Commentaries are very welcome: “Today we have a paradox, the more “communistic” the sharing license we use (i.e. no restrictions on sharing), the more capitalistic the practice (i.e. multinationals can use it for free), with for example the Linux commons having become in a sense a corporate commons enriching IBM and the like … it… Continue reading
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Michel Bauwens on the pitfalls of start-up culture
Our second extract from the transcript of the C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue, Michel Bauwens talks about the disconnect between young idealistic developers and the business models many of them default to, unaware that there’s better options. I’d like to start with outlining the issue, the problem around the emergence of peer production within the current neoliberal… Continue reading
The Most Important P2P-related Projects and Trends of 2013
Here is my proposed selection of what mattered most last year. Please visit all the links here. Please note ‘most important’ does not mean ‘the best’ nor an endorsement. It simply means that the experiences and initiatives are significant from a p2p point of view. What did I forget ? Do let me know of… Continue reading
Guerrilla Translation on adopting the Peer Production License
After discussing the proposal within our team, we at Guerrilla Translation have decided to license our translated content under a Peer Production License. Extracted from “The Telekommunist Manifesto” as authored by John Magyar, B.A., J.D. and Dmytri Kleiner, the Peer Production License (henceforth PPL) is somewhat of a hybrid between a Copyleft and Creative Commons… Continue reading
Social Movements Cannot Prevail Through Secrecy
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner: “Social struggles are not won by clandestinity and intrigue, but by mass struggle. The major social victories of history, the civil rights movement, the labour movement, the feminist movement, and many others, had the effect they had because of mass support and the mass mobilization of supporters, not because of heroic… Continue reading
The debt strike is the key weapon to restore popular power
If people really want change, they are going to have to find ways of taking power – and debt strikes are one way. An important argument, previously made by Dmytri Kleiner of the International Debtors Party, that finance is the key energy keeping the current system together, but therefore also its point of vulnerability. Excerpted… Continue reading
The dynamics of attention in a p2p world
The following is excerpted from a conversation/interview with San Kinsley, conducted in the aftermath of the Paying Attention conference, for which an excellent reader has been published, focused on the attention economy. * Interview: Towards Peer-to-Peer Alternatives: An Interview with Michel Bauwens. Conducted by Sam Kinsley. * from the special Issue: PAYING ATTENTION: Towards a… Continue reading
Towards a Critique of the Attention Economy: a special issue of ‘Culture Machine’
In september 2010, I attented an interesting conference organized by the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, which was held in Linkoping, Sweden. Co-organizers Patrick Crogan and Samuel Kinsley have also edited the proceedings, with interesting contributions from people like Bernard Stiegler, Tiziana Terranova, Ruth Catlow and many others…. Continue reading
Overview of the contents of the first issue of the Journal of Peer Production
Excerpted from Mathieu O’Neil’s editorial introduction: “The issue’s title, “Productive negation” refers to the role of peer production as a “work of the negative”. That is to say, as a critical force in capitalist society. This theme is featured in three peer reviewed articles. In “Authority in Peer Production: The Emergence of Governance in the… Continue reading
What is specific about the positioning of the P2P Foundation?
This is a follow-up of our article of July 15, and the second part of our article in the Journal of Peer Production, which reviewed various related P2P movements: “Like Oekonux, the P2P Foundation is a collective marked by diversity, but it also has dominant personalities and themes, with a substantial influence of the author… Continue reading
A critical survey of peer theory producing individuals and collectives
This will also appear in the ‘really really excellent’ Issue 1 of the Journal of Peer Production. I start the article by reviewing different expressions of the broader ‘P2P’ movement: “Amongst the movements discussed below are the following: § progressive liberal interpretations such as those of Yochai Benkler, who discusses ‘commons-based peer production’ in his… Continue reading
Crowdfunding the Commons: Goteo.org Interview
Source: Shareable Goteo means “to drip” in English. Credit: David Purser, licensed under Creative Commons We are reinventing social and cultural practices. By necessity and desire. New ways of collaborating require, not the least, new ways of organizing financial means. In the cultural sector, commercial models based on copyrights (selling copies) and government funded models (subsidies)… Continue reading
Peer Production and the Poverty of Networks
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner‘s Telekommunist Manifesto: “A freer internet cannot exist within the present system of capitalist financing. Arguments for the clear technical superiority of distributed technologies over centralized ones have not been the deciding factors in the ultimate development of our global communications infrastructure, which has become more consolidated, regulated and restrictive. The determining… Continue reading
PeerPoint
(An excerpt from Poor Richard’s full version) This is an open invitation to participate in developing a crowdsourced design specification for a suite of integrated peer-to-peer applications to include (but not limited to) social networking, real-time project collaboration, content management, database management, voting, trust/reputation metrics, complementary currency, crowd funding, etc. This specification overlaps with several… Continue reading
Revolutionary Flows of Value in the Macroeconomy
Source: Dmytri Kleiner “In continuation from the last two essays looking at the macroeconomics of class struggle (#1) (#2) we will try to describe the process of revolution within the framework as developed so far. The old acrimonious accusations between so-called “Reformist” and so-called “Revolutionary” positions are counter productive. The reformist strives to improve certain conditions… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Central or Distributed?
By Dmytri Kleiner: I gave a talk with Jacob Applebaum at last week’s Re:publica conference in Berlin.It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is.– We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social media to an emerging era of decentralized social media, the reverse is… Continue reading