EP83 Michel Bauwens on Our Commons Transition

Michel Bauwens talks to Jim about P2P plurality, agro & regeneration, capitalist impact on social media, blockchains, cosmo-localism, and much more... Michel Bauwens talks to Jim about the forms of P2P (peer to peer) implementations & core elements, cosmo-local production, P2P in agriculture & regenerative processes, artificial rivalrous dynamics, capitalist impacts on social media & sensemaking, political polarization, creating better social media habits, centralized vs distributed & for-profit vs for-benefit business ops, blockchain design ethos', P2P from a historical perspective, de-growth misunderstandings, dangerous impacts of cities, cosmo-localism, Michel's commons transition strategy, and more. Episode Transcript Mentions & Recommendations JRS: EP63 Michel Bauwens on P2P & Commons Michel’s book, Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto P2PFoundation.net P2PFoundation Blog JRS: EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking The Social Dilemma on Netflix Surveillance Capitalism with Shoshana Zuboff The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival JRS: EP56 Art Brock on Holo Tech The Structure of World History by Kōjin Karatani JRS: EP65 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Complexity Jordan Hall's Civium Project Michel Bauwens is the founder & director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org. He has (co-)published various books & reports in english, dutch and french, such as, ‘Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy’, and P2P, A Commons Manifesto. Michel has been a candidate for the European Parliament, for the Flemish Green Party but as an independent candidate. He is currently working on prototyping a MOOC on commons-based economics.