P2P Public Intellectuals
Context
A list of people oriented towards thinking about a sharing, commons, p2p oriented society.
For a cooperative publishing project with Shareable.
We aim to interview two people per month, with possible publication of interview book.
Introduction
Note from initial compiler Michel Bauwens:
Please note, a lot of people whom I find very interesting are not in here, because I or they do not necessarily see their work as part of this particular emergence and they belong to different paths. Also active activists who do not necessarily participate in the intellectual elaboration of p2p ideas are not included in this list. This list should in no way be seen as a list of approval or a select club to whom you do not belong. It is merely meant as a guide to find people with interesting ideas.
Thanks for suggesting names, and rationales for adding them.
Directory
- part of a general dialogue on the construction of a p2p world
- associated in some fashion with our work at the P2P Foundation
Public Intellectuals
- Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party, Sweden
- Adam Arvidsson **, on the ethical economy, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Adam+Arvidsson%22&fulltext=Search
- Michel Bauwens **, P2P Theory, founder of P2P Foundation; Bibliography of Michel Bauwens
- Yochai Benkler *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of Peer Production, i.e. the Wealth of Networks
- David Bollier **, author of Viral Spiral, foremost commons scholar, now working on emerging Commons Law framework
- James Boyle, against IP enclosures
- Rachel Botsman *, on sharing infrastructures and access via product-service systems
- Arthur Brock, Open Money, USA
- Marvin Brown ** , Civilizing the Economy, on civic economics, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision
- Axel Bruns, theorizing Produsage
- Allen Butcher, expert on Community Economics
- Chris Carlsson *, Nowtopia, on local productive economic associations
- Kevin Carson **, mutualism, relocalized production
- Manuel Castells, networked society
- Chris Cook, Open Capital
- David de Ugarte **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search
- Stephen Downes, peer learning
- Charles Eisenstein *, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics
- Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party founder
- Silvia Federici: [1], role of women in the commons
- Suresh Fernando
- Jorge Ferrer **, participatory spirituality
- Alex Foti, precarious workers movement, Italy
- Mayo Fuster-Morell, European social movements, modalities of open source and platform governance
- Alexander Galloway, Protocollary Power in networks
- Lisa Gansky *, on the Mesh Economy
- Sally Goerner: on mutualism and the next 'integral' civilisation
- Neal Gorenflo **, editor of Shareable magazine, on sharing as a social practice
- Thomas Greco **, Open Money and Credit Commons
- Michael Gurstein, community networks
- Joss Hands *, digitally-empowered political activism
- Paul Hartzog **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance
- Silke Helfrich **, commons researcher and advocate
- John Heron **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry
- Pekka Himanen, the hacker ethic
- Dougald Hine
- Brian Holmes
- Wolfgang Hoeschele **, economics of abundance
- Pat Kane **, author the Play Ethic
- Athina Karatzogianni **, cyberconflicts
- Dmytri Kleiner **, anti-capitalist peer production through Venture Communism
- Lawrence Lessig, IP law, creator of Creative Commons
- Simona Levi **, founder and leader of the Free Culture Forum
- Bernard Lietaer, monetary reform and transformation
- Alessandro Ludovico, Neural.it, p2p art and culture, Italy
- Ezio Manzini **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups
- Ugo Mattei, commons law, italian/european commons movement
- Alan McCluskey, community-based learning
- Armin Medosch
- Massimo Menichinelli, on Open Design
- Glyn Moody, active free software advocate and commentator
- Phoebe Moore **, global labour trends
- Matteo Pasquinelli, conflicts in the knowledge economy
- George Pór **, theorizing Collective Intelligence
- Mathieu O'Neill **, governance of open source communities
- Apichai Puntasen, Thailand, Buddhist Economics
- James Quilligan **, theorizing the Global Commons
- John Robb *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22John+Robb%22&fulltext=Search
- Andy Robinson, social movement thinker, UK
- David Ronfeldt**
- Douglas Rushkoff **, author, development of democratic cyber culture
- Sam Rose **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures
- Nikos Salingaros **, on P2P Urbanism
- Juliet Schor *, economics of abundance
- Trebor Scholz **, distributed creativity
- Orsan Senalp**, p2p and labor
- Clay Shirky *, the Cognitive Surplus making possible bottom-up Peer Production
- George Siemens, connectivist learning
- Felix Stalder, theorizing free culture and open movements
- Richard Stallman, founder of free software
- Don Tapskott, author of Wikinomics
- Tiziana Terranova, exploitation of free labour in networks
- Tere Vaden **, the Political Economy of Digital Literacy
- Jeff Vail *, a theory of distributed power http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Jeff+Vail%22&fulltext=Search
- Roberto Verzola **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Roberto+Verzola%22&fulltext=Search
- Eric von Hippel *, user-led innovation in industrial production
- Hilary Wainwright **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%22Hilary+Wainwright%22
- Jay Walljasper **, All That We Share, on the emergence of local commons initiatives
- Mackenzie Wark *, author of the Hacker's Manifesto, a class analysis of the Hacking Class
- Steve Webber, author of the Success of Open Source
- Catherine Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons
See also "visionary developers" of p2p infrastructure:
- Jay Walljasper, http://www.shareable.net/blog/field-guide-to-the-commons
- Marvin Brown, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision
Planned
- Hilary Wainwright, p2p, labor, and public services
- Mira Luna, solidarity economy
Soon: Sally Goerner
Proposed priority interviews by Michel Bauwens:
- Allen Butcher, expert on Community Economics
- Timothy Wilken, on synergistic cooperation
- Jeff Vail, on rhizomatic power
- Chris Carlsson, on nowtopian movements
- Kevin Carson, on the prospects for relocalized manufacturing
- Charles Eisenstein, on sacred economics
- Massimo Menichelli, on open design developments
- David Ronfeldt, on the evolution of governance
- John Robb, from open source warfare to insurgent resilience
- Orsan Senalp, p2p and the labor movement
- Roberto Verzola, the economics of abundance and scarcity
- Nikos Salingaros, p2p urbanism
and
- Amelia Andersdotter, on pirate party politics
- Simona Levi, on free culture
- Mayo Fuster-Morell, on the governance of online communities
- Tiziana Terranova, on free labour, precarity and autonomy in the new social movements
Commons-Oriented Economists
(This list is updated here: Commons-Oriented Economists)
A list originally compiled by David Bollier:
- Peter Barnes, Pt. Reyes Station, California (former entrepreneur; commons; Sky Trust)
- Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School (digital commons; not an economist, but he might as well be)
- Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute (economics as seen through complexity theory & evolutionary sciences)
- James Boyce, UMass Amherst (ecological economics)
- Herman Daly, steady-state economics
- Gerald Epstein, UMass Amherst (cooperatives)
- Josh Farley, U. of Vermont (ecological economics, community development)
- Nancy Folbre, UMass Amherst (feminist economics/caring economy)
- Katherine Gibson, Australia (community economics; former writing partner with the late Julie Graham, a.k.a., J.-K. Gibson-Graham)
- Wolfgang Hoeschele, Truman State University, Missouri (Solidarity Economy, commons)
- David Korten, author
- Richard Norgaard, UC Berkeley
- Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State & Indiana U. (commons; not an economist, but she might as well be)
- Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
See also:
- Robert Costanza, U. of Oregon (a leading ecological economist; not sure of commons-orientation)
Organisations:
- Association for Georgist Studies (the Henry George crowd)
- E.F. Schumacher Foundation: hosts annual lecture series that often includes iconoclastic economist-types
- New Economics Institute: Schumacher spinoff with ties to New Economics Foundation in UK, which aspires
to develop alternative economic approaches.