[p2p-research] The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks for the text,

yes, I'm thinking of say 2 excerpts per chapter, either one chapter per
month, or faster if you wish ...

we could also prepare the series for period when I'll be away, the whole
month of march (1 chapter per week, 1 to 4) and May (the rest?), but we can
prepare them now already and post date it,

say we start one chapter at a time, and post-date it to march, then May?

Michel

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/11/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any text we can use to announce it?
>
> The Homebrew Industrial Revolution is based on a series of research
> papers on industrial history I did for Center for a Stateless Society.
>  It is available as an ebook:
> http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/
>
> In writing Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective, I found
> myself most engaged in researching the material on micromanufacturing,
> household microenterprises, the alternative economy, and the
> singularity resulting from them.
>
> A major part of the material in The Homebrew Industrial Revolution is
> drawn from Organization Theory, but was imperfectly tied together and
> developed there.  I attempted to draw these themes together into my
> first C4SS monograph, and then found myself developing them in a
> series of followup papers.  Those papers gradually took shape in my
> head as a book.
>
> One theme is the rise and fall of Sloanist mass-production in light of
> Mumford's paleotechnic/neotechnic periodization and his theory of the
> cultural pseudomorph, and the rise of networked manufacturing as (in
> the words of Michael Piore and Charles Sabel) the rediscovery after
> more than a century of how to integrate electrical power into
> industry..
>
> Another is the contrast of Sloanism to the leanness, agility and
> resilience of the alternative economy, with low overhead as the
> central conceptual  principle around which my study of the latter is
> organized.  Large inventories, high capital oulays, and high overhead
> have the same effect on mass-production industry that shit has on a
> human body bloated by constipation.  The higher the fixed costs
> required to undertake an activity, the larger the income stream
> required for a household or firm to service that overhead; the
> enterprise must either get big or get out, and the household must have
> multiple sources of full-time wage income to survive.  The alternative
> economy, on the other hand, operates with almost no fixed costs, so
> that almost all its revenue is free and clear and it can survive
> prolonged periods of slow business.  Because it's organized
> stigmergically, with modular open-source designs, innovation costs are
> spread over the widest possible product ecologies with a minimum of
> transaction costs.  The alternative economy is breeding the rats in
> the nests of corporate dinosaurs.
>
> > Also would you consider serialising it?, say one chapter per month over
> the
> > next year?
> >
> > You probably remember I did so on several occasions with your past book,
> but
> > until April, I'm rather overwhelmed, so I was hoping you could choose the
> > excerpts?
>
> Thanks much, Michel.  It's seven chapters, so would you prefer two
> excerpts for chapter or a seven-month run?
>
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
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