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What exactly is the P2P Foundation? I consider it an invaluable resource of archived information about the history of peer production and related topics. 
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For the last several years, Spain has been a laboratory for bottom-up organisation and empowerment.
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Even though the Spanda Foundation is not a publishing house, it publishes – under its own inprint "Spanda Publishing" – occasional and working papers such as final reports of its projects, results and reflections from ongoing research, discussion and topical papers, conference proceedings and the like to stimulate and disseminate new insight in current issues. The series, published predominantly in English, is targeted at international policymakers, academics, journalists and the general public.
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A Theory of Everybody: a platform for social poetics & planetary thought. We are an open-source cooperative of writers, readers, artists, thinkers, activists, and other misfits dedicated to exploring the question: How can art reimagine the world?
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His two main culprits are the Internet—which has decimated the recording industry, the bricks-and-mortar outlet, and newspaper publishing—and rising economic inequality, which has depleted the public coffers and reduced public spending on cultural projects of all sorts, from the construction of museums and concert halls to the sustenance of orchestras and the financing of arts education in schools. But he adds some peripheral villains to the scene, including the rise in academia of cultural studies that renounce established cultural distinctions; literary theories that dethrone the humanistic and aesthetic approach to literature; longstanding American suspicion of intellectuals; and even the enduring romanticism regarding artists, who are, in this view, “either soaring deities or accursed gutter-dwellers”—thus helping to rationalize a culture that leaves artists no option but to succeed as celebrities or sink as obscurities.
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