Politics

New Left Review have published a review of the Mute anthology, a teaser for the review is can be read below:

New Left Review 74, March-April 2012

http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2957

julian stallabrass

DIGITAL PARTISANS

Come play with technology. We'll learn and share how to make it work for us!

HacktionLabs are learning spaces to experiment and share knowledge. This event is organised by a network of people with a focus on using communications and information technology in the name of social justice.

The Spring 2012 HacktionLab in London is a weekend of workshops and discussions with an open invite to all.

= Property is mean - intellectual or not =

The free software movement (Richard Stallman, the GNU Project, the
Free Software Foundation, etc.) claims that intellectual property is a
bit of a contradiction in terms. They argue that information wants to
be free and restricting use, distribution or development of digital
goods such as software is a violation of its purposes and principles.

To compliment the recent Bitcoin critique it seems a host of these alternative currency/economy ideas could be worth examining and critiquing, lots of these ideas have been around for a long time, but as capitalism and anti-capitalists search around looking for alternatives, these ideas can gain traction and even state support.

A worker's critique of parecon

Robots of Repression

Reposted from: http://theanvilreview.org/print/robots-of-repression/

Communisation and its Vicissitudes

Endnotes and Blaumachen are holding a discussion on communisation with a presentation of the journal Sic (International Journal for Communisation).

Next Sunday (18/3) 6pm at Colorama (52-56 Lancaster Street, London SE1).