Category:Relational
This category includes topics related to a P2P-oriented views of relations. Relationships, in the p2p tradition, are both inventive and exploratory.
See the Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Relational Topics by Michel Bauwens for a wide-ranging guide. Also of interest: Quotes on P2P and Commons-Based Relationality!
Key Quotes
"Cooperativity is fundamental ... There is no dictator in cell regulation, no first among equals, no master regulator, no top-down system of governance."
— Toby J. Gibson, molecular biologist [1]
"We are emerging from a long dominator era into one that demands mutuality. The dominator (hierarchical) mode appears strong, but in reality is too slow to respond to the crisis of the time. Mutualism, on the other hand, is liable to be too fragile in the face of dominator pressures: the only way to resist these, based on intricacy, "is for small circles to join hands in a collaborative network that is broader and tighter than anything domination can provide.(p 286)" The keys to doing this, which she works out through many practical examples, are "education, empowerment, infrastructure, support networks, liberation and love."
— Sally Goerner, from: After the Clockwork Universe: The Emerging Science and Culture of Integral Society
"The new science keeps reminding us that in this participative universe, nothing lives alone. Everything comes into form because of relationship. We are constantly called into relationship — to information, people, events, ideas, and life. Even reality is created through our participation in relationships. We chose what we notice; we relate to certain things and ignore others. Through these chosen relationships we co-create our world. If we are interested in effecting change, it is crucial to remember that we are working within webs of relations, not with machines."
— Margaret J. Wheatley (1999)[2]
“What is the ethical specificity of the human?
It would perhaps reside in the fulfillment of this ethical capacity to the universal, in the tension towards universality, in the tendential universalism of the human species which can take the form of an altruism extended to everything. that is, to everything that exists. The human, therefore, would not be fully human when he is a specieist: on the contrary, he would never be more human than when he transcends narrow humanism, the specieist egoism that is anthropocentrism. There is in humans a tendency and a tension towards universality, towards objectivity, the absolute, the truth, which makes them perhaps and possibly the ethical species par excellence, the most ethical species. Capable of a universalism which would not be an imperialism of human reason, but also of a relativism which gives rise to a sense of perspectivism and relationalism: an ability to recognize the particularity, the singularity of each being, from each point of view, to take into account the perspective character of existence, but also the co-constitutive relations between all beings. There seem to be cognitive and emotional capacities in human beings which would enable them both to view things from a general, even universal point of view, through the point of view of the whole, and to recognize relativism. Perspectivism from every point of view - including his own. ”
Falk Van Gaver (Krisis, No. 49, 12/2018, p. 59)
Key Concepts of This Category
Social and economic relations have been categorised in various ways.
Alan Page Fiske in his Relational Model Typology - Fiske states that "People use just four fundamental models for organizing most aspects of sociality most of the time in all cultures. These models are:
- Communal Sharing
- Authority Ranking
- Equality Matching
- Market Pricing"
Grid-Group Theory introduces four primary ways of organizing, perceiving, and justifying social relations (usually called ‘ways of life,’ or ‘social solidarities’): egalitarianism, hierarchy, individualism and fatalism.
Useful learning resources
Introductory
- Roman Krznaric on Moving from the Age of Introspection to the Age of Outrospection - The Power of Outrospection 10-minute video (2012) is a wide ranging brief talk about Empathy and Social Change, illuminatingly illustrated by RSA ANIMATE.
- Bruce Lipton on Why Natural and Human Evolution is Communal, not Individual 5 minute video on Youtube
- P2P Interpretation of Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality endorsed as spiritual theory by Michel Bauwens
- Eric Schaezle's Introduction to Multi-Perspectival Relationalist Philosophies [3]: Very good introduction to the various branches of relational thought, both East and West.
Deeper Study
- Collective Presencing (2019)
- Grid-Group Theory
- Relational Model Typology - Fiske
- Evan Thompson on the Primacy of Intersubjectivity
- Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon on why Contemporary Individualization is Relational
- Chris Lucas on Integral Intersubjectivity: "I" and "It" perspectives need to be complemented by "We" perspectives.
- Margaret Archer on Why Morphogenesis Implies Peer to Peer Socialization
- Paolo Virno on Collectivity and Individuality: Collectivity as a Precondition for Individuality
- Against Digital Dualism : the real is not separate from the virtual!!
Material from the P2P Foundation
- Peer-to-Peer Relationality by Michel Bauwens
- Introduction on Individuality, Relationality, and Collectivity from Michel Bauwens, 2006
- Introduction to P2P Relationality
These links and more in the Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Relational Topics by Michel Bauwens
Related Categories
- Category: Community: is a particular relational context relevant to P2P
- Category: Ecology: involves relations between systems beyond the human
- Category: Governance covers a formal dimension of relationality
- Category: P2P Theory deals with wider issues emerging from P2P relationality
- Category: Participation is a particular aspect of relationality
- Category: Sharing is a mode of P2P relating outside the scope of traditional economics
- Category: Spirituality: offers both relationality with what is beyond us, and guidance on relating to one another
- Category: Synergy can be an outcome of particular ways of relating
Pages in category "Relational"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,238 total.
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- Collaborative Filtering
- Collaborative Intelligence
- Collaborative Lifestyles
- Collaborative Moderation
- Collaborative Roots of Corruption
- Collaboratory Information Assessment
- Collective Action
- Collective Action Theory
- Collective Behavior
- Collective Consciousness
- Collective Effervescence
- Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems
- Collective Identity
- Collective Individuals
- Collective Individuation
- Collective Individuation as the Future of the Social Web
- Collective Intelligence
- Collective Presencing
- Collective Psychology Project
- Collective Responsibility
- Collective Sense-Making as Negotiated Agreement
- Collective Spiritual Leadership
- Collective Thinking
- Collectively Intelligent Systems
- Common Good
- Commonalities
- Commoning and Relational Approaches to Governance
- Commons
- Commons and Community
- Commons Animators
- Commons as Community
- Commons Based Queer Production
- Commons Framework
- Commons of Capability
- Commons Principles
- Commons-based Political Production
- Commons-Based Subjectivity
- Communal Privacy Theory
- Communal Sharing Theory
- Communal Studies Association
- Communal Trust
- Communal Validation
- Communality
- Communalization of Housework
- Communes
- Communitarian Continuum
- Communitarian Mysticism
- Communitarian Relationships Model
- Communitarian Sharing Lifestyles
- Communitarian Theory
- Communitarianism in a Market Culture
- Communitas
- Communitas Model
- Communities and Innovation
- Communities of Practice
- Communities vs Audiences
- Community
- Community - the book
- Community and the Structure of Belonging
- Community as Curriculum
- Community as Industry
- Community Assets
- Community Freeloader
- Community Informatics
- Community Motive
- Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
- Community Participant Lifecycle
- Community Participation
- Community Rights
- Community Values as Survival Tool
- Community vs. Network
- Community without Communicatio vs Communication without Community
- Community-Controlled Third Places
- Comparison of Four Quadriform Theories of Social Change
- Compassionate Action Network
- Compassionate Instinct
- Compassionate Peer Support for Mental Health Issues
- Compensatory Self-Enhancement
- Competing Values Framework
- Competitive Fragmentation of Power
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Complex Equality
- Complexity Patterning
- Complexity Spirals
- Comprehensive History of Symbiosis Theory
- Computational Evidence for the Cognitive Costs of Sociality
- Computer-mediated Collective Action System
- Comunalidad
- Comunidad de Intercambio del Bajo Andarax/es
- Conceptuar-te/es
- Concordia Project
- Conditional Cooperators
- Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
- Conflict Between Lower-Level Selfishness and Higher-Level Welfare
- Conflict Theories
- Connected
- Connected Consciousness
- Connected Environments
- Connecting
- Connection Commons
- Connectionism
- Connective Hypothesis
- Connective Knowledge
- Connectivist Learning Theory - Siemens
- Connectivity - Typology
- Connectomics
- Conscious Evolution
- Consensus
- Consensus Web Filters
- Consent vs. Consensus
- Consent-Based Relationships
- Consequence-Capture as Crucial Characteristics of Common Good Oriented Self-Organized Societies
- Consociation
- Constelaciones/es
- Constrained vs Unconstrained Vision of Human Nature
- Constructal Theory
- Consumer-Controlled Surveillance Culture
- Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
- Contagious Media
- Contemporary Individualization is Relational
- Contemporary Relational Philosophies
- Content-Driven Reputation
- Contingent Cooperation
- Continuous Partial Presence
- Contract Feudalism
- Contractualist Theory of Morality
- Control Trust
- Conversation
- Conversation Economy
- Conversation Theory
- Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter
- Conversational Index
- Conversational Media
- Convex vs Concave Lifestyles
- Convivialist Manifesto
- Conviviality
- Conway's Law
- Cooperation
- Cooperation in Evolution
- Cooperative Eye Hypothesis
- Cooperative Game
- Cooperative Individualism
- Cooperative Inquiry
- Cooperative Resilience in the Wake of Disasters
- Cooperative vs Non-Cooperative Games
- Cooperative Wealth Building
- Cooperativeness
- Cooperatives
- Coopetition
- Coordinadora de grupos de los barrios altos/es
- Coordinated Cooperation vs Subordinated Cooperation
- Coordination Format
- Coordination Theory
- Copylove
- Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles
- Corima
- Corporate Personhood
- Correlationism
- Cosmobiological Tradition
- Cosmotheandric Experience
- Coworking
- Craig Spurrier on Studying Wiki Communities from a Social Science Perspective
- Creating a Legal Framework for Online Identity
- Creating Good Work
- Creative Altruism
- Creative Altruism and the Prospects for a Common Humanity in the Age of Globalization
- Creative Piety
- Creed of Sharing
- Crisis of Representation and Autonomy of Self
- Critical Reflection On The Three Pillars Of Transdisciplinarity
- Critical Social Justice Is Incompatible With a Therapeutic Relationship
- Critical Therapy Antidote
- Critique of Empathy
- Crowd
- Crowd Accelerated Innovation
- Crowd Curation
- Crowd of One
- Crowd Psychology
- Crowding Out
- Crowdsourced Curation
- Crowdsourcing - Discussion
- Cultivating Hacker Ethics in Debian
- Cultural Commons Project
- Cultural Creatives
- Cultural Dimensions Theory
- Cultural Evolution
- Cultural Multilevel Selection Theory
- Cultural Theory
- Culture in Mind
- Culture of Contest
- Culture of the Socioeconomy of Solidarity
- Culture, Labour and Subjectivity
- Cultures and Ethics of Sharing
- Customer Anthropology
- Customer Engagement
- Customer Network Value
- Cyber Anthropology
- Cyber Hero
- Cyberspace and the Self-Management of the Self
- Cyberspace Romance