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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: 📄 "Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century" by Kevin Carson
by Michel Bauwens 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: PDF By Kevin Carson <updates(a)academia-mail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM Subject: 📄 "Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century" by Kevin Carson To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> [image: Academia.edu] <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PMBfchh-bsHj6t/> ------------------------------ >From your Reading History: Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm…> [image: Paper Thumbnail] <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm…> [image: Author Photo] Kevin Carson <https://independent.academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSG…> 2021, Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century 461 Views PaperRank: 3.1 View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm…> Download PDF ⬇ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm…> Want fewer recommendations like this one? <https://academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm9ldG…> ------------------------------ <https://academia.app.link/install?keypass=UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRS…> 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 Unsubscribe <https://academia.edu/keypass/UkYxQzZrcDRvL3BBaThYWTJXMHN1REFRSGNhZEV2Zm9ldG…> Privacy Policy <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PMBfchh-bsHj6t/privacy> Terms of Service <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-PMBfchh-bsHj6t/terms> © 2021 Academia -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Weekend Roundup: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come
by Michel Bauwens 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Noema Magazine <newsletter(a)noemamag.com> Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 6:05 PM Subject: Weekend Roundup: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises. AUGUST 14, 2021 PUBLISHED BY THE BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE Weekend Roundup: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises. NATHAN GARDELS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF View the roundup in your browser here <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_K2b1rWbBhppiwI4e1HHNV6hdw0vVRU6pQbvzO-TqSa…>. Visit Noema Magazine at noemamag.com <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_K2b1rWbBhppiwI4e1HHNV6hdw0vVRU6pQbvzO-TqSa…> . Clay Rodery for Noema Magazine Beset as we are these days by the cascading consequences of climate change and the descent into dysfunction of our social institutions, it is worth remembering Ivan Illich, a forgotten prophet whose time has come. Fortunately, two books on the 1970s apostle of the era of limits remind us of his prescient relevance: “Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_K2b1rWbBhppiwI4e1HHNV6hdw0vVRU6pQbvzO-TqSa…>” published by his friend and long-time interlocutor David Cayley this year, and “The Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_K2b1rWbBhppiwI4e1HHNV6hdw0vVRU6pQbvzO-TqSa…>” by Todd Hartch. Cayley’s book benefits from his long personal acquaintance and countless conversations over the years with Illich. Hartch, who never met Illich, offers a more objective account informed by critical distance from his subject. Both trace Illich from his early days as a parish priest in the impoverished Puerto Rican neighborhoods of New York to becoming vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico to the long period in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he sought to de-imperialize Catholic missionaries and hosted the radical thinkers of his day, to the striking story of his suffering and demise. Illich was a purveyor of impossible truths, truths so radical that they questioned the very foundations of modern certitudes — progress, economic growth, health, education, mobility. While he was not wrong, we had all been riding on a train going in the opposite direction for so long that it was hard to see how, in any practical sense, the momentum could ever be stalled. And that was his point. Now that “the shadow our future throws” of which Illich warned is darkening the skies of the present, it is time to reconsider his thought. Illich’s central contention was that persons are relational beings embedded in a matrix of the natural cosmos, convivial community with others and, as a fallen but still faithful priest, God’s grace. As the maverick thinker saw it, Western modernity rent asunder this multidimensional oneness of “Life.” For Illich, 17th-century science departed from the past by privileging the role of humans in the cosmos as above and apart from all other being. In doing so, it effectively declared “the death of nature,” turning it into a “resource” to feed the “pleonexia,” or radical greed, which fueled “development” and “progress” that transmuted endless “wants” into “needs.” As Illich saw it, the rise of universalizing social technologies — that is, institutions managed by strangers — transgressed the traditional bounds of diverse vernacular communities and harnessed human endeavor to a trajectory of limitless growth, creating a “radical monopoly” over the ways and means of living that blunted any alternative to industrializing the desires of consumer society. In the process, persons and communities alike were deprived of the practical knowledge to shape tools according to their own defined needs and choices. Robbed of such competence, they became servants to the logic of those institutions instead of the other way around. Conviviality vs. Productivity Illich defined conviviality as “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment.” He contrasted this to “the conditioned response of persons to the demands made upon them by others” from above and afar in the name of advancing progress. “I consider conviviality to be individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value,” he wrote in “Tools for Conviviality.” “I believe that, in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can effectively satisfy the needs it creates among society’s members.” Illich didn’t stop there. His greatest insight was that when conviviality is swapped for productivity, monopolizing institutions that chart a singular path at mass scale become counterproductive to their original intent beyond a certain threshold. In his words, “By breaching the limits set on man by nature and history, industrial society engendered disability and suffering in the name of eliminating disability and suffering. … The warming biosphere is making it intolerable to think of industrial growth as progress; now it appears to us as aggression against the human condition.” In his book “Energy and Equity” Illich illustrated this point in terms all could easily understand. As anyone who has driven on a freeway would agree, individual mobility turns into collective congestion when everyone has a car. In this he was in league with the “small is beautiful” thinkers at the time such as Leopold Kohr and E. F. Schumacher. The Virtue Of Enoughness In his radically provocative way, Illich preached the “virtue of enoughness” as the frugal way out of a headlong rush to an untenable future. Indeed, in the 1980s he subsisted in the small hamlet of Ocotepec, about 50 miles from Mexico City, where I visited him one summer along with my wife Lilly and former California Governor Jerry Brown. The streets were unpaved with no streetlights. Packs of feral dogs, chickens and the odd burro roamed freely. Scorpions scuttled across the floors and walls. The austere room where Illich slept was adorned with nothing other than a massive crucifix. At the back of the compound, incongruously, stood a rustic library filled with rare Latin volumes where he labored in “the vineyard of the texts” like one of his idols, Hugh of Saint Victor. Over lunches of watery lentil soup and weak fruit juice, he would often invite over the “Red Bishops” of Cuernavaca and Chiapas for convivial banter. At night we would sit up drinking cheap Presidente brandy, pondering the fate of civilization. Illich carried his theme across the entire institutional landscape of modern society. In one of his most famously controversial books, “Deschooling Society,” he argued that the graduated credentialism of mass education actually made people more ignorant by standardizing what they can know and think about. In those early days of cybernetics, he hoped that the recursive feedback loops of information systems might help foster an “ecology of mind,” as the anthropologist Gregory Bateson framed it, re-embedding the person in the larger matrix of being. Yet he suspected in the end it would not turn out so well, instead feeding the illusion that humans could escape the limits of their condition through their tools. As we have now come to see, the algorithms of Big Tech are, after all, only mathematical institutions programmed to bolster the very modern certitudes Illich fundamentally questioned, accelerating “progress” along an unsustainable trajectory that would continue to wreak ruin on the planet and reduce, not enhance, personal autonomy. Here, too, he echoed other thinkers of his time like Jacques Ellul. The French theologian anticipated the surveillance capitalism of the digital age, believing that a technological society ends up imprisoning personal self-determination instead of liberating it. Brave New Biocracy It was perhaps with respect to health that Illich was most radical. He decried “the sacralization of ‘a life’” dis-embedded from the oneness of Life and fetishized as a detached immune system to be managed from sperm to worm by the “brave new biocracy” of modern medicine. For Illich, vaccines, clean water and simple hygiene like washing hands were responsible for most health advances. But he was blistering in his critique of our medical systems oriented toward postponing the end as long as possible. “We now see that a majority of these medical achievements are deceptive misnomers, actually prolonging the suffering of madmen, cripples, old fools and monsters,” he wrote. In his book “Medical Nemesis” Illich spoke of “iatrogenic illness” — illness caused by the “bureaucracy” of physicians who abandoned the ancient idea of health as “balance” within the environment in which a person lived. Such a healthy balance could not be achieved, he argued, in an unhealthy environment poisoned by untamed industrial growth. Illich walked the talk. He suffered in his last years from a cancerous tumor that grew to the size of a baseball on one side of his face. “Renouncing” the biocratic management of his health, Illich insisted on the “hygienic autonomy” of self-care and “the right to die without diagnosis.” When the pain was too great during the final phase of his life, he would seek relief by standing on his head against a wall or by smoking opium in a little pipe he carried around with him. In his more obscure and less public observations, Illich saw the Catholic Church’s depersonalized “kindness of strangers” as a corruption of the Christian act of charity institutionalized as a kind of inauthentic paternalism. In his book, Cayley suggests that Illich’s broad critique of the institutions of Western modernity were metaphors for an attack on the Catholic Church’s perversion of the personal experience of incarnation he was unwilling to make frontally, a kind of hidden theology that threaded through all his work. To the extent this errant pilgrim’s critique of the splintering and shattering of the oneness of Life can be considered theology, it is not so much hidden as constitutive of all Illich’s thinking. One does not have to embrace Illich’s romanticization of premodern times to grasp his relevance for the future headed our way. 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Fwd: 📄 "Citizen Scholars and Digital Humanities" by Olga Pilkington
by Michel Bauwens 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

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Fwd: NEW REPORT: Rethinking Climate
by Michel Bauwens 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: RethinkX <media(a)rethinkx.com> Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 12:58 AM Subject: NEW REPORT: Rethinking Climate To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> New Report "Rethinking Climate" Just Released <https://RethinkX.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f24dea56f3182c06a7cab5…> As a thought leader who joined the conversation about our earlier reports, "Rethinking Transportation <https://RethinkX.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f24dea56f3182c06a7cab5…>," "Rethinking Food & Agriculture <https://RethinkX.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f24dea56f3182c06a7cab5…> ," "Rethinking Energy <https://RethinkX.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f24dea56f3182c06a7cab5…>," and "Rethinking Humanity <https://RethinkX.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f24dea56f3182c06a7cab5…>," we wanted to alert you to our latest report analyzing how, if we make the right choices, disruptive technologies can enable the world to eliminate 90 percent of carbon emissions within the next 15 years, and go beyond net zero after 2040 – far faster, and with far greater consequence, than is conventionally believed possible. 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Furthermore, these very same technologies will also make the cost of carbon withdrawal affordable, meaning that moonshot breakthrough technologies are not required to go beyond net zero from 2035 onwards. Regions, nations, cities, communities, businesses, and investors that choose to embrace and lead the disruptions will reap enormous economic and social rewards as well as environmental benefits, allowing less-developed areas to level the playing field and leapfrog over previous barriers to human development. Therefore, the greatest barrier to fighting climate change is our mindset. It is up to us to decide whether or not we deploy these technologies worldwide rapidly enough to avoid dangerous climate change. 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If they are not decisive in this regard, we’ll lose precious time in responding to this crisis which will mean far larger planetary risks and trillions of dollars worth of losses that are otherwise avoidable. - Policymaker choices should strategically target and support the highest impact technologies and avoid other “scattershot” climate approaches that are far more costly and unfeasible, such as clean coal and carbon capture, as well as remove barriers that are stymying disruptive technologies. This approach can allow markets to do the bulk of the deployment work. - Highest impact technology sector opportunities include: - ENERGY: The largest, most immediate opportunity is in the energy sector (57.6 percent of GHGs) which is rapidly being transformed by affordable, scalable low-carbon technologies in the form of solar PVs, wind power and lithium-ion storage batteries. - TRANSPORTATION: The transportation sector (16.2 percent of GHGs) will face dramatic disruptions as electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous EVs enable transportation-as-a-service and bring an end to internal combustion engines and private vehicle ownership. - FOOD: Rapidly advancing technologies will drive disruption in the food sector (18 percent of GHGs) from precision fermentation and cellular agriculture, which will eventually replace meat and animal-based food products – freeing up the 2.7 billion hectares of land they rely on. - Each of these energy, transportation and food technologies will achieve significant GHG reductions within their own sectors, but when factoring in the impact of various feedback loops between these sectors their potential is exponentially larger. For example: global virgin steel production, which accounts for 7 percent of global GHGs, will fall dramatically as transportation reductions reduce the number of vehicles on the road, as energy disruptions reduce the number of cargo ships needed to transport coal and oil in all parts of the world, and as scrap from obsolete combustion vehicles and oil industry infrastructure makes large volumes of recycled steel cheaply available. - Disruptive technologies can help close the wealth and technology gaps between rich and poor countries. For example: rapidly scaling solar, wind and batteries would help deliver electricity to billions of people who have no electricity today. - The report outlines three different scenarios for policymakers: - THE ‘GET SERIOUS’ SCENARIO: This most ambitious response, where policymakers proactively accelerate the disruption of energy, transportation and food technologies over the 2020s and reforest just 20 percent of land freed up by food sector disruptions, would enable a GHG emission decline of over 60 percent by 2030 and 100 percent before 2035. The disruptions would also dramatically bring down the costs of carbon sequestration. 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Fwd: Why Kerala Gets It Right!
by Michel Bauwens 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LeftWord Books <info(a)leftword.com> Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 5:30 PM Subject: Why Kerala Gets It Right! To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff01…> <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff01…> "Isaac’s great advantage is his knowledge of the intimate workings of the plan, its difficulties and drawbacks, the unfounded hostilities and the frailties of the future ahead." – *Indian Review of Books* <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff01…> "The authors of the volume deserve special thanks for providing a detailed account of a pioneering and successful organisation that needs to be replicated in large numbers." – C.T. 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Fwd: Policy briefing: Tomorrow’s Communities
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Angela Gage <angela.gage(a)bristol.ac.uk> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 5:15 PM Subject: Policy briefing: Tomorrow’s Communities To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hello I am writing from Bristol University Press and am delighted to send you an important policy briefing <https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/07/30/policy-briefing-winning-wi…> on how peoples' lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. I hope this will be of interest to you in your work with communities in the UK. The briefing is based on Henry Tam’s new book, *Tomorrow's Communities**,* which provides a practical, nine-point policy agenda to show how policy makers can enable communities to become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face. Copies of the book are available at 20% discount here <https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/tomorrows-communities>, or 35% if you join our mailing list <https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/signup-bup-pp>. Please consider the agenda in committee discussions and share the briefing with your networks. Many thanks and very best wishes, Angela Gage, Marketing Coordinator Policy Press <http://policypress.co.uk/>/Bristol University Press <http://policypress.co.uk/universityofbristolpress> 1-9 Old Park Hill Clifton, Bristol BS2 8BB Privacy Policy: You are receiving this email because we have identified you as a legal institution, society or organisation and are processing your data under legitimate interest. For more information visit the ICO guidance here <https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/privacy-policy>. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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