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Some notes on value and crisis
On the newly created demonetization.it mailing list (see demonetize.it), a hot debate on money and value started. As it went along, I thought it would be helpful to differentiate separate notions of value. This might refine our understanding of both the crisis and the way out of it: demonetization. The linguistic field of value as it appears in everyday language could be differentiated into four distinct concepts which are interrelated:
1. value
2. exchange value
3. use value
4. price
Commodities — Designed for the Dump
Capitalism — designed for the dump 😉
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Berlin Water: Successful Referendum
An astonishing event happend yesterday in Berlin, Germany. There was a referendum on contract transparency of water privatization in Berlin, which has been won (details see below). The referendum demanded all contracts to be openly published, and if not, to be declared invalid. In order to understand the real meaning of this referendum, one has to know a bit of the background.
Open Letter to Dilma Rousseff and Ana de Hollanda
EN: After Dilma Rousseff has been elected as President of Brasil the new Ministry of Culture, Ana de Hollanda, withdrew from supporting free culture, which had been given by the state for eight years. Now, people from brasilian civil society wrote an Open Letter (English by Volker Grassmuck) asking for continuing cooperation against restrictions of creativity, openness and net neutrality. — Please sign!
[Update] Here is the international support letter, please sign too 🙂
[Update] Some backgrounds on Ana de Hollanda’s antifree policy
DE: Nachdem Dilma Rousseff als Präsidentin von Brasilien gewählt wurde, zog sich die neue Kulturministerin Ana de Hollanda von der Unterstützung der Freien Kultur zurück, die seit acht Jahren vom Staat geleistet wurde. Nun haben Menschen aus der Zivilgesellschaft einen offenen Brief (englisch von Volker Grassmuck) mit der Aufforderung geschrieben, die Kooperation gegen Einschränkungen von Kreativität, Offenheit und Netzneutralität fortzusetzen. — Bitte unterschreiben!
[Update] Hier ist der internationale Unterstützungsbrief, bitte auch unterschreiben 🙂
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Egypt: Footage and Photos under CC
The Qatar based televison network Al Jazeera released footages (raw film material) and photos (at their Flickr account) from the Egypt Riots under Creative Commons Attribution License (as long the logo remains intact in the remix). Using CC Al Jazeera is ahead compared to other network stations glued to proprietary formats. Although Egypt information minister shuted down Al Jazerra’s office in Cairo, Al Jazeera announced that »it will continue its in-depth and comprehensive reporting on the events unfolding in Egypt«. Here you’ll find an emotional video remix (from other sources) and informations on alternative internet access capabilities in Egypt. [via]
The End of Money
Many commoners are too shy to talk about ending the monetary system. But some do. Kéllia Ramares does. She asks a simple question: »Why must we pay to live on the planet we’re born on?«. Watch her video explaining her vision.
Culture Flatrate?
EN (DE unten) Felix Stadler writes:
»Free Culture, in its most basic notion, is about the resources and rights available to every individual to make a contribution of his or her choosing to culture (a distributed system of meaning) and to communicate the activities to anybody he or she wishes to. It is a transformative view of culture were the input and output of the productive process are not categorically distinct, implying that existing cultural artifacts and processes are part of the resources available to everyone.
Musopen — Free Public Domain Classical Music
Do you like classical music? Then Musopen is your place to go. There you’ll find concert recordings of classical music, which had been given to the public domain, and music sheets too. Great project!
For chorals see also: Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)
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