Commonspoly, hacking the monopoly
Hi all! We was made a board game to promote the commons and the cooperation, it's called Commonspoly. Commonspoly was launched as a proposal for a working group during the 17th ZEMOS98 festival hackcamp. Participants had to develop a brand new set of rules for an alternative, contrast to the Monopoly board game in just three days. Later on, in May 2015, an exhibition of the game was hosted by the Commons Fest in Athens, presented by Vassilis Chryssos and Carmen Lozano. This prototype game was played a few times, resulting in a notable improvement in its rules.Commonspoly is a free licensed board game, with which to reflect and playfully experiment with the possibilities and limits of the commons as a critical discourse towards relevant changes in our societies. This board game is an ideal device to introduce commons theories and cooperative ways of living together, in a fun and instructive way. It’s especially great for boring, rainy afternoons! Commonspoly is also an attempt to correct a common misconception that has lasted for more than a century. Back in 1904, Elizabeth Magie patented The Landlord’s Game, a board game designed to highlight the dangerous effects of monopolies. Years later, she sold the patent to Parker Brothers company, who turned the game into the Monopoly we know today: a board game that celebrates the pursuit of the accumulation of huge personal wealth and the bankruptcy of anyone but yourself. Commonspoly turns modern Monopoly on its head and returns to the basic principle of the traditional game; to imagine a viable world based on cooperation instead of competition. However, not everything is perfect. You will have to fight against The Speculators. In this game, we are running against time! And the help of every player is needed and welcomed, because there is only one way to win: helping each other. Let’s get down to business. We have urban, health, environmental and intangible common goods to preserve! You can order delivery of your Commonspoly game on this website www.commonspoly.cc. However, the open source philosophy of the project is to also provide the possibility to print it at home for free. You can download all the printable files from https://commonspoly.cc/#ancla-download. If you are interested in the editable files, please write us on he...@commonspoly.cc All the best! -- ZEMOS98 | Mediating for social change www.zemos98.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
"Deep Dish had not met the challenge of transitioning from public access TV to newer technologies."
DEEP DISH TV TO DISSOLVE BY END OF 2018 Archives Preserved for Generations to Come New York, NY, December, 2018 — The Board of Trustees of Deep Dish TV voted unanimously last May to dissolve the organization. The process is underway and should be completed by the end of the year. After much consideration and years of conversations with community members and producers, as well as board meetings that addressed the sustainability and viability of the organization, it was concluded that Deep Dish had not met the challenge of transitioning from public access TV to newer technologies. Archival material in the print, film, and digital mediums have found permanent homes where it will be available to the public. The entire physical archive will be housed at Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The digital catalog and video hosting sites (Vimeo, YouTube, and Kanopy) will be inherited and maintained by Paper Tiger TV. Thanks to the contributions of former staff members, producers, videographers, web designers, donors and others, the legacy of Deep Dish will continue to benefit present and future generations of community activists, journalists, media makers, students, and scholars. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
ACT 5: THIS TIME IT’S INTERGALACTIC | A call out from the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests)
ACT 5: THIS TIME IT’S INTERGALACTIC | A call out from the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests), for solidarity actions everywhere! On Saturday the 15th of December 2018. It began as anger against neoliberal climate policies, a revolt against unfair petrol taxes that pass on the cost to working people rather than the rich and the very multinationals most responsible for polluting our planet. Now four weeks later, it has become a popular uprising for dignity, a rebellion against the elite and their world, a cry for equality. It has evolved into a powerful refusal of representation, of spokespeople, political parties and unions. We have all been overtaken by what has been happening, everyone has become more than themselves; because we are impossible to define, the only code we have is a color code, all the other codes are broken. We are too diverse and decentralized to be called a movement, too different to be categorized, let’s simply say we are an uprising! Some in Europe have tried to turn this into an emblem of ideas from the extreme right, attempting to instrumentalize our heterogeneity..The yellow vests were at first a piece of road safety equipment, now it becomes an unprecedented event which opens up the fault line that charts our future, a chasm we must bridge, between social and environmental justice. It invites us all to make a choice between the political classes and the people, between closing borders and opening possibilities, between despair and hope. https://snuproject.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/act-5-this-time-its-intergalactic-a-call-out-from-the-gilets-jaunes-yellow-vests-for-solidarity-actions-everywhere/ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
