See it here. He defines P2P as follows:
"Peer to peer is a relational dynamic which allows every individual to
connect ‘permissionlessly’ to any other individual. You could call it
‘networking freedom’ if you like. This has been a hallmark of small
groups of humans but has recently been scaled up by technology, creating
the possibility of global ‘open source’ civic networks and generative
economic coalitions that are on a par, if not
surpassing, the capacities
of both state hierarchies and capitalist market-dynamics.
"But be careful: the concept of p2p, which is derived from the new
structure of computers in which every server is autonomous, is now used
in two competing ways. One, which the way I use it, is peer to peer as
the capacity for commoning, i.e. the free association to pool, mutualize
and share resources; and two, the anarcho-capitalist,
libertarian-propertarian vision, which sees society as a collection of
individual entrepreneurs. Between the commons view and the hyper-market
view, there is a huge stretch."
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