Nicos Poulantzas Institute organizes an open event entitled:
APPLIED POLICIES IN THE FIELD OF ‘COMMON GOODS’: RESULTS, EXPERIENCE AND FUTURE GOALS
Monday, November 10, 2014, 7: 00pm
Cultural Centre of Athens, Athens Academy 50
Continue reading Applied policies in the field of “Common goods”: Michel Bauwens
George Dafermos (born in Heraklion in 1980) is Professor of Technology Policy and Management at the National Institute of Higher Studies (IAEN) in Ecuador and a member of the research team of the FLOK Society Project. He was also a participant in the 1st Festival of the Commons where he gave a talk on patents.
Continue reading Interview with Dafermos, a FLOK researcher at Equador
1. Our current world system is marked by a profoundly counterproductive logic of social organization:
a) it is based on a false concept of abundance in the limited material world; it has created a system based on infinite growth, within the confines of finite resources
b) it is based on a false concept of scarcity in the infinite immaterial world; instead of allowing continuous experimental social innovation, it purposely erects legal and technical barriers to disallow free cooperation through copyright, patents, etc
Continue reading The emergence of the peer to peer civilization and political economy
