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The Emergence of Open Design and Open Manufacturing

Markus Euskirchen | 3. May 2010 | Filed under: Commons • Fabber • Open Source • Open Source Ecology • Produktion • De-Privatization • Editor's Choice • Public Goods | Leave a comment

A digital fabricator (commonly shortened to fabber) is a small, self-contained factory that can make objects described by digital data. Fabbers make three-dimensional, solid objects that can be used as models, as prototypes, or as delivered products. It is very tempting to limit Open Source to the field of immaterial production, but the same method Continue reading →

What happens after privatizing the pension system?

Markus Euskirchen | 9. April 2010 | Filed under: Banks • Finances • Krise • Renten • Editor's Choice • Finances | Leave a comment

The pension reforms of the years 2000 until 2007 were supposed to attenuate the foreseeable effects of demographic change on the pension system. This is why the retirement age was raised, the pension level was lowered and a so-called sustainability factor (“Nachhaltigkeitsfaktor”) was introduced into the pension formula. This approach meant a fundamental change of Continue reading →

Pirates save fishes

Markus Euskirchen | 26. January 2010 | Filed under: Africa • Ernährung • Meer • Food • Nature • Piraten • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources • Editor's Choice • Practical Struggles • Distribution of Wealth | 1 Comment

In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates. “There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use Continue reading →

Feral vs. capitalist trade

Markus Euskirchen | 21. January 2010 | Filed under: Cooperative Economy • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Editor's Choice • Communication • Political Alternatives | Leave a comment

Feral Trade is a public experiment trading goods over social networks. The use of the word ‘feral’ describes a process which is wilfully wild (as in pigeon) as opposed to romantically or nature-wild (wolf). The passage of goods can open up wormholes between diverse social settings, routes along which other information, techniques or individuals can Continue reading →

Open Cola and Cube Cola

Markus Euskirchen | 12. January 2010 | Filed under: Ernährung • Intellectual Property • Open Source • Open Source Ecology • Cooperative Economy • Education/Knowledge • Fun Stuff/Oddities • De-Privatization • Editor's Choice • Health/Social Issues • Public Goods | 3 Comments

The principle of Open Source now set Cola free from monopolist capital. It was reconstructed via reverse ingeneering, published as Open Cola under the GPL and since then optimized by global community under the conditions of free cooperation. One of the approaches is Cube Cola: Besides working on the recipe a group of artists from Continue reading →

Prokla available online

Markus Euskirchen | 5. January 2010 | Filed under: Allmende • Commons • Knowledge • Education/Knowledge • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Editor's Choice • Public Goods | Leave a comment

Prokla (Probleme des Klassenkampfes/problems of class struggle), one of the leading and long standing unorthodox Marxist journals in Germany, is now available from the internet. The older issues from 1971 to 2006 are even freely accessible. Of course Prokla as all left journals is dependent on subscriptions. Check out www.prokla.de

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