On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear friends,
it would be great if some of you could engage with Jane Jones, and her excellent thoughtpiece on p2p intersubjectivity as it relates to postmodernism:
http://mindingandmattering.blogspot.com/2011/06/notes-on-good-i-peer-to-peer...
The one thing that is really interesting about this piece for me, and our earlier discussion about whether markets can be "self-regulated" (besides Smari and Michel's great responses to that thread) is the ever-present factor of the fundamental assumptions of the people who make up what is being discussed. P2P ecologies come into being where people have resolved in their minds a set of fundamental assumptions about the way in which they will operate. My own perspective is that bringing about more p2p ecologies means finding where people are ready now to have this resolution in their minds. The clues are not only in what people are doing, but more importantly discerning why they are doing it, and what is happening in the total environment they are in. You can only really do this by going and looking at the environment(s), and talking with the people. So, theory is tremendously important. Equally as important is practical direct connection with communities so that one may understand how theory resolves with reality.
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