[P2P-F] AN IMPORTANT PIVOT MOMENT TOWARDS A THE EMERGENCE OF A COLLECTIVE ORGANIC INTELLECTUAL FOR THE COMMONS MOVEMENT

Mon Oct 17 14:02:31 CEST 2016

Yes count me in too. Keen to explore this further. 

> On 17 Oct. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Irma Wilson <il4 at mweb.co.za> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Ann Marie and Michel
> I'd be interested in joining conversation
> 
> In solidarity
> Irma
> 
> 
>> On 17 Oct 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ann Marie wrote:
>> 
>> Hello, everyone,
>> 
>> I'll keep an eye on this thread for responses in the coming days, and if, as Michel says, there's an agreement among a number of you to explore this, I'll put together a "Doodle" to start pinpointing a time for a discussion. 
>> 
>> Have a good day,
>> 
>> Ann Marie
>> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry, cutnpaste error. Should have been section entitled "How we can
>>> implement a Mutual Coordination Economy based on existing
>>> organizations".
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> then see from there if it makes sense to have some extra layer of alignment between 'proto-phyles'
>>> >
>>> > Could this be it?
>>> > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-signals-used-by-capitalist-supply-chains-could-serve-a-mutual-coordination-economy/2016/02/10
>>> >
>>> > See the section entitled
>>> > "https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-signals-used-by-capitalist-supply-chains-could-serve-a-mutual-coordination-economy/2016/02/10"
>>> > and my comment below:
>>> > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-signals-used-by-capitalist-supply-chains-could-serve-a-mutual-coordination-economy/2016/02/10#comment-1551200
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Michel Bauwens
>>> > <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>>> >> dear David,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have great difficulties lately to monitor my emails, 5755 to go <g>, and
>>> >> so I missed this important response, and the ones following which I will
>>> >> process in a moment.
>>> >>
>>> >> The first thing for me, is perhaps that we can organize a common skype with
>>> >> joshua vial / Alanna Krause for Enspiral, Robert Pye for Ethos, you and
>>> >> Natalia for lasindias, tibi from Sensorica, perhaps others ? And then see
>>> >> from there if it makes sense to have some extra layer of alignment between
>>> >> 'proto-phyles'
>>> >>
>>> >> I copy Ann-Marie for the p2p foundation, for assistance in coordinating any
>>> >> such meetup if there is agreement on doing it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Since the previous email in this thread is an email from our recently
>>> >> deceased P2P colleague Jean Lievens, I am sharing a special thought in his
>>> >> remembrance,
>>> >>
>>> >> Michel
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:12 PM, David de Ugarte <david at lasindias.coop>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> We completely agree!!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It is a nodal moment because this convergence, I guess, reflects a
>>> >>> deepening concern in wide social sectors. In our case, we are experiencing
>>> >>> since October's Somero a widening of  our audience and a closer relation
>>> >>> with other communities. Last week, in example, we had by first time in many
>>> >>> years, more than 10.000 unique visitors in our blog in only a day, and the
>>> >>> Communard Manifesto is spreading a lot faster than we thought: there are in
>>> >>> example volunteers -we did not know before- translating it in Switzerland
>>> >>> and Portugal to German and Portuguese languages.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> So, we are sensing not only the appearance of a «P2P theoritical camp»,
>>> >>> but the emergence of a «P2P audience» probably product of the  disenchanted
>>> >>> with the political hopes hegemonic only a year ago between the majority of
>>> >>> the activists in countries like Spain or Greece.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> So, Michel, what comes now? How could we contribute?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 2016-05-21 22:06, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> AN IMPORTANT PIVOT MOMENT TOWARDS A THE EMERGENCE OF A COLLECTIVE ORGANIC
>>> >>> INTELLECTUAL FOR THE COMMONS MOVEMENT
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The above has always been the ambition of the P2P Foundation, and I
>>> >>> believe this is now coalescing .. some signs
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 1) Las Indias has consolidated all its original insights in the just
>>> >>> published Communard Manifesto (Steve Herrick: you can perhaps let them know
>>> >>> about this posting here as they are not on fb)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 2) the last video by Dmytri Kleiner, which I posted here, also shows a
>>> >>> convergence towards this multi-modal approach (working for the strengthening
>>> >>> of the new economy within the existing one) and has a very precise strategy
>>> >>> and many innovative concepts
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 3) the critique by Alanna Krause on the blockchain which I posited, along
>>> >>> with the 'transvestment' practices, show that both the practice, and the
>>> >>> theory, and the subjectivity of Enspiral is moving in the same direction
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 4) as for myself, I am working on a more theoretical book in which I'm
>>> >>> aligning all our pasts insights following the overview of Kojin Karatini ..
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I may be forgetting some other elements, but here we are, there is
>>> >>> effectively, a collective organic intellectual at work, which is thinking
>>> >>> through the strategies to be followed by the forces of the commons, in a way
>>> >>> that may have been there in seed form, but is about to flower and .. THIS IS
>>> >>> HUGELY IMPORTANT
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am not implying here of course that there are no differences between the
>>> >>> approaches of these groups, but that they are moving broadly in the same
>>> >>> direction .
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> At present, there are not any formal bridges between these groups, but
>>> >>> there are occasional informal contacts, and the memes do seem to travel ..
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> With Dmytri Kleiner, we are discussing a 'Transvestment' conference in
>>> >>> Berlin at the end of this year, no funding yet, this could be an occasion
>>> >>> for these groups to enter into more coherent dialogue,
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Michel
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at:
>>> >>> http://commonstransition.org
>>> >>>
>>> >>> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
>>> >>>
>>> >>> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org
>>> >>
>>> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>> >>
>>> >> Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
>>> >>
>>> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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