The following book review by our P2Pvalue colleague Mayo Fuster Morell was originally published on the CCCBLab site. Image CC-BY Democracy Chronicles Cases such as Airbnb, Uber, and eBay have popularised the concept of the sharing economy. Digital platforms allow for the exchange of products and services, defying the business model of traditional companies. As it… Continue reading
So compared to that of Bauwens and the Monthly Review Group, Mason’s analysis of the crisis tendencies of late capitalism falls a bit flat. Nevertheless, his general framing has a familiar Marxian ring to it, in the same general tradition we’ve been considering: and become the basis for a fundamentally new system.. Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real by Kevin Carson…. Continue reading
As the underpinning technology for Bitcoin, the blockchain is widely heralded as the new internet. Alex Puig, CEO of the Digital Currency Summit, calls it the “Internet of Value”. The blockchain is a decentralised infrastructure for automating, monitoring and verifying transactions, and this promises to facilitate the monetisation and marketisation of all things networked. It… Continue reading
Today, the new ethic says that ‘to resist is in the first place to create’. The world we want is the world we are creating through our cooperative P2P ethos, it is visible in what we do today, not an utopian creation for the future. Building the commons has a crucial ingredient: the building of a dense alternative media… Continue reading
Based on Mason’s preview of Postcapitalism in his article at The Guardian, I was predisposed to like it. And having read the book itself, I can’t say I’ve changed my mind much. And there is indeed a great deal of good analysis in this book. There is also some not so good. Probably the weakest… Continue reading
A discussion on the interweavings of science with commons, public and private and the ways we understand, produce and socialize it. By Antonio Lafuente and Adolfo Estalella, from the Instituto de Historia (CSIC) and the University of Manchester. Proclaiming the public nature of science has become something as commonplace as it is controversial. At times,… Continue reading
* Book: Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak. In a review David Auerbach writes: ” In his book Common Knowledge, Dariusz Jemielniak, a longtime Wikipedia editor and administrator, discusses one of the most epic edit wars of all time, a fierce and unyielding debate over how to refer to the Polish city of… Continue reading
Wouter Tebbens, from the Free Knowledge Institute, interviews our colleague David Bollier. You can find the original here. On October 1st I had an interview with David Bollier. Given his decade long work on the commons, as researcher and activist, author of books like Viral Spiral and in particular his work on Laws and the… Continue reading
One of the great advantages of a commons analysis is its ability to deconstruct the prevailing myths of “intellectual property” as a wholly private “product” – and then to reconstruct it as knowledge and culture that lives and breathes only in a social context, among real people. This opens up a new conversation about if… Continue reading
Ask for more info via . Here’s how they describe the issue at hand: Phoebe Moore et al.: “The rise in the usage and delivery capacity of the Internet in the 1990s has led to the development of massively distributed online projects where self-governing volunteers collaboratively produce public goods. Notable examples include Free and Open… Continue reading
Interview with researcher Primavera De Filippi by Rachel O’Dwyer. Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at the CERSA / CNRS / Université Paris II. She is currently a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, where she is investigating the concept of “governance by design” as it relates… Continue reading
By George Dafermos, research coordinator, FLOK Society; and research associate, P2P Foundation. Originally Published – http://openthoughts-peerproduction.blogs.uoc.edu/towards-a-peer-society-based-on-the-commons/ If the previous decade brought the business embrace of Linux, free software and the knowledge commons of science and technology to the fore, the present one marks their entry into the field of politics as discourses with broad social… Continue reading
Originally Posted on – http://commonsfest.info/en/2015/anichta-diktia-axias/ Open Value Networks and Commons-based Peer Production With the advent of the computer and the internet, we are able to communicate and coordinate with an increasing number of people. That has allowed new possibilities in the organizational forms of production that were never possible before. Commons-based Peer Production One such… Continue reading
Yochai Benkler will be presenting the Spanish translation of his book “The Wealth Of Networks” in Barcelona on February 25th. Full details below in English, Catalan & Spanish: Can we gain an economy, politics and society of the commons? Emerging model of production, political innovation and the geopolitics of Internet from the Spanish context of… Continue reading
CfP: tripleC-Special Issue “The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons” Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2015 Guest editors: Vasilis Kostakis, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), P2P Lab (Greece); Andreas Roos, Human Ecology Division, Lund University (Sweden)… Continue reading
this post originally appeared in Stir Magazine illustration by Daksheeta Pattni In 2002 I described United Diversity as “a member owned and stakeholder governed network of mutual advantage.” In truth, it was aspirational. At the time, the flexible off-the-shelf legal structures and open source tools needed to make such a network a reality simply didn’t… Continue reading