Punk to Peer – The Playlist

Here is the link for the interweb version of the Punk to Peer playlist. The playlist was distributed via CD in a zine I created for my thesis presentation.

More on the zine and the bands to come…

It’s All Happening…

Calendar Entry: Goteblüd Opening!

Zinesters! Goteblud is opening for business in the Mission equipped with vintage zines and other publications. I have not been, but I hope it rocks.

From the site:

Grand opening party May 8th, 2009 from 7-9pm – be there!!

Goteblüd is a gallery/store located at 766 Valencia, in San Francisco’s Mission District.

We buy/sell vintage fanzines and underground magazines and also have
periodic shows related to self-publishing.

Goteblüd is also the home of Goteblüd Comics, publisher of Wuvable Oaf.

Store hours are weekends only, Sat/Sun 12-5pm.

Bring your cat.

From Punk to Peer: Leaders?

In reading Paul B Hartzog’s paper, 21ST CENTURY GOVERNANCE AS A COMPLEX
ADAPTIVE SYSTEM, from his Panarchy website, I extracted the following excerpt to further elaborate (either to contextualize or problematize…) one the arguments on which my research hinges:

As Steven Johnson describes in “The Myth of the Queen Ant,”
humans have traditionally looked for “rulers” in ordered
systems, “pacemakers” that are responsible for the maintenance
of order. In addition, we look for such primary causers in other
systems, from terrorist networks to fads to mass demonstrations
to peer-to-peer file-sharing. However, “we know now that
systems like ant colonies don’t have real leaders, that the very
idea of an ant ‘queen’ is misleading. But the desire to find
pacemakers in such systems has always been powerful….”[6].
In complex adaptive systems, though, organizers are entirely
unnecessary when the structure of the system follows certain
parameters. These parameters determine whether a system will
self-organize or not, into a state which Per Bak calls “selforganized
criticality”[7]. In highly interconnected systems,
when conditions permit, order can emerge spontaneously, what
Stuart Kauffman calls “‘order for free.’ – self-organization that
arises naturally”[8]. Indeed, what Complexity reveals is that
sometimes the system itself is the organizer of order.

In the social formation of subcultural non-mainstream activity, I specifically argue that figures such as Dirk Dirksen were central to the proliferation of this activity. When thinking of the post-’77 scene, how does Hartzog’s analysis play into – say – the magnanimous increase of zine production in the ’80s? …

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p2p definition (useful) by Michel Bauwens

So: what is peer to peer? Here’s a first tentative definition: It is a specific form of relational dynamic, is based on the assumed equipotency of its participants[v], organized through the free cooperation of equals in view of the performance of a common task, for the creation of a common good, with forms of decision-making and autonomy that are widely distributed throughout the network. Equipotency means that there is no prior formal filtering for participation, but rather that it is the immediate practice of cooperation which determines the expertise and level of participation. It does not deny `authority’, but only fixed forced hierarchy, and therefore accepts authority based on expertise, initiation of the project, etc…

P2P is a network, not a hierarchy (though it may have elements of it); it is ‘distributed’, though it may have elements of centralization and ‘decentralisation’; intelligence is not located at any center, but everywhere within the system.

From “Peer to Peer and Human Evolution”

http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2ptheory1#_Toc107024684