Dear All,<br><br>While walking towards the completion of the paper I
am working on, I would like to share with you the abstract and part of
its context. <br><p><br>[The world is on the verge of silence and rebellion, as we face a
very serious multidimensional crisis that affects all spheres of life.
There is an economic, political, social, ecological and cultural crisis
as a consequence of the establishment of globalised system of market
economy, representative 'democracy' and the related forms of
hierarchical structure [Fotopoulos, 2002]. </p><p>In addition, it seems that nowadays, we need a revolution that
does not demand; we need a constant revolution that creates really
different from the former ones. As Deleuze and Guattari put it "we do
not lack communication, on the contrary we have too much of it. We lack
creation. We lack resistance to the present" [Hardt, and Negri, 2001].
However, in Information Age this revolution is more impending than
ever. </p><p>Peer to Peer (P2P in short) is the premise of a new mode of
production, governance, and property that stems from the relational
dynamic at work in the distributed networks. While P2P processes are on
the way to prevail over the centralised market system, and distributed
structures and networks are proliferating, a large population inversion
of multitudes is being built enhancing the approaches to the creation
of open code social manifesto, which will subvert the current closed
code operating system. </p><p>People start disputing the illusive sense of freedom in terms
of being free from something, and they understand the real freedom in
terms of engaging, creating and self-expressing. The emancipatory P2P
movement, and the sociable Web, which are not just 'children' of the
technological (r)evolution, express a deeply shift in the epistemology
and ontology in our culture, and offer the means to solve the global
problems, which is the end in itself of the revolution, by relying on
the collective intelligence and wisdom of humankind. </p><p>As the economic production directly becomes political
production, it is only today, with the rise of the immaterial
production to the hegemonic role, that the revolutionary reversal
becomes 'objectively possible' [Zizek, 2005]. The immaterial production
is directly biopolitical [Hardt, and Negri, 2001] and thus the way
towards the absolute democracy is more open than ever.
</p><p>This is the truth of P2P logical: together we have everything
and together we know everything [Bauwens, 2007, 1]. In this thesis I
expand a little more by stating that together we create everything and
together we decide for everything.</p><p>Keywords: market economy, distributed networks, peer processes, multitude, population inversion, open code social manifesto]</p><p>and</p><p>[Laser Theory and P2P" is mainly an intersection of three monumental
essays: the "Empire" by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Michel
Bauwens' thesis "P2P and Human Evolution" and Takis Fotopoulos' book
"Towards an Inclusive Democracy". </p><p>Fotopoulos claims that a transition to real, direct, inclusive
democracy presupposes a new subjectivity, as a successful revolution
should solely come 'from below', while Bauwens, Hardt and Negri
highlight that nowadays the new emancipatory modes of production,
property and governance create a new subjectivity. Within this thesis I
state that P2P movement is a passage towards the absolute, real
democracy, as P2P processes can prevail over the current market economy
on which the concept of the so-called representative 'democracy' is
based. Laser Theory of Social Change makes a tentative approach to the
dynamics of the construction, or rather the insurgence, of a powerful
social organization and the scaffolding "which is continuously
constructed and renewed by the new cooperative productivity" [Hardt and
Nergi, 2001]. To put the matter bluntly, Laser Theory aims at
delineating the creation of the subjectivity that through "its
practical experimentation will offer the models and determine when and
how the possible becomes real" [Hardt and Nergi, 2001]; when and how
the revolution that creates becomes mature; when and how the absolute,
real democracy in economy and politics will shine on. ]<br></p><br>Your comments, ideas and criticism are very welcome.<br><br>Thank you for your time.<br><br>Vasilis<br><span><br>--<br><br>Thesis: <a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Laser_Theory_and_Peer_to_Peer" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Laser_Theory_and_Peer_to_Peer</a></span>