Just as an addendum to the last post about Lawrence Lessig’s excellent, thought provoking book Free Culture,it is worth noting that the book is available for download in a multitude of formats at Free-Culture.cc for free. Alternatively, the excellent Legal Torrents has a bit torrent download of the book in audio format, as recorded by… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2006"
P2P Classics: Free Culture
Jeff Petry will be presenting a series of books related to P2P, including some earlier classics, that helped to define the movement, such as the following by Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture is a must-read for anyone reading this, writing blogs, code, or music. In this moment of emerging mash-ups and embedded feeds, online articles and… Continue reading
P2P Data, Opendata, WikiData
[via Social Synergy Weblog] Slashdot reports about Google’s launch of Google Spreadsheet. While this may be an attempt on Google’s part to try and insert advertising into new online realms, the core idea of co-editable spreadsheets and sharing data is definitely worthwhile. Not many people are interested in putting their own personal data onto someone… Continue reading
Adam Arvidsson on Zero-Advertising Brands
By Adam Arvidsson The use of word of mouth has a long history in marketing. Already during the First War, American war propaganda would stage ‘spontaneous’ outburst of patriotic fervour in movie theatres, restaurants and other places where large crowds gathered. Recently however, the reliance on word of mouth, or better, autonomous communication processes that… Continue reading
Bricolab: bricolage, p2p-brut and collaborative authorship
A landscape of bricoleurs Peer to peer communication is every bit an act of bricolage – of tinkering, re-ordering, re-combining, de- and re-constructing existing elements into new and unforeseen forms, only to pass them along the chain to be further transformed. The participant in peer to peer culture, whom we might call a ‘bricoleur’, is… Continue reading
New issue of integral review
Integral review is an “an online, peer-reviewed journal published twice annually. IR publishes a transdisciplinary and transcultural range of works that, taken as a whole, model integral ways of perceiving, thinking, researching, and serving the world we live in.” (http://integral-review.org/index.asp) The current issue propose a french article on P2P written by Michel Bauwens, “le P2P,… Continue reading
Highly Illicit: The dark side of globalization
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moises Naim is a welcome and much-needed counter-balance and corrective to the unfortunate preponderance of Utopian doggeral saturating many accounts of the effects of globalization and technology on us all. We are all quite familiar with the front of the hand, but the… Continue reading
Against Eurocentrism: A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals, by Rajani Kanth
Rajani Khant is a very provocative writer, with whom I often disagree; yet, I find that his work has a great deal of truth in it. The kernel of truth is this: that to live in an extended family, in the context of a small-scale tribal environment, is probably the most natural human environment, the… Continue reading
P2P and Open Futures
‘futures studies…is a field of intellectual and political activity concerning all sectors of the psychological, social, economic, political and cultural life, aiming at discovering and mastering the extensions of the complex chains of causalties, by means of conceptualisations, systematic reflections, experimentations, anticipations and creative thinking. Futures studies therefore constitute a natural basis for subnational, national… Continue reading
The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The first 600 days, Edward Fullbrook (editor)
Mainstream economics is mired in assumptions divorced from any real life practice, and builds model on those flawed assumptions. Luckily, there has been a growing movement to bring back realism into economics, and that includes attention for sharing behaviours. The Post-Autistic Economics movement is one of its expressions, so the following book is very importat… Continue reading
Open Source Politics
I came across this article in Newsweek on the use of the Internet to open up the US political nomination process. The Internet played an important role in the early stages of previous election campaigns. This is the first example i have heard of rewriting the code for how to do the nomination process. Fears… Continue reading
Elephant’s dream : a new movie under creative commons
from http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/05/05/elephants-dream/ “Elephant’s Dream is a computer animated movie, soon to be released on DVD format under a Creative Commons license with all source code included. You can pre-order here. The work comes out of Orange, an animation studio established in Amsterdam by a group of artists and developers from around the world, united by… Continue reading
The Long Tail of PhD research: share your PhD Research with the P2P Foundation
One of the resource bases at the P2P Foundation is a directory of research into the open, participatory, and Commons-based paradigms. Coincidentally, we received this week 2 separate emails on research by students. Miguel Afonso Caetano has written a thesis on tactical media , which we have had no time to read yet. And Chris… Continue reading
David Brin on the difference between markets and capital
The following is a critique of libertarianism by David Brin, which focuses on the influential Cato Institute. The text has a core argument: that a defense of markets does not imply a defense of the manipulative power of great corporations, a fine point that is lost on the market libertarians. It’s a long article, here’s… Continue reading
The organic-integrative society and peer to peer (part two)
This is a dialogue with Jim O’Connor on the similarities and differences in our respective approaches, based upon the essay presented in the previous page. My own responses are in italic. A dialogue between Jim O’Connor and Michel Bauwens Jim O’Connor: I have been working through your essays posted in Frank Visser’s Reading Room and… Continue reading
The organic-integrative society, integralism, and peer to peer (part one)
There is continuous and remarkable movement at Frank Visser’s Integral World site, which hosts critical discussions on integral philosophy, as developed by Ken Wilber. One of the essays which caught my attention recently, is an alternative attempt by Jim O’Connor. What is innovative in his approach is that he attempts to integrate into integral theory,… Continue reading