In Pursuit of Safer Highs: Harm Reduction with DanceSafe’s Rachel Clark
Since at least prohibition, anxiety has governed America’s disastrous relationship with substance use. As the 20th century increasingly saw anti-drug sentiment used to fuel moral crusades from “saving the children” to quashing perceived threats against whiteness, “Just Say No” became the mantra of a culture that neither understood addiction nor possessed the language to interrogate […]
You can also just hire a private chef
Vacations should be fun, hassle-free, and memorable that thinking about the food that you are going to have should never add a single stress to the whole experience. Hiring a personal chef for a vacation is not hard, but there are some of the things that y…
Download the Peeragogy Handbook
The Peeragogy Handbook, spearheaded by Howard Rheingold (author of Smart Mobs), is the world’s first to present a synthesis of techniques for collaborative learning and collaborative work.
Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy
A new model
of power that may
be an answer to the contemporary crisis of democracy is evolving out of new social practices. What can peer production teach us about the society of the
future?
The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010
This year, the crop of books on Peer-to-Peer related themes has been so overwhelming that I find it impossible to limit myself to the classic list of just ten books. I therefore have organized the list as a series of 10 clustered themes.
The Peer to Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy
Our political economy
is based on a mistake – that
natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for cultural resources, destroys the biosphere, and hampers a free culture. In a P2P-based society,
this situation is reversed.
