STATUS UPDATE on my research project: As some of you may know I have undertaken an ambitious project that combines: 1) a general study of the evolution of civilizational forms , https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Civilizational_Analysis 2) how it fits with cyclic patterns, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Cycles 3) and how the ebbs and flow of the commons institutions fit in that, creating a pulsation of the commons that is now operating on a world scale , https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_History and cries out for the filling of the global commons gap, by the creation of global magisteria of the commons A preliminary synthesis had been written with Jose Ramos as part of the cosmo-local book , coming out in November (launch nov 11) see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7x2PHk0xm3e5Ep7UGG56pDkJ5bAHCy-/edit -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/