outline-of-topics.md

Outline of Topics, Sources & Themes

Agricultural commons

• ongoing history of enclosures and struggles to maintain the commons
• the evolution of property rights alienation of the land (see Quia Emptores)
• contradictions of US public lands, land grant colleges, nat'l parks, etc.
• land trusts and resurgence of cooperative farming practices

Sutainability politics

• Books & Authors
  • Eric Schlosser
    • Fast Food Nation (2001), #4 on NYT Best Sellers (NF)
  • Michael Pollan
    • Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) peaked at #8 on NYT Best Sellers (NF)
  • Wendell Berry
  • Joel Salatin
• Movies
  • Supersize Me (2004)
  • Fast Food Nation (2006)
  • King Corn (2007)
  • Food, Inc. (2008)
  • A Place at the Table (2012)
• More books and movies listed in A Place at the Table § "See also" and Food, Inc. § "See also"
• Chefs and Foodies
  • Dan Barber
  • Florence Fabricant
  • Melissa Clark
  • Mark Bittman
  • Pete Wells
  • Alice Waters

Appropriation of agricultural knowledge, expertise and technology

• Vandana Shiva
  • "Agricultural Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights and Farmers' Rights" (1996)
  • Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997)
  • Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (2000)
  • Navdanya, "Biopiracy Campaign"
  • Interview on Democracy Now!: "20 Years After the Battle of Seattle: Vandana Shiva & Lori Wallach on Historic 1999 WTO Protests"
• Globalization and intellectual property expansion
  • TRIPS Agreement
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
  • Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health
• Judith Carney
  • Black Rice
  • "Landscapes of Technology Transfer: Rice Cultivation and African Continuities" (1996) in Technology and Culture, reprinted in Technology and the African-American experience, Bruce Sinclair, ed. (2004)
• Leah Penniman on carrying seeds across the Middle Passage, Farming While Black, Chapter 8 "Seed Keeping"; also "US Black Farmer Patents" (p. 145)
• David Bollier on the enclosure of organics by USDA and corporations, Silent Theft (p. 50)
• Graeber/Wengrow on "the science of the concrete" of Neolithic women and flood-retreat farming that resisted agriculture (TDOE, Chapter 6, "Gardens of Adonis")
• Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin (2003)
• Jenny Bulstrode, "Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution"
  • "Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’"
• Walden F. Bello, The Food Wars
  • Chapter 2: "Eroding the Mexican Countryside"

See also

• Ejidos, campsesinos, and usufruct

The Commons in Sociology & Economics

• Henry George
  • Progress and Poverty (1879)
• Ronald Coase
  • "The Nature of the Firm" 1937
  • "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960), where he first defined the Coase Theorem
• Elinor Ostrom
  • Governing the Commons
  • "Public Goods and Public Choices " (1977), with Vincent Ostrom; lays out the classic form of the public/private goods matrix as well as the concept of common-pool resources
  • "Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems" (2010), refines her concept of public goods first laid out in the 1977 paper
• Carol Rose
  • "Comedy of the Commons" (1986)
• Rober Ellickson, "Property in Land" (1993)
  • Ellickson taught a course w/ Heller (below) called "Marx to Markets" and Heller cites this work and others by Ellickson. This is great resource on the the economics and governance of the medieval commons and contains many more great citations.
• Michael Heller
  • "The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets" (1998)
    • An altered version of this paper, co-authored with Rebecca Eisenberg, also appeared in Science later the same year under the title "Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research". It was shorter, omitting some of the economic arguments, but with new material on the patenting of biomedical research.
  • "The Liberal Commons" (2000)
• Alex Amend, "First as Tragedy, Then as Fascism: The Nativist Legacy of Garrett Hardin"
  • Garrett Hardin's SPLC profile
• Michael Perelman
  • Farming for Profit in a Hungry World (1977)
  • Information, Social Relations, and the Economics of High Technology (1991)
  • Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property and The Corporate Confiscation of Creativity (2002)
• Informational asymmetries; the summary from the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics is cited below.

  • [George] Akerlof showed that informational asymmetries can give rise to adverse selection on markets. Due to imperfect information on the part of lenders or prospective car buyers, borrowers with weak repayment prospects or sellers of low-quality cars crowd out everyone else from the market.

  • [Michael] Spence demonstrated that under certain conditions, well-informed agents can improve their market outcome by signaling their private information to poorly informed agents.

  • [Joseph] Stiglitz showed that an uninformed agent can sometimes capture the information of a better-informed agent through screening, for example by providing choices from a menu of contracts for a particular transaction. Insurance companies are thus able to divide their clients into risk classes by offering different policies, where lower premiums can be exchanged for a higher deductible.

• David Bollier
  • Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (2002) (a.o)
  • "Reclaiming the Commons" (2002)
  • Patterns of Commoning (with Silke Helfrich, 2015)
  • Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons (with Silke Helfrich, 2019)

Anarchist, Marxist & Autonomist Theory

• Karl Polanyi
  • The Great Transformation §3 "'Habitation versus Improvement'"
    • cited by James Boyle, Katherina Pistor, et al.
• E.P. Thompson
  • "Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism" (1967)
  • Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, (1975)
  • Customs in Common, Chapter III, "Custom, Law and Common Right", (1991), cited by Hannibal Travis
• Peter Linebaugh
  • "The Secret History of the Magna Carta" (2003)
  • The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (2008)
  • Stop, Thief! (2014)
  • Inverview on The Laura Flanders Show, "Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods" (2015)
  • Interview with David Bollier on Frontiers of Commoning, "What the History of Commoning Reveals" (2021)
• John Bellamy Foster
  • "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift" (1999)
• Silvia Federici
  • Caliban and the Witch (2004)
  • "Commons against and beyond capitalism" (2014)
• Murray Bookchin
  • Usufruct
    • Ecology of Freedom, Chapter 2: "The Outlook of Organic Society"
  • Aristotelian techne vs modern industrial "technics"
  • Labor and technology as the "midwife" to nature's creative forces¹
• David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
  • General thesis that societal structures of governance and organization are not deterministic and have changed fluidly over human history according to the culture and collective decisions of each society within its own millieu.
  • Property
    • Roman law and property absolutism
    • Locke's labor theory of property
    • property as sacred right (car analogy)
    • North American "Protestant Foragers"
  • References to original research on indigenous forms of communal land tenure.
    • Marcel Mauss, potlach and gift economies
    • Christopher Boehm, actuarial intelligence
  • Three Elementary Forms of Domination
• Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt
  • Commonwealth (2009)
• C.L.R. James
  • "Ancestors of the Proletariat", 1949 (re: the Levelers, Diggers, Marx & the English Revolution)

Social Choice Theory

• Kenneth Arrow, who directly influenced the work of Akerlof, Spence and Stiglitz on information asymmetries (see above), as well as Sen.
• Amartya Sen & Martha Nussbaum's work on capability approach to theories of liberty and justice
  • See also Luis Villa's application of their capability approach to FOSS
• Margaret Jane Radin
  • Contested Commodities
  • "Market-Inalienability"
  • "Property and Personhood"
  • "Information Tangibility"
  • "The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace" (1999, with R. Polk Wagner)
  • "Time, Possession, and Alienation"
  • "Compensation and Commensurability"

U.S. Opposition Movements to Intellectual Property

Free & Open Source Software (FOSS)

• bad actors:
  • Richard Stallman
  • Eric S. Raymond
  • etc

Free Culture Movement

• Duke Law School's Conference on the Public Domain, held Nov 9 -11, 2001.
  • This seems to have been a pivotal moment and a cross-discipline meeting of the minds. The list of "participants" (in-person attendees?) is staggering, a who's-who in the scholarship of the commons for the last half-century. Among others it includes Elinor Ostrom, James Boyle, Larry [sic.] Lessig, Yochai Benkler, David Bollier, Carol Rose, Jerome Reichman, Jessica Litman, John Perry Barlow, David Nimmer, David Lange, Eben Moglen, Mark Hosler from Negativland, Rosemary Coombe, Charlotte Hess, Eric Saltzman, Pamela Samuelson, Rebecca Eisenberg, et al.
• Literature
  • David Lange
    • "Recognizing the Public Domain" (1981), cited by Lessig, Boyle, Benkler, et al.
  • Anne Branscromb
    • "Who Owns Information?" (1994)
  • Jerome Reichman
    • "Intellectual Property Rights in Data?" (1997 w/ Pamela Samuelson)
    • "Of Green Tulips and Legal Kudzu: Repackaging Rights in Subpatentable Innovation" (2000)
    • "The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods" (2005, w/ Keith Maskus)
  • Pamela Samuelson
    • "The Copyright Grab" (1996)
    • "The Quest for Enabling Metaphors for Law and Lawyering in the Information Age" (1996)
  • Jessica Littman
    • "The Public Domain" (1990)
    • "Sharing and Stealing" (2004)
  • Rosemary Coombe
    • The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties (1998)
  • Ebin Moglen
    • "Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright" (1999)
    • "dotCommunist Manifesto" (2003, based on a talk from 2001)
  • Christopher May
    • The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The new enclosures? (a.o) (2000)
    • "Capital, knowledge and ownership: The “information society” and intellectual property". Information, Communication & Society, 1(3), 246–269. (1998)
  • Hannibal Travis
    • "Pirates of the Information Infrastructure: Blackstonian Copyright and the First Amendment" (2000)
    • Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (2018) (excerpt)
  • Charlotte Hess
    • "Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource" (2001-2003, w/ Elinor Ostrom)
  • Yochai Benkler
    • "The Commons as a Neglected Factor of Information Policy" (1998)
    • "Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Contraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain" (1999)
    • "Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm" (2002)
    • Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006)
  • James Boyle
    • "The Relations of Reproduction" (1997)
    • "Nature/Culture?" (1997): "A revised version of this article appeared as "What the Left Has to Say" in the TLS, February 28th 1997 reviewing Social Theory and the Environment by David Goldblatt"
    • "Cruel, Mean, or Lavish? Economic Analysis, Price Discrimination and Digital Intellectual Property" (2000)
    • "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain" (2003)
    • Shamans, Software, and Spleens (1996)
    • Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, "Why Intellectual Property?"
      • "The CD may be copied cheaply; the concert is easy to police."
    • "The fight to keep ideas open to all"
      • "The “commons of the mind” must be preserved, says James Boyle of Duke Law School, on the 50th anniversary of “The tragedy of the commons”" (re: Garrett Hardin)
  • Paul A. David, "Tragedy of the Public Knowledge 'Commons'? Global Science, Intellectual Property and the Digital Technology Boomerang" (2000)
  • Lawrence Lessig
    • "The Architecture of Innovation"
    • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
      • "Code is Law"
    • Future of Ideas
      • over-emphasis on the code, the architecture and other abstractions
  • Lessig's early work in constitutional law and cyber law papers
    • Brief talk on Law School Internet Publishing (1994)
    • "The Regulation of Social Meaning" (1995)
    • U. of Chicago Chronicle inverview, "Center helps Eastern European countries shape constitutions" (1995)
    • "Post Constitutionalism" (1996)
    • "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace" (1997)
    • "The Constitution of Code: Limitations on Choice-based Critiques of Cyberspace Regulation" (1997)
    • "The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach" (1999)
    • Bio and profile from Wired magazine, "Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown" (2002)
  • C. Ford Runge & Edi Defrancesco
    • "Exclusion, Inclusion, and Enclosure: Historical Commons and Modern Intellectual Property" (2006)
    • "Factors Affecting Farmers' Participation in Agri-environmental Measures" (2007)
  • Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
    • "The Simple Economics of Open Source" (2000)
  • Clay Shirky
    • Here Comes Everyone (2008)

Criticism

• Low marginal costs and non-rivalry are over-emphasized and consequently taken as the preconditions for effective commons
• It is implicitly and mistakenly assumed that information is not a "thing" like real property. Likewise, tangible things are viewed as substantively different from information and their informational component is either minimized or overlooked entirely.

90's Anti-Globalization Movements

• Seattle WTO Protests
  • The WTO History Project
    • Organizations Opposed to the WTO
    • NGO's Sign-on Letter
    • Timeline of the Protests (Nov 29 - Dec 3)
  • Crimethinc.
    • "Seattle, Seven Years Later"
    • "N30: The Seattle WTO Protests"
    • "The Power is Running: A Memoir of N30" (2017)
  • Documentaries
    • Showdown In Seattle, documentary made in collaboration by Paper Tiger TV, Independent Media Center, Media Island Int'l et al.
      • PTTV archive page
      • Uploaded to YouTube by Media Island Int'l
  • Democracy Now! retrospective interviews from 2019 Nov 27
    • "20 Years After the Battle of Seattle: Vandana Shiva & Lori Wallach on Historic 1999 WTO Protests"
    • "“Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”: Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement"
  • C-SPAN's video recording and transcript of the 30 Nov 1999 debate at Seattle Town Hall, moderated by Paul Magnusson, correspondent for Business Week.
    • In support of the WTO's globalization policies:
      • Prof. Jagdish Rhagwati of Columbia University, advisor to GATT
      • R. Scott Miller, Dir. of Global Trade Policy at Procter and Gamble
      • David L. Aaron, White House Under Secretary of Commerce for Int'l Trade
    • In opposition to the WTO/globalization:
      • Ralph Nader, Public Citizen
      • Dr. Vandana Shiva, RFSTE
      • John Cavanagh, Institute for Public Studies
  • Other accounts & archives
    • "Twenty Years Later the “Spirit of Seattle” Lives On! – How the Food Sovereignty Movement Helped Bring Down the World Trade Organization (WTO)" by John E. Peck, Exec. Dir. of Family Farm Defenders, also published in the Food First archives.
    • Orbis Cascades Alliance, Archives West: "World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collection"
    • University of Washington, Digital Collections: "WTO Seattle Collection"
• Indymedia
  • April Glaser, "Another Network is Possible", Logic(s) (3 Aug 2019)
  • "After protestors fill the streets and shut down the WTO opening session, Mayor Paul Schell declares a state of emergency and police use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear downtown Seattle on November 30, 1999." (2009)
  • Portland Independent Media Center, "Co-ops making history! World's first open-source POS system at People's Food Co-op."
  • Sources for 1415 3rd Avenue as location of original storefront
    • https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv111236
    • https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19991223&slug=A19991224010135
    • https://web.archive.org/all/20000816130236/http://seattle.indymedia.org/about.php3
    • "3rd Avenue" is also mentioned in Showdown at 16:35
• Zapatista Uprising
  • Segunda Declaración de La Realidad por la Humanidad y contra el Neoliberalismo
    • Original text
    • English translation
    • School for Chiapas
      • "1st Declaration", described as:

        • The EZLN calls for an intercontinental anti-neoliberalism gathering and outlines their political outlook in the First Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity and against Neoliberalism, January 30, 1996. The idea would eventually flourish in the form of the World Social Forum.

      • Maps of Chiapas
    • Bruno Serralongue, photographer who published photos as Encuentro, Chiapas 1996
      • Official Artist's Page on Air de Paris
      • Official Book Page, with photos, from Spector Books
      • More photos on sophot.org
    • "Documentos del Subcomandante Marcos" on Spanish WikiSource
    • La Jornada
      • First Declaration text and photos
      • Photos (lo-res): Jul 30 | Jul 31 | Aug 1 | Aug 2 | Aug 3
    • Archives of Global Protests
      • Gatherings for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
      • First Encounter
      • "The story of how we learnt to dream at Reality" A report on the first Intercontinental Gathering for Humanity and Against neo-liberalism by Andrew Flood, one of the Irish delegation
      • "I Was at the Encuentro" by Massimo De Angelis (August 1996)
      • "Toward the New Commons: Working Class Strategies and the Zapatistas" by Monty Neill, with George Caffentzis and Johnny Machete, of the Midnight Notes Collective. Later published in Midnight Notes #13: Auroras of the Zapatistas as "Encounters in Chiapas" in 2001.
  • World Social Forum
    • Smith, Jackie (2004). "The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy" (PDF). Global Networks. 4 (4): 413–421. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00102.x.
    • "The 1999 Seattle protests gave birth to a global movement" (a.o), Alex Callinicos, The Socialist Worker

Protest movements following the Global Economic Crisis

Arab Spring

• Proclaimers of the "Twitter Revolution" & its detractors (Gladwell et al.)
  • Gladwell, "Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted" (Oct 2010)
  • Gladwell, "Does Egypt Need Twitter?" (Feb 2011)
  • Black Hounshell "The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat."
  • "'The Daily Show' Takes On The Role Of Social Media In The Egyptian Uprising"
  • Ethan Zuckerman, "The First Twitter Revolution?"
• Zeynep Tufekci
  • Twitter and Tear Gas (2017)
  • "New Media and the People-Powered Uprisings", MIT Technology Review (Aug 30, 2011)
  • "Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square" (2012, with Christopher Wilson, PDF)
  • Technosociology (blog)
    • "As Egypt Shuts off the Net: Seven Theses on Dictator’s Dilemma" (Jan 28, 2011)
    • "Journalism, Social Media and Packs & Cascades: Lessons from an Error", includes critique of media coverage on Alaa Abd El-Fatah (Nov 30, 2011)
    • "Interview with Alaa Abd El-Fatah about his Mom, Laila Suief" (Jun 13, 2011)
    • "Tunisia, Twitter, Aristotle, Social Media and Final and Efficient Causes" (Jan 15, 2011)
    • "Notes on Amina, Facebook and the Reverse Tragedy of Commons: Pseudonymity under Repressive Conditions" (Jun 9, 2011)
    • "Wikileaks is not about secret information; it’s about insiders versus outsiders" (Dec 9, 2010)
    • "What Gladwell Gets Wrong: The Real Problem is Scale Mismatch (Plus, Weak and Strong Ties are Complementary and Supportive)" (Sep 27, 2010)
• Alaa Abd El-Fatah
  • Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group (EGLUG)
  • Ethan Zuckerman, "Arabization - It's hard than just right to left" (Dec 2004)

    • Alaa Abd El Fatah, a brilliant Arabization geek and a member of EGLUG, the Cairo-based Egyptian Linux Users' Group, is helping to translate a series of introductions to open source software being developed by EGLUG partners in the colloquial arabic spoken in Egypt, rather than the classical arabic understood throughout the region. It's more readable and accessible to the Egyptians he's trying to convert to the Open Source cause, but it's hard for people outside the country to understand.

  • Ethan Zuckerman, "Egyptian Blogger detained for participating in peaceful protest" (May 2006)
• Hossam el-Hamalawy and other Egyptian bloggers/journalists
  • Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Egypt's revolution has been 10 years in the making" (Mar 2011)
  • Salma Shukrallah, "Egyptian journalists to be questioned" (May 2011)
  • "Revolution 2.0: Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy" (Feb 2011)
  • "Bloggers say Egypt’s revolution not just about tweeting. What is it about, then?"
  • "Google worker is Egypt’s Facebook hero"
  • Wael Khalil, "Why we are holding Egypt's second 'Friday of rage'"
  • "10 must-read blogs from the Middle East"
• April 6 Youth Movement
  • Influence of the Serbian Otpor! movement, both on A6YM's logo and its use of communications technology, particularly via Mohammed Adel, who trained at Otpor!'s Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies. Otpor! had a similar influence on the Ukranian Pora! movement and its use of mobile phones and other technology during the Orange Revolution of 2004.
  • Democracy Now!, "From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Revolutionary Asmaa Mahfouz Speaks at Occupy Wall Street"
• Wikipedia, "Timeline of the Arab Spring"

Occupy

• Wikipedia, "Timeline of Occupy Wall Street"
• NYT timeline of events on Nov 15
• WCBS 880 AM on the raid, w/ photos from Sean Adams who reported overnight
• State Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings issues temporary restraining order

SOPA/PIPA & Internet Blackout

• Wikipedia, "Protests against SOPA and PIPA"

Beyond FOSS

• Luis Villa

  • "Free as in...?"
  • "Resilient Open Commons"

• C.J. Silverio, "The Economics of Open Source"

• GOAT Forum: "What is Open Source?"

• Data Sovereignty

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty
    • Global Indigenous Data Alliance
      • CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
      • "History of Indigenous Data Sovereignty".
    • Lovett, R., Lee, V., Kukutai, T,. Cormack, D., Carroll-Rainie, S,. & Walker, J. (2019). Good Data Practices for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance. In Good Data, Daly, A., Devitt, SK,. & Mann, M (eds), Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
    • Carroll, S, Garba, I, Figueroa-Rodríguez, O, Holbrook, J, Lovett, R, Materechera, S, Parsons, M, Raseroka, K, Rodriguez-Lonebear, D, Rowe, R, Sara, R, Walker, J, Anderson, J and Hudson, M. 2020. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Data Science Journal, 19: XX, pp. 1–12.
    • Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda
  • Surveys of the term and its definitions
    • Hummel, P., Braun, M., Tretter, M., & Dabrock, P. (2021). "Data Sovereignty: A review". Big Data & Society, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720982012
    • Datasphere Initative, "We Need to Talk about Data: Framing the Debate Around the Free Flow of Data and Data Sovereignty"
  • European Commission
    • European Commision, Joint Research Center, "European Data Spaces - Scientific Insights into Data Sharing and Utilisation at Scale", 25.
  • First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC)
    • "Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP™): The Path to First Nations Information Governance"
    • "Exploration of the Impact of Canada’s Information Management Regime on First Nations Data Sovereignty"
    • The First Nations Principles of OCAP®: ownership, control, access, and possession

• Post-Open Source

• Co-op Cloud Federation

  • "The Configuration Commons"
  • "Federation Proposal"
  • "State of the Co-op Cloud 2023" (video)

• Protestware

  • chef-sugar
    • see also WIRED article (paywalled)
  • faker and colors
    • see also Vice Motherboard article
  • node-ipc

• licenses

  • Hippocratic License
  • Peer Production License (Copyfarleft)
  • CoopCycle License (CoopyLeft)
  • Anti-996 License (for fair labor practices in China)
  • "no military use" clause

• Enspiral

  • Loomio handbook
  • Alanna Irving's interview w/ David Bollier

• McKenzie Wark

  • A Hacker Manifesto (2004)
  • "The Vectoralist Class"

New Developments & Old Syntheses

• Jose Luis Vivero Pol
  • "Why Food Should be a Commons Not a Commodity"
  • Frontiers of Commoning interview
• Fred Turner, Stewart Brand, etc
  • New Left vs New Communalism
  • "Information wants to be free." ~ attributed to Stewart Brand, The Media Lab (1986), also cited by Boyle
    • see also R. Polk Wagner, "Information Wants to Be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control" (2003)
  • virtualization of communities
  • cybernetics
  • The Californian Ideology
  • nettime
• Ecofeminism, Cyberfeminism, and Queer Theory
  • Donna Harraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1985)
  • Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (1993)
  • Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman" (1981)
    • PDF of the Pink and Black Attack zine folio edition, printed circa 2010.
• Katharina Pistor
  • The Code of Capital (2019)
  • "The Laws of Capitalism" video series (2022) from INET
• Data Asymmetry & Algorithmic Justice
  • Leigh Dodds, "What is data asymmetry?"
  • Datensparsamkeit
  • DAIR Institute
  • Data For Black Lives
  • Algorithmic Justice League
• Amish Ordnung and technology
  • Wikipedia: Ordnung and Gelassenheit
  • Anabaptist Historians
    • "Health and Well-being in Amish Society: Assessing Cultures of Well-Being", "a panel during session three of the 2019 Amish Conference"
    • "Digital Mennonites"
  • Anabaptist World
    • "Mennonite values in a warming world"
    • "Gelassenheit: A spiritual journey"
  • Lindsay Ems, Virtually Amish
    • review of the book from Anabaptist World
    • interview with Ems in Butler student paper on food justice
  • NPR interview about Amish technology with Donald Kraybill, author of The Amish
  • Psychology Today
• GOAT
  • Thematic history
    • 2018 Conference: how to get farmers to use FOSS?
    • 2020 Conference that never was, plus Community Food Resilience
    • 2022 Conference: new attention to issues of justice, rights for nature and cooperative action
      • Session: Justice for Nature
      • Session: Justice for Nature
    • 2023 and beyond
      • On-going community calls and events
        • Winstanley Movie Night
        • Book Club
      • GOAT Co-op Working Group
      • 2024 Conference planned
  • New perspectives
    • Political anthropology: Keren Reichler & Sarah Hackfort
    • Hope Sims, "My experience at GOAT: a call for more open-source collaboration"
    • John Bliss "Open Technology and the Agronomic Mood Ring: Exploring Emerging Digital Agricultural Innovation"
• Convergence of Food & Data Sovereignty Movements
  • Community Food Resilience
  • Skywoman
  • Open Environmental Data Project's symposia
  • ETC Group's research and advocacy
  • CSIPM's webinar: "The impacts of digitalization on food systems and family farming"
  • P2P Foundation
  • Permacomputing
  • Computing Within Limits
  • Maya Cohen, "How can agricultural data be used for food sovereignty?"
  • CSIPM reports and Data Working Group
  • Ag Data Oath of Care
  • CARE Principles & appropriate technologies
  • L'Atelier Paysan
  • Data Trusts & Cooperatives, like Farmers Regen Mutual (AU) and JoinData (NL)
  • IT for Change essay series: State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling Digital Enclosures
    • Felix Maschewski and Anna-Verena Nosthoff, "Big Tech and the Smartification of Agriculture"
    • Sofía Monsalve Suárez and Philip Seufert, "The Big Tech Takeover of Food Systems in Latin America: Elements for a Human Rights-based Alternative"
• Platform Coops
  • Trevor Scholz & Nathan Schneider (eds.), Ours to Hack and Own
  • Platform Cooperativism Consotium
  • James Muldoon, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech
• Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
• Tiziana Terranova
  • After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital & the Commons, 2022
• International Peasants' Movement
  • La Via Campesina
  • Declaration of Nyéléni
  • Principle of Buen Vivir, or Sumak Kawsay in Kichwa
  • Cecosesola, Venezuelan cooperative
  • A Growing Culture
  • peasant food webs
• Rights of Nature
  • Christopher Stone, "Should Trees Have Legal Standing?" (1972)
  • Aikaterini Argyrou & Harry Hummels, "Legal personality and economic livelihood of the Whanganui River: a call for community entrepreneurship" (2019)
  • "Rights of Nature and Ecocentrism in Chile’s Constitution" (2022, Earth Law Center)
• Academia
  • Sci-Hub, Monoskop & other shadow libraries
  • Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons
• Protest, Direct Action & Revolution
  • Municipios Autónomos Rebeldes Zapatistas (MAREZ) in Chiapas, MX
  • Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
  • Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, aka Rojava)
  • Indigenous water protectors & land defenders
  • Social Ecology, Municipalism and Dual Power

Footnotes

1. In Ecology of Freedom, §9 "Two Images of Technology":

   That Marx and many of his Victorian contemporaries disparaged "nature idolatry" in extremely harsh terms is not accidental. The Romantic movement of the nineteenth century echoed a much broader and ancient sensibility: the view that production should be a symbiotic, not an antagonistic, process. Although the movement was primarily aesthetic, it combined with anarchist theories of mutualism — notably Kropotkin's extraordinarily prescient writings — to ferret out a much broader "natural design": a "marriage" between labor and nature that was conceived not as a patriarchal domination of "man" over nature but as a productive relationship based on harmony, fertility, and creativity. Libertarian and aesthetic movements in the nineteenth century were still heir to the image of a fecund interaction between humanity's craft and nature's potentialities. But labor was seen not as "fire," or industry as a "furnace." The imagery of these movements was drastically different. Labor was viewed as the midwife, and tools as the aids, in delivering nature's offspring: use-values.^[source]

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