspiracy
In the time of monsters where new worlds struggle to be born, DisCOs are an Open Source Conspiracy for functioning, collapse-ready, and future-proof economies.
Movement is the message: a conversation with DisCO
“What is this thing called money that can mobilise billions of people to do certain things, and not do other things, and rewards certain things and doesn’t reward others? In DisCO we wanted to go just beyond what was logically feasible to what was emotionally feasible.”
Meet the New Bros – Same as the Old Bros?
The “just break things”, DIY approach to creating Web 2.0, exemplified by a particular subset of Gen X technologists in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, only led to the entrenchment of a new power structure.
Time, DisCO and Power: a poetry reading
Berlin poetry performance on DisCO and taking back power by taking back ownership of our time.
DisCO Futures: Building Tracks
Policy recommendations for DisCOs, DAOs and changemaking organizations. This includes a strong focus on labor and gender rights, as well as addressing the digital divide.
Care before Code: It’s What Makes DisCOs Different
Care work is time-work: it’s both material and immaterial at the same time (it’s magic, it’s physics… it’s Feminist Economics!) It’s our affective work, it’s practical and administrative work, but it’s also our emotions and all of the invisible work we put into our DIsCOs.
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