Co-Designing Economies in Transition : Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research. __Chapter 13 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com__ Foreword 5 Foreword: Toward Contemplative Social Science 10 Contents 17 List of Figures 20 List of Tables 21 1: Introduction 22 Part I 25 Part II 28 References 31 Part I: Transdisciplinary Foundations for Contemporary Social and Economic Transformation 33 2: In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Toward Co-designing the Urban Space We Care About 34 Introduction 34 The Blockchains as a Challenge. What They Are and How They Work 35 The Risks of Divisive Thinking: “Alternative Something” is the Illness, Not the Remedy. 42 An Enactive Approach in Social Sciences 51 Conclusive Remarks 53 References 56 3: Navigating the Great Transition Via Post-capitalism and Contemplative Social Sciences 61 Economies in Transition 61 Post-capitalism 66 Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences 70 Bibliography 74 4: Having, Being, and the Commons 80 Bibliography 87 5: Par Cum Pari: Notes on the Horizontality of Peer-to-Peer Relationships in the Context of the Verticality of a Hierarchy of Values 89 Definition and Description of the Peer-to-Peer Social Dynamic 89 The Ethical Evaluation of P2P Dynamics: P2P is a Social Process Based on Equipotentiality 91 Passionate Production as a Superior Modality of Value Creation 96 The Non-Reciprocal Logic of Peer Production 97 Peer-to-Peer in the Light of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church 100 Bibliography 104 6: Economics Beyond the Self 105 Buddhism in the Context of Global Capitalism 106 Principles of Buddhist Economics 107 Realizing Buddhist Principles in Business 110 Conclusion 112 References 112 7: The Koan of the Market 114 Introduction 114 The Usual Mindfulness-and-the-Economy Story 115 Critique #1: There Is No “Essential” Market 116 Critique #2: There Is No Airplane to Florida 118 Conclusion 120 References 121 8: Epistemology of Feminist Economics 123 Introduction 123 Economics and Ethics of Care 124 Feminist Epistemology 128 Feminist Economic Methodology 135 Conclusion 141 References 142 9: How to Make What Really Matters Count in Economic Decision-Making: Care, Domestic Violence, Gender-­Responsive Budgeting, Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights 148 Introduction 148 Counting Unpaid Work, But Does It Count? 152 Gender-Responsive Budgeting 157 Violence Against Women—An Economic Issue? 160 Moving On: Macroeconomic Policy and Human Rights 164 Concluding Remarks 166 References 168 10: Contemplative Economy and Contemplative Economics: Definitions, Branches and Methodologies 173 Introduction 173 The Economy from a Contemplative Worldview 175 Economic Choices and Agents from a Contemplative Worldview 177 Is There Some ‘Contemplative Economic Consciousness’ to Be Fostered? 177 Choices May Be Contemplative or Not, but All Choices Must Be Contemplatively Understood 180 Economic Agents Are, Albeit Unconsciously, Homo Deepeconomicus 181 Economy and Its Agency: More Contemplative Implications 183 An Economy Is Not Only Material or Socioeconomic but Actually Holographic 183 Economy, as a Manifestation of Deep Awareness, Subsumes the Main Levels of Existence 184 Economy Is a Scenery of Abundance, and Only Materialistic Ignorance Creates Scarcity 185 Contemplative Economics and Its Analytic, Heuristic and Engaged Branches 187 Contemplative Analytic Economics 187 Contemplative Heuristic Economics 188 Contemplative Engaged Economics 188 Conclusions 189 References 193 Part II: Collective Awareness, the Self, and Digital Technologies 200 11: From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities? 201 Introduction: Transitions from the Smart Cities to Experimental Cities 201 Smart Citizens: Decision Makers More than Data Providers 204 Techno-Politics of Data 209 Experimenting with the Urban Commons: The Multi-­Stakeholder Penta Helix Framework 214 Experimenting (with the City) 216 (Experimenting with the) Urban Commons 217 Penta Helix Multi-Stakeholder Approach 218 City as a Platform 218 Smart Citizens as Maker Citizens 219 Final Remark: Toward Urban Co-operatives? 219 References 222 12: FirstLife: From Maps to Social Networks and Back 228 Introduction 228 Classifying Geographic Information Systems Through the User’s Perspective 229 FirstLife, a Civic Social Network 233 FirstLife’s Architecture 234 FirstLife’s Uses 235 TeenCarto 235 WeGovNow 236 CO-CITY 238 Conclusions 240 Bibliography 241 13: The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots 243 Introduction 243 The Second Watershed of the Internet 247 Network Infrastructure 252 Energy Consumption 255 Interferences, Electrosmog, and the Value of Sharing 256 Software 256 Limits 262 Sharing Resources 265 Do-It-Yourself Networking 267 Tangible Reasons Why 269 Synergies and Complementarities 272 Putting Things Together: The Case of NeNa1 273 Concluding Notes 276 References 277 14: Technocratic Automation and Contemplative Overlays in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing 281 Imminent Trajectory of Technocracy (e-Governance) 283 Automation 286 Automation and Contemplative Criminal Sentencing 288 Human and Artificial Cognition 289 Contemplative Overlays in AI Judges 295 Cognitrons 296 Contemplative Perceptrons and the APC 298 References 303 15: One Bright Byte: Dōgen and the Re-embodiment of Digital Technologies 305 Res Cogitans in Western Culture 305 The Disembodiment of Digital Technologies 307 The Law of Amplification 311 Dōgen’s Practical Philosophy 312 Fake Alternatives 315 How to Re-embody Our Digital Technologies 317 Why Dōgen? 318 References 319 Index 324 Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Introduction (Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino, Zack Walsh)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Toward Co-designing the Urban Space We Care About (Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino)....Pages 15-41 Navigating the Great Transition Via Post-capitalism and Contemplative Social Sciences (Zack Walsh)....Pages 43-61 Having, Being, and the Commons (Ugo Mattei)....Pages 63-71 Par Cum Pari: Notes on the Horizontality of Peer-to-Peer Relationships in the Context of the Verticality of a Hierarchy of Values (Michel Bauwens)....Pages 73-88 Economics Beyond the Self (Laszlo Zsolnai)....Pages 89-97 The Koan of the Market (Julie A. Nelson)....Pages 99-107 Epistemology of Feminist Economics (Zofia Łapniewska)....Pages 109-133 How to Make What Really Matters Count in Economic Decision-Making: Care, Domestic Violence, Gender-Responsive Budgeting, Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights (Margunn Bjørnholt)....Pages 135-159 Contemplative Economy and Contemplative Economics: Definitions, Branches and Methodologies (Xabier Renteria-Uriarte)....Pages 161-187 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities? (Igor Calzada)....Pages 191-217 FirstLife: From Maps to Social Networks and Back (Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino)....Pages 219-233 The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots (Panayotis Antoniadis)....Pages 235-272 Technocratic Automation and Contemplative Overlays in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing (Philip Butler)....Pages 273-296 One Bright Byte: Dōgen and the Re-embodiment of Digital Technologies (David Casacuberta)....Pages 297-315 Back Matter ....Pages 317-322 "This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research."--Publisher's description Annotation This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research