Peak Hierarchy is a phrase (and a nod to “Peak Oil”) referencing a tipping point in the balance between hierarchical relations, decentralized relations (including representative democracy), and distributed ‘peer to peer’ relations. Michel Bauwens: “This is the meaning of Peak Hierarchy: horizontality is starting to trump verticality, it is becoming more competitive to be distributed, than to be (de)centralized. The two combined forces of Peak Oil and Peak Hierarchy are going to dramatically change the world we will live in. It’s time to prepare ourselves (for) the new logic of our coming political economy and civilization.”
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- 1.1 What is a Commons Transition?
- 1.2 What are P2P and the Commons, and how do they relate?
- 1.3 What does a P2P Economy look like?
- 1.4 What is Distributed Manufacturing?
- 1.5 What is Open Cooperativism?
- 1.6 What are P2P Politics?
- 1.7 Commons Transition, how do we get there?
- 1.8 How can I take part in the Commons Transition?
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