[P2P-F] .Tracing and reconfiguring networks to build a political alternative

Thu Jan 27 11:17:09 CET 2011

Hi Michel! Thanks for this. Unfortunally I can not do this now (January & Febreary), but I took the reference and will read and comment the paper in Marc once I can dedicate my self to the infrastructure project. Thanks again! Mayo

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Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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From: Michel Bauwens [michelsub2004 at gmail.com]
Sent: 21 January 2011 13:06
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Subject: .Tracing and reconfiguring networks to build a political alternative

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Dear Mayo,

if you have any comments on this, I'd like to publish them on the p2p blog,

Michel

Tracing and reconfiguring networks to build a political alternative<http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/tracing-and-reconfiguring-networks-to-build-a-political-alternative/>
21 10 2009

Just published:

“Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project”

Published in: Twenty-First Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009, pages 277-295.

Abstract:

Modern-day society is increasingly described as an extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralysing description, this paper aims to highlight the potentially political dimension of network analysis, namely as defined in the social sciences, and of the notion of networks itself. It will be shown that a political project could, in this case, be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it. Three steps are proposed to specify how such a political project could be built. The first step aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasises the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step shows the possibilities that this knowledge offers, particularly in allowing one to find one’s bearings in a world which is frequently described as veering towards an increasing complexity, and by helping to rebuild the selection criteria for connections in this world, thanks to an additional degree of reflexivity. The third step draws on these points to extend them and bring out potentialities with regards to the intervention capacities in network configurations.

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