There’s a global paradigm shift taking place, and it’s embodied in peer-to-peer lateral networks, the sharing economy, disruptive technology and an increased human capacity for empathy. It’s redefining how we communicate, work, form communities and create wealth. Through the workings of technology, the collaborative economy and the commons, it signals the democratization of social and economic relationships. Relationships forged through the sharing and the exchanging of information through these networks transcend GDPs, cultures and borders. It is a reality in which people connect and engage in transactions based on common interests and needs without a centralized mechanism of control. The impact of peer-to-peer on our economy and communication systems marks the formation of a new socioeconomic paradigm. It is a powerful dynamic force driven by technology and necessity. It is a paradigm being born out of great disruption; still in its infancy, it is a vulnerable and a fragile world.
There are several efforts to build a more decentralized internet — from attempts to build peer-to-peer wireless networks like Commotion or Open Garden to similar efforts with P2P browsers, such as BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom.
How far can the peer-to-peer revolution be pushed? It’s time we start to speculate, because history is moving fast. We need to dislodge from our minds our embedded sense of what’s possible.
Since the previous global crisis, which had triggered the launch of global neoliberal restructuring known as Globalisation in the late 60s, there have been major contributions made from critical perspectives to understand the expansion of capitalist mode of production and the formation of the world market. Much of the insights were developed by political economy theorists from the West and the Center. Taken the first and second generation classical work of those like Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Rudolf Hilferding, Vladimir I. Lenin, Bukharin, Peter Kropotkin, Karl Polanyi, Antonio Gramsci, third and forth generation classics came out in this period. Althusser, Foucoult, Lefebvre, Balibar, De Bord, Deleuze, Miliband, Poulantzas, Palloix, Murray, Hymer, Wallerstein, Amin, Arrighi, Baran, Sweezy, Breverman, Tronti, Negri, Verno, Cox, van der Pijl, Waterman among many others have re-worked on the state, classes, production, labour, capital, power, ideology, agency, and so forth, and have added new insights on our understanding of ever changing world historical structures and the possible vision for radical emancipatory change. In this post-war and New-Left era, both Gramsci and Polanyi had been rediscovered and their work stimulated -especially via Poulantzas’ analysis- the development of the analysis of the transnational dimension of the changing capitalism.
P2P is first of all a relational dynamic, in which agents (people or computers) can connect to each other directly, without having to ask permission of any intermediaries, and therefore also can self-organize form the bottom up. P2P in this context is thus essentially a particular 'network structure'.
I sat down with Robert Laubacher, Associate Director and Research Scientist with the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Laubacher discusses the climate colab, a project working to address climate change through citizen scientists and others who have an opportunity to submit proposals that will be reviewed by experts and winners will be given opportunities to contribute to briefings before the UN and US Congress
Think of Foundups is a new social p2p experiment to usher in an new open P2P business model that will ushers in new P2P open corporations that might just help usher in Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilisation that he states is required for our survival as a species. Please join me in helping us launch this experiment by becoming a patron for as little as $1 per month. Together we JUST might save our planet, our species and the other 70% of species slated for extinction by 2080.
This session is aimed at exploring and discussing different political issues around P2P. Peer production (short for mass-online commons-based peer production) refers to the particular way of...
P2P refers to peer-to-peer or person-to-person. In the context of Cooperation2015, it signifies a larger movement or body of thought that we now possess the understanding and technology to reshape our world into a more sustainable, human-oriented set of societies. In this article, I will attempt to list some basics that help define p2p. Here is an interview with Michel Bauwensintroducing the concept of p2p.
Guerrilla Translation co-founder Ann Marie Utratel describes Guerrilla Translation's journey in the last year and gives an overview of our new websites and our plans for 2015.
Nonprofits engage with their supporters and encourage those individuals to involve their own support network to receive optimal support for their organization. As you know, this involvement is referred to as peer-to-peer fundraising (aka P2P).
This session is aimed at exploring and discussing different political issues around P2P. Peer production (short for mass-online commons-based peer production) refers to the particular way of open collaboration behind information-centred initiates like free software and Wikipedia, though in the late years it has been exported to other production realms (from hardware to building and farming). Many authors believe it represents in fact an emerging mode of production with disruptive consequences, ranging from a new form of communism to an extreme variety of neoliberal cognitive capitalism. In this session we will tackle issues like the presence of the so-called Californian ideology in political discourses about P2P, the political geography of P2P, the role of nature and the environment in alternative production experiences and the politics of hackerspaces.
The #occupy movement, which is a surface manifestation of a deeper Multitude movement, is in fact a refutation of power. Not only of the "power in place", i.e. big banks, governments, etc. but of what we call "instituted power", the kind of power your boss has over you. The consensus decision making process, a form of direct democracy that has been adopted by the #occupy movement, is the most obvious affirmation of this refutation of instituted power relations, which until now has been seen as a necessary structuring mechanisms of society.
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“This edited volume is 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), Göteborg 2014. In their different ways, the authors bear witness to foregone and forgotten traditions of utopian technology development, providing the background of present-day initiatives to build a better future from bottom-up.”
The internet needs to be re-built from the bottom up. Network locally first and only then connect to the world “out there”. A local wireless network might be coming to your neighbourhood soon.
In the wake of Uber and Airbnb’s rapid growth and billion dollar valuations, everyone is talking about the sharing economy. Sharing marketplaces are experiencing tremendous growth, and today anyone who can rent out a room in their home, share their car, or even leverage their free time running errands can become a micro-entrepreneur.
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