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Mon Mar 24 02:19:49 CET 2014

thanks for checking out the following:

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
<http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy#mw-head><http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy#p-search>

This entry is about the forthcoming book *"Network Society and Future
Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy"* co-authored by Vasilis
Kostakis<http://p2pfoundation.net/Vasilis_Kostakis>
 and Michel Bauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/Michel_Bauwens>. The
scholarly book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2014
and here you may find a working draft of it.

*We invite everybody to read and comment* on its contents by *i)* using the
relevant discussion wikipages; and/or *ii)* sending a personal email:
kostakis.b AT gmail.com.
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]Preface

The aim of this book is not to provide another critique of capitalism;
rather to contribute to the ongoing dialogue for post-capitalist
construction and discuss how another world could be possible. We build on
the idea that the peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the
general conditions of work, economy and society, considering peer
production as a social advancement within capitalism but with various
post-capitalistic aspects in need of protection, enforcement, stimulation
and connection with progressive social movements. Using a four-scenario
approach we attempt to simplify possible outcomes and explore relevant
trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond
capitalism. The first part of the book begins with an introduction
(chapters 1 and 2) of the techno-economic paradigm shifts theory which sees
capitalism as a creative destruction process. Such a dynamic,
innovation-based understanding of economic and societal development
arguably allows for an integral bird's-eye-view of future scenarios
(chapter 3) within and beyond the dominant system. Sharing the conviction
that the globalized economy is at a critical turning point, we describe the
four future scenarios; namely, netarchical capitalism, distributed
capitalism, resilient communities and global Commons. Netarchical and
distributed capitalism (chapters 4 and 5) are parts of the wider value mode
of cognitive capitalism and form, what we call, the mixed model of
neo-feudal cognitive capitalism (chapter 6). On the other, the resilient
communities (chapter 7) and the global Commons (chapter 8) reside in the
hypothetical model of mature peer production under civic dominance. We
postulate that the mature peer production communities pose a sustainable
alternative to the capital accumulation, that of the circulation of the
Commons. Hence, we make tentative transition proposals for the state, the
market and the civic domain towards a Commons-based economy and society
(chapter 9). Finally, we conclude with remarks and suggestions for future
action.
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]Contents

*PART ONE: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
<http://p2pfoundation.net/PART_ONE:_THEORETICAL_FRAMEWORK>*

1. Capitalism as a creative destruction system

2. Beyond the end of history: Three competing value models

3. The P2P infrastructures: Two axes and four quadrants

*PART TWO: COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
<http://p2pfoundation.net/PART_TWO:_COGNITIVE_CAPITALISM>*

4. Netarchical capitalism

5. Distributed capitalism

6. The social dynamics of the mixed model of neo-feudal cognitive capitalism

*PART THREE: THE HYPOTHETICAL MODEL OF MATURE PEER PRODUCTION: TOWARDS A
COMMONS-ORIENTED ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
<http://p2pfoundation.net/PART_THREE:_THE_HYPOTHETICAL_MODEL_OF_MATURE_PEER_PRODUCTION:_TOWARDS_A_COMMONS-ORIENTED_ECONOMY_AND_SOCIETY>*

7. Resilient communities

8. Global Commons

9. Transition proposals towards a Commons-oriented economy and society

*CONCLUSIONS
<http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy?title=CONCLUSIONS&action=edit&redlink=1>*

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*Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no
record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..*

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