This web site is a reference source for the the development of the "Organis" busness models and serves as a FAQ for the Greater Good Public License agreement  http://www.ggpl.org  disscussion groups E-mails mailto:discuss@ggpl.org  concerning the development of Organis busness system.

  Each of the selections below are jumps to indexes of the contents of the Ogranis web site of the selection.  We hope to set up an interactive site in the near future.

1. E-mails
2. Articles
3. Submissions
4. Papers
5. Research projects.
6. Links
7. Book list
8. Journals

Warmest regads,
Carl Vilbrandt, Associate Professor

University of Aizu________________________________Computer Arts Lab
Tsuruga, lkki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580 JAPAN
phone 81-242-37-2792 / fax 81-242-37-2772 / E-mailto:vilb@u-aizu.ac.jp

**********  Subject index below  latest date at the top

E-mails
As per George request:
An Email Archive by subject sorry no date and no comments. Raw eml ( it sucks --- it shows the code no links )
An Email html

1. Archive 01 
2. Archive 00

Below last email send is first....

Key
cArl = Carl Vilbrandt George = George Dafermos
Org01

Machiavellianism Mon, 22 Apr 2002 From: George  to Carl....  response to the below sound bits by carl taking about George and Organis to a third person:   On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:50:40 +0900 Carl Vilbrandt wrote:
One of the outcomes of this work shop (DALI)  is that he has begun colabrating on a book called "Organis" that  updateds
the theory of history materialism to eco enviromentalism elevating the value of digial information above that of materials and processes.  The book is suggesting that the Machiavellianism that predominates current social structures be replaced by rational determinism , that creates rational self regulating organisms social structures. The book is suggesting a merging of large government, business and education in to small groups that are self  regulating decentralized evolving symbiotic organistic groups similar to organizations seen in the complex mirco rule based structures in nature, that behave and function as very large organizations when needed. A Marxist critique

OutLine Thu, 11 Apr 2002 cGeorge's first layout  good ideas.
In the last e-mail we decided on: -organisations as organisms -the ultimate goal is environmental sustainability and management
accountability & ethical (community)governance ***  Institutions and social capital: there is a huge requirement for
"intelligence" in all developing countries and in most cases that the issue under concern has overreaching implications

Let's do Organis Thu, 04 Apr 2002  From: George  to Carl's proposal to do a book.  George lays out how we all might write it.  book reference
Internet is a complex adaptive system (characteristics: emergence of order, distributed intelligence, no central planning and self-organisation as  the spontaneous emergence of non-equilibrium

George's Abstract Sat, 23 Mar From: George  to Carl & opensource.mit.edu for DALI2002
On these grounds, adoption of OSS at a national infrastructure level can potentially enable efficient markets to operate under rich dissemination of information

Gelernter --- Tue, 27 Aug 2002  from georgedafermos@lycos.co.uk  to To: Carl Vilbrandt <carl@ggpl.org>
Carl had pointed George to Gelernter .... from the edge.org web site.... Gelernter is a digital visionary

Articles

http://slashdot.org/features/02/04/04/1953218.shtml?tid=126  "Globalism, Corporatism, and open source" So this is the first part of a series -- inspired by "Information Arts," edited by Stephen Wilson and published by the MIT Press --
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_11/unruh/    Can the Internet help slow environmental decline
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/  Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist critique

Submissions
Osaka Organis Design
George's Abstract. ( not yet linked)

Papers
Extending Digital Freedoms

Research projects.
If you really want to delve deeply into the area of self organising interdependent networks, this is the place to start along with Santa Fe Centre for Emergent Strategies (www.santafe.edu) and their account of "heterarchies". Prof Stacey (University of Hertfordshire - Centre of complexity) is the most knowledgeable man in UK and I feel lucky I had the chance to meet him in   the past.
Links to web sites

Book-list
 * "Information Arts," edited by Stephen Wilson and published by the MIT Press -- which deals with the new intersection of art, science and echnology. This book is onto an enormous idea, exploring the science and art from algorithms, robotics, quantum physics, coding, nanotechnologies, genetic and kinetic art to electrical music, telecommunications and A.I.
 

1. Bettig, Roland V., Copyrighting Culture - the Political Economy of Intellectual Property, (Colorado, Westview Press, 1996)
2. Bookchin, Murray, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, (Montreal, Black Rose Books, 1977)
3. Braverman, Harry, Labor and Monopoly Capital, (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1998)
4. Castells, Manuel, The Rise of the Network Society, (Cambridge MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1996)
5. Cohen, G. A., Karl Marx's Theory of History - A Defence, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000)
6. Debord, Guy, The Society of the Spectacle, (New York, Zone books, 1994)
7. DiBona, Chris & Ockman, Sam & Stone, Mark, Open Sources - Voices from the Open Source Revolution, (America, O'Reilly & Associates, 1999)
8. Dosi, Giovanni & Freeman, Christopher & Nelson, Richard & Silverberg, Gerald & Soete, Luc, Technical Change and Economic Theory, (London, Printer Publishers limited, 1988)
9. Dyer-Witheford, Nick, Cyber-Marx, Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism, (Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1999)
10. Edwards Richard, Contested Terrain, (London, Basic Books, 1979)
11. Giddens, Anthony, A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, (London, Macmillan Press ltd., 1981:1995)
12. Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio, Empire, (Harvard university press, 2001)
13. Illich, Ivan, Tools for Conviviality, (London, Calder & Boyars ltd., 1973)
14. ed. Kahin, Brian & Varian, Hal, Internet Publishing and Beyond, (America, MIT Press, 2000)
15. Klein, Naomi, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, (New York, Picador, 1999)
16. Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific ReVolutions, (Chicago, University of Chicago reprint 3rd edition 1996)
17. Lessig, Lawrence, Code, (New York, Basic Books, 1999)
18. Lyon, David, The Electronic Eye - the Rise of the Surveillance Society, (Polity Press 1994)
19. Marx, Karl, Capital, (London, Penguin Books Ltd., Vol.1, 1990)
20. Marx, Karl, Grundrisse, (London, Penguin Books Ltd., 1993)
21. Mauss, Marcel, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988)
22. May, Christopher, Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights - The New Enclosure?, (London, Routledge, 2000)
23. ed. Mosco, Vincent & Wasko, Janet, The Political Economy of Information, (London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1988)
24. Mumford, Lewis, The Future of Technics & Civilization, (London, Freedom Press, 1986)
25. National Research Council, Digital Dilemma - Intellectual Property in the Information Age, (Washington DC, National Academy Press, 2000)
26. Nelkin, Dorothy, Science as Intellectual Property, (New York, McMillan Publishing Company, 1984)
27. Rifkin, Jeremy, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, (New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1995)
28. Rifkin, Jeremy, The Age of Access - How the Shift from Ownership to Access is Transforming Capitalism, (London, Penguin Books, 2000)
29. Sennett, Richard, The Corrosion of Character, (New York, Norton & Company, 1999)
30. Sterling, Bruce, The Hacker Crackdown - Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, (London, Penguin, 1994)
31. Toffler, Alvin. The Third Wave, (New York, Morrow, 1980)
32. ed. Virno, Paolo & Hardt, Michael, Radical Thought in Italy, (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
33. Wright, Erik Olin & Levine, Andrew & Sober, Elliott, Reconstructing Marxism, (London, Verso, 1992)
34. * Wolpert, Samuel, Economics of Information, (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1986) "Our future experience depends on our ability to learn. Information is the core of all education and of all personal growth and development."

1. Bettig, R.V., The Enclosure of Cyberspace, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1997:14, p.138-157
2. Dunford, Richard, The Suppression of Technology, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1987:32, p.512-525
3. Frow, John, Information as a Gift Commodity, New Left Review, No. 219, Sep/Oct 1996
4. Grubler, Arnulf & Nowotny, Helga, Towards the Fifth Kondratiev Upswing: Elements of am Emerging New Growth Phase and Possible Development Trajectories, International Journal of Technological Management, Vol.5, No.4, 1990, p.431-471
5. Heller, A. Michael, The Tragedy of Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets, Harvard Law Review, Vol.61, 1998:35, p.622-687
6. Lawton, Graham, The Great Giveaway, New Scientist, No.2328, Feb. 2002, p.34-37
7. Samuelson, Pamela, Regulation of Technologies to Protect Copyrighted Works, Communication of the ATM, 1996a:39, p.17-22
8. Samuelson, Pamela, The Copyright Grab, Wired, No.1, Jan. 1996b, p.134-138, 188-192
9. Shiva, Vandana, The Threat to Third World Farmers, The Ecologist, Vol.60, No.6, Sep. 2000, p.40-43
10. Stallabrass, Julian, Empowering Technology: The Exploration of Cyberspace, New Left Review, No. 211, May/June 1995
11. Volland, Craig S., A Comprehensive Theory of Long Wave Cycles, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol.32, No.2, Sep. 1987, p.123-145