Vasilis Kostakis, Christos Giotitsas (eds.): Beyond the State and the Market: The Peer Perspetive (2014) [Greek]
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, commons, economics, governance, networks, p2p

«Η ιστορία τελείωσε», διαλαλούν μερικοί. Άραγε υπάρχει κάτι άλλο να αντιταχθεί στο παρόν καπιταλιστικό σύστημα και την οικονομία της «ελεύθερης» αγοράς;
Καθώς τα κηρύγματα περί αέναης οικονομικής ανάπτυξης έχουν οδηγήσει σε βαθιά περιβαλλοντική κρίση, υπάρχει βιώσιμη εναλλακτική που να κατανοεί το πεπερασμένο των φυσικών πόρων; Υπάρχει άλλος τρόπος κοινωνικής οργάνωσης που να συνειδητοποιεί το κοινωνικό όφελος που προκύπτει από το διαμοιρασμό της πληροφορίας, του πολιτισμού και της γνώσης;
Αν ο καπιταλισμός γεννήθηκε μέσα στο φεουδαρχικό σύστημα για να το υπερβεί στη συνέχεια, κατά παρόμοιο τρόπο υπάρχουν ενδείξεις για σπόρους ενός νέου παραδείγματος στη σημερινή συγκυρία;
A volume on the peer-to-peer theory and the commons with texts by the scholars and activists Michel Bauwens, David Bollier, Antonis Broumas, George Dafermos, Christos Giotitsas, Silke Hefric, Vasilis Kostakis, Jakob Rigi, Graham Seaman, Johan Söderberg and Raul Victor.
Πέρα από το κράτος και την αγορά: Η ομότιμη προοπτική
Publisher Voreiodytikes Publications, May 2014
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 GR License
144 pages
W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.): Critical Terms for Media Studies (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, autopoiesis, body, communication, cybernetics, image, information theory, language, law, mass media, media, media studies, media theory, memory, networks, posthuman, software, technology, writing

“Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this collection of essays explores critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. The essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.”
Contributors: Johanna Drucker (Art), Bernadette Wegenstein (Body), Bill Brown (Materiality), Bernard Stiegler (Memory), Caroline Jones (Senses), Eugene Thacker (Biomedia), Bruce Clarke (Communication, Information), N. Katherine Hayles (Cybernetics), Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Hardware / Software / Wetware), John Johnston (Technology), David Graeber (Exchange), Cary Wolfe (Language), Peter Goodrich (Law), John Durham Peters (Mass Media), Alexander R. Galloway (Networks), David Wellbery (Systems), Lydia H. Liu (Writing), and W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen (Image, Time and Space, New Media).
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN 0226532666, 9780226532660
376 pages
Felix Stalder: Digital Solidarity (2013) [English, German]
Filed under book | Tags: · commons, networks, p2p, politics, social movements, swarm, technology, theory

“Felix Stalder’s extended essay, Digital Solidarity, responds to the wave of new forms of networked organisation emerging from and colliding with the global economic crisis of 2008. Across the globe, voluntary association, participatory decision-making and the sharing of resources, all widely adopted 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.”
Publisher Mute and Post-Media Lab, Leuphana University, December 2013
Anti Copyright
ISBN 1906496927, 9781906496920
68 pages
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Digital Solidarity (English, 2013)
Digitale Solidarität (German, 2014, added on 2017-6-4)