An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
The majority of #mainstreaming #openweb tech projects have the assumption that human nature is a fixed thing and that every project has to be built in reaction to the 40 years of neo-liberal #deathcult that we all live in now as this is the “only” human nature visible. They completely miss/ignorer the social nature of … Continue reading Next step in the #OMN
For the social change we need to survive as a society and flourish as a species we need to take some time to go back to basics All economic systems are based a unspoken idea of what it is to be human. To be clear, if you do not have an understanding of this you … Continue reading For the social change we need
This is a space for taking what the mainstreaming say and making it alternative. The #OMN is a call to action to rethink our economic and social systems, embracing open, collaborative, and sustainable practices. It’s about recognizing the ideological forces at play and consciously choosing to build new systems based on different values. The path … Continue reading About
Our current online tools (for example Facebook) were built out from the worst parts of human nature. The challenge facing us is can we build out tools from the best part of human nature (an example would be the OMN) I think this is a nice challenge to have. Its interesting to think about what … Continue reading Why do I call Facebook a dotcon
Published Date 2/8/16 5:21 PM At the end of the 20th century we had a forceful right wing ideological push to reshape western society’s. The Thatcher/Ragion years started the push to create a world were “There’s no such thing as society”, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared “There are individual men and women and … Continue reading There is no such thing as society
Published Date 3/28/13 3:42 PM This is a NOTES for a DRAFT of a long post on history of progressive media over the last 25 years. I have been working on subjects of technology and social change for over 20 years. It all started while I was at university and coming up to my final … Continue reading History of progressive media over the last 25 years
The #openweb holds a quiet kind of power – messy, distributed, human. But I keep wondering: are people now too afraid to use that power? The sad truth is, many always were. Power isn’t something most of us are raised to understand, let alone wield collectively. For decades, we’ve been taught to outsource it, to … Continue reading The future depends on us using the power we still have
We live inside and meany of us under a system for 200 years, global capitalism, where value is determined not by care, connection, or any collective well-being, but by market logic. If something is not valued in that narrow logic, it is treated as waste. This means that if you don’t actively value the alternatives … Continue reading The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them
This is touching on the event as had to leave early. I was recently at a talk from the Oxford University series, “The Philosophers Talking About AI”. There were some underlying themes that are deeply relevant to how we think about privacy, information, and our current techno-social mess. Action vs. Paralysis, the talk opens with … Continue reading The Philosophers Talking About AI: Context, Flow, and the #geekproblem
Compost, not illusions, is a first step – A radical look at “light green” tech – For a second step we need a useful compost layer for growing native projects, like the #OMN. What we currently have in most so-called “green technology” promoted through #mainstreaming and #fashernista narratives is not ecological in substance – it’s … Continue reading What we need is useful compost layer’s for growing native projects
Horizontal people always get fucked over by vertical people. This is normal, why? Because horizontals give away power to build social fabric, while verticals hoard and concentrate power to extract and dominate. Every. Single. Time. And the only thing that makes horizontals work, in the face of such mess making, is shared worldview, which we … Continue reading Don’t be a prat, please try and recognize the roots of issues
The opening moment of the workshop on Methodological Strategies for Real-Life Theorising was unintentionally profound. A story of a seagull crieing above the glass façade of the Blavatnik School of Government – a building that stands as a temple to the #deathcult that shaped our lives for the last 40 years of #neoliberal change. In … Continue reading The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline