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Date archives "January 2006"
Who owns ‘the wisdom of crowds’
This is related to our earlier posts about Antigoras and netarchical capitalism, which refers to a new breed of companies that develop through enabling participatory platforms, while the Antigoras article of Jaron Lanier pointed to the dangers of new monopolies. Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine, tackles this contradiction between community production and private appropriation head on,… Continue reading
Blogs and alternative media
Michel Bauwens: I will be attending, together with China-blogger Fons Tuinstra, who just identified one of the subjects of the conference, that alternative new media feel squeezed between the traditional media, who get all the resources, and the blogs, who compete with them for free. The problem is real: the free availibility of information through… Continue reading
Person to Person disaster relief: p2paid.org
Michel Bauwens: I’m on the go as a write this from a cybercafe, but it seems an extremely worthy P2P initiative, see the P2P Aid website: Here’s a text explainging the initiative: About P2P Aid P2P Aid During global disasters the IT community worldwide is pulling together to find new ways of putting to good… Continue reading
Towards the Distribution of Everything
Towards the Distribution of Everything Most advocates of peer production, such as Yochai Benkler, see it as applying mostly to the immaterial economy. In my own manuscript, I examine the possibilities of expansion in some detail. The key argument is the following. Peer to peer is a relational dynamic that arises in distributed networks, and… Continue reading
Introduction to “intellectual contributions” theory, Nicholas Bentley
Nicholas Bentley sent us the following contribution, which he introduces as follows, to distinguish it from the General Public License and Creative Commons efforts: The principle difference between what I propose and GPL/CC is that I recognise that most content probably is and needs to be in the common domain but at the same time… Continue reading
The hypothesis of Netarchical Capitalism
This entry refers to the debate mentioned in previous post, on the emergence of Antigoras. Since the related hypothesis of netarchical capitalism is not yet published online, I’m republishing it here from my offline manuscript: The citation follows the sections where I describe more in details the theories of cognitive capitalism and the vectoral class…. Continue reading
P2P, Netarchical capitalism, Protocollary Power and Jaron Lanier’s Antigoras
The following is a very interesting essay by Jaron Lanier, well-known as a VR pioneer, about the emergence of Antigoras, participatory platforms which profit from huge amounts of periphery labour and increasingly present users with a situation of ‘lock-in’. In our essay on P2P Theory, there are several elements which link to the points made… Continue reading
P2P Link Selection: Darren Sharp
Darren Sharp sent us the following links: The Battle over Books. New York Public Library seminar featuring Lawrence Lessig. LIVE from the NYPL and WIRED Magazine present a provocative discussion about the competing interests and issues raised by the Google Print Library Project, and whether a universal digital repository of our collective knowledge is in… Continue reading
Wireless Community movement creates a P2P network: FON
Salvino Salvaggio writes us: “just a few words to inform you of this wonderful project : the FON Project. This is a great example of community sharing of individual resources. The FON Project propose their members to share their broadband connection by making it a free wifi hot-spot. In other words, if you have a… Continue reading
P2P Cooperation in 3D: Open Croquet
Philippe Van Nedervelde informs us: “Michel, given your interest in P2P technologies… as well as your perennial interest in virtual reality… it is my pleasure to introduce you to Alan Kays’ Croquet Project. It may very well become the new web… finally fully in 3D. Launch of V 1.0 is imminent: 26 January. For a… Continue reading
P2P and the Open Access Movement
Following the call for cooperation call which presented the participatory, open, and commons movement as a ‘three-legged stool’, we received two responses. One in the comments area, presented the newsblog open dot dot dot Peter Suber, one of the driving forces behind the open access movement send us a list of links to discover: Open… Continue reading
The Peer to Peer Foundation needs your cooperation
The Foundation aims to develop a knowledge base concerning three related social movements: 1) those in favour of participation, i.e. the P2P movement proper. It refers to peer to peer as the relational dynamic at work in distributed networks and the largest possible equipotential participation; 2) those in favour of the open paradigm (open access,… Continue reading
The logic of affinity vs. the logic of hegemony
Michel Bauwens There is an interesting presentation at the Ungrammatical Multitude blog which counterposes the logic of hegemony and the logic of affinity. It refers to a book by Richard Day, Gramsci is Dead, Gramsci being the foremost theoretician of hegemony. In political strategy, the old leftist view was antagonist, two ‘classes’ fighting for hegemony,… Continue reading
Transhumanism and peer to peer: Amor Mundi and the transhumanist left
Michel Bauwens: The transhumanist movement, as a movement uniting those in favor of technological augmentation of the human potential, is too often identified with the extreme anarchocapitalist libertarians such as the Extropians. There is also a left to this movement, and among the sources to encounter this type of thinking is the Amor Mundi blog… Continue reading
John Heron’s relational spirituality and Wilber critique
I planned to publish this item in issue 106 of P2P News, dedicated to contemporary political ‘P2P-inspired’ movements, but for lack of space, will publish it later. But so as not to deprive the readers of access to it, I’m reproducing it here, See also the following links: See also Jorge Ferrer’s introduction to participatory… Continue reading