Source: Dmytri KleinerDmytri Kleiner Travels have kept me from posting a new article here in quite a while, however despite the long break, I’d none the less like continue the train of though from the last article, “It’s The Macroeconomy, Stupid.” [1] In that article, I start by explaining that a macroeconomic identity, as an… Continue reading
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Is Peer Production a Real Mode of Production?
Michel Bauwens: “In the foundational essay on peer to peer, I call peer to peer a third mode of production (as well as a third mode of property and governance). The question is: is this correct? A mode of production classically is viewed as a combination of forces of production, how we extract value from… Continue reading
Why Crowdfunding will never scale!
I came across this post, “For projects like Kickstarter to scale they can not depend on the limited funds workers are able to divert from consumption, and must tap into the real source of accumulation: Surplus Value.” by Dmytri Kleiner on his website and thought it raises some interesting issues about crowdfunding. Check out the original post… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011: Our annual top ten list of P2P books
Here is our selection and reading recommendations of the best books we reviewed and presented in 2011 (but which may have been published in 2010). The same list but with links to extensive treatments for each book is here. 1. On Debt, hierarchy and P2P dynamics Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber. Melville House… Continue reading
Creative Commons is to Free Culture what Shareware is to Free Software
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner: “All Rights Reserved,” publishers want you to buy it directly from their or their agents, and never share it with others, and likewise, the rights being reserved are the publisher’s rights. Yet, the very technology that made a recorded music industry possible, mechanical reproduction, also made it possible for its users… Continue reading
The Revolutionary Role of a Transnational Counterparty
Post by Dmytri Kleiner In explaining the Initiative to form an International Debtors’ Party I have discussed the issues of why “Debtors” and why a “Party”, now I would like to introduce some ideas as to how the Debtors’ Party will be different from other parties, by proposing the idea of a “Transnational Counter-party.” A Transnational… Continue reading
Debtors’ of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors’ Party
Via Dmytri Kleiner: Debtors’ of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors’ Party. Congratulations to the Pirate Party having won an astounding 8.9% in the Berlin elections. As I wrote two weeks ago, this is their moment of relevance, the emergence of Information politics as a mainstream political topic. Having 15 Piratenpartei… Continue reading
Neural interview: from peer 2 peer to face to face
Neural magazine is an excellent ‘print’ magazine on digital art and culture, whose issue #38 was dedicated to the inter-relation between ‘digital peer to peer’ and ‘physical face to face’ dynamics, and carried, amongst many other interesting articles, interviews with Superflex, Platoniq and Dmytri Kleiner. It’s well worth purchasing a copy here. Here is the… Continue reading
Introducing the third commons
Reflection on the three commons: from the digital commons to the common stock commons Most readers will be familiar with two types of commons, which have often been discussed. The first commons is the natural commons, consisting of all that nature and the cosmos has given us, without any human effort, through humanity may be… Continue reading
Why is Open Hardware inherently sustainable?
Reflections on the role of Open Hardware and Peer Production in insuring a sustainable world In this article, I want to list the reasons why I believe that the trend towards open and distributed manufacturing is a vital part of ensuring a sustainable society. For those that are not familiar with it, open hardware is… Continue reading
The place of heteregeneous and egalitarian markets in a hybrid and plurarist P2P Polity
It is important to understand that while the P2P approach is opposed to the infinite growth mechanism that is capitalism, and to its exclusion of the majority of the people of the ownership of their means of production, it is in no way against markets as such. This is both because people need the freedom… Continue reading
Vote for Thimbl at Drumbeat
Thanks for supporting this free software-based microblogging service, i.e. Thimbl. Instructions and introduction: Thimbl from Telekommunisten on Vimeo. Dmytri Kleiner writes: “As some of you may know, I’ve gotten drawn into the world of social media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few reasons for this, one,… Continue reading
The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010
This year, the crop of books on p2p related themes has been so overwhelming that I find it impossible to limit myself to the classic list of just ten books. I therefore have organized the list as a series of 10 clustered themes. The order of the listing is influenced by the quality of the… Continue reading
Debating and critiquing the concept of ‘free and open’
Interesting interventions at the Economy of the Commons conference: ““Content for all, revenues for some.” For this session we explore the theory behind terms and terminologies. What do the terms ‘free’ and ‘open’ mean in their current contexts? How are they used and in what new political condition do they gain resonance? What is open,… Continue reading
Thimbl – enabling distributed social networking
Thimble is billed as a piece of software that will enable Free, open source and distributed micro-blogging. Its tagline: Be followed at your own domain Like diaspora and the appleseed project, thimble is one of the pieces of a mosaic that is coming together just at the right time, just as facebook, the major social… Continue reading
Is peer production a real mode of production?
(mini-essay dedicated to Cosma Orsi and his scholarship and to the most impressive personal library I have seen in a dozen years …) In the foundational essay on peer to peer, I call peer to peer a third mode of production (as well as a third mode of property and governance). The question is: is… Continue reading