[p2p-research] P2P Ideology

[Ryan Lanham]

It is a great quote.  I wonder Sam about your use of the term human nature.
Is there still human?  Is it distinct from other natures?  Not a
challenge...a thought aloud.  Sooner or later, like actor-network-theory, we
are going to have to admit other things into our networks besides humans.
What that means is still tender moral ground.

Ryan

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Paul D. Fernhout
> <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> > But, I can see that codifying things in that direction would be
> alienating
> > to many enmeshed in the current systems. And it might also not be
> accurate
> > enough. Again, Manuel de Landa:
> >  http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
> > "Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains
> > and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are
> constantly
> > turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures
> and
> > hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory
> > alone but demand concrete experimentation."
> >
>
> This quote is really great, thanks for sharing it, Paul.
>
> Human nature is emergent, adaptive. Indeed, as we are moving into an
> era that lowers the barrier of entry to basic infrastructure, we'll
> see:
>
> - retrieval of long dormant social/cultural/political systems
>
> - admixture/hybridization of those systems with more generically
> identifiable homogeneous social structures
>
> Mass cultures are evolving into thousands and eventually millions, of
> new local cultures as different segments of mass culture collapse
> (media, manufacturing, food production, etc). Those new local cultures
> are admixture/hybrids of many mesh/hierarchies. Even one person may
> participate in many of these networks. This is what is making what is
> emerging difficult to see, to categorize for governments, large
> businesses, market researchers, academics, etc (not that they should
> be categorized, but categorization has been the norm for a long time,
> and it increasingly is difficult to apply).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > --Paul Fernhout
> > http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> >
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