Category: Writing
Collective Intelligence Decidim Style #1 :: Start Here
Call and Response1
A long time ago, back in the last millennium, I remember sending out calls on email lists. And while I waited for responses to come back, I could visualise the calls going out into a vast assembled body of communication networks and peoples, all with their own collectives and networks in turn (offline as well as online). And responses would always come back, as reliable as an echo, but not an echo, as each reply would be unique and distinctive, coming live and afresh from the senders.
… Collective Intelligence Decidim Style #1 :: Start HerePlan de trabajo [es]
Collective Intelligence PhD online! [en/es]
Very happy to finally share these posts about my Collective Intelligence PhD:
General Argument: Decidim is a prototype for public-commons participatory democracy, forming part of a live ecosystem of collective intelligences with transformative impacts.
Argument 1: Decidim is part of a live ecosystem of interconnected collective intelligences.
Argument 3: Decidim has transformative impacts.
[Versión en castellano casi lista] Argumento: Decidim es un prototipo de democracia participativa público-común, que forma parte de un ecosistema vivo de inteligencias colectivas interconectadas, con impactos transformadores
Videos:
… Collective Intelligence PhD online! [en/es]Protected: PhD Argumento Intro [es]
Lockdown Voices #2. Thank u MP T
Dear T, you are my Member of the people’s Parliament: MP T
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
(MP T!)
Lockdown Voices #1. Thank u F, L + D
During lockdown
When the buck stopped with me every second of every minute of every day
You will never know how much your voices
Kept me afloat
“Hallo C, I’m calling to get your food delivery together, is it a good time?”
F: your voice is so melodious, so calm, so velvety, I smiled and relaxed every time I heard you on the phone
And I kept you talking a bit longer than I should have done so I could enjoy your voice like glorious warm soft sunshine at the beginning and the end of the day
Cushioning me so that everything felt not just doable but that I was warm and safe in a big soft pillowy snug
Words doing what they say (or not)
Centering
I often need to use words like decentralised, distributed and decentering to talk about the shape of collective intelligence and how people can be connected together and work together. And I want to get a hands on feel for what those terms really mean, what work they actually do, and what they could do.
… CenteringKnowing the whole + Not knowing the whole
Not knowing the whole: excerpts from Notes from Nowhere (eds) (2003), We Are Everywhere (p. 69, 71, 72).
