The Commons Transition and P2P | Some links

This Commons Transition Primer website contains new and adapted texts by P2P Foundation members, including its founder, Michel Bauwens. As part of an ongoing multimedia project/campaign, their intention with this site is to make the P2P Foundation’s core ideas on the Commons and P2P accessible, attractive and shareable for commoners and communities worldwide.

• A Primer on the Transition to the Commons
• Short articles on the Commons Transition
  • What is a commons transition?
  • What are P2P and the Commons and how do they relate?
  • What does a P2P economy look like?
  • What is distributed manufacturing?
  • What is open cooperativism?
  • What are P2P politics?
  • The Commons Transition: How do we get there?
  • How can I take part in the commons transition?
• Long articles on the Commons Transition
  • Blueprint for a partner state
  • Ten ways to accelerate the peer to peer and commons economy
  • From platform to open cooperativism
  • Design global, manufacture local: A new industrial revolution?
  • Commons in the time of monsters
• Library (PDFs)
  • The Commons Transition Primer
  • Changing Societies Through Urban Commons Transitions
  • The Catalan Integral Cooperative
  • Value in the Commons Economy
  • Peer to Peer and the Commons: A matter, energy and thermodynamic perspective I
  • Peer to Peer and the Commons: A matter, energy and thermodynamic perspective II
  • Policy Proposals for an Open Knowledge Commons Society
  • A New Model of Production for a New Economy
• More on the Commons Transition
  • How Does The Commons Work?
  • P2P and Utopia
  • An Introduction to Basic P2P Ideas
  • Commons Based Peer Production in a Nutshell
  • Value Regimes And Where Your Job Might Be Going In The Future
  • The P2P Foundations’s work in a Nutshell
  • Silke Helfrich on Patterns of Commoning
  • Michel Bauwens on the Commons Transition

• Special issue on Degrowth at the Journal of Political Ecology