[p2p-research] turbulence 5

[Michel Bauwens]

remarkable issue, really full of interesting essays

From: rodrigo nunes <rgnunes at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Networked Politics] Out Now: Turbulence 5,    'And now for
    something completely different?'
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OUT NOW!: TURBULENCE 5, ?AND NOW FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT??
Until recently, anyone who
suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ?quack? and a
?crank?, as lacking the most basic understanding of the functioning of a
?complex, globalised world?. The grip of ?orthodoxy? disqualified the idea,
and
many more, without the need even to offer a counter-argument.
And yet, in this time of
intersecting crises, when it seems like everything could, and should, have
changed, it paradoxically feels as though very little has. Individuals and
companies have hunkered down to try and ride out the crisis.
Nationalisations
and government spending have been used to prevent change, not initiate it.
Anger and protest have erupted around different aspects of the crises, but
no
common or consistent reaction has seemed able to cohere. We appear unable to
move on.
For many years, social
movements could meet and recognise one another on the *common ground* of
rejecting neoliberalism, society?s old *middle
ground* --those discourses and practices that defined the
centre of the political field. The crisis of the middle has meant a
crumbling
of the common.
And what now? Will
neoliberalism continue to stumble on without direction, zombie-like? Or, is
it
time for something completely different?
CONTENTS
Turbulence, ?Life in limbo??
Gifford Hartman, ?California in Crisis: Everything touched
by capital turns toxic?
Bini Adamczak and Anna Dost, ?What would it mean to lose? On
the history of actually-existing failure?
Frieder Otto Wolf and Tadzio Mueller, ?Green New Deal: Dead
end or pathway beyond capitalism??
p.m., ?It?s all about potatoes and computers: Recipes for
the cook-shops of the future?
Colectivo Situaciones, ?Disquiet in the impasse?
George Caffentzis, ??Everything must change so that
everything can stay the same?: Notes on Obama?s Energy Plan?
Walter Mignolo, ?The communal and the decolonial?
Massimo De Angelis, ?The tragedy of the capitalist commons?
Rebecca Solnit, ?Falling Together?
Rodrigo Nunes, ?What were you wrong about ten years ago??
ALSO FEATURING?
?a collection of texts, ten years after the protests against
the World Trade Organisation in Seattle, asking people from across the
global
movement, ?What were you wrong about ten years ago??, at t-10.
Contributors to the feature are: David
Solnit, Gustavo Esteva, Emir Sader, Phil McLeish, Rubia Salgado, Jo?o
PedroSt?dile, A CrimethInc ex-Worker,
Precarias a la Deriva, Trevor Ngwane, Marcela and Oscar Olivera, Heloisa
Primavera, Chris Carlsson, The Free Association, David Bleakney, Olivier de
Marcellus, Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso, John Clarke, Guy Taylor, Thomas
Seibert,
Dr Simon Lewis, Amador Fern?ndez-Savater.
The Issue is illustrated by the
photo series ?Flat Horizon? by Marcos Vilas Boas.
Turbulence: Ideas for Movement are:
David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Tadzio Mueller, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil,
Kay Summer, Ben Trott.
www.turbulence.org.uk
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