Krystian Woznicki on Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:41:39 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> UN|COMMONS "initiating beginnings" |
Hello nettimers, at the UN|COMMONS conference (October 22-24) the Berliner Gazette and VolksbÃhne at Rosa-Luxemburg Platz hosted more than 500 participants and visitors, who explored over the course of three days the commons as the most exciting space for the critique of capitalism and also as a scalable social practice. Most importantly we learned that it is all about initiating beginnings. This can for instance mean acknowledging as well as mapping alternatives or redefining top down concepts such as âthe economyâ, opening elitist practices that are of eminent importance to civil society or turning leaks into public records, but also reclaiming what has been stolen from us and politicizing communities that operate in grey zones. Many of such beginnings are not networked among each other, many of them take place without the awareness of working towards the commons. Therefore our major task is to make visible those beginnings as a shared project and to contextualize them inside the grand narrative of the commons. Here we present our findings, incl. more than 10 projects that were built at the conference, as well as papers and documents from the lectures by speakers such as Yochai Benkler, Michel Bauwens and Harsha Walia, as well as photos and videos and last but not least an outlook on our activities in 2016: http://berlinergazette.de/uncommons/ We are looking forward to your feedback! And please spread the word about it! for example by sharing this tweet: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/669823163757408256 Best wishes, Krystian -- ------------------------------------------------- UN|COMMONS - DOCUMENTATION Projects, papers, recordings, photos and videos from the international conference on the fight for common wealth http://berlinergazette.de/uncommons ------------------------------------------------- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org