Hackers tribes

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Community building
Status	Planning
Niche	Community
Purpose	World domination

Hackers Tribes

About hackers in general

• http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/26/the-war-on-hackers/

(related projects, with links: Internet_Governance_and_hackers,

Why are hackerspaces like tribes?

"... Internet’s spirit of permissionless innovation, open entry, diversity and competition." http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/20/plans-for-internet-commission-on-internet-cooperation-revealed/

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

Why are tribes important?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B

Becha's Talks and Presentations

• September 2013, (h)ACTA Open Day, Amsterdam Hackerspace Technologia Incognita (slides to be added later)

• October 2013, RIPE67, synopses for the undelivered talk Hackers_tribes:42_questions

Beyond Civilization

• http://www.derrickjensen.org/work/books-dvds-cds/

• Daniel Quinn

• Guy McPhearson

Culture

Quotes on Sharing, spirituality, Culture or "the new way of thinking" Hackers_tribes_quotes_culture

Art

• "We are the Vogons" (spoof of "We are the robots" by Kraftwerk & HHGttG"

Animations

• MAN http://www.youtube.com/embed/WfGMYdalClU

(and unrelated, but worth it: http://stevecutts.com )

• There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

• Michael Pollan's Food Rules vimeo.com Based on Michael Pollan's talk "Food Rules" given at the RSA, this animation was created in the context of the RSA/Nominet Trust film competition. Using a mixture…

http://vimeo.com/35444471

• http://vimeo.com/35554292 take nothing for granted

Video & documentaties

• "There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside, first." - Jim Morrison // The sustainable Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9pDfxdWT2js#t=24

• What a way to go - LIfe at the end of the empire

http://www.youtube.com/embed/h2em1x2j9-o?rel=0

Music

• Pearl Jam: Yield , album inspired by Ishamel (Daniel Quinn)

Thrivability as a criticism to sustainability

• http://p2pfoundation.net/Thrivability

Problems

• Peak Oil
• Climate change
• Overpopulation
• Over-Consumption

Limits to Growth

• video from '69 by albert bartlett, on laws of sustainability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

• and transcript

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_transcript_english.html

• quote:

       "You cannot sustain population growth and / or growth in the                  
       rates of consumption of resources."
                                                                                                                                                                                         

• quote

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is                                                            
our inability to understand the exponential function."                               

• http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-15/albert-bartlett-on-message-about-exponential-growth-to-the-end

• "There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

• There is no unlimited happiness http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-myth-of-immaterial-growth-and-infinite-happiness/2013/10/15

Climate

• http://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/

• http://climate.diplomacy.edu

• [Going beyond two degrees? The risks and opportunities of alternative options] // [PDF]

• Climate Scientists calling for Revolt & Revolution, Naomi Klein http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

the revolutionary nature of climate science http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

"our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability."

challenging currents economic paradigm is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe

"ditching of this cruel system is no longer a matter of mere ideological preference but rather one of species-wide existential necessity"


"we have an economic system that fetishises GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences"


"Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony"


Near Term Extinction

• Has runaway greenhouse guaranteed near-term extinction? https://program.ohm2013.org/event/180.html

• http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/

• http://www.vice.com/read/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon

Partial Solutions

• Low-Carbon Society
  • International research network http://lcs-rnet.org
  • http://2050.nies.go.jp/index.html
  • http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14693062.2012.738016

• [Climate policies in a changing world context: is a paradigm shift needed?]

• http://www.alternet.org/activism/people-across-america-are-waking-effects-disaster-capitalism-much-better-way-life-possible?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark (alternatives to Disaster Capitalism & to economic, energy, environment crisis) 26 Sep 2013

• http://www.popularresistance.org/ten-things-you-can-do-to-democratize-the-economy/

• Cooperation in a village in Serbia: http://afflatusnews.com/Serbia/1/Svi_stanovnici_jednog_sela_u_Banatu_su_se_udružili_da_bi_svi_ziveli_bolje

• Marinaleda : A Terra de Todos - The Land of Utopia (Cooperative / Utopian village in Spain) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlqT4NPM9E

• http://opensourceecology.org The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. - See more at: http://opensourceecology.org/#sthash.0FWPjs5Y.dpuf

• President of Uruguay September 2013 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45989&Cr=general+debate&Cr1#.UnTdeBZEB3Y // http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/25/mujica-blasted-consumerism-and-called-for-political-heads-to-rule-the-globalized-world // http://thewanderlife.com/human-happiness-and-the-environment-address-by-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-at-rio-20-summit/ // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-9XvcoHXo#t=54 //

• Sweden : http://www.slate.com/articles/business/billion_to_one/2013/10/sweden_s_billionaires_they_have_more_per_capita_than_the_united_states.html

Practical Survival

• http://yearzerosurvival.com

• Self Building http://selfbb.nl

Russel Brand

• "Before we change the world, we need to change the way we think." http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/russell-brand-on-revolution

• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/25/russell-brand-crisis-civilisation-what-now

• http://www.channel4.com/news/russell-brand-jeremy-paxman-anti-capitalist-revolution-bbc

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk Paxman vs Brand // With transcript! http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/10/24/viva-brandanista/

• http://gawker.com/russell-brand-may-have-started-a-revolution-last-night-1451318185

• http://rt.com/news/russell-brand-bbc-revolutionary-interview-701/

• http://roarmag.org/2013/10/russell-brand-resonance-revolution/

Science

IPCC 5th report

• Visualization: http://dev.informationisbeautiful.net/?attachment_id=6268 / http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/ / http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/IIB_Gigatons_CO2_PDF.zip

• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/27/2681861/15-things-ipcc-report/

• 27 sept 2013 the 5th IPCC report got published, and results from their year study are summarized :

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/ar5_wg1_headlines.pdf http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/communication/news-archive/2013/ipcc-report-released-today-stockholm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929360.200-climate-science-why-the-world-wont-listen.html#.UkVjjKw4_T0 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-report-ar5-live-coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615

Misc

• The 6th collapse (briefly covering the five collapses) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/guest-post-sixth-stage-collapse

• http://www.wildfoodschool.co.uk/ && http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/the-fast-wild-food-cookbook.html?utm_source=GraphicMail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=NewsletterLink&utm_campaign=gs-sept-2013.html&utm_content=

• http://www.tog.ie/2013/10/dublin-hacks-disaster-smart-cities/

• UN urges humans to become vegans http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

• https://micromag.evidenceandinfluence.org/?issue=environment-and-justice

• Noam Chomski, old video about Peak Oil etc (one of many) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCTTKvNkic

• http://roarmag.org/2013/10/crisis-representation-autonomy-self/

To overcome the crisis of democracy and reaffirm our autonomy, we first of all need to liberate our empty self from mindless consumerism and conformity.

Representation places the source of legitimacy outside of oneself. Whether it is a corporate brand name, political party, an ideology or slogan, one looks for objects of representation through which something inside can be projected out onto the world.

Slowly Boiling Frog (just like in "the story of B")

People are moving more and more outside of electoral politics. A call is arising for a new type of governance, for a real democracy where each person participates directly and manifests their own voice. This is a political act, but it is also much more. The current crisis of democracy is a crisis of representation. Images that perpetuate illusions about ourselves can no longer sustain our humanity.