Michel Bauwens: P2P Mode of Production – An Indiano Manifesto

Culture, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens

Published under the Public Domain, freely downloadable in HTML, epub or PDF, “The P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto” is the first collective Indiano work translated into English.

This document is a call to action, based on Las Indias’ analysis that the reduction of the optimal scale of production is the root of the current crisis — in Spain particularly, but also worldwide. This is a grave threat for huge corporations (and to a lesser extent, national governments), but very promising for small enterprises. That’s because the core of the P2P mode of production is a “knowledge commons” available to all. Abundant information on every topic imaginable, but especially on small-scale production, means that local producers can freely choose the most effective, efficient and accessible processes, without the shackles of intellectual property. This will lead to a blossoming of local enterprise. And that’s where you can take action.

There’s a lot more to it — see for yourself!

The translation and formatting of this book is US$1000 worth of work. The content is available for free, as a webpage, epub or PDF, but please consider donating one half of one percent of that — or as much or as little as seems right to you. This will go a long way toward encouraging future translations of the works of Las Indias.

Phi Beta Iota:  Michel Bauwens is one of the iconic figures of the transitional period from past to future, from Industrial Era stove-pipes and greed, to Information Era open source everything and sharing to create collaborative economies.

See Also:

Collaborative Economy Coalition

Tom Atlee, Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics (Evolver, 2012)

Michel Bauwens, Report: A Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy (Orange Labs and P2P Foundation, 2012)

Robert Steele, THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Truth (Evolver, 2012)

Berto Jongman: Internet Rising – Collective Consciousness

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, P2P / Panarchy, YouTube
Berto Jongman

Internet Rising – documentary film

Released on 11.29.11, ‪http://internetRISING.net‬ is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains… and the gray area contrasts in between – but most of all it is meant to be an inspiring conversation starter

See Also:

Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Ecco 2012)

20 Sep 2012 Franklin & Marshall College: Internet Technology and the Transformation of the Human

P2P / Panarchy

Internet Technology and the Transformation of the Human

Posted on September 7, 2012 in Common Hour Events

2012-13 Miller Humanities Fellow, Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author of “You Are Not a Gadget”

Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. in Mayser Gymnasium

This event will not be recorded.

415 Harrisburg Ave  Lancaster, PA 17603  [2 hours 30 minutes from Washington DC]

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in the field of virtual reality. He left gaming company Atari in 1985 to co-found VPL Research Inc., the first company to market virtual reality products. Sun Microsystems acquired VPL in 1999.

Lanier was chief scientist of Advanced Network and Services, a nonprofit that funds the advancement of education through technology, from 1997 to 2001 and a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics from 2001 to 2004. He was scholar at large at Microsoft Research, working on the Kinect device for Xbox 360 from 2006 to 2009. Currently he holds the position of partner architect at Microsoft Research.

Lanier is the author of the international bestseller You Are Not a Gadget (2010), a critique of Web 2.0, a second generation of the World Wide Web responding to people’s desires to collaborate and share information online. In 2010 Time Magazine named Lanier to its annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Lanier also composes classical music and collects rare instruments.

This event is open to the public. Free; no tickets required.

Anthony Judge: Transforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned — Imagination, Promise, Rocks, Memorials, Petrification

Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Anthony Judge

Transforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned
Imagination, Promise, Rocks, Memorials, Petrification

 Laetus in praesens, 4 Sep 2012

EXTRACT:

This experiment explores analogies between the mnemonic pentagrams fundamental to the Hygieia understanding of health of Pythagoreans and to its current understanding through the Wu Xing system of Chinese culture. The focus here is however on their relevance to the dynamics of “cognitive health”, especially with respect to a global knowledge-based society — whose conflicts are variously driven by societies attaching central significance to the pentagonal star. This follows an earlier exploration of symbolic framings (Middle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry: engendering connectivity from incommensurable 5-fold and 6-fold conceptual frameworks, 2012).

Introduction
Fivefold clustering of ways of being stoned
Towards a cognitive variant of the viable systems model
Comprehending cognitive metabolism
Cycles of enstoning forming mnemonic pentagrams: Hygiea and Wu Xing
Potentially health developmental integrity from 5-fold symmetry
Cognitive health as a sustainable cycle of self-reflexivity
Mnemonic possibilities towards cognitive health
Memetic osmosis around a 5-fold pattern of enstoning
Health and sustainability misleadingly framed as target acquisition
Frames of reference and conceptual revolution
Magnum Opus: cyclic transformation of Qi / Chi?
Enstoning as degrees of material formalization
References

Yoda: Integrating Arts Into Sciences

04 Education, Academia, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Knights know that the arts–especially music–are essential to developing the creative and innovative impulses of entrepreneurs.  Put more directly:  no arts in education – fewer entrepreneurs.

Lesson Plans and Resources for Arts Integration

Dance in science, pop art in Spanish, or photography in math — there’s no end to the ways arts can be integrated into other curricula. Educators from Bates Middle School, in Annapolis, Maryland, share arts-integrated lessons and resources that you can use in your school.

Michel Bauwens: Fractional Scholarship

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens

White Paper on Fractional Scholarship

So, I've been working with the incomparable Sam Arbesman to write up some thoughts on the concept of “fractional scholarship.” Basically, the idea is that there are a lot of people out there who have the expertise and the interest to contribute to scholarly research, but for whom, for whatever reason, the seventy-hour-a-week academic lifestyle just doesn't work. We need to develop mechanisms that will allow people to participate in research at ten, twenty, or thirty hours a week, and to get paid for doing it.

Obviously, someone working only ten hours a week would get paid a lot less than a university professor, which is part of what makes this such a powerful model. Keep in mind that a typical university professor probably does not spend much more that ten hours a week actually doing research anyway, what with all the personnel-management and bureaucratic tasks that take up so much of their time.

Basically, all the people out there (and there are tens of thousands of them) who got a PhD, but then dropped out of academia (e.g., to have kids) represent a vast underutilized intellectual resource that is trading well below its actual value. Tapping in to that resource is one of the things that we hope to do with the Ronin Institute.

Check out the full white paper at the Kauffman Foundation website, here. [Also Below]

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Tom Atlee: Non-Violent Reformulation of Political Power

P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Tom Atlee

We need to reformulate political power now!

by Tom Atlee

We need to reformulate political power.  We need to do it now and we need to focus on it as central to our work on every issue, every vision, every outrage and hope.

Our goal in reformulating political power must be to move from governance that primarily serves the short term profit of the few to governance that primarily serves quality of life for all – including future generations.

In order to achieve this, we need to reformulate political power in at least five ways.  All five reformulations need to synergize and support each other if we are to meet our goal.  If we fail to reformulate any one of these forms of power, we risk undermining the others and falling far short of our goal.

Here is a quick outline – a draft summary, really – of a possible integrated vision of power reformulation:

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