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Alex Steffen has a great post over at http://www.worldchanging.org on "Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability." He makes such an important point that it is worth quoting at length:
I call this idea "the Swap." It's sort of a middle stage on the road to a better future, where people have accepted that something must change, but have not really gotten their heads around the idea that everything must change. Therefore, the Swap is a form of denial.
Michel Bauwens definitely has a way with words, and from time to time you find pieces like this one in which he summarizes a number of salient theoretical insights into peer-to-peer society (network culture):
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/interview-on-peer-to-peer-politics-with-co...
An excellent post from the ever-thoughtful Bill Tozier revolving around the point that "there can be no selective archive":
Somehow the myths of The Book, of The Editor, the Archive, and even the Authoritative Word, they’ve eaten our ability to hold flexible and contingent opinions. So few of us wonder which book we have in our hands; which edition, which version, which printing, which copy?
http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/06/why-i-feel-so-strongly-about-...
Well I've started working on my Ph.D. exam, targeted for some time over the summer. My topic is something I'm calling "differencing" which is a distinction-making process.
Basically, any act of making a distinction, such as drawing a circle, creates an inside and an outside at the same moment. Inside, outside, and the distinction itself, are all mutually constituted.
As near as I can figure, differencing must involve three separate processes: