dear David,

I have great difficulties lately to monitor my emails, 5755 to go <g>, and so I missed this important response, and the ones following which I will process in a moment.

The first thing for me, is perhaps that we can organize a common skype with joshua vial / Alanna Krause for Enspiral, Robert Pye for Ethos, you and Natalia for lasindias, tibi from Sensorica, perhaps others ? And then see from there if it makes sense to have some extra layer of alignment between 'proto-phyles'

I copy Ann-Marie for the p2p foundation, for assistance in coordinating any such meetup if there is agreement on doing it.

Since the previous email in this thread is an email from our recently deceased P2P colleague Jean Lievens, I am sharing a special thought in his remembrance,

Michel

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:12 PM, David de Ugarte <david@lasindias.coop> wrote:
We completely agree!!

It is a nodal moment because this convergence, I guess, reflects a deepening concern in wide social sectors. In our case, we are experiencing since October's Somero a widening of  our audience and a closer relation with other communities. Last week, in example, we had by first time in many years, more than 10.000 unique visitors in our blog in only a day, and the Communard Manifesto is spreading a lot faster than we thought: there are in example volunteers -we did not know before- translating it in Switzerland and Portugal to German and Portuguese languages.

So, we are sensing not only the appearance of a «P2P theoritical camp», but the emergence of a «P2P audience» probably product of the  disenchanted with the political hopes hegemonic only a year ago between the majority of the activists in countries like Spain or Greece.

So, Michel, what comes now? How could we contribute?

On 2016-05-21 22:06, Michel Bauwens wrote:

AN IMPORTANT PIVOT MOMENT TOWARDS A THE EMERGENCE OF A COLLECTIVE ORGANIC INTELLECTUAL FOR THE COMMONS MOVEMENT

The above has always been the ambition of the P2P Foundation, and I believe this is now coalescing .. some signs

1) Las Indias has consolidated all its original insights in the just published Communard Manifesto (Steve Herrick: you can perhaps let them know about this posting here as they are not on fb)

2) the last video by Dmytri Kleiner, which I posted here, also shows a convergence towards this multi-modal approach (working for the strengthening of the new economy within the existing one) and has a very precise strategy and many innovative concepts

3) the critique by Alanna Krause on the blockchain which I posited, along with the 'transvestment' practices, show that both the practice, and the theory, and the subjectivity of Enspiral is moving in the same direction

4) as for myself, I am working on a more theoretical book in which I'm aligning all our pasts insights following the overview of Kojin Karatini ..

I may be forgetting some other elements, but here we are, there is effectively, a collective organic intellectual at work, which is thinking through the strategies to be followed by the forces of the commons, in a way that may have been there in seed form, but is about to flower and .. THIS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT

I am not implying here of course that there are no differences between the approaches of these groups, but that they are moving broadly in the same direction .


At present, there are not any formal bridges between these groups, but there are occasional informal contacts, and the memes do seem to travel ..


With Dmytri Kleiner, we are discussing a 'Transvestment' conference in Berlin at the end of this year, no funding yet, this could be an occasion for these groups to enter into more coherent dialogue,


Michel


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