For the Bio of Michel Bauwens, see the Michel Bauwens page.

Following here is a list of pages on this wiki directly related to personal writings and work about peer to peer and commons topics.

• See also the bibliography page here: Michel Bauwens' English Language Bibliography ; Some articles translated into spanish: [1]

• Evaluation: Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production. By George Dafermos. Chapter 7: The Handbook of Peer Production. Wiley, 2020

[2]

• I have produced a autobiography which is for the moment only available on a Google doc. William Kelly wrote an introduction: Introduction to the Autobiography of Michel Bauwens

Our last 'mandala'presentation graphic

= Content of slides for lecture: “The Role of the Commons in Civilizational Transitions” delivered by Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation, September 2022, at Uppsala University

With thanks to graphic artist Juliane Höhle; website: julianehoehle.wordpress.com and twitter @JulianeHoehle

Introduction to P2P Theory

See: Introductory Course on P2P and the Commons

This video series was done, with excellent technical conditions, at Lignan University in Hong Kong, at the behest of Prof. Kin Chi Lau and colleagues, during the months of January 2019:

• E-Lecture 1: Introduction to peer to peer and the commons, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glRE-J9xFbQ

• E-Lecture 2: The interaction between the commons and the market, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdftpR-7fA

• E-Lecture 3: Public-commons cooperation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXIwdUJ-1E

• E-Lecture 4: Distributed ledgers and shared supply chains, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suI7e0aNetg

• E-Lecture 5: The spirituality and ethics of peering and commoning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7t2-xadpCI

• Michel Bauwens -- Life and Thought, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgI_TLgqdts

Our Structed Bibliographies

• Sources of P2P Theory: the books that inspired our theorezing about the commons

• What You Should Read To Understand the Commons: recommendations to understand the commons

• Structured Bibliography on P2P and the Commons: selected essays

Recent Editorials

Editorials written in the Post-Corona period, since March 2020:

• Somewheres, Nowheres, and Everywheres

• Our Next Civilization Will Not Be Based on Unity Without Division, Nor On Division Without Unity, But On Unity With Maximum Differentiation

• Ukraine Conflict as a Competition Between Rival Systems, Pointing to the Need for a Cosmo-Local Civilizational Framework

• Michel Bauwens on the Conflicts Between Commoners, Capitalists and Intersectionalists

• Public Ledgers as the New Institution of the Commons

• When Are We ?

• Understanding the Great Reversal in the Political Field

• Three Spheres of Mark Stahlman vs the Three Spheres of Michel Bauwens

Other recent articles:

• Recovering Our Technological Unconscious

• The Culture of the Commons in a Time of Civilizational Transition‎‎

• Understanding the Role of Polarisation in Times of Transition‎

• Solving the Metacrisis by a New Institutional Trinity That Includes the Commons‎

• Evolution of the Conceptions of Time Across History‎

• Understanding the Role of Polarization in Times of Transition

Post-2023 Substack Editorials

My 'Fourth Civilization' Substack newsletter is at https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/archive

• 1: Towards a Fourth Generation Civilization. Why this substack by Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation

• 2: Towards Mutual Coordination Economics. Why we should pay attention to mutual coordination as a concept for the next civilization

• 3: On the Importance of Seed Forms for the Next Civilization

• 4: Why We Need Real-Time Public Ledger Organizations

• 5: Why We Need 'Crypto for Real'

• 6: The Fate of Tribes in a Cosmo-Local World

• 7: The Transhumanist Technological Quest Is a Religious Quest

• 8: Understanding the Emergence of Neo-Venetian Crypto-Networks

• 9: Three Scenarios for a Turbo-Charged Crypto-Future

• 10: Shifting from a Commodity-Based Value Regime to a Contributory Value Regime