S02E20 - Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

Over the last decade platform-cooperativism has grown from an
idea into a movement. How far can it take us? 


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Shownotes


Trebor Scholz (New School University):


https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty/trebor-scholz/ 


Trebor on Twitter:


https://twitter.com/TreborS 


Platform Cooperativism Consortium:


https://platform.coop/


Institute for Cooperative Digital Economy:


https://platform.coop/who-we-are/icde/


Fellowship Program at The New School’s Institute for the
Cooperative Digital Economy:


https://platform.coop/blog/apply-for-the-new-schools-institute-for-the-cooperative-digital-economys-2022-2023-fellowship-program/


Ted Talk by Trebor Scholz from January 2022:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXhOXULEbA


Scholz, Trebor and Schneider, Nathan. 2016. "Ours to Hack and to
Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperatives.", New York/London: OR
Books.: (PDF available)


https://worldpece.org/sites/default/files/artifacts/media/pdf/ourstohackandown.pdf


Scholz, Trebor. 2016. “Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the
cooperate sharing economy”. Published by the Rosa Luxemburg
Stiftung, New York Office. (Available as PDF):


https://rosalux.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RLS-NYC_platformcoop.pdf 


Further Material


International Cooperative Alliance:


https://www.ica.coop/


Smart Coop:


https://www.smart-at.org/?lang=en


Fairbnb:


https://fairbnb.coop/


America’s Electric Cooperatives:


https://www.electric.coop/


The Drivers Cooperative:


https://drivers.coop/


Department of Cooperation, Government of Kerala, India:


https://cooperation.kerala.gov.in/about-us/


Self Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA):


https://www.sewa.org/


Platform Cooperatives Germany:


https://platformcoop.de/


CoopCycle:


https://coopcycle.org/en/


Stocksy:


https://www.stocksy.com/


Web 3 (Wikipedia):


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3


Blockchain (Wikipedia):


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain


Decentralized Autonomy Organizations (Wikipedia):


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization


“They Love Crypto. They’re Trying to Buy the Constitution.”:


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/business/crypto-constitution-sothebys.html


Mondragon Cooperative:


https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/


Parecon (Wikipedia):


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics


Hahnel, R. 2021. Democratic Economic Planning. New York:
Routledge:


https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320


Albert, M. 2003: Parecon. Life After Capitalism. London/New York:
Verso:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/85-parecon


Muldoon, James. 2022. Platform Socialism. London: Pluto Press:


http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346953/platform-socialism/


 


Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics


S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/


S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic
Planning:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/


(German) S01E55/56 | Michael Seemann zur Macht der Plattformen
(pt.1 & 2):


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e55-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-1/


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e56-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-2/


S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms
of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt.1 & 2):


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/


S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the
Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/


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