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Global Participatory Acts and the State
STRENGTHENING THE STATE THROUGH DISSENT: GLOBAL PARTICIPATORY ACTS AND THE STATE By Patricia Camilien, université Quisqueya INTRODUCTION In Alvin Toffler‟s Future Shock (1970), three types of men coexist on the planet. Men of the present, living in the here and now as they are carried away by the waves and currents of the world; they are rather vulnerable to "future shock". Men of the past, who have remained in a past time long gone, are living in the twentieth century but are still in the twelfth. Men of the future, informed, insightful and perceptive, who are already surfing on the major trends of tomorrow. In today's world, these men of the future are part of a transnational and nomadic elite helped by the increasing liberalization of trade and the disappearance of borders – at the least for them. Transnational companies like oil brokerage firm Trafigura i – made globally (in) famous in 2010 by a journalist‟s tweet about a file hosted on WikiLeaks – exemplify this (future) global world. They enjoy the best of corporate law around the world and diversify their operations accordingly. This use of different national laws according to the benefits they offer is not limited to transnational corporations and their owners, but now extends to individuals who, while they are not billionaires in dollars, are so in reticular connections. Using global participatory acts (heretofore participactions), they seem to be the ones to help the people move from the present to the future. Moral and social entrepreneurs, they are the vanguard of the future changes in society they are trying to drive through networked actions as relayed by mass self- communication. -
Minding the Body Interacting Socially Through Embodied Action
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Dissertation No. 1112 Minding the Body Interacting socially through embodied action by Jessica Lindblom Department of Computer and Information Science Linköpings universitet SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden Linköping 2007 © Jessica Lindblom 2007 Cover designed by Christine Olsson ISBN 978-91-85831-48-7 ISSN 0345-7524 Printed by UniTryck, Linköping 2007 Abstract This dissertation clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the past two decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism which considers cognition in terms of internal symbolic representations and computational processes, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surrounding social and material world. This thesis develops a framework for the embodied nature of social interaction and cognition, which is based on an interdisciplinary approach that ranges historically in time and across different disciplines. It includes work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, phenomenology, ethology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, linguistics, communication, and gesture studies. The theoretical framework presents a thorough and integrated understanding that supports and explains the embodied nature of social interaction and cognition. It is argued that embodiment is the part and parcel of social interaction and cognition in the most general and specific ways, in which dynamically embodied actions themselves have meaning and agency. The framework is illustrated by empirical work that provides some detailed observational fieldwork on embodied actions captured in three different episodes of spontaneous social interaction in situ. -
Markets Not Capitalism Explores the Gap Between Radically Freed Markets and the Capitalist-Controlled Markets That Prevail Today
individualist anarchism against bosses, inequality, corporate power, and structural poverty Edited by Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists. Massive concentrations of wealth, rigid economic hierarchies, and unsustainable modes of production are not the results of the market form, but of markets deformed and rigged by a network of state-secured controls and privileges to the business class. Markets Not Capitalism explores the gap between radically freed markets and the capitalist-controlled markets that prevail today. It explains how liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power. Featuring discussions of socialism, capitalism, markets, ownership, labor struggle, grassroots privatization, intellectual property, health care, racism, sexism, and environmental issues, this unique collection brings together classic essays by Cleyre, and such contemporary innovators as Kevin Carson and Roderick Long. It introduces an eye-opening approach to radical social thought, rooted equally in libertarian socialism and market anarchism. “We on the left need a good shake to get us thinking, and these arguments for market anarchism do the job in lively and thoughtful fashion.” – Alexander Cockburn, editor and publisher, Counterpunch “Anarchy is not chaos; nor is it violence. This rich and provocative gathering of essays by anarchists past and present imagines society unburdened by state, markets un-warped by capitalism. -
IPRED Versus the Sharing of Culture: Moving Away from Enforcement
March 2011 IPRED Versus The Sharing of Culture: Moving Away From Enforcement Response to the European Commission's consultation on the “Intellectual Property Rights” Enforcement Directive (IPRED). La Quadrature du Net | 1 Executive summary: EU's Internet policy at crossroads More than 10 years after adopting a framework for the development of information society services and the promotion of freedom of expression online, the European Union faces a crucial choice: It can either pursue the promotion of democratic goals and innovation in the digital environment, or remain blind to social and technical realities by enforcing a copyright regime that is at its very core unadapted to the Internet. Sadly, the European Commission's documents regarding the revision of the “Intellectual Property Rights” Enforcement Directive (IPRED) suggests that forces of the status quo could prevail. In the age of the Internet, where any citizen can have access to a global communications infrastructure to access and disseminate culture and knowledge, our legal system must give up on the idea that each instance of transmission of artistic works must be submitted to prior authorization, especially in cases of non-profit transmission. The debate needs to move away from enforcement and focus on financing schemes and business-models that can accommodate widespread social practices, such as non- commercial file-sharing of cultural works, while providing appropriate resources for creative activities. However, the Internal Market Directorate General of the EU Commission, which is supervising the revision of IPRED, appears too much in line with the copyright industry to break away from outdated policies. Even though it has undertaken laudable efforts to create a more integrated single digital market, its determination to repress non-commercial sharing of cultural goods over the Internet is endangering the technical and legal architecture on which are based the democratic and economic potential of the Internet. -
Vimm Deliverable: D6.1 Title: Composite Report on Key Sectors for VM/CH-Driven 6 KEY SECTORS PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, CONCLUSIONS
ViMM Ref. Ares(2019)633647 - 04/02/2019 Deliverable: D6.1 Title: Composite report on key sectors for VM/CH-driven Deliverable number D6.1 Title Composite report on key sectors for VM/CH-driven growth and benefit (M16) Due date Resubmitted version following rejection at Year 2 Review Actual date of 04 February 2019 delivery to EC Included (indicate Executive Summary Abstract Table of Contents as appropriate) Beneficiary Responsible: Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dpt of Humanities / Dpt of ICT , Roc Boronat, 138 / 08018 Barcelona Spain Georgios GIANNOULIS GIANNOULOPOULOS [email protected] (0034) 638950714 Page 1 of 51 ViMM Deliverable: D6.1 Title: Composite report on key sectors for VM/CH-driven growth and benefit Partner responsible for UPF deliverable Deliverable author(s) Georgios GIANNOULIS GIANNOULOPOULOS, Laia Pujol, Rob Davies, Marinos Ioannides, George Papagiannakis, Ricardo Collins, Marc Hernandez Deliverable version number Final Resubmitted Dissemination Level Public Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) History: Change log Version Date Author Reason for change 0.1 15.1.2018 Georgios GIANNOULIS First draft GIANNOULOPOULOS, Laia Pujol, Rob Davies, Marinos Ioannides, George Papagiannakis, Ricardo Collins, Marc Hernandez 0.2 10.02.18 As above Following external review Resubmitted 01.02.19 Georgios GIANNOULIS Following rejection at Year 2 GIANNOULOPOULOS review. Release approval Version Date Name & organisation Role FINAL 04.02.19 Rob Davies, CUT Project Manager Statement of originality: This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. -
2014 AE-BKH Annual Report
Academia Europaea | Barcelona Knowledge Hub Report of Activities 2014 1 Overview Academia Europaea 2 Barcelona Knowledge Hub (BKH) 2 International Advisory Committee 3 BKH’S ACTIVITIES OF 2014 a) International Women’s Day, March 5th 4 b) Workshop on “Funding policies and research values”, Trieste, May 12th 4 c) 26th Annual Conference 2014: “Young Europe: realities, dilemmas and opportunities for the new generation”, Barcelona, July 16th to 18th 5 d) Disputatio of Barcelona 2014: “The Mediterranean, Bridge of cultures”, November 25th 6 e) Academia Europaea InterSection Workshop: “The Mediterranean in the crossroad. Past, present and future”, November 26th 8 f) International Advisory Committee (IAC), First Annual Meeting, November 29th 9 COLLABORATIONS a) Four lectures on “Neuroscience and…”, March-July 10 b) Annual Meeting of the Young Academy of Europe, July 15th 11 c) TOPO-EUROPE Workshop 2014, September 17th to 19th 11 d) International Conference on Education and Empowerment of Women, Autonomous University of Madrid, September 17th to 19th 12 e) The 19th Science Week: Session on “Vaccines, science and society”, Parliament of Catalonia, November 17th 12 f) Neuroscience Christmas Symposium, December 17th 12 STRATEGIES FOR 2015 13 2 Academia Europaea Founded in 1988, the Academia Europaea (AE) is an international, nongovernmental, not-for-profit association of individual scientists and scholars from all disciplines, recognised by their peers as experts and leaders in the own subject areas. The AE recognises genuine international excellence and supports the culture of European research through dialogue and collaboration. The Academy is pan-European, with around 3000 elected members drawn from the whole European continent and also from non-European countries, grouped into 20 Academic Sections. -
Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition Action Editor: Ron Sun Leslie Marsh A,*, Christian Onof B,C
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Cognitive Sciences ePrint Archive ARTICLE IN PRESS Cognitive Systems Research xxx (2007) xxx–xxx www.elsevier.com/locate/cogsys Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition Action editor: Ron Sun Leslie Marsh a,*, Christian Onof b,c a Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom b Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom c School of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London, United Kingdom Received 13 May 2007; accepted 30 June 2007 Abstract To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers as its subject matter, then its third party character is essentially stigmer- gic. In its most generic formulation, stigmergy is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment. Extending this notion one might conceive of social stigmergy as the extra-cranial analog of an artificial neural network providing epi- stemic structure. This paper recommends a stigmergic framework for social epistemology to account for the supposed tension between individual action, wants and beliefs and the social corpora. We also propose that the so-called ‘‘extended mind’’ thesis offers the requisite stigmergic cognitive analog to stigmergic knowledge. Stigmergy as a theory of interaction within complex systems theory is illustrated through an example that runs on a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Ó 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. -
An Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms
From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms عمر بهر تيری محبت ميری خدمت گر رہی ميں تری خدمت کےقابل جب هوا توچل بسی )اقبال( To my late parents with love and eternal appreciation, whom I lost during my PhD studies Örebro Studies in Technology 79 ALI ABDUL KHALIQ From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms © Ali Abdul Khaliq, 2018 Title: From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms Publisher: Örebro University 2018 www.publications.oru.se Print: Örebro University, Repro 05/2018 ISSN 1650-8580 ISBN 978-91-7529-253-3 Abstract Ali Abdul Khaliq (2018): From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms. Örebro Studies in Technology 79. Navigation is a core functionality of mobile robots. To navigate autonomously, a mobile robot typically relies on internal maps, self-localization, and path plan- ning. Reliable navigation usually comes at the cost of expensive sensors and often requires significant computational overhead. Many insects in nature perform robust, close-to-optimal goal directed naviga- tion without having the luxury of sophisticated sensors, powerful computational resources, or even an internally stored map. They do so by exploiting a simple but powerful principle called stigmergy: they use their environment as an external memory to store, read and share information. In this thesis, we explore the use of stigmergy as an alternative route to realize autonomous navigation in practical robotic systems. In our approach, we realize a stigmergic medium using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology by embedding a grid of read-write RFID tags in the floor. -
Surname(S) / First Name(S) Mr. Salvador RUEDA PALENZUELA Nationality Spanish Date of Birth 07/07/1953
Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Mr. Salvador RUEDA PALENZUELA Nationality Spanish Date of birth 07/07/1953 Work experience Dates 2000 – To date Occupation or position held Director Main activities and Direct or of the Agency since its foundation 5th of June 2000. He currently heads a responsibilities team of about 50 people working in the following urban areas: land use, urban planning, mobility and public space, urban organization, economic and social cohesion, energy, water, waste, air pollution and noise. Name and address of employer Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) Type of business or sector Public consortium dedicated to urban ecology planning. The Consortium Urban Ecology Agency of Barc elona is a public entity with local character and legal personality and full capacity to fulfil its purposes and of indefinite duration, made voluntarily and initially as promoters by the City Hall of Barcelona, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Provincial Council of Barcelona. The main objective of the Agency is to rethink cities, urban systems, applying criteria that come from academic ecology and sustainability. Among its purposes, according to Article 4. 4 of its Statutes, the Agency is “a research centre, devel opment and innovation centre (R+D+I) by developing applied research that allows to find certain regularities of the urban systems operation that help increase the capacity of cities to advance the uncertainties projected by the environment due to the current impact that at its turn urban settlements project into it. Urban and environmental aspects, as well as social and economic, shall constitute the essential key of the research ”. -
November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands Inhoudelijk En financiële Verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, November 2010
November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.ecommons.eu Inhoudelijk en financiële verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, november 2010 Stichting Nederland Kennisland Keizersgracht 174 1016 DW Amsterdam +31 205756720 / http://www.kennisland.nl 2 / 48 1 ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS 2 ....................................................................................4 1.1 BELANGRIJKSTE OPGELEVERDE RESULTATEN ........................................................................4 1.2 HTTP://WWW.ECOMMONS.EU/ ..............................................................................................5 1.3 PROGRAM ..........................................................................................................................6 2 BLOGPOSTS ..........................................................................................................................8 TOWARDS A RADICAL ARCHIVE: DE BALIEʼS ERIC KLUITENBERG ..................................................9 WHEN LIBRARIES EMBRACE THE DIGITAL FUTURE: INTERVIEW WITH KB'S IRMGARD BOMERS ......10 ARCHIVING IN CONVERGENCE: EUROPEANA'S DYNAMIC PORTAL ...............................................12 THE NETWORKED VAULT: INTERVIEW WITH MAARTEN BRINKERINK OF THE NETHERLANDSʼ INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VISION ............................................................................................................................13 WHEN THE COPY'S NO EXCEPTION: INTERVIEW WITH KENNISLAND'S PAUL KELLER ...........15 PETER KAUFMAN ON APPRECIATING AUDIOVISUAL VALUE -
Felix Stalder Digital Solidarity
Digital Solidarity Digital Digital Solidarity Felix Stalder Felix Stalder’s extended essay, Digital Solidarity, responds to / Digital the wave of new forms of networked organisation emerging from and colliding with the global economic crisis of 2008. Felix Stalder Across the globe, voluntary association, participatory decision- Solidarity making and the sharing of resources, all widely adopted Felix Stalder online, are being translated into new forms of social space. This movement operates in the breach between accelerating technical innovation, on the one hand, and the crises of institutions which organise, or increasingly restrain society on the other. Through an inventory of social forms – commons, assemblies, swarms and weak networks – the essay outlines how far we have already left McLuhan’s ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ behind. In his cautiously optimistic account, Stalder reminds us that the struggles over where we will arrive are only just beginning. Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute and the Post-Media Lab Mute Books Price €5 £4.25 $6.75 Cover image: Simon Worthington Digital Solidarity Felix Stalder A collaboration between the Post-Media Lab & Mute Books Anti copyright © 2013 Mute Except for those images which originally appeared elsewhere and are republished here, all content is copyright Mute and the authors. However, Mute encourages the use of its content for purposes that are non-commercial, critical, or disruptive of capitalist property relations. Please make sure you credit the author and Mute as the original publishers. This legend is devised in the absence of a licence which adequately represents this contributor’s and publisher’s respective positions on copyright, and to acknowledge but deny the copyrighting performed by default where copyright is waived. -
Free Culture Forum with Special Guest Lawrence Lessig
Media Advisory Free Culture Forum With special guest Lawrence Lessig For Immediate Release Date: March 23rd, 2006 Time: 11:30 am - 2:30pm Location: 450 Dodge Hall, Northeastern University For: Students, faculty, staff and the public Cost: Free Join us for a lively discussion on issues related to free culture including artistic freedom, the public domain, copyright, control of the media, open access, open source, free software, academic journals, institutional repositories, and consumer rights. Learn about organizations and projects such as Creative Commons and the Directory of Open Access Journals that support open dialogue and public access to creative works—from scientific, scholarly journals to websites, from photography to music, from literature to courseware. What is the free culture movement? A healthy, vibrant culture must continually be improved and refashioned by those who live in it. This requires a thriving public domain and cultural commons that anyone can build upon or reshape. To achieve this ideal, free culture seeks to promote open intellectual property policy and channel the power of technology toward appreciation, creation, and distribution of participatory culture. According to Lawrence Lessig, free culture is concerned with big media protecting the interests of big media over creators. Free culture supports and protects creators and innovators and seeks the transformation of culture through the free exchange of ideas. The Participants A panel of free culture advocates and experts and you! Professor Lawrence Lessig, Founder, Creative Commons & author of Free Culture Derek Slater, Activist, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nelson Pavlosky, Founder, FreeCulture.Org William Wakeling, Associate Dean, Northeastern University Libraries The Design A panel structure to facilitate high-level interaction between the audience and speakers that will enrich general understanding of free culture by means of free culture -- community collaboration and contribution.