List of DisCO Resources

This is a regularly updated compilation of all resources on DisCO that have been published until this date.

Unfamiliar with DisCO? START HERE

If you're not already familiar with DisCO we recommend taking some time to get the picture overview of what we offer before diving deep into the minutiaes of DisCONomics.

Your first stop can be the DisCO Basics. This is our special introductory website, with an easy to read format, pop-up definitions and more.

DisCO intro articles and short videos

For a brief introduction to DisCOs we recommend these introductory articles and their related videos:

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1: The Open Source Conspiracy  

"DisCO is a living, evolving framework to reignite the power of the commons in each of us. It begins with a reckoning, a re-defining of mental, spiritual and physical spaces to re-situate our relationships to each other and the earth, to choose how we want to spend our productive energy and creativity, and, building on these acts, finally create radically different notions of value in order to restore equity and power in an atmosphere of deliberate accountability.".

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2: Last Night A Distributed Cooperative Organization Saved My Life: A brief introduction to DisCOs  

"DisCO stands for Distributed Cooperative Organizations, and it’s a set of organizational tools and practices for groups of people who want to work together in a cooperative, commons-oriented, and feminist economic form. DisCO is also an alternative to another form called the Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAO".

 

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3: DisCO in a Nutshell (Covid Edition)  

"Distributed Cooperative Organizations or DisCOs explained in a nutshell and what they mean in the context of the Covid-19 crisis."

 

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4: Take Your Time, Do It Right: Commons Governance  

"A guide to how DisCO governance specifically articulates the 7 DisCO Principles and Eleven Values. Includes infographic illustrations about the DisCO Governance and economic model"

• Click here to download the DisCO Governance Infographic

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5: Love in the Middle of a Firefight: DisCO’s most played tracks of 2022  

"In a world of vectorial succubi worse than capitalism, where a badly scripted Bond supervillain with a phallic rocket fixation welcomes fascists to networks which ought to be commons based and peer produced, where 80-hour work weeks and bunking in the office are the new normal… who wouldn’t want to “quiet quit” or just flat-out quit and move on? We have to rebel, we have to dance and, as much as we’re able, also rest, gather and conserve strength."

 

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DisCO Governance Model Infographic

The DisCO Governance Infographic features a simplified visual explanation of the Basic DisCO Governance Model.

• Click here to download the DisCO Governance Model Infographic

The DisCO Trilogy

The DisCO Trilogy comprises three downloadable multi-format publications covering various aspects of DisCO. Also to be published as Audiobooks (see section below)  

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If I Only Had a Heart: The DisCO Manifesto

  The DisCO Manifesto is a deep dive into the world of Distributed Cooperative Organizations. Over its 80 colorful pages, you will read about how DisCOs are a P2P/Commons, cooperative and Feminist Economic alternative to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (or DAOs). The DisCO Manifesto also includes some background on topics like blockchain, AI, the commons, feminism, cooperatives, cyberpunk, and more.  

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Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements

  The DisCO Elements is a compilation of several articles on DisCO, including dedicated sections on DisCO in our current historical and Pandemic context, the Seven Principles, DisCO Governance, DisCO Carework and DisCO policies. The DisCO Elements is a "director's cut", expanded from a publication commissioned by Autonomy.work. You can also find the DisCO Elements serialized as standalone articles in Hackernoon.

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The DisCO PinkPaper

(Forthcoming) The White paper for the DisCO project (or as we like to call it, the PinkPaper), will not only describe the technological aspects but will also highlight the cultural and ethical considerations underlying our design choices. The DisCO PinkPaper will include sections on the DisCO FLOOR, the DisCO DECK and their co-dependencies, as well as a sections on the DisCO STACK and how it relates to FLOOR and DECK.

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Other DisCO Links and Resources

Your main resources for all things DisCO is our website DisCO.coop and this wiki.

For a regularly updated compilation of all resources on DisCO that have been published up to date, see the lists of links below (note that some of these have already been presented in this first section)

DisCO Official Publications

• DisCO.beat (The DisCO Newsletter)
• DisCO Manifesto
• DisCO Elements

External Publications

• Platforming Equality: Care Before Code Care (Chapter on DisCO from Autonomy.work's booklet)
• Deliberate Dancing: A Critical Investigation of DisCOs’ Potential to Re-Politicize the Economy (Master's thesis on DisCO)

Articles

• How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy on Hackernoon
• Last Night A Distributed Cooperative Organization Saved My Life: A brief introduction to DisCOs on Hackernoon
• Tales of a DisCO Straight from the Dance Floor for Grassroots Economic Organizing.(Practical experiences of Guerrilla Translation as a DisCO)
• Anoche una organización cooperativa distribuida me salvó la vida: una breve introducción a las DisCO. Introductory article in Spanish for alternative digital newspaper El Salto

Videos and Public Presentations

• The DisCO Mothership has landed: Feminist, Cooperative, Commons & Blockchains|The DisCO Mothership has landed: Feminist, Cooperative, Commons & Blockchains(1 minute video trailer)
• Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements( 1 minute video trailer for DisCo elements)
• Feminista, cooperativista, distribuido y orientado al procomún: bienvenidas a DisCO (1 minute video trailer in Spanish)
• Take back the App! (Episode of the Laura Flanders Show featuring DisCOs, Platform Coops and more…)
• DisCOs Dancing Together: Value Flows and Future Economies: (25 mins presentation by Eli Sterling. Full version and more resources here)
• DisCO.coop – The Future of Distributed Work | Radical Practice Conference 2020/21 by Ann Marie Utratel
• OPEN:2020 DisCO Webinar recording (April 2020)
• Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction: a video introduction to DisCOs (45 min presentation and audio/podcast version).
• Tech for Society #13: Rights to the blockchain city #2 a livecast episode by Pakhuis de Zwijger on the possibilities of blockchains if they were designed to support alternative economic models, with DisCO.coop among the participants.
• MoneyLab Berlin #11. (This is the whole encounter, the DisCO part begins at 1:27:00)
• DWeb Meetup: March 2021 (The "meet DisCO" part begins around 0:59:00)
• Emergent Practices from the Decentralized Cooperative Web - March 12, 2021
• DisCO at Platform Co-ops Now! course, presentation on the origins of DisCO, its main features and roadmap for the near future.It is followed by a Q&A with the DisCO Crew.
• Get DisCO! Ann Marie Utratel and Stacco Troncoso at the Metagov Seminar

DisCO in Social Media

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• Mastodon (DisCO is a proud member of social.coop)
• Twitter (what’s left of it
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

Support DisCO

You can support DisCO by donating through our Open Collective Page.