P2P Public Intellectuals

Context

A list of people oriented towards thinking about a sharing, commons, p2p oriented society.

For a cooperative publishing project with Shareable.

We aim to interview two people per month, with possible publication of interview book.

Introduction

Note from initial compiler Michel Bauwens:

Please note, a lot of people whom I find very interesting are not in here, because I or they do not necessarily see their work as part of this particular emergence and they belong to different paths. Also active activists who do not necessarily participate in the intellectual elaboration of p2p ideas are not included in this list. This list should in no way be seen as a list of approval or a select club to whom you do not belong. It is merely meant as a guide to find people with interesting ideas.

Thanks for suggesting names, and rationales for adding them.

Directory

• part of a general dialogue on the construction of a p2p world

• • associated in some fashion with our work at the P2P Foundation

Public Intellectuals

1. Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party, Sweden
2. Adam Arvidsson **, on the ethical economy, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Adam+Arvidsson%22&fulltext=Search
3. Michel Bauwens **, P2P Theory, founder of P2P Foundation; Bibliography of Michel Bauwens
4. Yochai Benkler *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of Peer Production, i.e. the Wealth of Networks
5. David Bollier **, author of Viral Spiral, foremost commons scholar, now working on emerging Commons Law framework
6. James Boyle, against IP enclosures
7. Rachel Botsman *, on sharing infrastructures and access via product-service systems
8. Arthur Brock, Open Money, USA
9. Marvin Brown ** , Civilizing the Economy, on civic economics, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision
10. Axel Bruns, theorizing Produsage
11. Allen Butcher, expert on Community Economics
12. Chris Carlsson *, Nowtopia, on local productive economic associations
13. Kevin Carson **, mutualism, relocalized production
14. Manuel Castells, networked society
15. Chris Cook, Open Capital
16. David de Ugarte **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search
17. Stephen Downes, peer learning
18. Charles Eisenstein *, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics
19. Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party founder
20. Silvia Federici: [1], role of women in the commons
21. Suresh Fernando
22. Jorge Ferrer **, participatory spirituality
23. Alex Foti, precarious workers movement, Italy
24. Mayo Fuster-Morell, European social movements, modalities of open source and platform governance
25. Alexander Galloway, Protocollary Power in networks
26. Lisa Gansky *, on the Mesh Economy
27. Sally Goerner: on mutualism and the next 'integral' civilisation
28. Neal Gorenflo **, editor of Shareable magazine, on sharing as a social practice
29. Thomas Greco **, Open Money and Credit Commons
30. Michael Gurstein, community networks
31. Joss Hands *, digitally-empowered political activism
32. Paul Hartzog **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance
33. Silke Helfrich **, commons researcher and advocate
34. John Heron **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry
35. Pekka Himanen, the hacker ethic
36. Dougald Hine
37. Brian Holmes
38. Wolfgang Hoechsele **, economics of abundance
39. Pat Kane **, author the Play Ethic
40. Athina Karatzogianni **, cyberconflicts
41. Dmytri Kleiner **, anti-capitalist peer production through Venture Communism
42. Lawrence Lessig, IP law, creator of Creative Commons
43. Simona Levi **, founder and leader of the Free Culture Forum
44. Bernard Lietaer, monetary reform and transformation
45. Alessandro Ludovico, Neural.it, p2p art and culture, Italy
46. Ezio Manzini **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups
47. Alan McCluskey, community-based learning
48. Armin Medosch
49. Massimo Menichinelli, on Open Design
50. Glyn Moody, active free software advocate and commentator
51. Phoebe Moore **, global labour trends
52. Matteo Pasquinelli, conflicts in the knowledge economy
53. George Pór **, theorizing Collective Intelligence
54. Mathieu O'Neill **, governance of open source communities
55. Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
56. James Quilligan **, theorizing the Global Commons
57. John Robb *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22John+Robb%22&fulltext=Search
58. Andy Robinson, social movement thinker, UK
59. David Ronfeldt**
60. Douglas Rushkoff **, author, development of democratic cyber culture
61. Sam Rose **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures
62. Nikos Salingaros **, on P2P Urbanism
63. Juliet Schor *, economics of abundance
64. Trebor Scholz **, distributed creativity
65. Orsan Senalp**, p2p and labor
66. Clay Shirky *, the Cognitive Surplus making possible bottom-up Peer Production
67. George Siemens, connectivist learning
68. Felix Stalder, theorizing free culture and open movements
69. Richard Stallman, founder of free software
70. Don Tapskott, author of Wikinomics
71. Tiziana Terranova, exploitation of free labour in networks
72. Tere Vaden **, the Political Economy of Digital Literacy
73. Jeff Vail *, a theory of distributed power http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Jeff+Vail%22&fulltext=Search
74. Roberto Verzola **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Roberto+Verzola%22&fulltext=Search
75. Eric von Hippel *, user-led innovation in industrial production
76. Hilary Wainwright **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%22Hilary+Wainwright%22
77. Jay Walljasper **, All That We Share, on the emergence of local commons initiatives
78. Mackenzie Wark *, author of the Hacker's Manifesto, a class analysis of the Hacking Class
79. Steve Webber, author of the Success of Open Source
80. Catherine Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons

See also "visionary developers" of p2p infrastructure:

• Jaromil, hacker
• Tav, from the Espians

Shareable/P2P Interview series

• Jay Walljasper, http://www.shareable.net/blog/field-guide-to-the-commons

• Marvin Brown, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision

Planned

• Hilary Wainwright, p2p, labor, and public services
• Mira Luna, solidarity economy

Soon: Sally Goerner

Proposed priority interviews by Michel Bauwens:

• Allen Butcher, expert on Community Economics
• Timothy Wilken, on synergistic cooperation
• Jeff Vail, on rhizomatic power
• Chris Carlsson, on nowtopian movements
• Kevin Carson, on the prospects for relocalized manufacturing
• Charles Eisenstein, on sacred economics
• Massimo Menichelli, on open design developments
• David Ronfeldt, on the evolution of governance
• John Robb, from open source warfare to insurgent resilience
• Orsan Senalp, p2p and the labor movement
• Roberto Verzola, the economics of abundance and scarcity
• Nikos Salingaros, p2p urbanism

and

• Amelia Andersdotter, on pirate party politics
• Simona Levi, on free culture
• Mayo Fuster-Morell, on the governance of online communities
• Tiziana Terranova, on free labour, precarity and autonomy in the new social movements

Commons-Oriented Economists

(This list is updated here: Commons-Oriented Economists)

A list originally compiled by David Bollier:

1. Peter Barnes, Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust)
2. Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
3. Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
4. James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
5. Herman Daly, steady-state economics
6. Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
7. Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
8. Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
9. Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
10. Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
11. David Korten, author
12. Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
13. Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
14. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany

See also:

1. Robert Costanza, U. of Oregon (a leading ecological economist; not sure of commons-orientation)

Organisations:

1. Association for Georgist Studies (the Henry George crowd)
2. E.F. Schumacher Foundation: hosts annual lecture series that often includes iconoclastic economist-types
3. New Economics Institute: Schumacher spinoff with ties to New Economics Foundation in UK, which aspires

to develop alternative economic approaches.