Howard Silverman

The dynamics of purposeful change: a model ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss3/art…

@EthForestDAO @tmccormick would love to hear your thoughts re:housing

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐀𝐎 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 (July 15th - August 31st) is an 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 series. We are actively looking for contributors to talk about their work and/or lead group discussions under the following themes:

@caseorganic @lai @lai look forward to connecting! Thx @caseorganic

@S4Pattern My good friend @lai will be in PDX soon! I'd love for you to meet each other. You're two of my very favorite people.

@bonnittaroy #n6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">enacting-cybernetics.org/articles/10.58…

The former is often the fate of the artist; the later, the final destination for the activist.

There is, in each person’s experience, an active point of view, which means that the world that ensues is being directed by the self, by the person’s perceptual presence. Therefore the kind of self that one is, is important not as a mere witness, but as an instigator of reality.

@awarenesss Yes -- and proof-of-life is in caring for life (imho), timebanking care, rather than neoliberalizing living outcomes.

Proof-of-work and Proof-of-stake Crypto is so passe. Give me proof-of-shit crypto and I will buy some. It will be based on how much shit you turn into compost. I will also take proof-of-life crypto which is based on the rate of growth of trees on my land

Currencies as Cybernetic Objects: A Conversation co-led with @S4Pattern and featuring @NicoleLazzaro @zippy314 and Sid. #openaccess article with @cybsoc doi.org/10.58695/ec.2

@matthewstoller Hofstadter & Sander's Surfaces and Essences

Yesterday I was in an elevator that stopped at a bunch of floors and someone said ‘looks like we got the local.’ Then at the airport the TSA security guy gave some confusing instructions and said ‘come on people this isn’t rocket surgery!’

@mokriegleder @SebastjanVoros reality = community (Foerster 1973)

@pdxregencommons promise theory, eg: youtube.com/watch?v=aMNN8Z…

Thinking about holochain, #CoFi & commons oriented production at BridgeSpace. Call it the Urban Resilience stack. What are we missing?

Making diagrams of the planning processes proposed in models for Democratically Planned Economies has been a helpful practice in solidifying my understanding of them. A roundup of 3 prints from 3 different models: Parecon, Towards a New Socialism, and Negotiated Coordination 🧵

@P2P_Foundation In keeping with the ideological sparseness that leaves room for a variety of worldviews that share the goals of resilience and regeneration, we hold a single value: the protection and amplification of diversity and difference. This value is strategic as well as ideological;

Fantastic #Anticipation22 demo of Investing in Futures game: negotiating/navigating completely new worlds. investinginfutures.world

214 people in four months, moved into housing. Landlords stepping up. Getting housed in weeks as opposed to years. THESE are the kind of programs we need to scale up! Good uses of taxpayer dollars! oregonlive.com/portland/2022/…

Great interview

💻Cybernetics for the 21st Century💻 (Oct-Dec 2022) with: Andrew Pickering, Katherine Hayles, Brunella Antomarini, Slava Gerovitch, David Maulén de los Reyes, Michal Krzykawski, Mathieu Triclot, Daisuke Harashima. Concept: Yuk Hui, Curation: Jianru Wu philosophyandtechnology.network/6140/lectures-…

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Thomas Swann about his book "Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics"(@BrisUniPress). Full episode here: futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/… #FutureHistoriesInternational

@mamaazure Brilliant -- love this wheel! Thanks so much!

I really enjoyed this RSD conversation! Thanks for the invitation!

"My thesis is that paradox also has important morphogenetic dimensions and might be a stimulus, if not the stimulus, for human cognitive growth and for social-organizational development including the destruction of the orthodox."

We're happy to be co-sponsoring "On Wimmin's Land" with @uolibraries & @uoregondesign. Scholars, archivists & artists will explore the lesbian separatist settlements that arose in southern Oregon in the 1970s. October 12, in-person & live-streamed: calendar.uoregon.edu/event/on_wimmi…

Please join in our event tomorrow at @pnca: "Design for Social Impact: A Panel-based Discussion." eventbrite.com/e/design-for-s…

I have fucks to give but not about everything all of the time. I want to go through life and not under/over/around. I don't want to be a hero nor fit squarely into the box. I want to transmute sacred cows. I want to be one player in a massive swarm. Gentle. Bold. Play.