[P2P-F] Fwd: <nettime> 12/12 Essex Seminar: Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society

Mon Dec 5 20:54:53 CET 2011

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From: Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen at autonomedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Subject: <nettime> 12/12 Essex Seminar: Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society
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Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society
A seminar with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
Monday December 12th at 2pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room
Centre for Work, Organization and Society, University of Essex (
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ebs/**research/emc<http://www.essex.ac.uk/ebs/research/emc>
)

Many observers argue that the change induced with the internet is on a par
with at least the effects of the printing press, which was instrumental in
creating a cascade of changes such as the renaissance, the reformation and
the Enlightenment, culminating in the replacement of feudalism with
capitalism. It is therefore reasonable to posit a phase transition this
time as well, but what kind of transition and on which timescale? This is
the question we want to address. Our first answer is that the emergence of
a new hyper-productive mode of value creation, i.e. commons-based peer
production as, a new ‘mode of production,’ and its co-emerging
institutional framework, illuminate us about the incipient ‘patterns’ of
the emergent new social order.

The temporality of change is more complex as it involves the breakdown and
end of a Kondratieff cycle (a seventy year cycle), then, on a deeper level,
the exhaustion of the industrial model based on cheap fossil fuel (a 500 yr
cycle), and on a even deeper level, the questioning of civilization itself,
as a mode of exploiting nature (a 5,000 yr cycle). Given this deep change,
what part of capitalism and the market can we expect to see surviving? What
kind of ‘open business models’ and p2p-friendly market structures, may be
expected to be part of the new mix? Though out, our talk will be based on
extrapolating current and visible trends, not on ‘desires’ for a better
society.

Bio: Michel Bauwens is Peer-to-Peer theorist and an active writer,
researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and
business innovation. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer
Alternatives, based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Foundation for P2P Alternatives: http://p2pfoundation.net/

Respondent for the session will be Chris Land

Michel will also be presenting at Tent City University, as part of Occupy
London, on December 10th at 11:00am. More information about that can be
found here: http://tentcityuniversity.**occupylsx.org<http://tentcityuniversity.occupylsx.org>
.

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