[p2p-research] Remote Assembly, Economy, & Work For Its Own Sake

[Ryan Lanham]

> Have a look at everything we've
> synthesized from different areas of human thinking at
> http://cooperationcommons.com/summaries
>
> --
> --
>  Sam Rose
> Social Synergy
>

What you have here is exciting and good work.  Thanks for sharing.  I am
enthusiastic about your directions...and I agree with virtually all you have
written.  We are using different language.  I use the Aristotelian concept
of politics I have been trained with.  Your restating the issues in a more
contemporary tone and language is helpful...particularly when I see the map
to old ideas that form root clusters in my mind.  For me, politics is a
framework of social argument.  We experience contested environments.  Those
who choose P2P are less interested in contested frameworks than, say,
perhaps a civil rights lawyer might be.  Both might be on the scent of
"justice" to use another classical term.

A political scientist will be steeped in the language of Aristotle, Rawls,
Dworkin, Wolin, etc. and they will use a classical lingo like politics,
justice, democracy, markets, etc.

In past writings I have tried to begin a political sociology of P2P by
speaking of underlying threads and themes which approach the topic.  You,
like me, perhaps come more from what I call a technocratic school...our
language is more linked to people like one sees founding silicon firms or
writing technoblogs in San Francisco.  Another thread is the socialist
thread which is overwhelmingly seated geographically in Europe.

These threads are not deterministic, but they are elements of identity and
worldview...as you call it...the old German Weltanshauung.

Mapping these diverse threads to each other is perhaps the most exciting and
difficult task a list like this can accomplish.  Dialogue is necessary to
link various discourses to each other...it is, as Karl Weick from up your
way calls it, sensemaking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking>.

To my mind there have been three really great social science idea threads so
far...evolution, sensemaking, and behavorial economics...which could really
be seen as a combo of evolution and sensemaking.  An alternative third might
be collaboration...under which I'd put P2P.

Ryan
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