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Turbulence 4 online now

category international | anti-capitalism | other press author Tuesday July 22, 2008 13:03author by Paul Bowman - wsm (pers. cap.)

The Turbulence crew who put together the best read at last year's G8 blockade in Heiligendamm are back with another thought-provoking and inspiring read. PDF online now.

For those of you who've already come across previous issues of Turbulence, no introduction is necessary. For the rest of you, the Turbulence collective arose out of the network of writer-activists that congealed around the Free Association projects and books reflecting on previous counter-Summit mobilisations (Evian, Genoa, Stirling, etc.). The political perspectives are eclectic and diverse but gravitate around post-autonomist and neo-libertarian communist orientations. But rather than wade through fumbling attempts to summarise or delineate their politics, the best thing is to just read them and make up your own mind. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to mention the killer graphic design standards...

This issue's content list:

Today I see the future
Turbulence

1968 and doors to new worlds
John Holloway

Starvation politics from ancient Egypt to the present
George Caffentzis

Six impossible things before breakfast
The Free Association

Global capitalism: futures and options
Christian Frings

The measure of a monster: capital, class, competition and finance
David Harvie

Et tu Bertinotti?
Sandro Mezzadra with Keir Milburn & Ben Trott

This is not my first apocalypse
Fabian Frenzel & Octavia Raitt

‘There is no scope for futurology; history will decide’ Félix Guattari on molecular revolution
Félix Guattari, Suely Rolnik with Rodrigo Nunes & Ben Trott

The movement is dead, long live the movement!
Tadzio Müller

Network organisation for the 21st century
Harry Halpin & Kay Summer

Related Link: http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/

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author by dunkpublication date Fri Jul 25, 2008 13:55author email d.crowley at ecointelligentgrowth dot netauthor address BCNauthor phone



thanks for link paul

particularly liked the article:
Network Politics for the 21st Century by Harry Halpin and Kay Summer
http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/network-organisat...tury/

as something to add to that, here a nice image: BCN network
of what was a point in time in Barcelona and part of its social movements, art and architecture groups, actions..... http://straddle3.net/

its from a nodal point / super HUB called straddle 3, they no longer exist in the physical world, that i know of anyway, but their digi hub still acts as a super connector to much things, in all worlds...

I came accross much network and systems theory from Fritjof Capra in his book:
The Hidden Connections —Integrating the Biological, Cognitive and Social Dimensions of Life into a Science of Sustainability

read parts online here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385494718/ref=sib_dp_p...-link

heres a youtube vid from him:
Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_MDRI-Q76o

some reviews of the book
http://www.blackstarreview.com/rev-0120.html
http://www.ecotecture.com/library_eco/interviews/capra1....html

get online: http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Connections-Integrating-Bi...94718

adeu from BCN

nodes, hubs, networks.....BCN network :: social movements, art and architecture groups, actions.....
nodes, hubs, networks.....BCN network :: social movements, art and architecture groups, actions.....

delicious tags from STRADDLE 3 @ bcn
delicious tags from STRADDLE 3 @ bcn



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