First note: today, in Europe, no phyles exist. A phyle is a confederation—which is to say, a network with no higher structure—of conversational communities with their own companies, which share a series of common funds in a transnational space: basically, “social security” and mutual economic support systems. So, it must be said clearly: las Indias… Continue reading
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Phyles and the new communalism
An illustrated history of the biggest changes of our time: the globalization of the small and the reemergence of empowered communities. Essay by David de Ugarte Originally published on Las Indias Images by Carla Boserman. Translated by Steve Herrick, edited by Jane Loes Lipton – Guerrilla Translation! At the beginning of the nineteenth century, most… Continue reading
The mechanics of governance of the Indiano phyle
Part 2 of the recently translated founding document of the Indianos. On the Assembly of the Indianos The Assembly of the Indianos is the highest decision-making institution of the Indiano phyle. It will meet in person upon convocation of the governor at least once a year. It decides: The percentage of the total available surplus… Continue reading
The founding principles of the Indiano ‘P2P’ phyle
The Foundation of the Indiano phyle is the basic organizational definition of the phyle and the link between its communitarian logic and its economic metabolism. The foundation document of the Las Indias cooperative group has recently been translated. This is the first part on the founding principles, and an impressive document. Origins and values For… Continue reading
Should we aim for P2P Guilds and Leagues instead of P2P Phyles?
“Such guilds and leagues as may be created in the service of p2p culture will be able to confederate in any number of flexible ways. So too can those peer groups who, despite my valiant efforts of persuasion, prefer to call themselves phyles, tribes, clans, pods, schools, gaggles, or ganfaloons… In many cases peers will… Continue reading
The Organization of United Phyles: a post-Westphalian proposal by Las Indias and the P2P Foundation
Republished from Las Indias (Indjana Kooperativa Grupo): “Worldwide, a growing number of transnational communities is appearing. Some of them tend towards, pursue, or already have a shared economy around diverse commons. They are phyles, and every day, more and more people see them as the alternative to combat crisis, experience social innovation, and live out… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Phyles, Economic Democracy in the Network Century
Phyles: Economic Democracy in the Network Century. by David de Ugarte Introduction by the author: “This work is the last instalment in a series of books, written by half a dozen authors besides me, that try to describe and understand, from a common logic although from different angles, the vast social changes which took place… Continue reading
The post-Westphalian implications of phyles and peer to peer currencies
Internet socialisation and practices are inherently global, and are creating new global institutions, argues Kevin Carson, author of the upcoming Desktop Regulatory State. This article is one year old but still an excellent argumentation about this thesis. Kevin Carson: “Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most… Continue reading
P2P Economics and the role of mutualist phyles: talk at the Winchester School of Arts
Sean Cubitt and Jussi Parikka, two academics at the very top of my list of people I respect, honoured me with an invitation to their school, the Winchester School of Arts. Here’s a record of the talk, focusing on P2P Economics and the role of mutualist phyles … Michel Bauwens at WSA from WSA Global… Continue reading
Deep Trust, Shallow Trust, and Phyles
A recent exchange between Venessa Miemis inspired me to add a section to the chapter on phyles and other networked economic platforms, in my Desktop Regulatory State manuscript: The Value of the Phyle as Opposed to Other Models of Collaboration
Kevin Carson on Bitcoin and the Phyles: dystopia or utopia?
Kevin Carson‘s take on Bitcoin, as reproduced from The Bitcoin Sun : “Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most economic transactions into darknets beyond the government’s capability of monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to implode. This was followed, in short… Continue reading
The next “five year plan” of the P2P Foundation: constructing livelihood through phyles
Towards a strategic relationship between the P2P Foundation and Las Indias Regular readers of our blog will have noticed that I have paid substantial attention to my discovery of the Spanish-language network developed by lasindias.net, which I hadn’t previously encountered. Las Indias, is a cooperative, a neomedieval ‘neo-Venetian’ guild structure that was rooted in cyberpunk… Continue reading
Phyles for platforms: Comparing the Corporate and the Mission Enterprise Model for the infrastructure provision of online communities
The mission enterprise model represents that profitability is not against community autonomous empowerment … while for mission enterprises the commons is the mission and the profit is the means, in corporations, the profit is the goal and the commons merely a byproduct. * Paper: Commercial providers of infrastructure for collective action online. Case studies comparison:… Continue reading
The social commerce wars and beyond: choosing between Metcalfe, Reed, and the new Phyles
What we know of social commerce, i.e. the forms of business taking advantage of social networks, such as Facebook or the ad network of Google, are still based on a vision of individualism, albeit a network version. Taking advantage of their understanding of Metcalfe’s Law, which states that each additional network node exponentially grows the… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Phyles, Economic Democracy in the Network Century
* Book: Phyles: Economic Democracy in the Network Century. by David de Ugarte This is a really remarkable, breakthrough and must-read book for the p2p-oriented community, especially those groping for personal sustainability, open business models and an economy of the commons, and which outlines the new network form of phyles, as well as discussing historical… Continue reading
Phyles: the new neonomadic p2p business structure for the network age
Phyles are business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness This new form is described in a remarkable and must read book, Phyles: Economic Democracy in the Network Century, written by David de Ugarte. David de Ugarte:… Continue reading