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.

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From: "Michel Bauwens"
To: "p2p-foundation", "Michel Visioning Bauwens", "Research stream email of P2P Foundation"
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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-vasilis-kostakis-amp-alex-pazaitis-p2p-foundation-nbspbook-launch-peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-university-of-westminster-press, 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

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

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