[p2p-research] Global Guerrillas: Is our current Economic Model Parasitic Predation?

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 17:42:04 CEST 2009 

Dear Ryan,

you've proably seen it, but http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational,
covers the shift from the post-collective individuality of modernity to the
new paradigm of relationality, which differs from any return to wholistic
and traditional community.

>From the intro:

*What kind of human relationships arise in a peer to peer context? What are
their dynamics?*

This section examines topics related to p2p-oriented views of relations,
which are, and true to the p2p tradition, inventive and exploratory.

Only the 4 first columns of the P2P Encyclopedia concepts have been ported
at this stage.



   1. For more context, here's already an *Introduction on Individuality,
   Relationality, and
Collectivity<http://p2pfoundation.net/Introduction_on_Individuality,_Relationality,_and_Collectivity>
   *, by Michel Bauwens. Comments by Adrian
Chan<http://p2pfoundation.net/Introduction_on_P2P_Relationality:Production%2C_Sociality%2C_Relations%2C_Subjects>and
Nathan
   Lovejoy<http://p2pfoundation.net/Introduction_on_P2P_Relationality:_The_Wolf-Man%27s_Top_8>
   2. Evan Thompson on the Primacy of
Intersubjectivity<http://p2pfoundation.net/Primacy_of_Intersubjectivity>and
Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon on why Contemporary
   Individualization is
Relational<http://p2pfoundation.net/Contemporary_Individualization_is_Relational>.
   Chris Lucas on Integral
Intersubjectivity<http://www.calresco.org/wp/stream.htm>:
   "I" and "It" perspectives need to be complemented by "We" perspectives.
   Margaret Archer on Why Morphogenesis Implies Peer to Peer
Socialization<http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_Morphogenesis_Implies_Peer_to_Peer_Socialization>

See also:

   1. New aspects of the digital self, by Grant McCracken et al:
Cloudiness<http://p2pfoundation.net/Cloudiness>,
   Exhaust Data <http://p2pfoundation.net/Exhaust_Data>, Phatic
   Communication <http://p2pfoundation.net/Phatic_Communication>, Ambient
   Intimacy <http://p2pfoundation.net/Ambient_Intimacy>
   2. Manuel De Landa: Hierarchies and Meshworks are always
mixed<http://p2pfoundation.net/Hierarchies_and_Meshworks_are_always_mixed>
   3. Terry Anderson: Distinguishing groups, networks, and
collectives<http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Three_Levels_of_Aggregation_of_Learners>
   4. Compare the New Relational
Paradigm<http://p2pfoundation.net/New_Relational_Paradigm>to the older
one.
   5. Tim Berners-Lee: Why Sharing may require some loss of
control<http://p2pfoundation.net/Why_Sharing_may_require_some_loss_of_control>

 Short Citations

*our differences are our strength*

- Andrew Lord


*We have moved from communities of neccessity, to elective communities.*

- Alan Moore [3]<http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/08/talking-about-1.html>


*There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self.*

- Hindu Proverb


*The less you share, the less power you have. And the more you share, the
more possible it is for you to get social support.*

- Isaac Mao [4]<http://www.isaacmao.com/meta/2007/09/sharism-is-not-communism-nor-socialism.html>
 Long Citations The Constellation Method of Social Change

*In spite of current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at
a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who
discover they share a common cause and vision of what's possible.*

- Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Freize
[5]<http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/emergence.html>


 Transcending the individual human mind through collaboration

"The power of the unaided, individual mind is highly overrated: the
Renaissance scholar no longer exists. Although creative individuals are
often thought of as working in isolation, the role of interaction and
collaboration with other individuals is critical. *Creative activity grows
out of the relationship between an individual and the world of his or her
work, and from the ties between an individual and other human beings.* The
predominant activity in designing complex systems is that participants teach
and instruct each other. Because complex problems require more knowledge
than any single person possesses, it is necessary that all involved
stakeholders participate, communicate, and collaborate with each other."

- Transcending the individual human mind
[6]<http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/%7Egerhard/papers/tochi2000.pdf>


 The Strength of Weak Ties

"the organisation of exchanges doesn't require the strong involvement of the
whole community, but a cluster of very active participants can lead the
community in producing a lot of external effects. In massive communities,
the diversity of involvements and goals of users can easily be overcome:
collective activities result from the opportunities created by personal
publication."

- Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon


 Towards a science of relationships

"*It is impossible to deny that science has made great progress by taking
things apart. However, what is left out of this approach is the problem of
understanding relationships between the parts.*

Indeed, the importance of this understanding should be self-apparent. If all
systems around us were made of the same elementary particles, and their
relationships were irrelevant, then all systems would be identical.
Obviously, this is not the case. Our quest to understand the parts becomes
so detailed that we forget what we were trying to understand at the start.
Moreover the strategy of looking at parts may blind us to the way properties
of a system arise from the relationships between the components. This
reflects itself in what we think about in general. More specifically, it
affects how we approach problem solving when we try to solve problems in
society. Indeed one of the main difficulties in solving problems is that we
think the problem resides in the parts themselves, when, in actuality, it is
to be found in the interactions between the parts. As a result, many crucial
questions can only be addressed by thinking carefully about connections in a
system as a whole."

- Yaneer Bar-Yam
[7]<http://necsi.org/research/NECSITechnicalReport2007-05-02.pdf>


 The New Relationality

"What is emerging in the work of sociologists is a framework that sees the
networked society or the networked individual as entailing an abundance of
social connections and more effectively deployed attention. The concern with
the decline of community conceives of a scarcity of forms of stable,
nurturing, embedding relations, which are mostly fixed over the life of an
individual and depend on long-standing and interdependent relations in
stable groups, often with hierarchical relations. What we now see emerging
is a diversity of forms of attachment and an abundance of connections that
enable individuals to attain discrete components of the package of
desiderata that ?community? has come to stand for in sociology."

- Yochai Benkler [8] <http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2006_05_07_archive.html>


 Alone = All in One

"The English word “alone” comes from “all one” and if you understand the
significance of this, there will be no “dissociety.” You are connected to
others only to the degree to which you are connected to yourself. Therefore,
“dissociety” indicates not only the dissociation from others but also the
dissociation from oneself and thus the inability to be oneself.”

- Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
[9]<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11f3ae3279a60920_3>
 Key Articles

   1. To read absolutely: The Historical Progression of Complexity, Networks
   and Hierarchy<http://p2pfoundation.net/Historical_Progression_of_Complexity,_Networks_and_Hierarchy>
   2. Critique of the reductionism of
sociality<http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2007/07/networks-and-th.html>inherent
in network theory, by Ulises Mejias.
   3. A Meditation on
Participation<http://p2pfoundation.net/Meditation_on_Participation>.
   By John Hopkins.
   4. Jodi Dean on How Technoculture produces
Subjects<http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Technocultural_Subjectivation>
   5. Dave Pollard on Why our (identities in) networks are so
fragile?<http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/07/26.html#a1934>
   6. Transcending the Individual Human Mind through Collaborative
Design<http://p2pfoundation.net/Transcending_the_Individual_Human_Mind_through_Collaborative_Design>.
   Ernesto Arias et al.
   7. The History of Community as a
Concept<http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00003267/01/Community_Tracing_the_Outlines.pdf>Arun
Agrawal.
   8. Robert Ellickson: *Unpacking the
Household<http://yalelawjournal.org/116/2/226_robert_c_ellickson.html>:
   Informal Property Rights Around the
Hearth<http://p2pfoundation.net/Informal_Property_Rights_Around_the_Hearth>
   *: examines the relational logic within the Household as
Commons<http://p2pfoundation.net/Household_as_Commons>.

   9. The End of Solitude <http://p2pfoundation.net/End_of_Solitude>. Essay
   from WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ in the Chronicle Review

Also:

   1. The Happiness - Unhappiness
Continuum<http://p2pfoundation.net/Happiness_-_Unhappiness_Continuum>

 Key Blogs

   1. Swarming Media is an excellent blog investigating the evolution of
   identity in networked media, at http://www.swarmingmedia.com/
   2. the Ideant blog by Ulises A.
Mejias<http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Mejias%2C_Ulises>monitors the
issue of proximity in Networked
   Sociality <http://p2pfoundation.net/Networked_Sociality>, at
   http://ideant.typepad.com/ .
   3. Network Weaving, about measuring online relationships, at
   http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/


 Key Books

   1. Technically Together <http://p2pfoundation.net/Technically_Together>:
   Rethinking Community within Techno-Society. By Michele A. Willson.
   2. Connecting <http://p2pfoundation.net/Connecting>: How We Form Social
   Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
   3. The Hyperlinked Society <http://p2pfoundation.net/Hyperlinked_Society>:
   Questioning Connections in the Digital Age. Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui,
   Editors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan
   Library, 2008.

Also:

   1. Mirroring People: The Science of How We Connect to Others. Marco
   Iacoboni. [10]<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-mirror-neuron-revolut>
   2. *Why Humans Cooperate*: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation by
   Natalie Henrich and Joseph Henrich (Oxford University Press, 2007)

 Key Resources

   1. Citations on human intercourse with
nature<http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/nature.php>,
   and with the Other(s), including subtle beings, etc... By Anthony Judge.
   2007
   2. Universal Declaration of Responsibilities of Human
Intercourse<http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/respon.php>,
   2007, by Anthony Judge
   3. Universal Declaration of Human
Responsibilities<http://www.interactioncouncil.org/udhr/udhr.html>,
   1997
   4. NetWiki <http://netwiki.amath.unc.edu/Concepts/Concepts>: network
   analysis concepts



On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems the great question for this century will be individualism versus
> collective.  That was not the case in the socialism/communism of the 19th
> century and 20th centuries where something more leader-focused took hold.
>
> Equivalency of outcomes is not appealing to most.  Equivalency of
> opportunity is appealing to large numbers, as is the implementation of
> sustainable processes. The balance between opportunity and sustainability is
> key.
>
> The renewal of hierarchy you speak of seems to come back to approaches that
> remove unearned advantages...very difficult, biologically.  People want to
> advantage their children.  The whole idea of property can be seen as a way
> to advantage offspring.  So, I think if you want renewable hierarchies, a
> place to start contemplating outcomes is equal access to elite learning
> credentials...not information.  It is the credentials which advantage...not
> the learning itself.
>
> The key is to move education from credentialing for admissions to
> credentialing for performance.  That is hard because the life blood of
> institutions is the capacity to create elites who protect exclusivity to
> increase the value of their own network associations.
>
> Ryan Lanham
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:59 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting that both parasitic and predator behavior are key traits of
>> sociopaths.
>>
>> Capitalism (the way it is now) makes heroes out of sociopaths.
>>
>> The movie Watchmen actually captures that reality although in a raw,
>> archetypal way.
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/27 Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Interesting...
>>>
>>>
>>> http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/03/parasitic-predation.html
>>>
>>> Ryan Lanham
>>>
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