Peer2Politics

The proliferation of digital media in the 21st century has once again shown the deeply ambivalent and contradictory potentials of technological development.

It is not often that one can encounter an author who is deeply read in both liberal, marxist and even libertarian literature, embracing Marx AND Ayn Rand, and claiming to show an underlyng unity. Please note that the underlying ideas for a technological utopia are not the ideas of the P2P Foundation, as we must …

Article: Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains. By Melanie Swan. Interesting take that does not necessarily a right-libertarian approach to blockchain technology. Here is the summary followed by two excerpts. Summary: “There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of …

Join our friends from the Chicago Chamber of the Commons to discuss our Commons Transition plans

A step through the city of the Commons of 2040, an environment that can provide the conditions and infrastructures for commoning in urban areas.

For many centuries, the most important thing in an artistic work wasn’t beauty but its message and functionality.

Mainstream neoconservative integral theory predicts a next state of civilisation which is hyper-individualist and is a reaction against collectivist excesses 

1. “It is clear that capitalism as a civilization is already over, and it knows it. The ruling class of our time knows it can make no claim to rule for anyone but themselves. Hence their instinct to hide from us, to spy on us, to arm and fortify themselves, and to plunder and loot …

2 diagrams that map the big picture of the emerging post-capitalist paradigm, underpinned by peer-to-peer and collaborative dimensions.