hi there - here is the english translation of the introductory text for
the meeting on precarity, social movements, and political communication
held in buenos aires some weeks ago - hope it is of your interest -
cheers
marcelo
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PRECARITY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
http://www.asia-commons.net
Virtually obsessed... with the peer-to-peer world
Michel Bauwens, 48, turned his back on a senior corporate position,
and moved from his homeland of Belgium to another contentinent... and
a very different way of doing things.
Today, researching the P2P movement
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Ronda Hauben wrote:
The point there was to encourage cross disciplinary discussion and
to break through the communication boundaries of the various disciplines.
But the Macy Conferences were actually about feedback systems, not
about mathematical philosophy to open social
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, kenneth c. werbin wrote:
I was not intending to suggest that the attendees of the Macy
conferences were military mathematicians (although some like Wiener
clearly were), rather that the Macy conferences saw social scientists,
like Mead, consider questions of cybernetics
For the sake of clarity Geert are you putting yourself forward for
all the hard work involved in being part of the next stage in the
'rotation'. you are proposing or is this a prompting that others
rather than yourself should put themselves forward to take up this
burden ?
On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:33
Not directly but in any community/collective I know if someone 'stands up in a
meeting' and makes a suggestion involving work then such an intervention
carries with it the implication (and perhaps responsibility) that they are
also willing to share in that work.
Otherwise the intervention could
