[p2p-research] really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic infrastructures

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Thomas,

I'm copying David de Ugarte, the author, to see if we can have a discussion
going,

Michel

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Thomas Greco <thg at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  Dear Michel,
>
> Thanks for that reference (
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Economic_Democracy_in_the_Network_Century).
>
> I've only skimmed the beginning and ending but I see much food for thought
> and discussion.
>
> I would like to be involved in a discussion around these two paragraphs
> from pages 8 and 9:
>
>
>  We are in the process of going from a world of decentralised networks to
> a world of distributed networks. This is evidenced in communication as a
> crisis in the
>
> information systems of agencies and newspapers; in the cultural sphere as a
> crisis in the current industrial model for films, books, and music; in
> democracy as citizens'
>
> cyberthrongs; and in war as a new paradigm. This shift leads us to a new
> paradigm, seen in the complex world of collective identities in the
> increasingly important role of a
>
> new kind of community, communities which are closer to the old real,
> contiguity-based communities than to the great nationalistic imaginaries of
> Modernity. We are
>
> experiencing, in that area, another shift, one taking us from nations to
> networks.
> Studying this latter dimension, the changes in the identity patterns of our
> time, we discover a new kind of socio-economic organisation: the phyle. The
> phyle is much
>
> more than a kind of business; it has, among its main features, all the
> elements that articulate our time – it is born from the experience of
> socialisation in virtual
>
> communities, it is transnational, and it vindicates new forms of economic
> democracy which, in turn, link it to traditional cooperativism.
>
> ===
>
> And this one from the last chapter:
>
> The phyle is the most radical and simple of all materialisations of the new
> distributed world, as well as the one that owes most to all the others. It
> is the child of
>
> free software, of the blogosphere, of cyberactivism, of virtual
> communities, of the globalisation of the small. The phyle is a lifestyle
> that makes it possible for hackers,
>
> bricoleurs and libertarians to go on being what they are and to grow. To
> leave a legacy. A legacy of knowledge, yes, but also a legacy of maps – the
> maps of the new
>
> world, the maps that are drawn not to describe what cannot be moved, but to
> be built by people and inhabited by their lives.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing you at the conference in Germany,
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
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> bookstore.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Thomas Greco -- thg <thg at mindspring.com> ; Bernard Lietaer<blietaer at earthlink.net>; Dante-Gabryell
> Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com> ; Marilyn Mehlmann <mmehlmann at gmail.com> ;
> Howard Rheingold <howard.rheingold at gmail.com> ; Douglas Rushkoff<rushkoff at rushkoff.com>; Sergio
> Lub <sergio.lub at gmail.com> ; Franco Iacomella <yaco at gnu.org> ; Silke
> Helfrich <Silke.Helfrich at gmx.de> ; David Bollier <david at bollier.org> ; Beatriz
> Busaniche <beatriz.busaniche at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2010 02:43 PM
> *Subject:* really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic
> infrastructures
>
> see http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf
> processed at
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Economic_Democracy_in_the_Network_Century
>
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