Looks intriguing.
Howard Rheingold [email protected] http://twitter.com/hrheingold http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com http://vlog.rheingold.com what it is ---> is --->up to us Begin forwarded message: > From: "Thomas Greco" <[email protected]> > Date: September 17, 2010 9:45:59 AM PDT > To: "Beatriz Busaniche" <[email protected]>, "David Bollier" > <[email protected]>, "Silke Helfrich" <[email protected]>, "Franco > Iacomella" <[email protected]>, "Sergio Lub" <[email protected]>, "Douglas > Rushkoff" <[email protected]>, "Howard Rheingold" > <[email protected]>, "Marilyn Mehlmann" <[email protected]>, > "Dante-Gabryell Monson" <[email protected]>, "Bernard Lietaer" > <[email protected]>, "Michel Bauwens" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic > infrastructures > > Dear Michel, > > Thanks for that reference > (http://p2pfoundation.net/Economic_Democracy_in_the_Network_Century). > > I've only skimmed the beginning and ending but I see much food for thought > and discussion. > > I would like to be involved in a discussion around these two paragraphs from > pages 8 and 9: > > We are in the process of going from a world of decentralised networks to a > world of distributed networks. This is evidenced in communication as a crisis > in the > > information systems of agencies and newspapers; in the cultural sphere as a > crisis in the current industrial model for films, books, and music; in > democracy as citizens' > > cyberthrongs; and in war as a new paradigm. This shift leads us to a new > paradigm, seen in the complex world of collective identities in the > increasingly important role of a > > new kind of community, communities which are closer to the old real, > contiguity-based communities than to the great nationalistic imaginaries of > Modernity. We are > > experiencing, in that area, another shift, one taking us from nations to > networks. > > Studying this latter dimension, the changes in the identity patterns of our > time, we discover a new kind of socio-economic organisation: the phyle. The > phyle is much > more than a kind of business; it has, among its main features, all the > elements that articulate our time – it is born from the experience of > socialisation in virtual > > communities, it is transnational, and it vindicates new forms of economic > democracy which, in turn, link it to traditional cooperativism. > > === > > And this one from the last chapter: > The phyle is the most radical and simple of all materialisations of the new > distributed world, as well as the one that owes most to all the others. It is > the child of > > free software, of the blogosphere, of cyberactivism, of virtual communities, > of the globalisation of the small. The phyle is a lifestyle that makes it > possible for hackers, > > bricoleurs and libertarians to go on being what they are and to grow. To > leave a legacy. A legacy of knowledge, yes, but also a legacy of maps – the > maps of the new > > world, the maps that are drawn not to describe what cannot be moved, but to > be built by people and inhabited by their lives. > > I'm looking forward to seeing you at the conference in Germany, > > Tom > > Thomas H. Greco, Jr. > 520-820-0575 mobile > PO Box 42663, Tucson, AZ 85733, USA > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://reinventingmoney.com > Blog-Beyond Money: http://beyondmoney.net > Blog-Tom's News and Views: http://tomazgreco.wordpress.com > Photo Gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/tomazhg > Skype/Twitter: tomazgreco > My latest book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, is now > available. You can order it from ChelseaGreen.com, Amazon.com, or your local > bookstore. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michel Bauwens > To: Thomas Greco -- thg ; Bernard Lietaer ; Dante-Gabryell Monson ; Marilyn > Mehlmann ; Howard Rheingold ; Douglas Rushkoff ; Sergio Lub ; Franco > Iacomella ; Silke Helfrich ; David Bollier ; Beatriz Busaniche > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 02:43 PM > Subject: really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic > infrastructures > > see http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf > processed at > http://p2pfoundation.net/Economic_Democracy_in_the_Network_Century > > > -- > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org > > Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cooperationcommons?hl=en.
