title: Peer To Peer - The Commons Manifesto Book Launch with Michel Bauwens
start: 2019-05-28
start time: 19:00
end time: 22:00
tags: SUPERMARKT-Berlin Talk collaboration community coops money society technology
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Web link https://supermarkt-berlin.net/event/peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-book-launch-with-michel-bauwens/
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There is another way. Peer to peer and the commons …
Together with our friends from SMartDE we have invited Michel Bauwens for the launch of the book Peer to Peer – A Commons Manifesto and a discussing around what is needed to create the transition to a commons economy and society and how it relates to the past and present as the book’s description outlines:
Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer? Why is it essential for building a commons-centric future? How could this happen? These are the questions this book tries to answer. Peer to peer is a type of social relations in human networks, as well as a technological infrastructure that makes the generalization and scaling up of such relations possible. Thus, peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for a transition to a commons-oriented economy.
Peer to Peer is available open access from the 21st of March on the University of Westminster Press website – DOI: 10.16997/book25. It is the latest title in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series from UWP.
A moderated talk and discussion with Michel Bauwens (P2P foundation), Ela Kagel, Andreas Arnold & Thomas Dönnebrink (Supermarkt) and Magdalena Ziomek (SMartDE).
About Michel Bauwens & the fellow authors of this book:
Michel Bauwens is the Founder of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of commons-based peer production, governance, and property.
Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance at Tallinn University of Technology and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is also Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and core member of the P2P Foundation.
Alex Pazaitis is a Core Member of the P2P Lab and a Junior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse Department, Tallinn University of Technology.
Please RSVP if you plan to join us for that evening: rsvp@supermarkt-berlin.net