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| '''''On "the P2P relational dynamic" as the premise of the next civilizational stage'''''
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| Author: [[Michel Bauwens]]
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| The essay is an emanation of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives, 2005;
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| it was written after several months of collaboration with Remi Sussan.
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| This copy is based on Draft 2.014, of July 3 2005.
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| In 2017, it was reformatted for the wiki, with a few small corrections.
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| http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/P2P_essay.pdf (pdf);
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| http://noosphere.cc/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.P2pEvolution (wiki)
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| ==Table of Contents==
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| <pre>
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| 0. Executive Summary — below
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| 1. Introduction
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| 1.A. What this essay is about
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| 1.B. The use of a integral framework
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| 1.C. The Sociology of Form
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| 1.D. Some acknowledgments
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| 2. P2P as the Technological Framework of Cognitive Capitalism
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| 2.1.A. Defining P2P as the relational dynamic of distributed networks
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| 2.1.B. The emergence of peer to peer as technological infrastructure
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| 2.1.C. The construction of an alternative media infrastructure
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| 2.1.D. P2P as a global platform for autonomous cooperation
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| 2.2. Explaining the Emergence of P2P technology
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| 2.3.A. Placing P2P in the context of the evolution of technology
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| 2.3.B. P2P and Technological Determinism
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| 3. P2P in the Economic Sphere
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| 3.1.A. Peer production as a third mode of production and new commons-based property regime
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| 3.1.B. The Communism of Capital, or, the cooperative nature of cognitive capitalism
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| 3.1.C. The Hacker Ethic or ‘work as play’
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| 3.2 Explaining the Emergence of P2P Economics
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| 3.2.A. Advantages of the free software/open sources production model
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| 3.3 Placing the P2P Era in an evolutionary framework
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| 3.3.A. The evolution of cooperation: from neutrality to synergetics
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| 3.3.B. The Evolution of Collective Intelligence
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| 3.3.C. Beyond Formalization, Institutionalization, Commodification
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| 3.3.D. The Evolution of Temporality: towards an Integral Time
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| 3.4 Placing P2P in an intersubjective typology
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| 3.4.A. P2P, The Gift Economy and Communal Shareholding
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| 3.4.B. P2P and the Market
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| 3.4.C. P2P and the Commons
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| 3.4.D. Who rules? Cognitive capitalists, the vectoral class, or netocrats?
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| 3.4.E. The emergence of a netarchy
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| 4. P2P in the Political Sphere
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| 4.1.A. The Alterglobalisation Movement
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| 4.1.B. The ‘Coordination’ format
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| 4.1.C. New conceptions of social and political struggle
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| 4.1.D. New lines of contention: Information Commons vs. New Enclosures
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| 4.2.A. De-Monopolization of Power
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| 4.2.B. Equality, Hierarchy, Freedom
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| 4.3. Evolutionary Conceptions of Power and Hierarchy
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| 5. The Discovery of P2P principles in the Cosmic Sphere
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| 6. P2P in the Sphere of Culture and Self
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| 6.1.A. A new articulation between the individual and the collective
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| 6.1.B. Towards ‘contributory’ dialogues of civilizations and religions
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| 6.1.C. Participative Spirituality and the Critique of Spiritual Authoritarianism
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| 6.1.D. Partnering with nature and the cosmos
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| 7. P2P and Social Change
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| 7.1.A. Marginal trend or premise of new civilization?
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| 7.1.B. P2P, Postmodernity, Cognitive Capitalism: within and beyond
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| 7.1.C. Three scenarios of co-existence
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| 7.1.D. Possible political strategies
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| Appendix 1. Launch of The Foundation for P2P Alternatives
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| Appendix 2: The P2P Meme Map
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| Appendix 3: Reactions to the Essay: Kudo's
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| </pre>
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| ==Endnotes==
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