[P2P-F] prince of networks and grid group theory

Wed Mar 16 08:31:50 CET 2011

thanks Jussi!

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Parikka, Jussi
<Jussi.Parikka at anglia.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> Dear Michel
>
> well, I am biased, as I have always liked Latour's work - even if its not
> without its problems. I have been glancing at Prince of Networks, but would
> also recommend Reassemblign the Social by Latour himself; in terms of P2P,
> there interesting texts include that is called something like "On the
> difficulty of ANT", which is written as if an interview, and makes the point
> that actor-network-theory is not necessarily about "networks" in the
> concrete sense we often think they are...
>
>
> http://books.google.de/books?id=DlgNiBaYo-YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=reassembling+the+social&hl=de&ei=uWWATc-2MIrMswb7qcXlBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> So definitely no direct translation to P2P perhaps, but that might make the
> task to think P2P through only more interesting... to use Latour to think of
> the various levels, scales, actants of which P2P is constituted: from human
> actions to legal frameworks, physical infrastructures to social desires, all
> meshed and mixed...
>
> best
> J
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:michelsub2004 at gmail.com<michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wed 16/03/2011 6:10
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> Cc: Andy Robinson; phoebe moore; Samuel Rose; Paul B. Hartzog; Parikka,
> Jussi
> Subject: prince of networks and grid group theory
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I have a question: should I read Prince of Networks, a biography of Bruno
> Latour, as perhaps constitutive of p2p-oriented theorizing? So the question
> really is: should I know more about Latour?
>
> I have only found a version which seems not copy-able or even printable,
> see
>
> http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_780980544060_Prince_of_Networks.pdf
> , can this be hacked or has anyone access to another version?
>
> My second question is for Paul: could you have a look at the theory and
> book
> mentioned below? Comments would be very welcome,
>
> Michel
>
>
>
> via
>
> http://charlesvanderhaegen.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/einstein-capitalism-socialism-machiavelli-and-vested-interests-preventing-clumsy-solutions-for-betterment-of-our-world/
>
> This brings me to the subject of a theory - it sails mainly under the name
> Cultural Theory but also Theory of Plural Rationality, Grid-Group Theory,
> Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability and even Neo-Durkheimian Institutional
> Theory -  of which the foundations were lead by Mary Douglas, and
> courageously further developed by her followers, the leading researcher of
> which is Michael Thompson.
>
> I strongly recommend the book he edited with Marco Verweij: "Clumsy
> Solutions for a Complex World:  Governance, Politics and Plural
> Perceptions"
> published by Palgrave.
>
> It is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to
> alleviate pressing social ills so often derail, and how effective,
> efficient
> and broadly accepted solutions to social problems can be found.
>
> It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex
> social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between four organising,
> justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these
> perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance
> failure
> inevitably result. Successful solutions are therefore creative combinations
> of four opposing ways of organising and thinking. The book shows the force
> of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for a
> number of pressing issues from around the World.
>
> To introduce you to the matter, you might follow the link hereafter. It
> will
> lead you to what is substantially the first chapter of the book:
> https://mercury.smu.edu.sg/rsrchpubupload/3224/SMUPreprint.pdf
>
>
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