[p2p-research] Fwd: rural coop & online swarm essay intro..

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: rural coop & online swarm essay intro..
To: andrew paterson <agryfp at gmail.com>


thanks andrew,

see here for the full text,
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/rural-cooperation-and-the-online-swarm-as-neotraditional-cooperative-practice-in-scandinavia/2010/09/26

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:07 AM, andrew paterson <agryfp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hei Michel,
> sorry for the delay,
> Here is introduction text..
> Is it ok?
>
> My best,
> a
>
> .
>
> The essay published by Affinities Journal may be summerised as a condensed
> history of 'work party' gatherings from the perspective of an immigrant
> artist-organiser and independent researcher based in Finland, seeking out
> and making connections.
>
> I was motivated by a personal desire to reflect upon organisational
> practice: What might come out of bringing different subjects, practices and
> examples together into the same event space, in this case a 1 day symposium
> on 'Alternative Economy Cultures' in Helsinki, 2009; and also a scholarly
> exercise to put into writing connections that I had imagined,seen, heard,
> intuitively or in assemblage, witnessed in the event mentioned.
>
> I also aimed to connect older ideas of rural cooperation, known as
> 'talkoot' in Finland, and 'mutual aid' as written about by Peter Kropotkin
> in late 19th Century, with potentials and questions being raised in new
> terms such as 'social economy' and 'crowdsourcing'.
>
> I wished to write a sharable document for potential collaborators in
> cooperative studies and research, in Finland and beyond, on what I was aware
> of from the information and technology development scene, as well as that
> which is promoted by cultural associations that organise festivals or other
> events inbetween art, media, technology, science and social issues.
>
> Since writing this essay and in the time it took to submit and publish, I
> have successfully presented my ideas within a Finnish cooperative research
> seminar (consisting of mostly social scientists).  Further, my
> transdisciplinary approach to the topic has given an opportunity to
> contribute ideas on how practice-led activity and research, audio-visual
> documentations and round-table sharing experiences, can contribute to
> cooperative research sharing.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:11 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>  hi andrew, something more personal, about your motivations perhaps, or as
>> you suggest, will be fine, there is no hurry,
>>
>> I would normally do it myself, but given the travel, it is difficult ...
>> more and more backlog as we proceed <g>
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:54 AM, andrew paterson <agryfp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Hei Michel!
>>
>> Thanks for posting this facebook item about essay..
>>
>> I guess you might have read now? :)
>>
>> What do you have in mind as intro.. ?
>>
>> The essay does have an abstract already.. but do you want to contextualise
>> it according to the sort of things you have witnessed this last weekend
>> also? I can do, but not until next week..
>>
>> my best,
>> a
>>
>> >I was there and experienced what Andrew Paterson writes about in this
>> wonderful essay: traditional 'talkoot' rural cooperation is moving >to
>> finnish city life
>> http://journals.sfu.ca/affinities/index.php/affinities/article/viewFile/51/141
>>
>> >by the way, andrew, could you write a little intro, so I can present your
>> essay via the p2p blog as well?
>>
>>
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