SPIDERS in the Doughnut
By Seoul Institute
This podcast is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather autonomy, interdependence, good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are P2P theorist and founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
SPIDERS in the DoughnutMar 06, 2021
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01:07:18
Alternative national accounting with Sebastian Berger and Jacques Richard
In this talk, Jacques Richard and Sebastian Berger introduce us to models of accounting, rooted in scientific knowledge regarding conditions for sustainability and satisfaction of basic human needs within specific social and natural environments and with available resources. Based on such knowledge, calculations in kind serve the purposes of normative collective decision-making for social reproduction (substantive rationality). The latter embeds and constrains firms’ calculations in exchange for decision-making via capitalist double-entry book-keeping (formal rationality).
Biographies
Sebastian Berger is Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. He received his PhD in political economy from the University of Bremen in Germany. He specializes in social and ecological economics and was awarded the 2020 Kapp Prize of the Association for Ecological Economics in Germany (Verein für Ökologische Ökonomie) for his book “The Social Costs of Neoliberalism” (2017). He also received the 2009 Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics for most promising young scholar. He has published and edited six books in English and German, and published over 50 articles in international journals and edited volumes.
Jacques Richard is Chartered Accountant and professor emeritus at Paris Dauphine University. He founded the “Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility” Master’s and Research Master’s program in 2004. He is a founding member of the French Accounting Association (AFC) and he is a member of the Accounting Standards Authority (ANC).
Links
Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon (2009). Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Routledge. (Book in English language)
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/CARE_Tri-Capital_Accounting_System
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Coop_des_Communs
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Biographies
Sebastian Berger is Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. He received his PhD in political economy from the University of Bremen in Germany. He specializes in social and ecological economics and was awarded the 2020 Kapp Prize of the Association for Ecological Economics in Germany (Verein für Ökologische Ökonomie) for his book “The Social Costs of Neoliberalism” (2017). He also received the 2009 Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics for most promising young scholar. He has published and edited six books in English and German, and published over 50 articles in international journals and edited volumes.
Jacques Richard is Chartered Accountant and professor emeritus at Paris Dauphine University. He founded the “Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility” Master’s and Research Master’s program in 2004. He is a founding member of the French Accounting Association (AFC) and he is a member of the Accounting Standards Authority (ANC).
Links
Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon (2009). Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Routledge. (Book in English language)
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/CARE_Tri-Capital_Accounting_System
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Coop_des_Communs
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 14, 202101:05:52
Community wealth building with Thomas M. Hanna and Marjorie Kelly
In this talk, Thomas and Marjorie walk us through the history, basic principles and theory of change behind Community Wealth Building (CWB) institutions and strategies. Further down the line, we discuss several related topics, including the generative economy, platform cooperatives and the UBI versus Universal Basic Services debate.
Excerpt from the paper:
"A key strategy of building [the] next economy is Community Wealth Building (CWB), a term
coined by The Democracy Collaborative in the mid-2000s to describe a new approach to community economic development. Community Wealth Building, which is now proliferating in the UK, the US, and elsewhere around the world, works to produce broadly shared economic prosperity, racial equity, and ecological sustainability through the reconfiguration of local institutions and economic strategies on the basis of greater democratic ownership, participation, and control. CWB includes institutions such as cooperative and public enterprises and banks, community land trusts and social housing, and community-based non-profit corporations, among many others – all of which have service to the public good at their core, rather than profit maximization. It also includes supportive strategies such as linking these new institutions to the procurement power of large public and non-profit “anchor” institutions (such as hospitals, universities, and governments); redirecting public subsidies, incentives, and tax breaks away from large capitalist corporations that can block or hinder their proliferation; and experimenting with hybrid forms and approaches."
Biographies
Thomas M. Hanna is Research Director at The Democracy Collaborative and Co-Director of the organization’s Theory, Policy, and Research Division. He joined TDC in 2010 as a research assistant to Gar Alperovitz. Thomas’ areas of expertise include democratic models of ownership and governance, particularly public and cooperative ownership. He has as published dozens of articles in popular and academic journals, and his recent publications include Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States (Manchester University Press, 2018), The Crisis Next Time: Planning for Public Ownership as an Alternative to Corporate Bank Bailouts (Next System Project, 2018) and, with Andrew Cumbers, Constructing the Democratic Public Enterprise (Democracy Collaborative, 2019).
Marjorie Kelly is a Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President at the Democracy Collaborative and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. She oversees a variety of research and consulting projects in inclusive economic development, employee ownership, and place-based impact investing, working with groups that include city economic development, foundations, and anchor institutions. She was co-founder and for twenty years president of Business Ethics magazine. Kelly is coauthor of The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few (2019, Berrett-Koehler Publishers), among other books.
Links
Democracy Collaborative
democracycollaborative.org/
New Economy Coalition
neweconomy.net/
California Public Banking Alliance
californiapublicbankingalliance.org/
Centre for Local Economic Strategies (UK)
cles.org.uk/
Transnational Institute
www.tni.org/en
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the...
Excerpt from the paper:
"A key strategy of building [the] next economy is Community Wealth Building (CWB), a term
coined by The Democracy Collaborative in the mid-2000s to describe a new approach to community economic development. Community Wealth Building, which is now proliferating in the UK, the US, and elsewhere around the world, works to produce broadly shared economic prosperity, racial equity, and ecological sustainability through the reconfiguration of local institutions and economic strategies on the basis of greater democratic ownership, participation, and control. CWB includes institutions such as cooperative and public enterprises and banks, community land trusts and social housing, and community-based non-profit corporations, among many others – all of which have service to the public good at their core, rather than profit maximization. It also includes supportive strategies such as linking these new institutions to the procurement power of large public and non-profit “anchor” institutions (such as hospitals, universities, and governments); redirecting public subsidies, incentives, and tax breaks away from large capitalist corporations that can block or hinder their proliferation; and experimenting with hybrid forms and approaches."
Biographies
Thomas M. Hanna is Research Director at The Democracy Collaborative and Co-Director of the organization’s Theory, Policy, and Research Division. He joined TDC in 2010 as a research assistant to Gar Alperovitz. Thomas’ areas of expertise include democratic models of ownership and governance, particularly public and cooperative ownership. He has as published dozens of articles in popular and academic journals, and his recent publications include Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States (Manchester University Press, 2018), The Crisis Next Time: Planning for Public Ownership as an Alternative to Corporate Bank Bailouts (Next System Project, 2018) and, with Andrew Cumbers, Constructing the Democratic Public Enterprise (Democracy Collaborative, 2019).
Marjorie Kelly is a Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President at the Democracy Collaborative and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. She oversees a variety of research and consulting projects in inclusive economic development, employee ownership, and place-based impact investing, working with groups that include city economic development, foundations, and anchor institutions. She was co-founder and for twenty years president of Business Ethics magazine. Kelly is coauthor of The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few (2019, Berrett-Koehler Publishers), among other books.
Links
Democracy Collaborative
democracycollaborative.org/
New Economy Coalition
neweconomy.net/
California Public Banking Alliance
californiapublicbankingalliance.org/
Centre for Local Economic Strategies (UK)
cles.org.uk/
Transnational Institute
www.tni.org/en
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the...
Mar 13, 202101:04:09
The job guarantee with Pavlina R. Tcherneva
In this talk, Pavlina R. Tcherneva helped us understand the Job Guarantee (JG) and associated policy proposals, diving into modern monetary theory, critiques of status quo arguments for continued unemployment, and the macroeconomic implications of the job guarantee system. She also helped us understand the timeliness of the job guarantee in light of the ecological crisis and recent discussions around the Green New Deal, as well as in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion includes reflections on the redefinition of work, including reproductive and regenerative activities, the future of project-based work, and the placement of the job guarantee within discussions on status quo growth and green growth versus degrowth or post-growth societal and political economic scenarios.
Biography
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, NY. She specializes in Modern Monetary Theory and public policy. Her recent book The Case for a Job Guarantee (2020) was selected as one of the Financial Times best economics books of 2020. It is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. Tcherneva has collaborated with policy makers from the US and abroad on designing and evaluating employment programs. Her early work assessed Argentina’s adoption of a large-scale job creation proposal she had developed with colleagues in the United States. She also worked with the Sanders 2016 Presidential campaign after her research on inequality had garnered national attention. Tcherneva frequently speaks at Central Banks on Modern Monetary Theory and macro-economic stabilization policies. Her current research evaluates the impact of unemployment on growth, income inequality, and public health. Tcherneva’s first book Full Employment and Price Stability (2004) is a rare collection of writings on employment and inflation by Nobel Prize winning economist William Vickrey, adapted for the modern day.
Links
jobguaranteenow.org/
democratizingwork.org/
global-summit.ilo.org/en/programme
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Biography
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, NY. She specializes in Modern Monetary Theory and public policy. Her recent book The Case for a Job Guarantee (2020) was selected as one of the Financial Times best economics books of 2020. It is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. Tcherneva has collaborated with policy makers from the US and abroad on designing and evaluating employment programs. Her early work assessed Argentina’s adoption of a large-scale job creation proposal she had developed with colleagues in the United States. She also worked with the Sanders 2016 Presidential campaign after her research on inequality had garnered national attention. Tcherneva frequently speaks at Central Banks on Modern Monetary Theory and macro-economic stabilization policies. Her current research evaluates the impact of unemployment on growth, income inequality, and public health. Tcherneva’s first book Full Employment and Price Stability (2004) is a rare collection of writings on employment and inflation by Nobel Prize winning economist William Vickrey, adapted for the modern day.
Links
jobguaranteenow.org/
democratizingwork.org/
global-summit.ilo.org/en/programme
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 12, 202150:40
Cosmolocal production with Jose Ramos
Cosmolocalism represents an emerging body of theory and practice. At its heart it envisions a planetary mutualization of knowledge, in which localities benefit from and contribute to all other localities through open design, open hardware, open medicine and open knowledge, all of which supports and accelerates human wellbeing and a transition to low eco-footprints / carbon economies, empowers communities as producers of what they need and generates livelihoods.
Biography
Jose M. Ramos is director of Action Foresight, a Melbourne-based business that focuses on bridging transformational futures with present-day action. He has taught foresight, public policy and social innovation at a number of universities, including at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Swinburne University of Technology, and the University of Sunshine Coast. He is senior consulting editor for the Journal of Future Studies, and has over 50 publications spanning economic, cultural and political change. He is the editor of the book The City as Commons: a Policy Reader (2016, Commons Transition Coalition) and editor of the upcoming book Planetary Cities.
Links
Commons Transition Coalition
www.facebook.com/groups/1106718069348108
The City as Commons: a Policy Reader
cdn1-blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/city-as-commons.pdf
Planetary Cities: Future Hacking the Urban
our-better-selves.medium.com/planetary-cities-future-hacking-the-urban-61eb45867751
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Biography
Jose M. Ramos is director of Action Foresight, a Melbourne-based business that focuses on bridging transformational futures with present-day action. He has taught foresight, public policy and social innovation at a number of universities, including at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Swinburne University of Technology, and the University of Sunshine Coast. He is senior consulting editor for the Journal of Future Studies, and has over 50 publications spanning economic, cultural and political change. He is the editor of the book The City as Commons: a Policy Reader (2016, Commons Transition Coalition) and editor of the upcoming book Planetary Cities.
Links
Commons Transition Coalition
www.facebook.com/groups/1106718069348108
The City as Commons: a Policy Reader
cdn1-blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/city-as-commons.pdf
Planetary Cities: Future Hacking the Urban
our-better-selves.medium.com/planetary-cities-future-hacking-the-urban-61eb45867751
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 11, 202151:26
Degrowth and hierarchy with Blair Fix
Humanity’s most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet’s boundaries — something that likely means doing without economic growth. How, then, can we create a non-growth society that is both just and equitable? Blair Fix attempts to address this question by looking at an aspect of sustainability (and equity) that is not often discussed: the growth of hierarchy. As societies consume more energy, they tend to become more hierarchical. At the same time, the growth of hierarchy also seems to be a key driver of income/resource inequality. In his essay, Blair Fix reviews the evidence for the joint relation between energy, hierarchy and inequality. He then speculates about what it implies for achieving a sustainable and equitable future.
To see the slide presentation which comprises the first half of this talk, see youtu.be/xOiH0itoJcE
Biography
Blair Fix is a political economist based in Toronto who is focused on the future of humanity, and how we can create economic theory that’s relevant to real-world problems. He is a multidisciplinary social scientist with a varied educational background, including engineering and jazz music. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto, with the thesis “Economics from the Top Down: Does Hierarchy Unify Economic Theory?” His first book, Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective, was published in 2015. Economists who have influenced Blair include Steve Keen, Herman Daly, E.K. Hunt, and David Korten. Biologists of influence include David Sloan Wilson. Blair is continuing his research independently (outside of academia) and welcomes support via Patreon. His Twitter handle is @blair_fix.
Links
Blair Fix
economicsfromthetopdown.com/
www.patreon.com/blairfix
www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHECa12PdRfkREaZvcHo2g
Capital as Power
capitalaspower.com/
Real-World Economics Review
www.paecon.net/PAEReview/
Degrowth
degrowth.org/ (International)
www.degrowth.info/en/ (International)
degrowthuk.org/ (UK)
www.postwachstum.de/ (Germany)
www.projet-decroissance.net/ (France)
ontgroei.degrowth.net/ (Netherlands)
8th International Degrowth Conference: Caring Communities for Radical Change, 24 – 28 August 2021
www.degrowth.info/en/the-hague-2021/
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
To see the slide presentation which comprises the first half of this talk, see youtu.be/xOiH0itoJcE
Biography
Blair Fix is a political economist based in Toronto who is focused on the future of humanity, and how we can create economic theory that’s relevant to real-world problems. He is a multidisciplinary social scientist with a varied educational background, including engineering and jazz music. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto, with the thesis “Economics from the Top Down: Does Hierarchy Unify Economic Theory?” His first book, Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective, was published in 2015. Economists who have influenced Blair include Steve Keen, Herman Daly, E.K. Hunt, and David Korten. Biologists of influence include David Sloan Wilson. Blair is continuing his research independently (outside of academia) and welcomes support via Patreon. His Twitter handle is @blair_fix.
Links
Blair Fix
economicsfromthetopdown.com/
www.patreon.com/blairfix
www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHECa12PdRfkREaZvcHo2g
Capital as Power
capitalaspower.com/
Real-World Economics Review
www.paecon.net/PAEReview/
Degrowth
degrowth.org/ (International)
www.degrowth.info/en/ (International)
degrowthuk.org/ (UK)
www.postwachstum.de/ (Germany)
www.projet-decroissance.net/ (France)
ontgroei.degrowth.net/ (Netherlands)
8th International Degrowth Conference: Caring Communities for Radical Change, 24 – 28 August 2021
www.degrowth.info/en/the-hague-2021/
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 10, 202101:13:46
Public money for social change with Mary Mellor
In this talk, Mary Mellor helped us understand critiques of neoliberal theories of money, as well as radical alternative thinking on the subject, making the case for the democratisation of money as a route to socially just and ecologically sustainable systems of human provisioning, oriented around sufficiency. In the discussion, we delved deeper into seeming cooptations of modern monetary theory by incumbent elites and hegemonic discourses, and on the concept, the model or indicator of Gross Domestic Provisioning, and universal basic services.
Note: In the talk, it is stated that Elon Musk has invested 150 billion into Bitcoin - the correct figure is 1.5 billion.
Biography
Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, where she was founding Chair of the University’s Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published extensively on alternative economics integrating socialist, feminist, and green perspectives. She is a founding member of the newly formed World Economics Association and is on the editorial board of several journals. Her books include Feminism and Ecology, The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource, and Debt or Democracy? Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice. She holds a PhD from Newcastle University.
Links
Conference on central banks in Berlin in October 2021 (link pending)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Note: In the talk, it is stated that Elon Musk has invested 150 billion into Bitcoin - the correct figure is 1.5 billion.
Biography
Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, where she was founding Chair of the University’s Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published extensively on alternative economics integrating socialist, feminist, and green perspectives. She is a founding member of the newly formed World Economics Association and is on the editorial board of several journals. Her books include Feminism and Ecology, The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource, and Debt or Democracy? Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice. She holds a PhD from Newcastle University.
Links
Conference on central banks in Berlin in October 2021 (link pending)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 09, 202152:42
Buen Vivir with Claudia Yadira Caballero
In this talk, we discuss Claudia’s paper introducing the notion and roots of Buen Vivir and her work at the Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network on prosumer communities and local social-ecological currency. Follow-up topics include hegemony, cooptation, and the need to go beyond both bottom-up and top-down thinking, towards a ‘mesoeconomics’.
From the paper:
“[...] In Ecuador they call it “good living”, or sumak kawsay (in Kichwa). In Bolivia they refer to “living well together”, or suma qamaña (in Aymara), and also sumak kawsay (in Quechua). There are similar (but not identical) notions among other indigenous peoples, such as the Mapuche (Chile), the Guarani (Bolivia and Paraguay), the Kunas (Panama), the Achuar (Ecuadorian Amazon), as well as in the Mayan (Guatemala and Southern Mexico), and in Oaxaca (Mexico). Of course, there are many visions related with the search for good living in African and Eastern people, too. It is worth citing the contributions of non-violent philosophies and a wide range of environmentalist and feminist theories around the world. Good living is part of a long pursuit for life alternatives forged in the heat of humankind’s struggles for emancipation and life.”
Biography
Claudia Yadira Caballero is an economist, sociologist and activist for solidarity economy and communitarian money. She is the founder of the Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network, coordinator of the Little School of the Network Tláloc and a member of Ecosystemic Dialogues.
Links
Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network
vida-digna.org.mx/multitrueke/ (https://vida-digna.org.mx/multitrueke/)
www.facebook.com/Comunidad-Multitrueke-Mixiuhca-1748320212147607/ (https://www.facebook.com/Comunidad-Multitrueke-Mixiuhca-1748320212147607/)
Ecomún
vida-digna.org.mx/compartir/ (https://vida-digna.org.mx/compartir/)
www.facebook.com/ecomunes/ (https://www.facebook.com/ecomunes/)
Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (October, 2020)
avispa.org/zapatista-delegations-will-visit-various-continents-from-europe-to-africa/ (https://avispa.org/zapatista-delegations-will-visit-various-continents-from-europe-to-africa/)
Mercado Popular (Uruguay)
mps.org.uy/ (https://mps.org.uy/)
www.facebook.com/mercadopopulardesubsistencia/ (https://www.facebook.com/mercadopopulardesubsistencia/)
Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (Colombia)
www.onic.org.co/en/onic-en/our-history (https://www.onic.org.co/en/onic-en/our-history)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
From the paper:
“[...] In Ecuador they call it “good living”, or sumak kawsay (in Kichwa). In Bolivia they refer to “living well together”, or suma qamaña (in Aymara), and also sumak kawsay (in Quechua). There are similar (but not identical) notions among other indigenous peoples, such as the Mapuche (Chile), the Guarani (Bolivia and Paraguay), the Kunas (Panama), the Achuar (Ecuadorian Amazon), as well as in the Mayan (Guatemala and Southern Mexico), and in Oaxaca (Mexico). Of course, there are many visions related with the search for good living in African and Eastern people, too. It is worth citing the contributions of non-violent philosophies and a wide range of environmentalist and feminist theories around the world. Good living is part of a long pursuit for life alternatives forged in the heat of humankind’s struggles for emancipation and life.”
Biography
Claudia Yadira Caballero is an economist, sociologist and activist for solidarity economy and communitarian money. She is the founder of the Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network, coordinator of the Little School of the Network Tláloc and a member of Ecosystemic Dialogues.
Links
Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network
vida-digna.org.mx/multitrueke/ (https://vida-digna.org.mx/multitrueke/)
www.facebook.com/Comunidad-Multitrueke-Mixiuhca-1748320212147607/ (https://www.facebook.com/Comunidad-Multitrueke-Mixiuhca-1748320212147607/)
Ecomún
vida-digna.org.mx/compartir/ (https://vida-digna.org.mx/compartir/)
www.facebook.com/ecomunes/ (https://www.facebook.com/ecomunes/)
Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (October, 2020)
avispa.org/zapatista-delegations-will-visit-various-continents-from-europe-to-africa/ (https://avispa.org/zapatista-delegations-will-visit-various-continents-from-europe-to-africa/)
Mercado Popular (Uruguay)
mps.org.uy/ (https://mps.org.uy/)
www.facebook.com/mercadopopulardesubsistencia/ (https://www.facebook.com/mercadopopulardesubsistencia/)
Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (Colombia)
www.onic.org.co/en/onic-en/our-history (https://www.onic.org.co/en/onic-en/our-history)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 08, 202151:14
Castoradis' rising tide of insignificancy with David Ames Curtis
In this talk, David Ames Curtis helps us in engaging with the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, imaginaries, his “project of autonomy”, and the rising tide of insignificancy, a key theme explored in depth in his paper, The Theme of “The Rising Tide of Insignificancy” in the Work of Cornelius Castoriadis. He also shares with us his experience in working with Castoriadis and reflections on the practice of translation.
Biography
David Ames Curtis, who studied philosophy at Harvard, is an American translator. He has worked as a civil-rights organizer, multiracial community organizer, and feminist labor activist. At Yale’s Afro-American Studies Department, he directed the Black Periodical Fiction Project under Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He also established the identity of the author of Our Nig (1859), the first novel published by an African-American woman and rediscovered in 1982 by Gates.
His translations appear in American, European, and Australian journals and books. Among the authors translated: Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and Jean-Jacques Lebel. He translated over a million words of Castoriadis’s writings during his lifetime. For each of his translations, Curtis writes a Translator’s Foreword—an introduction each time new and each time improvised both in form and content, in order to express, through a philosophical reflection on his own lived experience as a cultural worker, how he himself has been transformed by the inherently disturbing process of transforming the imaginary social meanings of one linguistic community into those of another.
Cofounder in 1990 of the Agora International association, Curtis coordinates the Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website’s Bibliographers/Webographers Collective and speaks of Castoriadis’s work at various conferences in Europe, North America and Asia. He is Administrator of the arts association Mon Oncle D’Amérique Productions and of the Appalachian Springs Foundation.
On Cornelius Castoriadis, from the Cornelius Castoriadis Agora International Website:
“Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), was a philosopher, political thinker, social critic, practicing psychoanalyst, renowned Sovietologist, and economist who cofounded the now legendary revolutionary journal and group Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-1967). S. ou B. developed a radical critique of Communism based upon the idea of workers' management and exerted a great influence upon the student-worker rebellion in Paris in May 1968. Until his death a decade ago, Castoriadis continued to write on politics, society, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the imagination from his distinctive perspective that was inspired by the "project of autonomy."
Links
Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website
www.agorainternational.org/ (http://www.agorainternational.org/)
Mon Oncle d'Amérique Productions
kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdac.html (http://kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdac.html)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Biography
David Ames Curtis, who studied philosophy at Harvard, is an American translator. He has worked as a civil-rights organizer, multiracial community organizer, and feminist labor activist. At Yale’s Afro-American Studies Department, he directed the Black Periodical Fiction Project under Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He also established the identity of the author of Our Nig (1859), the first novel published by an African-American woman and rediscovered in 1982 by Gates.
His translations appear in American, European, and Australian journals and books. Among the authors translated: Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and Jean-Jacques Lebel. He translated over a million words of Castoriadis’s writings during his lifetime. For each of his translations, Curtis writes a Translator’s Foreword—an introduction each time new and each time improvised both in form and content, in order to express, through a philosophical reflection on his own lived experience as a cultural worker, how he himself has been transformed by the inherently disturbing process of transforming the imaginary social meanings of one linguistic community into those of another.
Cofounder in 1990 of the Agora International association, Curtis coordinates the Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website’s Bibliographers/Webographers Collective and speaks of Castoriadis’s work at various conferences in Europe, North America and Asia. He is Administrator of the arts association Mon Oncle D’Amérique Productions and of the Appalachian Springs Foundation.
On Cornelius Castoriadis, from the Cornelius Castoriadis Agora International Website:
“Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), was a philosopher, political thinker, social critic, practicing psychoanalyst, renowned Sovietologist, and economist who cofounded the now legendary revolutionary journal and group Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-1967). S. ou B. developed a radical critique of Communism based upon the idea of workers' management and exerted a great influence upon the student-worker rebellion in Paris in May 1968. Until his death a decade ago, Castoriadis continued to write on politics, society, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the imagination from his distinctive perspective that was inspired by the "project of autonomy."
Links
Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website
www.agorainternational.org/ (http://www.agorainternational.org/)
Mon Oncle d'Amérique Productions
kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdac.html (http://kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdac.html)
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 07, 202101:20:16
Eco-friendly society with John Boswell Cobb Jr. and Rev. Dongwoo Lee
In this talk, John Boswell Cobb Jr. helped us understand the work of Alfred North Whitehead and process philosophy. We delved into the ideas of world loyalty, ecological civilization and community, as well as religious pluralism and interfaith dialogues. Rev. Dongwoo Lee helped us place these reflections in the Korean cultural, spiritual and economic contexts.
Biographies
John Boswell Cobb Jr. is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, the school of thought associated with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Cobb is the author of more than fifty books. In 2014, Cobb was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A unifying theme of Cobb's work is his emphasis on ecological interdependence—the idea that every part of the ecosystem is reliant on all the other parts.
Rev. Dongwoo Lee is a PhD student, assistant and long time collaborator of Dr. Cobb, as well as the director of the platform Ecological Civilization Korea (https://ecociv.org/).
Links
임동균. (2020). 코로나 시대의 시민사회. 철학과 현실, (), 163-180. (Korean language)
Rev. Dongwoo Lee’s article on The Next Economy: www.revdongwoo.com/2020/07/05/the-next-economy/
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Biographies
John Boswell Cobb Jr. is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, the school of thought associated with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Cobb is the author of more than fifty books. In 2014, Cobb was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A unifying theme of Cobb's work is his emphasis on ecological interdependence—the idea that every part of the ecosystem is reliant on all the other parts.
Rev. Dongwoo Lee is a PhD student, assistant and long time collaborator of Dr. Cobb, as well as the director of the platform Ecological Civilization Korea (https://ecociv.org/).
Links
임동균. (2020). 코로나 시대의 시민사회. 철학과 현실, (), 163-180. (Korean language)
Rev. Dongwoo Lee’s article on The Next Economy: www.revdongwoo.com/2020/07/05/the-next-economy/
About the SPIDERS Platform
This series of talks is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary change. Hosting these talks are founder of the P2P Foundation, Michel Bauwens, and Rok Kranjc, researcher, designer and translator in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and participatory futures.
Link to the paper series:
seoulhumanities.or.kr/sub03/e_result.html
Mar 06, 202101:07:18