It is not widely known that the law regards virtually all artifacts of human creativity as private property from the moment they are created. Scribble a doodle, record a few guitar riffs, and copyright law treats the resulting “works” as a kind of private property over which you may retain legal control for the rest… Continue reading
Traditional anti-capitalism focused on the ownership of the means of production, yet the modern capitalist doesn’t even want to own the means of production, they want to own the very right to produce. To control the ideas required to produce and simply charge rents for these ideas. This short text by Dmytri Kleiner was originally… Continue reading
Guerrilla Translation’s transcript of the 2013 C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue prefigures many of the directions the P2P Foundation has taken in later years. To honor its relevance we’re curating special excerpts from each of the three authors. In this second extract, Michel Bauwens talks about the disconnect between young idealistic developers and the business models many… Continue reading
Can you get 100% Jeremy? Telekommunisten have created a Facebook game to promote #votelabour Put On Your Corbyn Face might be the first ever Facebook game that you play with empathy and feeling. Your score depends on how well you can reproduces the emotion in a picture of Jeremy Corbyn! https://gamesforthemany.com/corbynface/ Telekommunisten promote Venture Communism…. Continue reading
“Reciproka facilitates the development of a co-owned network of open co-operatives through ownership transfer, network building and co-operative accumulation.” David Bollier and I (see David’s post from yesterday) had the pleasure of meeting Janosch Sbeih and Jérôme Birolini (“The Reciprokans”) at the Open 2017: Platform Cooperativism conference in London. We were very impressed with their overall… Continue reading
The book “Ours to Hack and to Own: the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and fairer Internet” edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider came off the presses a few months ago. You have to add to this the firsthand testimonial descriptions of twenty-five initiatives based on cooperative… Continue reading
By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: Digital technologies allow for the creation of a new mode of production, a new mode of allocation, and new types of social relations beyond the state-market nexus. Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper… Continue reading
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley: If you’ve ever wondered about how a new, collaborative, sustainable, democratic economy might work the new book Ours to Hack and Own – The rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet, is for you. The book is edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan… Continue reading
We’re happy to share this recent article on CopyFair tendencies. It was written by Brian Loudon and originally published in loud1design.co.uk: On Patents, Open Source Design and Reciprocity I previously blogged on open source and IP here and I wanted to revisit this in a more concise way to focus in on the limitations of open… Continue reading
The Future Economy — A “Thing Commons” So let’s take a look at the future of manufacturing and production, what myself and others often refer to as “maker culture.” To envision how a future economy will function, all we have to do is apply the principles of complex systems and panarchy and see what emerges:… Continue reading
Today September 2, sees the start of the very important of the P2P Value conference in Amsterdam, which will examine the findings of a 3-year research project sponsored by EU research grants, and the results of a cooperative consortium of 8 partners, one of which is the P2P Foundation. The following text is not the… Continue reading
Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy Amsterdam. September 2-3, 2016 Peer Value: Advancing the Commons Collaborative Economy is a conference integrating conversations and plans of action for shaping and connecting the Commons on a global level. Our final program is listed below, please join us in Amsterdam! The conference is organized along three tracks:… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation advocates a multi-modal approach to social change. This recognizes that the economy and society consists of different modalities of human production and exchange, that they have always co-existed, but in different configurations and that these configurations can be dominated by one of the modalities that will then ‘transform’ the others. Thus, for… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatani. Karatani focuses on world history as an evolution of ‘modes of exchange’, i.e. how humans produce, but most… Continue reading
I am a pretty assiduous digital commoner, for what it’s worth. I almost exclusively use free/libre/open-source software (hereafter FLOSS), evangelistically so. I try to practice open journalism. I’ve run and developed business models for organizations devoted to producing Creative Commons content. I believe that property is theft, ultimately, and I hold the ancient doctrine of… Continue reading
Video exploring questions of what type of economy we want and need. With Dmytri Kleiner, Elena Tarifa i Herrero, Ester Vidal and Ramon Roca. Note: All Procomuns videos feature simultaneous translation, please switch from left to right channels to change languages. This plenary was filmed at PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event which was held in… Continue reading