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Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Fwd: End or no end to capitalism?
by Michel Bauwens 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/755 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 3:26 PM Subject: End or no end to capitalism? To: Michel Visioning Bauwens <visioning(a)p2pfoundation.net> I'm reading two documents written by in part by Oliver Nachtwey 1. _Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe_ https://books.google.com/books?id=F6l2DwAAQBAJ I can't copy and paste from that, but the premise is the decline of human social life in Europe as capitalist growth and profits decline. This is one of several books and articles I've read lately about the decline and possible fall of capitalism due not to Jeremy Rifkin's theories but to other internal contradictions. 2. _Market and Labour Control in Digital Capitalism_ by Philip Staab and Nachtwey In this one, the authors say capitalism is not falling, but staging one of its periodic reconfigurations to escape from one of it's self-made traps. <excerpt from the latter> No End to Capitalism The empirical elaborations and tentative theoretical assumptions in this article aimed at challenging theories of post capitalism, which, in the context of this text, have been associated with current works of Jeremy Rifkin and Paul Mason. In their latest books, both authors argue for a more or less inevitable end to capitalism. They assume that private accumulation is systematically blocked by the inability of capitalist corporations to create revenues by setting prices as they lose control over the reproduction of their commodities in an economy where people have the power to make most things in non-capitalist production models themselves. Mason states, however, that, in building dominant monopolies, leading digital economy companies could retain the power of price setting while the products they deal with become increasingly cheaper in terms of production costs. Notwithstanding, he argues that these attempts will be failing in the end as such monopolies cannot stop the rise of open source and peer production. In order to challenge these ideas, we asked two questions, applied empirically mostly on the case of Amazon: Is the digital economy really moving towards a state in which corporations lose all control over markets, which then become increasingly decommodified? And second, is there really any end to capitalist labour or at least a reduction in capitalist modes of exploitation connected to the digitization trend? While we cannot give a definite answer to both questions, close analysis of Amazon and thoughts on the policies of other leading digital corporations bring us to conclusions which challenge the assumptions of post capitalist theories. First, key corporate players of digitization—in particular Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook—are indeed trying to become powerful monopolies and have partly succeeded in doing so, using network effects of digital platforms, the power of scaling routed in the zero marginal cost logic of digital goods and building socio-technical ecosystems in order to enforce customer retention. Second, it seems that leading digital economy companies tend to develop in part isomorphic structures on the supply side, hence creating a situation of oligopolistic market competition. We drew on basic assumptions of monopoly capital theory, which were elaborated empirically in 1960s to 1980s industrial sociology, to explain that in this situation of oligopolistic competition, cost cutting, achieved primarily via labour process rationalization, becomes key to the corporation’s competitive strategies. In our view, the case study of Amazon and our theoretical assumptions drawn from it offer evidence that strategies of cost cutting especially target the enhancement of digital labour control. Our conclusion is, therefore, that theorists like Mason might be right (although not for the right reasons) in arguing that large digital corporations fail in building stable monopolies. This, however, does not seem to imply any end to capitalist labour. Rather it seems to call for a tightening of the grip of labour control and new modes of exploitation of human labour—phenomena we have addressed with the terms digital Taylorism and digital contingent work. In our view, the current state of digital capitalism resembles a fight for supremacy between large digital corporations, which is based on the enforcement of extraction of value from human labour. Our assumption therefore is that we see nothing like the end of capitalism in the digital economy. Rather, capitalism is maturing in the usage of digital technologies following tracks well known from the history [of] industrial societies. </excerpt> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Abstract submission now open | Submit abstracts by 20 September 2019
by Michel Bauwens 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

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Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: #SCIS2019
by Michel Bauwens 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

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Fwd: URL for Community Economies Summer School promo
by Michel Bauwens 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joanne McNeill <J.Mcneill(a)westernsydney.edu.au> Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:09 PM Subject: URL for Community Economies Summer School promo To: Cc: Katharine McKinnon <k.mckinnon(a)latrobe.edu.au> Thank you all for kindly agreeing to help us distribute information on the upcoming inaugural Community Economies Summer School. A URL is now available and an updated brochure loaded to the page. A number of you asked for a link for ease of sharing etc, so sending on. http://communityeconomies.org/summerschool2019 Thanks again, the team is very appreciative. Kind regards Jo --------- *Joanne McNeill * PhD (Political & Social Thought) | MA (Comms) | Churchill Fellow (2008) Research Projects Manager | Senior Research Associate Institute for Culture & Society | Western Sydney University J.McNeill(a)westernsydney.edu.au | +61 402 200 816 *Please note I work with ICS WSU on Mondays and Tuesdays* <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne_Mcneill4/contributions> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne_Mcneill4 www.linkedin.com/in/joannemcneill/ <https://outlook.office.com/mail/compose/www.linkedin.com/in/joannemcneill/> @JoanneMcNeill <https://outlook.office.com/mail/compose/twitter.com/JoanneMcNeill> <http://twitter.com/JoanneMcNeill> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: 🚀 DAY 4: Michel Bauwens on the Commons + Entrepreneurship in Iraq + Innovation at Acumen
by Michel Bauwens 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kate (StartSomeGood) <kate(a)startsomegood.com> Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:34 AM Subject: Fwd: 🚀 DAY 4: Michel Bauwens on the Commons + Entrepreneurship in Iraq + Innovation at Acumen To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Hi Michel-- Your session is now up! See the email that just went out below. Thanks again for sharing such an invaluable and insightful session on Peer to Peer and The Commons. *I made a picture for you (attached) *which you may like to use on your social accounts to spread the word that your session is now up and free to access via http://starting.gd *And some text to use...* Join me for the #StartingGood Virtual Summit, March 21-31. It's a free-to-access online event, that brings together 30+ inspiring social entrepreneurs, changemakers, and innovation leaders. I'm presenting on Peer to Peer and the Commons in conversation with Tom Dawkins. Listen to my session and many more for free here-- http://starting.gd Onwards and Upwards! Kate :) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: #StartingGood <summit(a)startsomegood.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 at 12:17 Subject: 🚀 DAY 4: Michel Bauwens on the Commons + Entrepreneurship in Iraq + Innovation at Acumen To: <kate(a)startsomegood.com> Hey Changemaker! Happy Sunday :) We have just kicked off Day 4 of the #StartingGood Virtual Summit <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1jsGOwyAQQ78mHCNmBphy4LDVqr9REZgmaJNSBf…> and are super excited to share today’s sessions with you: *Michel Bauwens, *Founder P2P Foundation |* Founder Journey P2P and the Commons* After working at a telco in Belgium in the ’90s Michel realized he was not happy, and in fact, as he puts it “part of the problem” He took a two-year sabbatical and began looking at two key notions of how positive change can happen for people and planet. *One is peer to peer*: *“I think the big change today is the capacity of billion of people literally to connect to each other, to organize together and even to create value together” - Michel Bauwens* *The other is the commons:* *“(It’s} any shared resource that is driven and maintained by a community and has its own rules and norms. I look at how I think we are transitioning from a system that was based on capital state and nation to a system that is based on productive commons. So global open design communities, but share their knowledge. Generative markets, so markets that work for the commons and do not extract from the commons. They don't kill them.”* - Michel Bauwens *Watch:* Michel Bauwens in conversation with Tom Dawkins CEO of StartSomeGood here <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1jkuOwyAQRE9jlhZ08zELFhONco0IQ8dGg0ME5P…> ------------------------------ *Sasha Dichter, *Chief Innovation Officer at Acumen |* Innovation, Impact Investment + Lean Data.* As Acumen <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1TstqwzAQ_BrrKFa7eh50aCj5jSBLi21qVcFS8e…>’s Chief Innovation Officer, Sasha oversees Acumen’s three fastest-growing verticals: Lean Data, which brings customer voice into impact measurement; the Acumen Fellows Programs, with more than 400 Fellows globally; and +Acumen, the World’s School for Social change. In his previous role as Acumen’s Director of Business Development, Sasha led global capital raising, including executing a successful $100M capital raise. *“I think there's a strong and healthy tension in everything that we do. You know, social change through markets has a tension, reaching low income customers and ensuring that they are paying so that the business can be sustainable has a tension. And yes, being a nonprofit that is deploying capital to for-profits also has a tension. So obviously, that's something that we debated endlessly over time.”- *Sasha Dichter *Watch*: Sasha Dichter in conversation with Tom here <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1jstuxCAMRb8mLCNs8wgLFh1V8xsjAm6CmpQRMP…> ------------------------------ *Patricia Letayf,* Co-Founder Five One Labs | *Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities.* The mission of Five One Labs is to help refugees and conflict-affected entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses while also supporting the development of post-conflict societies using entrepreneurship. The name Five One Labs comes from the 1951 Refugee Convention that gives refugees the right to work, This session is particularly fascinating as Patricia shares the universal aspects of entrepreneurship, equally true there, here, everywhere, like the importance of co-founders, while also highlighting what was unique to their extraordinary setting, or post-conflict societies more generally, including a lack of language and legal protections. *Watch:* Patricia Letayf in conversation with Tom here <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1jstuAyEMRb9mWI7A5rlg0ajKb0QEkxlUJkRA_r…> ------------------------------ *Feeling Social?* You're invited to join us in the facebook group - StartingGood Social Entrepreneurs Network <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1js2OgzAMhJ-GHFFi56cccthqxWtUJnEhKjQVyY…>and continue the conversation! If you are enjoying the summit please spread the good word. Give us a shout out on social media using #StartingGood19 and invite your friends to join you at starting.gd <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJxNT0tuwyAQPY3Z2WIAG1iwSFTlGhGBsY1qggWk5w…> Onwards and Upwards! Kate, Sammi, Tom and the whole StartingGood Team P.S. If you’re feeling the buzz but already know you are way too busy to listen in this month, no sweat, you can lock in unlimited lifetime access <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJxNT0luxCAQfI252aJZhwOHjKL5xoilx0aBwTLk_8…> to #StartingGood19 for just $97USD, and go at your own pace. Unsubscribe from Marketing Emails <http://email.teachablemail.com/c/eJw1UEFuwjAQfE1yA9m7sR0fcghQIg4UFVQEXFC8Nk…> © #StartingGood -- Kate Clugston Producer, #StartingGood Summit <https://starting-gd.teachable.com/p/startinggood-social-enterprise-virtual-…> Crowdfunding Coach at StartSomeGood.com - Join me for the #StartingGood Social Enterprise Virtual Summit, March 21-31, 2019. Register for free here. <https://starting-gd.teachable.com/p/startinggood-social-enterprise-virtual-…> - *"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are" Marianne Williamson* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Blog Text for EMES Research Conference Solidarity Fund
by Michel Bauwens 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ridley-Duff, Rory <R.Ridley-Duff(a)shu.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:24 PM Subject: Blog Text for EMES Research Conference Solidarity Fund To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Michel, ---- Start ----- *Help unfunded PhD students and early career researchers participate in a conference on social enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action* After six successful conferences, the 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise Research <https://emes.net/events/conferences/7th-emes-international-research-confere…> will take place between 24-27 June 2019. The organisers have received over 375 proposals of exceptional quality, reflected by the high acceptance rate. Many of the submitted papers come from scholars who are at an early stage in their career, and who live and work in the Global South or regions outside Europe. Unfortunately, every year, many of them are unable to participate in the EMES International Research conference due to a lack of funds in their home countries. EMES have been thinking about how to address this situation, which is why they have launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a solidarity fund. Many researchers who have participated in past conferences, plus those interested in the topic of social enterprise and the solidarity economy, have expressed an interest in supporting unfunded colleagues. EMES are putting their trust in these scholars to make this scheme viable. We are calling on all scholars in the field of solidarity economics, the commons and social enterprise to support the fund. Contributions start from €10. The crowdfunding will cover the travel, accommodation and conference fees of people who would otherwise not be able to attend. This support goes beyond what is currently available to European scholars through the EMPOWER-SE COST Action <http://www.empowerse.eu/>, (a co-organizer of this event). *Main features, strengths and differentials* 1. To allow at least five researchers from Africa, Asia and non-OECD countries to participate in the EMES International Research Conference by covering their travel, accommodation and registration costs. 2. To demonstrate that solidarity exists within the social enterprise research community. 3. To showcase beneficiaries' work in a special video communication. *Why this is important* Scholars in some countries get little or no support to present their research beyond their own university or college. This fund enables them to do so. This is important because social enterprise scholarship has already proved vital in transforming public policy and entrepreneurial practice in many countries. Over the last 10 years, we have seen the EU support the *Social Business Initiative* and the United Nations champion a new set of *Sustainable Development Goals* (accepted by 193 countries). About 30% of enterprises created today now have a social focus on achieving a mission. In addition, many new business models are emerging based on the growing need for sustainable development. These changes are partly the result of articles, books and evidence-based policy papers written by scholars contributing to social economy research. This year's conference theme of "Sustainable development through social enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action" will produce further research contributions that shape the development of the field. By supporting this fund, you will add to the diversity of our research community and redress imbalances in the funding available for people to present their research at this global conference. *Please support the campaign* Make a contribution and share the campaign by visiting the crowdfunding page at: https://en.goteo.org/project/7emes-research-conference-solidarity-fund ----- End ----- -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: The State of the World
by Michel Bauwens 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: r kanth <involutegandhian(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:52 PM Subject: The State of the World To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *Nature of the Real Crisis* I have argued that humans are, above all, *myth-making* animals. We are story-tellers, *par excellence.* Stories about who* we* are, who *Others *are. Cultural stories, religious stories, racial stories, *et. al.* No, we don’t *All* get to make up myths. That’s for *some,* only. The few, the proud, the *ruling castes*: *they* do it all - for us. And we lap it up, faster than they can ladle it. * The most outstanding myths pertain to the dominant tropes in economics, politics, and religion: the three *prime * domains of societal governance. In our own society, they go, more or less, * thus*. In the *first*, *laissez-faire*, and free trade have taken, thus far, pride of place; in the *second,* democracy, equality, *etc.,* occupy public attentions in the *last,* it’s a renewed , recharged , latter-day evangelism that has moved from the fringe to the center, in recent times. The most powerful may well be the *last,* whose longevity will be a telling index of our critical intelligence, * or lack thereof.* * So, when such myths work, society trundles on under the guise of ‘normalcy’. But when they don’t , there is a rift within the lute. *That’s where we are today.* The negation of any *one* of the myths listed would be bad enough, but we live In times where *all three* are, quite obviously , tottering. The *economy* itself – not just its myths - went down in 2008, and has never really recovered (despite much propaganda to the contrary ). The *polity *has exposed its *oligarchical *nature blatantly, even defiantly. >From rigged elections, to voter- registration fraud, and big-time lobbying monies in Congress, the veils have been brutishly ripped (with only 6% expressing any faith in it, about the same level as in official Media). Only the intellectually-challenged still sustain the idea that we subsist in a working *democracy.* Religion has also taken a tumble: the Church of Rome has shown itself to be a sanctum for malignant abuse, of various kinds; the Southern Baptists appear to be not far behind. Religious bigotry has, further polarized communal discord: far from being an *opiate,* it is now a powerful *amphetamine,* which only adds to the rifts. * To sum up: we face a generalised crisis of *legitimacy *in Western societies. The old bromide is wearing thin: the new power-elites seem to lack the maturity to wish to stabilize public opinion, being quite content to resort to the more familiar , if hoary, ploys of *divide et impera.* As the old adage has it, Caesar’s wife must not only be chaste, but needs also be *above suspicion*. Who, in power today, can wear that latter crown of laurels? *No one*. We live with *Unscalable* Corruption (is $21 trillion enough to scale it? That’s what went ‘unaccounted for’ , within but a few years in the DOD). There is – apparently -* nothing* one can pin faith on. Except, perhaps, a little noticed quirk in our natures. We putatively ‘higher’ mammals – good, bad, and ugly - seem to yet nurture a craving for a higher truth, despite being immersed, daily, in a treacherous world of lies. It’s odd, but true. That might account for the legions of ‘*truthers*’ that are on the internet , night and day, globally, arguing *against the stream.* In the *long run – *if such a state exists at all, given the various extinctions we face: of war, atomic weapons, and climate change* - * I think they are likely to prevail. *For Critical Insights, once released , may not be , easily, crammed back into Pandora’s Box.* And Power, without *Legitimation*, lacks lasting potency. *Whence, the good old days may be gone – for good.* *** So, if you are a toady or a humbug, or a gull or a shill, of a teetering system, you are simply out of luck. For truth, like murder, methinks, *will ‘out’.* That’s what wannabe Caligulas – of which there is no dearth - also need to know. *[©R.Kanth, 2019]* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Dear adults, use your power
by Michel Bauwens 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Monica Davies - 350.org <350(a)350.org> Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:11 PM Subject: Dear adults, use your power To: Bauwens Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Students across the world will go on strike for the climate this week. Here’s how you and other grown-ups can meaningfully support them: Hi Bauwens, A powerful new movement of young people is sweeping across the world: from Sweden to Uganda, and Colombia to Hong Kong, young people are striking from school to demand real climate action from governments. This time, students are going big. This Friday, 15 March, they are coordinating a wave of global school strikes and there are already more than 700 strikes planned in 72 countries. <https://act.350.org/go/76833?t=6&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid…> The moral authority of these kids has the potential to transform the climate conversation. They know that their future is on the line, and are acting like it. As grown-ups, we need to make sure we grab this opportunity and help their actions be heard as far and wide as possible. How can you show your support for the strikes? Here are 5 meaningful ways you can support the striking kids <https://act.350.org/go/76822?t=7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid…> . *Share this video* <https://act.350.org/go/76834?t=8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid…> and *find a strike near you to support* <https://act.350.org/go/76833?t=9&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid…> . To help the momentum grow, everyone can take even a small action, and inspire others. These protests are injecting a new urgency into the call for a fossil free future, and focusing attention on long years of insufficient action by governments. Students won’t wait any longer. If you’re ready to act too, here’s how: see what you can do <https://act.350.org/go/76822?t=10&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&aki…> . *In solidarity with young people all over the world,* Monica and the 350.org team ------------------------------ 350.org <http://act.350.org/go/14?t=1&akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO> is building a global climate movement. You can connect with us on Facebook <http://act.350.org/go/779?t=2&akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO>, follow us on Twitter <http://act.350.org/go/5?t=3&akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO>, and become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. <https://act.350.org/go/7234?t=4&akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO> Update your email address, location, or language. <http://act.350.org/go/13828?t=5&akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO> You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. <http://act.350.org/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?akid=67103%2E360134%2ElqjGQO> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] an update on important publications by the P2P Foundation
by Michel Bauwens 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

I completely disagree with this assessment, and it would have to be documented where that is the case ... there has never been a great singularity in our work, we also worked with existing prefigurative seed forms and how to integrate them to achieve more radical structure-changing outcomes and always thought socio-technical infrastructures are part of that change, we never conflate price with value for example, it's simply not in there ; actually, I don't even think we talk about price in that report; we argue for value sovereignty, multiple streams of value, coins that represents resource volumes (no price representing market value etc.. ) ; we are in favour of keeping the commons free of exchange value (while documenting those that think and practice differently), talk about non-financialized thermo-dynamic accounting etc ... for each of your points, I could argue similarly, i.e. we are not objectivist but integral, the research method of the p2p lab is action-research based, we stress everywhere that technology is not a solution but a function of the communal and societal values, and the behaviorist tone is about reporting what techno-libertarians are doing and how we could do it differently (but yes, incentives do matter in driving human behaviour) so I'm not a psycho-therapist either, but it sounds a lot like projection, .i.e. someone reading lots of things in the text that there simply not there, dear Stacco, in another email, James asks to be removed from this mailing list and I'm assuming he means 'visioning', so thanks for obliging, Michel On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:02 PM <jbquilligan3(a)charter.net> wrote: > Dear Michel et al > > Just an observation. I find it interesting how P2PF has drifted so deeply > into objectivism, including its research methods, technocratic worldview > and behaviorist tone. One wonders now who your target audience has actually > become -- you seem to have gone from peer-to-peer humanism to antiseptic > empiricism with unconscious abandon. > > I'm not a psychotherapist, but I see that P2PF still conflates price with > value in most of its analysis, which means that your authors have not shed > the (Freudian) reality principle of marginal utility theory in > neo-classical economics, which is the persistent cause of capitalist > overdetermination in social and ecological repression. > > Where is the Great Singularity in your work now? Who are the activists you > hope to inspire? Or are you unconsciously using post-modernist analysis to > further entrench the commons as a microeconomic religion and belying the > commitment of your peers to equality and sustainability? Sad to say, I may > as well be reading Hume or von Hayek for the sensory marvels of the price > system. > > ----------------------------------------- > From: "Michel Bauwens" > To: "p2p-foundation", "Michel Visioning Bauwens", "Research stream email > of P2P Foundation" > Cc: > Sent: Monday March 4 2019 6:37:48AM > Subject: an update on important publications by the P2P Foundation > > > We have several things cooking at the P2P Foundation which is aligned with > your work! > > The first is an english book (being translated in Korean, and perhaps also > in French soon), that summarizes our work in the last ten years, in look at > how productive commons-based communities engage with generative market > forms, and with facilitating public authorities, both at the micro-level, > as actual practice, and how that let's us imagine a reformed civilization > that can deal with social justice and ecological balance, > > See > <https://www.commonslabantwerpen.org/activiteiten/2019/3/4/michel-bauwens-va…> > https://www.commonslabantwerpen.org/activiteiten/2019/3/4/michel-bauwens-va…, > for our official launch in London on 21/3 (launch in Ghent on 23/3) > > Our other great project is the one you contributed to finding funding. In > essence, it takes the donut of Kate Raworth, and seeks a concrete > instantiation of it by presenting a configuration of socio-technical > systems that can be both socially predistributive (equity embedded through > contributive accounting) and ecologically stable (in the context of course, > of destabilizing climate change). > > It won't be published officially before mid-May but the final text and > graphs are ready in google doc, > > see here for a summary and links to the google docs: > <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Accounting_for_Planetary_Survival> > https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Accounting_for_Planetary_Survival > > Finally, I am 'list-pusher' for the European elections as MEP for the > flemish Greens. While it is in principle a un-electable position, I see it > as a opportunity for bringing the commons message and solution-space across > a wider audience. > > I'm hoping to get a bit more of dedicated attention to our work, and any > assistance would be appreciated > > Michel Bauwens > > -- > P2P Foundation: <http://p2pfoundation.net>http://p2pfoundation.net - > <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Connect: <http://p2pfoundation.ning.com>http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; > Discuss: > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation> > http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: <http://del.icio.us/mbauwens>http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; > <http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens>http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; > <http://twitter.com/mbauwens>http://twitter.com/mbauwens; > <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens>http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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