[p2p-research] top ten p2p books of 2011

[Michel Bauwens]

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2011/1/2 David de Ugarte <david at lasindias.coop>

> Thanks for the reference Michel!
>
>
> On 01/01/11 04:10, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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>> via http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Best_P2P_Books_of_2010
>>
>> a sligthly modified version of this will be published on January 4, so
>> there is still time for suggestions,
>>
>> any glaring omissions?
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> This year, the crop of books on p2p related themes has been so
>> overwhelming that I find it impossible to limit myself to the classic
>> list of just ten books. I therefore have organized the list as a series
>> of 10 clustered themes. The order of the listing is influenced by the
>> quality of the book (either read by myself, by people I trust, or
>> through general recommendation) and the importance of the broad theme
>> they are addressing.
>>
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>>  The List
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>>    1. The Theory and Practice of the P2P Counter-Economy
>>
>> Marvin Brown's book is simply the most important book I have read this
>> year, for its reconceptualisation of how to view the economy, no longer
>> as an economics of property where labour, land and money are seen as
>> commodities themselves, but as an economics of provisioning where those
>> three inputs are seen as subjects (labour and nature), and as 'commons'.
>> It's weak on how to get there, but it's important to know that's where
>> we need to get. By contrast, the equally important book by Kevin Carson
>> is really all about, how do we get there, and examines in detail the
>> transition to an economy that combines relocalized distributed
>> manufacturing with global open design communities.
>>
>>
>> 1. A. Civilizing the Economy
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Civilizing_the_Economy>. A new economics of
>>
>> provision. Marvin T. Brown. Cambridge University Press, 2010
>>
>> 1.B. The Homebrew Industrial Revolution
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Homebrew_Industrial_Revolution>: A
>>
>> Low-Overhead Manifesto. By Kevin Carson.
>>
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>>    2. The New Forms of globalized P2P Governance and Enterprise
>>
>> The David Ugarte / Las Indias trilogy consists of a history of
>> respectively enterprise forms, governance forms, and network forms, each
>> culminating in the distributed format era, and which have recently been
>> translated in English. But in this context our primary attention should
>> go to this key book:
>>
>> 2.A. Phyles: Economic Democracy in the Network Century
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Economic_Democracy_in_the_Network_Century>. by
>>
>> David de Ugarte
>>
>> David de Ugarte and the colleagues at lasindias.net
>> <http://lasindias.net> fill in the missing piece of one of the more
>>
>> important ingredients of a new globalized infrastructure of value
>> creation, by highlighting the importance of the concept and practice of
>> the Phyle, a transnational value community linked to enterpreneurial
>> entities that have as primary aim the creation of sustainability of the
>> new value communities.
>>
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>>    3.The New Forms of Sharing and Collaboration in the Economy
>>
>> Shared consumption is just as important as shared production, and both
>> Rachel and Lisa have uncovered the new landscape of shareable use of
>> goods and infrastructures.
>>
>> 3.A. What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Rise_of_Collaborative_Consumption>, by Rachel
>>
>> Botsman and Roo Rogers (Fall, HarperCollins), 2010
>>
>> 3.B. The Mesh <http://p2pfoundation.net/Mesh>: Why the Future of
>>
>> Business is Sharing. By Lisa Gansky. Portfolio / Penguin Group, FALL 2010
>>
>> Special mention for the way this book was collaborative produced:
>>
>> Collaborative Futures. Floss Manuals, 2010.
>>
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>>    4.Logics of Natural and Cultural Abundance against the artificial
>>    engineering of scarcity
>>
>> While we are waiting for the more theoretically grounded work in the
>> upcoming book of Roberto Verzola, these two books do the groundwork of
>> popularising this very important idea, that while there are objective
>> 'scarcities' in the natural world, most of those we experience are
>> actually manufactured by the existing global system. People go hungry
>> not because there is not enough food, but because of the way, food
>> production is currently organized, while the natural abundance of
>> natural cycles is destroyed through terminator seeds, and cultural,
>> scientific and even commercial innovation is impeded and slowed down
>> through patents and IP.
>>
>>
>> 4.A. Plenitude <http://p2pfoundation.net/Plenitude>: The New Economics
>>
>> of True Wealth. By Juliet B. Schor. Penguin, 2010
>>
>> 4.B. Wolfgang Hoeschele. The Economics of Abundance
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Economics_of_Abundance>: A Political Economy
>>
>> of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability. Gower Publishing, 2010
>>
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>>    5.Protecting our P2P Internet
>>
>> Rushkoff and Ryan have written very accessible books highlighting the
>> importance of defending the p2p nature of the internet against poltical
>> control and commercial exploitation.
>>
>> 5.A. Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Program or be Programmed
>> <
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Best_P2P_Books_of_2010?title=Program_or_be_Programmed&action=edit&redlink=1
>> >:
>>
>> Ten Commands for the Digital Age
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>> 5.B. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/History_of_the_Internet_and_the_Digital_Future>
>> .
>>
>> Johnny Ryan. Reaktion Press, 2010
>>
>> Special mention for this more extented scholarly treatment of the
>> threaths to the end to end internet:
>>
>> Internet Architecture and Innovation
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Internet_Architecture_and_Innovation>. Barbara
>>
>> van Schewick. MIT Press, 2010
>>
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>>    6.The emergence of a P2P Left
>>
>> People on the left are critiquing the embeddedness of much of free
>> software and free cultural practice to the dominant modalities of
>> capital accumulation, but doing so by offering constructive alternatives
>> that makes use of the new technological affordances as weapons in the
>> struggle.
>>
>> 6.A. The Telekommunist Manifesto
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Telekommunist_Manifesto>. Dmytri Kleiner.
>>
>> Institute for Network Cultures, 2010
>>
>> 6.B. Wikiworld <http://p2pfoundation.net/Wikiworld>: Political Economy
>>
>> of Digital Literacy, and the Road from Social to Socialist Media. Juha
>> Suoranta – Tere Vadén.
>>
>> Special mention go to 2 new studies of digital activism, and Joss Hands'
>> book will likely be a candidate for our list next year:
>>
>> Joss Hands. @ Is For Activism
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/@_Is_For_Activism>. Pluto Press, 2010
>>
>> Digital Activism Decoded
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Digital_Activism_Decoded>, Ed. by Mary Joyce.
>> Idebate Press, 2010
>>
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>>    7.The work of the scholars
>>
>> Lewis Hyde's book, which I have yet to read, has been widely hailed not
>> just for its scholarly but also for its literary qualities. The book on
>> A2K has an absolutely amazing collection of essays on the movement for
>> free access to knowledge.
>>
>> 7.A. Common as Air <http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_as_Air>. Revolution,
>>
>> Art, and Ownership. Lewis Hyde. 2010
>>
>> 7.B. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
>> <
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Access_to_Knowledge_in_the_Age_of_Intellectual_Property
>> >
>>
>> by Gaelle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski (eds.). Zone Books, 2010
>>
>> A special mention must go to the work of master editor Daniel Araya, and
>> Michael Peters, for having collected the classic essays on p2p learning
>> and education, and much more:
>>
>> Education in the Creative Economy
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Education_in_the_Creative_Economy>: Knowledge
>>
>> and Learning in the Age of Innovation. Edited by Daniel Araya & Michael
>> A. Peters. Peter Lang, 2010
>>
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>>    8.The spirituality of P2P
>>
>> The struggle against spiritual authoritarianism and exploitation is an
>> important part of the p2p sensibility, and Jeff Meyerhoff's work, though
>> written before, has only found a publisher this year. It's a brilliant
>> deconstruction of the major faults in the integral theory of Ken Wilber
>> and its authoritarian aspects. Bill Gibson reminds us of the importance
>> of de-hierachising and peering in our relation with nature and its
>> beings, and of the importance of a renewed understanding of the sacred,
>> including by the secularly inclined.
>>
>> 8.A. Bald Ambition
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>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Best_P2P_Books_of_2010?title=Bald_Ambitio&action=edit&redlink=1
>> >:
>>
>> Critique of Ken Wilber’s Theory of Everything. Jeff Meyerhoff. Inside
>> the Curtain Press, 2010
>>
>> 8.B. James William Gibson’s “A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New
>> Kinship with Nature
>> <
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Best_P2P_Books_of_2010?title=Quest_for_a_New_Kinship_with_Nature&action=edit&redlink=1
>> >“
>>
>>
>>
>> Special mention: should have been on our list, but we have received no
>> confirmation that it has actually been published yet. But, given his
>> previous Ascent of Humanity book, it should be a really important
>> publication.
>>
>> Charles Eisenstein. Sacred Economics.
>>
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>>    9.Emergent P2P and Commons Urbanism
>>
>> If 2009 was the year of emergence for open manufacturing, then 2010 was
>> the year for the emergence of a robust community of p2p urbanism. While
>> we are waiting for the official publication of the book of readings by
>> Nikos Salingaros, here are two treatments, one on Vancouver, and the
>> other a very practical guide to the sustainable life in cities.
>>
>> 9.A. Common Ground in a Liquid City
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Ground_in_a_Liquid_City>: Essays in
>>
>> Defense of an Urban Future. Matt Hern. AK Press, 2009.
>>
>> 9.B. Towards Radical Urban Resilience
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>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Best_P2P_Books_of_2010?title=Towards_Radical_Urban_Resilience&action=edit&redlink=1
>> >:
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>> Toolbox for Sustainable City Living. Scott Kellog
>>
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>>    10.Other Important Books
>>
>> Joseph Hanlon show the benefits of welfare state politics in Latin
>> America and the global South, instead of the current model of neoliberal
>> corporate welfare and bailouts for the speculators; while Jennifer
>> Sertl's book is indicative for the new attention in business for
>> redesign around communication and cooperation, and new styles of
>> leadership.
>>
>> 10.A. Just Give Money to the Poor
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Just_Give_Money_to_the_Poor>: The Development
>>
>> Revolution from the Global South. By Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos
>> and David Hulme.
>>
>> 10.B. Jennifer Sertl & Koby Huberman. Strategy, Leadership & the Soul:
>> Resilience, Responsiveness and Reflection for a Global Economy.
>>
>> Special mention:
>>
>> Cognitive Surplus <http://p2pfoundation.net/Cognitive_Surplus>:
>>
>> Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Clay Shirky. The Penguin
>> Press, 2010
>>
>> Shirky's essays are always stimulating for the neurons.
>>
>>
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