[p2p-research] reminder of the las indias trilogy

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks martin, aware of the book but never read this underground classic
yet,

Michel

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:40 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> See also:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.M._%28author%29
> http://www.amazon.com/Bolo-Foreign-Agents-P-M/dp/093675608X
>
> The title of this book refers to the bolo, or an autonomous community
> corresponding to the anthropological unit of a tribe (a few hundred
> individuals). This would be the basic social unit in an envisioned
> utopian-ecological future; its name is an example of a word from the
> fictional auxiliary language (or rather, a basic vocabulary of about
> thirty words) called asa'pili, intended for use in a bolo-based global
> community..........
>
> http://www.republicart.net/disc/aeas/pm01_en.htm
>
> On 24/11/10 00:31, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > should definitely read that one,
> >
> > Kevin, have you read the book?
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola at gn.apc.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I found the book on phyles quite interesting, but I would need to read
> it
> >> several times, to digest the whole idea. One quick reaction: de Ugarte
> >>  write about the Dunbar number (basically the optimum membership of a
> >> community). I found a really very good discussion of these "magic
> numbers"
> >> (optimum number of people for a team, a neighborhood, a community, a
> city,
> >> etc. -- actually a range of numbers, not a single figure) in HUMAN SCALE
> by
> >> Kirkpatrick Sale. Sale argues that there is a human scale in politics,
> >> economics, buildings, etc.
> >>
> >> In HUMAN SCALE, Sale also asserts that the most efficient transport mode
> of
> >> all (compared to running animals, flying animals, planes, trains and
> various
> >> other modes of transport), is the bicycle.
> >>
> >> Greetings to all,
> >>
> >> Roberto Verzola
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Michel Bauwens wrote:
> >>
> >>> For those who want to follow the debates with lasindias, here are the 3
> >>> books that are the basis of their ideas:
> >>>
> >>>  http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf
> >>>  http://deugarte.com/gomi/Nations.pdf
> >>>  http://deugarte.com/gomi/the-power-of-networks.pdf
> >>>  respectively a history of the corporate, governance, and civil forms,
> >>> each one culminating in the network age
> >>>
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