Fwd: really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic infrastructures

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From: "Thomas Greco" <t...@mindspring.com>
Date: September 17, 2010 9:45:59 AM PDT
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Subject: Re: really a must read book about p2p-oriented, neonomadic economic infrastructures

Dear Michel,
 
 
I've only skimmed the beginning and ending but I see much food for thought and discussion.
 
I would like to be involved in a discussion around these two paragraphs from pages 8 and 9:
 

We are in the process of going from a world of decentralised networks to a world of distributed networks. This is evidenced in communication as a crisis in the

information systems of agencies and newspapers; in the cultural sphere as a crisis in the current industrial model for films, books, and music; in democracy as citizens'

cyberthrongs; and in war as a new paradigm. This shift leads us to a new paradigm, seen in the complex world of collective identities in the increasingly important role of a

new kind of community, communities which are closer to the old real, contiguity-based communities than to the great nationalistic imaginaries of Modernity. We are

experiencing, in that area, another shift, one taking us from nations to networks.

Studying this latter dimension, the changes in the identity patterns of our time, we discover a new kind of socio-economic organisation: the phyle. The phyle is much

more than a kind of business; it has, among its main features, all the elements that articulate our time – it is born from the experience of socialisation in virtual

communities, it is transnational, and it vindicates new forms of economic democracy which, in turn, link it to traditional cooperativism.

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And this one from the last chapter:

The phyle is the most radical and simple of all materialisations of the new distributed world, as well as the one that owes most to all the others. It is the child of

free software, of the blogosphere, of cyberactivism, of virtual communities, of the globalisation of the small. The phyle is a lifestyle that makes it possible for hackers,

bricoleurs and libertarians to go on being what they are and to grow. To leave a legacy. A legacy of knowledge, yes, but also a legacy of maps – the maps of the new

world, the maps that are drawn not to describe what cannot be moved, but to be built by people and inhabited by their lives.

I'm looking forward to seeing you at the conference in Germany,

Tom

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