P2P Theory Books

First project, initiated by Phoebe Moore, Athina Karatzogianni and Michel Bauwens concerns a book that would gather key readings on P2P Theory.

Documentation

The following links hold a series of essays on p2p and could be used to identify authors and to request 'updated versions of their basic essays' (Michel).

URL = http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Essays and http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Essays_2

Proposed Structure

Part 1: Basic readings

• The Political Economy of Peer Production - Michel Bauwens
• Introduction to Germ Form Theory - Stefan Merten and Stefan Meretz

Question: do we need to republish Yochai Benkler?

Part 2: Understanding Peer Production and its Economics

• ask Richard Barbrook for an update on his high-tech gift economy
• Nick Dyer-Witheford on the Circulation of the Common
• Brett Frischmann, an economic theory for the Commons
• Roberto Verzola on Undermining vs. Developing Abundance
• Raoul Victor on Peer Production and Money

Part 3: Peer Governance and Peer Property

• Mathieu O'Neill, Understanding Online Authority (based on his book, Cyberchiefs)
• George Dafermos
• Jo Freeman, on the dark side of Peer Governance
• David Ronfeldt on the Evolution of Governance

Do we ask any updates from Steve Weber?

Property:

• Eben Moglen on Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture

Do we ask James Boyle for an update on his Second Enclosures thesis?

Part 4: P2 Value Systems: Openness, Freedom, Participation, the Commons

• Peer production in the context of the ethical economy, Adam Arvidsson
• Stephen Downes on P2P epistemology
• Magnus Marsdal on Socialist Individualism
• Kevin Carson on the Mutualist tradition
• David Skrbina, the participatory worldview
• Bruno Theret, on the tradition of 'civil socialism'
• Evan Thompson, on the enactive theory of consciousness

BOOK 2

Part 5: The Politics of Peer Production and Social Transformation

• Michel Bauwens: Political Implications of P2P
• Johan Soderbergh, Hacking Strategies
• George Caffentzis: On the Antagonistic Usage of the Commons Concept
• McKenzie Wark, update on the hacker manifesto
• Mark Cooper on a Policy for Collaborative Production
• Massimo De Angelis on The Production of the Commons and the Explosion of the Middle Class.
• Erik Douglas, on peer governance and democracy
• Cosma Orsi on The Political Economy of Solidarity