Degovernancing: to reduce the need for governance in a situation, frequently by intentional structural change. To buy each child their own version of a toy to reduce fights about sharing is an example of degovernancing. Relevant background material matrix government (highly relevant), infrastructure for anarchists and the Leashless Manifesto Why is this necessary? The strategic [...]
Read more →Isn’t that magnificent? Nice work guys.
Read more →I moved to Cloughjordan, Ireland, to help with an ecovillage project here. You can find links and the start of a resource map at that link. There’s also this excellent map. Click the picture, then click “SATELLITE” on the tab which opens, and you can click on the houses and land features to see pictures. [...]
Read more →Mark Charmer of Akvo and I discussing the next step in the evolution of the use video and the internet for development. We discuss the work developing world oriented artists like MIA and Die Antwoord and speculate that we need friendly MTV VJ-style hosts to make the context around the direct video reporting from development [...]
Read more →I go feral fast. That wouldn’t surprise anybody who really knows me, but the years I spent on the road in America in my twenties aren’t easy to see, here in the last year of my thirties. It’s 2011, and I’m sitting beside a cheap tent in a big, dark wood surrounded on all sides [...]
Read more →These are two pieces of documentation I’ve done for organizations which wanted to use video to draw communities together into collective action. The first is the Akvo Video Strategy (pdf) and supporting technical doc which from two years ago, February 2009. These two documents together express a vision of how to use video to draw [...]
Read more →11 meg compressed audio of mb 12 minutes of chatter and music from my new local pub. 400 mb 24/96 .WAV file of 12 minutes of chatter and music from my new local pub. You’ll need headphones to make any sense of what’s going on at all, it was a very loud and chaotic aural [...]
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