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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.
The DisCO CAT and DisCO-Tech - The DisCO CAT (Community Algorithmic Trust) is a series of modular software platforms designed so people can teach themselves, experiment, and ultimately build viable DisCOs.
Take Your Time, Do It Right: Commons Governance - How do we break the governors/governed dichotomy? An introduction to the DisCO Governance Model and its reimagination of value.
DisCO in 7 Principles and 11 Values - What makes a DisCO a DisCO? Here's a breakdown of the Seven DisCO Principles with practical examples and dope art.
Distributed Tech, Commons, Coops and Feminist Economics: the DisCO Lowdown - DisCO is an accessible approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics. Get the lowdown here.
How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy - What do automation, remote working, and the knowledge economy have in common? All three are among the typical answers to the question, “what is the future of work?”, and they all depend on emergent technologies.
Who Owns the World? - Celebrating ten years of digital labor conferences at The New School, 2019’s Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism was the most international gathering of its kind.
Commons: how the art of co-operation is the only way out of this crisis - The chaos and confusion of the COVID-19 outbreak has revealed some inescapable truths about how we live. It’s shown us how vulnerable, interdependent and interconnected we are. One by one, all the flaws of our current socio-economic systems are being exposed, with an escalating toll of damage
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.
On Return to the Commons & Digital Distributed Carework. Interview with Stacco Troncoso - In this interview with Stacco Troncoso, co-author of the DisCO Manifesto, we talk about the role of decommodification, return to the commons and radical workplace democracy, in practice.
Guerrilla Translation, DisCOs & the marketplace - Stacco Troncoso co-founded Guerrilla Translation with his partner, Ann Marie Utratel, as a living project to ground P2P and Commons theories in real practices. He talks with Owen Kelly about the work of the group, and the ways in which they see the structure of their group as a vital part of its practice.
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