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Book of Peer Production

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The Book of Peer Production has been released as a special edition of Journal of Peer Production. It consists of papers written by presenters at the Peer Production-track at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) in Göteborg 2014. It is cool, that all content in the book is in the public domain.

 

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All power to the {historical} imagination! McKenzie Wark on Karatani | P2P Foundation

Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History is an astonishing work of synthetic historical theory: world history is the history of modes of exchange.
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Book: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy | P2P Foundation

Murray Bookchin's 'The Next Revolution' offers a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.
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Essay of the Day: Torrent Poisoning | P2P Foundation

The cultural industries have proven to be surprisingly creative in the strategies they employ to combat piracy substantiated by the documents in this book.
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Patterns of Commoning | The Commons Strategies Group

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Patterns of Commoning: The Commons Strategies Group
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Think Global, Print Local and licensing for the Commons | P2P Foundation

The Peer Production License (PPL) allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works.
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On the link between neoliberalism and bureaucracy | P2P Foundation

On the link between neoliberalism and bureaucracy | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs. Far from being anti-bureaucratic, the neoliberal regime... Continue reading →
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“Biology of Wonder”: Aliveness as a Force of Evolution and the Commons | P2P Foundation

Biology, which has made so many efforts to chase emotions from nature since the 19th century, is rediscovering feeling as the foundation of life.

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Think Global, Print Local: A crowdfund for a new publishing and distribution network | P2P Foundation

Originally published on Shareable, Ann Marie Utratel of Guerrilla Translation and the P2P Foundation describes the thoughts that led to developing the #ThinkGlobalPrintLocal project.

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Artificial Abundance and Artificial Scarcity | P2P Foundation

Paul Mason occupies a niche where there is plenty of room for more good analysis.
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Video: A Review and Discussion of the Utopia of Rules by David Graeber | P2P Foundation

Video: A Review and Discussion of the Utopia of Rules by David Graeber | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
An interesting spoken review by LectionARIC. Watch the video here:
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Nine Key Political Propositions About How To Build the Common | P2P Foundation

Nine Key Political Propositions About How To Build the Common | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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Some reading notes on the book, "Commun", published in France | P2P Foundation

Some reading notes on the book, "Commun", published in France | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Commun is a book that is perhaps the first political-theoretical treatise on the commons in France, and has been much discussed by commoners in France. * Book: Commun: essai sur la revolution au XXIème siècle. Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval. (In English: Common: An Essay on Revolution in the 21st Century) Here are some quick …
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(Future 10) Three More ‘Must Read’ Books about our Future

(Future 10) Three More ‘Must Read’ Books about our Future | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Recommended reading if you want to know what is Changing Fast. I. "Exponential Organizations" Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) Paperback – October 14, 2014 by Salim Ismail (Author), Michael S. Malone (Author), Yuri van Geest (Author), Peter H. Diamandis (Foreword)…
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Labor in the Global Digital Economy reviewed in Radical Philosophy • Monthly Review

Labor in the Global Digital Economy reviewed in Radical Philosophy • Monthly Review | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age 208 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 9781583674635 By Ursula Huws Reviewed by Elinor Taylor “When will work be over? This question, both urgent and plaintive, increasingly imposes itself as any fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of automation is indefinitely deferred and as work intensifies in… | more |… | more…
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A book on Radical Inclusivity in Architecture and Urbanism | P2P Foundation

The real strength of today’s protest movements is not conflict, but a reclaimed solidarity and newly rebuilt sense of community.
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The history of modes of exchange points towards the emergence of a P2P mode of exchange | P2P Foundation

COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ECONOMY AND BUSINESS INTEGRAL THEORY P2P BOOKS P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P SUBJECTIVITY P2P THEORY PEER PRODUCTION PEER PROPERTY

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The snowflake model: Marshall Ganz on how technology has changed organizing revolutions | P2P Foundation

Marshall Ganz is a ‘social movement scholar’ and author of the book, Why David Sometimes Wins.He shares his general thoughts on the use of social media in the Arab spring.
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P2P BOOKS P2P GOVERNANCE P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P MOVEMENTS POLITICS

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The Fourth Revolution

The Fourth Revolution | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions.
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Call for chapters: Citizen Science in Modern Research | P2P Foundation

Full title: Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research. "A book edited by Luigi Ceccaroni (1000001 Labs) and Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC).
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Future of Education as a Commons | P2P Foundation

The students at ISIA Design Florence are abandoning the state of crisis through the design of a commons-based, peer-to-peer, emergent, permeable model.

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You can't tell me what to do with my land! | P2P Foundation

Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others to be absorbed in selfishness

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Book of the Week: Gregg Lahood's critique of new age narcissism | P2P Foundation

Book of the Week: Gregg Lahood's critique of new age narcissism | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
New Age transpersonalism leans toward a restrictive non-relational spirituality because of its historical affirmation of individualism and transcendence. Relational spirituality (which is central to the emerging participatory-paradigm) swims against strong and popular currents in New Age-transpersonal thinking, belief, and practice which tend to see spirituality as an individual, personal, ?inner‘ pursuit (often) into Eastern/Oriental non-dualism …
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Guy Standing on Why the Future Needs a Basic Guaranteed Income | P2P Foundation

Guy Standing on Why the Future Needs a Basic Guaranteed Income | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Guy Standing focuses here on the research and experiments which show basic income guarantees are working where they have been tried. The first 3.50 minutes are a dutch-language introduction to the speaker. Watch the video here:
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From little brother/sister to Big Father to Big Brother to Little Brother and Sister at Scale | P2P Foundation

From little brother/sister to Big Father to Big Brother to Little Brother and Sister at Scale | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The following book review describes the shift from traditional tribal societies, which was based on the trust of knowing each other personally in small communities, to the shift towards big centralized empires, which required a common fear of God to create trust amongst strangers. Contining with such a evolutonary perspectve we could posit the phase …
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