(Deutsch) Film Catastroika jetzt auch mit deutschem Untertitel

Mike Nagler | 21. May 2012 | Filed under: GeneralEducation/KnowledgeEnergyFinancesHealth/Social IssuesPublic SpacePrivatizationDistribution of WealthSecurityWaterHousing | Leave a comment

(Deutsch) Neuer Film: Catastroika

Mike Nagler | 27. April 2012 | Filed under: GeneralEducation/KnowledgeEnergyFinancesHealth/Social IssuesMobilityPublic SpacePrivatizationDistribution of WealthSecurityWaterHousing | Leave a comment

(Deutsch) Occupy geht weiter

Henrik Lebuhn | 25. April 2012 | Filed under: GeneralUpcoming EventsLabour/PrecarityDebates: Theories/AlternativesFinancesPublic SpacePractical Struggles | Leave a comment

(Deutsch) Ausverkauf: Deutsche Wirtschaft steigt groß in Griechenland ein

Mike Nagler | 20. April 2012 | Filed under: GeneralPrivatization | Leave a comment

(Deutsch) “Danke, das hatten wir schon!”

Lea | 17. April 2012 | Filed under: ActorsGender RelationsLiterature/BooksPractical StrugglesPressPrivatizationDistribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

 

Privatizing Greece

Markus Euskirchen | 9. June 2011 | Filed under: Labour/PrecarityDebates: Theories/AlternativesDistribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

The Question: Is the sale of the Greek family silver a long-term solution? is to be answered: No! But what else to do? The answer is found around the corner: A wage raise in Germany.

Community Gardening and Grassroots Politics in the Neoliberal City

Henrik Lebuhn | 11. April 2011 | Filed under: Debates: Theories/AlternativesPublic GoodsPractical StrugglesPrivatization | Leave a comment

When community garden activists of the 1970s and early 1980s clandestinely planted tomatoes, cucumber and sunflowers in abandoned backyards and on run-down lots, they probably never imagined that a time would come when city administrations would embrace urban gardening as an important “cultural, ecological and social resource”.1  Many of today’s community gardens in North America Continue reading →

Pirate Utopias

Markus Euskirchen | 14. March 2011 | Filed under: ActorsPractical Struggles | Leave a comment

During the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, crews of early proletarian rebels, dropouts from civilization, plundered the lucrative shipping lanes between Europe and America. They operated from land enclaves, free ports; ‘pirate utopias’ located on islands and coastlines as yet beyond the reach of civilization. From these mini-anarchies – ‘temporary Continue reading →

Commons and Power

Ann St | 8. March 2011 | Filed under: General | Leave a comment

At the International Commons Conference November 2010 in Berlin, there was also a workshop on Commoning through the Crisis: creating commons power and resisting enclosures and cooptation: “Power, therefore, is an important analytical tool in understanding social change”. See also in German: Silke Helfrich: Mit Big Society haben Commons nix gemein

April ’11, Rome: Conference on Water Commons

Markus Euskirchen | 7. March 2011 | Filed under: Upcoming EventsPublic GoodsWater | Leave a comment

The Conference “Common Goods of Humankind: The Referendum Against Water Privatisation in Italy” will take place in Rome on the 28th an 29th of April. Read more

Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software

Markus Euskirchen | 8. February 2011 | Filed under: Debates: Theories/AlternativesPublic Goods | Leave a comment

The Commoner, “web journal for other values”, presents the first of a two volume Special Issue. Both volumes will have a focus on commoning and property. The essay in this first volume – divided in chapters, which can be read separately – is based on an inter-disciplinary PhD thesis titled “Property, Commoning and the Politics Continue reading →

Conference Report: “The Public Domain and Digital Natives”

Markus Euskirchen | 3. February 2011 | Filed under: Education/KnowledgeLiterature/Books | Leave a comment

Communia, a thematic network, aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment. Read a subjective report about the Communia conference “University and Cyberspace. Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age”.

Within the state, without the state

Markus Euskirchen | 12. January 2011 | Filed under: ActorsPractical StrugglesDistribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

The WSF 2011 will take place in Dakar, Senegal. This is why from mid-January bus and car caravans will start their journey to Dakar from several places in Africa and Europe. When talking about government in this context, it is useful to distinguish between local authorities and the national (or federal) state. Demba Moussa Dembele, Continue reading →

The Future of ‘The Commons’: Neoliberalism’s ‘Plan B’ or the Original Disaccumulation of Capital?

Markus Euskirchen | 24. December 2010 | Filed under: Debates: Theories/AlternativesPublic Goods | Leave a comment

The current issue of new formations contains an interesting article on “the future of the commons”: The ‘commons’ has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last fifteen years, from a word referring rather archaically to a grassy square in the centre of New England towns to one variously used by real estate developers, ‘free software’ Continue reading →

Seafood

Markus Euskirchen | 22. December 2010 | Filed under: ActorsDistribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

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