P2P Encyclopedia Book Project

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Book publishing project of Michel Bauwens and Samuel Rose, with James Burke for illustrations and multimedia interventions.


Title and Justification

Title

MB: The Peer to Peer Encyclopedia

MB: The Peer to Peer Revolution


SubTitle

MB: A toolbook for a new life and a new society???


Table of Contents

Project One: The Book

Foreword by famous person


Introduction by Michel Bauwens and/or Samuel Rose


Part One: The Foundations: The Three Meta-Paradigms

Covers the principles involved


Chapter 1: Paradigm One: Everything shall be Open and Free


Chapter 2: Paradigm Two: Participation shall be extended to all; and all shall collaborate


Chapter 3: Paradigm Three: Our common production shall remain common

Covers the Commons, the Public Domain


Chapter 4: Distributed Networks


Part Two: The P2P Processes

Chapter 5: Peer Production or the Sharing Economy

Covers free software/open source, the Wikipedia experiment, etc..; open hardware, open design


Chapter 6: Peer Governance or Absolute Democracy

Covers leadership/management of peer production projects specifically

Covers new forms of participative democracy generally


Chapter 7: Peer Property

Covers licenses such as the GPL/CC Licenses and property forms such as trusts, cooperatives, open capital


Part Three: The Applications

Chapter 8: Business and Economics


Chapter 9: Politics and Society


Chapter 10: Philosophy and Spirituality


Chapter 11: Art, music and creativity


Project Two: The DVD

The P2P Manuscript


The Document Vault


The Audio Vault


The Video Vault


How to go about it