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| Blog Name: | P2P Foundation |
| Url: | http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | p2p, altruism, peer |
| Description: | Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices. The Foundation for P2P Alternatives proposes to be a meeting place for those who can broadly agree with the following propositions, which are also argued in the essay or book in progress, P2P and Human Evolution: - that technology reflects a change of consciousness towards participation, and in turn strengthens it - that the networked format, expressed in the specific manner of peer to peer relations, is a new form of political organizing and subjectivity, and an alternative for the political/economic order, which though it does not offer solutions per se, points the way to a variety of dialogical and self-organizing formats, i.e. it represents different processes for arriving at such solutions; it ushers in a era of “non-representational democracy”, where an increasing number of people are able to manage their social and productive life through the use of a variety of autonomous and interdependent networks and peer circles - that it creates a new public domain, an information commons, which should be protected and extended, especially in the domain of common knowledge creation; and that this domain, where the cost of reproducing knowledge is near zero, requires fundamental changes in the intellectual property regime, as reflected by new forms such as the free software movement - that the principles developed by the free software movement, in particular the General Public License, provides for models that could be used in other areas of social and productive life - that it reconnects with the older traditions and attempts for a more cooperative social order, but this time obviates the need for authoritarianism and centralization; it has the potential of showing that the new egalitarian digital culture, is connected to the older traditions of cooperation of the workers and peasants, and to the search for an engaged and meaningful life as expressed in one’s work, which becomes an expression of individual and collective creativity, rather than as a salaried means of survival - that it offers youth a vision of renewal and hope, to create a world that is more in tune with their values; that it creates a new language and discourse in tune with the new historical phase of “cognitive capitalism”; P2P is a language which every “digital youngster” can understand. However, ‘peer to peer theory’ addresses itself not just to the network-enabled and to knowledge workers, but to the whole of civil society, and to whoever agrees that the core of decision-making should be located in civil society, and not in the market or in the state. - it combines subjectivity (new values), intersubjectivity (new relations), objectivity (an enabling technology) and interobjectivity (new forms of organization) that mutually strengthen each other in a positive feedback loop, and it is clearly on the offensive and growing, but lacking “political self-consciousness”. It is this form of awareness that the P2P Foundation wants to promote. The Foundation for P2P Alternatives would address the following issues: - P2P currently exists in discrete separate movements and projects but these different movements are often unaware of the common P2P ethos that binds them - thus, there is a need for a common initiative, which 1) brings information together; 2) connects people and mutually informs them 3) strives for integrative insights coming from the many subfields; 4) can organize events for reflection and action; 5) can educate people about critical and creative tools for world-making - the Foundation would be a matrix or womb which would inspire the creation and linking of other nodes active in the P2P field, organized around topics and common interests, locality, and any form of identity and organization which makes sense for the people involved Michel Bauwens The P2P Foundation is a registered institute founded in in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It’s local registered name is: Stichting Peer to Peer Alternatives, dossier nr: 34264847 |
| Popularity: | 7 Followers |
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The coming revolt of the guards, by Howard Zinn
This is an excerpt from chapter 24 of Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, chosen by Paul Fernhout: “However, the unexpected victories-even temporary ones-of insurgents show the vulnerability of the supposedly powerful. In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport an
This is an excerpt from chapter 24 of Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, chosen by Paul Fernhout: “However, the unexpected victories-even temporary ones-of insurgents show the vulnerability of the supposedly powerful. In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport an
The Rally Fighter: a crowdsourced car
A report via Mutopo: “Local Motors wants to build C.O.O.L cars. They invite a large community or car enthusiasts to participate in the development of their car. But this is where the similarities with Powell Motors ends, because Local Motors decides to decide differently. While Homer was the decider with rather unfortunately results, Local Motors doesn’t let the community decide everything. The don’t leave them alone to figure things out and show up at the end to see the result. Local Motors cleverly picks some things to do themselves (chasis
A report via Mutopo: “Local Motors wants to build C.O.O.L cars. They invite a large community or car enthusiasts to participate in the development of their car. But this is where the similarities with Powell Motors ends, because Local Motors decides to decide differently. While Homer was the decider with rather unfortunately results, Local Motors doesn’t let the community decide everything. The don’t leave them alone to figure things out and show up at the end to see the result. Local Motors cleverly picks some things to do themselves (chasis
Links for 2009-11-28 [del.icio.us]
Electronic Civil Disobedience This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war and drives the war. Openness and Patent Reform: USPTO Launches Director’s Blog « OSTP Blog David Kappos, the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has taken o
Electronic Civil Disobedience This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war and drives the war. Openness and Patent Reform: USPTO Launches Director’s Blog « OSTP Blog David Kappos, the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has taken o
Frank Pasquale’s Assessment of Algorithmic Authority
This is a comment on Clay Shirky’s “A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority,”, excerpts of which were also featured on our p2p blog. Frank Pasquale: “Here are some reasons to worry about that process: a) Shirky notes in the piece that there are several kinds of knowledge out there unsusceptible to assessments of accuracy. He cleverly calls these “epistemological potholes.” My worry is tha
This is a comment on Clay Shirky’s “A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority,”, excerpts of which were also featured on our p2p blog. Frank Pasquale: “Here are some reasons to worry about that process: a) Shirky notes in the piece that there are several kinds of knowledge out there unsusceptible to assessments of accuracy. He cleverly calls these “epistemological potholes.” My worry is tha
The operating system of money is obsolete
Douglas Rushkoff’s keynote from the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference. Key thesis: How we’re using an obsolete operating system for money, optimized for a pre-Internet economy. (an interesting video, with remarks on the situation in the Middle Ages)
Douglas Rushkoff’s keynote from the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference. Key thesis: How we’re using an obsolete operating system for money, optimized for a pre-Internet economy. (an interesting video, with remarks on the situation in the Middle Ages)
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