deliberately not charity because there is an expectation or soft contract of reciprocation, not necessarily back to the same person but the spirit of the gift will be passed on.
- potlucks
- community fridges
- communal gardens
- cairns
- communal computing mood board
- potlatch
- communities of fate
the hologram from https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.substack.com/p/from-debts-to-gifts
a “health monitoring protocol and peer to peer health network” that connects people into a triangle of support (one person for each of physical, mental, and social health)
- inspired by greek solidarity clinics
solidarity economy is a promising salvation from this world of hyper-individualization and capitalism
- people are seen as resources, what if we saw people as land?
- indigenous people practice gift economy with the land and nature
greek solidarity clinics http://greecesolidarity.org/?page_id=1114
- came up in the era of austerity to fill the communal need
- donation-based supplies and labor to fill any need that presents itself: “The Solidarity Pharmacy welcomes people without social insurance, including immigrants and those without homes, who have a medical prescription. It serves them for free using mainly donated medicines and supplements”
Digital Solidarity
- explored in solidarity infrastructures sfpc class
- channel with omayeli
- artist-run digital networks (email clients, mailing lists, web hosting)
how do you project solidarity on the web?
- transparency around finances and governance
- how interoperable is everything, how scalable is it all?
- is solidarity inherently opposed to scaling? (probably yes. you can’t have solidarity at certain levels of scale because you lose sight of humanity… although this is not super precise, in that you could have infrastructure that scales to millions of people but the actual experience of the infrastructure, e.g. the interface, limits scale so that you are always having a personal and human experience?)
- how do you not trade-off a bad experience / unstable support / underresourced development when choosing these things? Can you instead co-opt centralized services to leverage them for solidarity (while acknowledging that they are not the ideal state of things and that in the end, their foundation is subject to a large organization’s whims)
- often you end up in contradictions or weird places.. like giving amazon vouchers to research participants (to help them with creative bookkeeping / not paying taxes / etc. while supporting a big non-solidarity organization)
- “To what extent do individual experiences stand for a larger whole?”
