A personal category by Michel Bauwens, so this section is exceptionally not limited to p2p/commons topics, but is part of the context of the creation of the P2P Foundation, by given access to the sources which contributed to P2P Theory. When I read books, I take notes in written diaries. I started doing this more or less in 2003 and read, way to slowly nowadays, about 10-12 books a year. I also take bibliograpic notes when authors and books are mentioned. This is a record of these reading notes, starting with my first diary in 2003. These booknotes are meant to be high-flying intellectual critiques. The notes were just notes to myself, as a reminder of what I have read. Early on, I would write my notes after reading them, so they are short overviews. As time went on, I would start writing all the things I learned in a particular book, in more detail. So these notes will start getting longer as I proceed with the transcriptions. I expect to input at least 300 books, and will hopefully finish by the end of 2021.

Recommendations

Articles

• End of Meaning

• Seven Basic Epistemological Perspectives

• Will God Survive the 21st Century ; Future of God

Authors

• Collected Interviews of Michel Foucault

• Dialogues with Cornelius Castoriadis

• Eric Hobsbawn on the Challenges of the 21st Century

Books

• Closing of the Western Mind

• Concise History of Byzantium

• Empire / Debating Empire / Lineages of Empire

• From Dawn to Decadence

• Future of the Spirit

• Great Chain of Being

• New Spirit of Capitalism

• Peak Christianity of the 13th Century

• Radical Enlightenment

• Sacred Science

• Shield of Achilles

• Unitary Thought as the Next Development of Mankind

• World of Yesterday

P2P/Commons Topics

• Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture

• Gebser and Cyberspace

• Hacker Ethic

• Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

• Structures of Social Life

• Techgnosis

Magazines

• Antaios