April 2014 - JoPP-Public - lists.ourproject.org

FW: [ICTs-and-Society] Licensing, socialism and communism
by Mathieu ONeil 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Hi all Well well, here are some names familiar to the JoPP list being jointly published in Christian Fuchs' triple C journal... cheers Mathieu ________________________________________ (snip) Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] Licensing, socialism and communism Hello p2p-, networked labour- and ICTs & society-theorists, tripleC has published three reflections on the question of licensing, socialism and communism. Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561 Stefan Meretz: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/564 Jakob Rigi: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/486 Further contributions to this debate and responses are welcome in the form of shorter non-peer reviewed comments that can be submitted online here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Best wishes, Christian Fuchs Editor, tripleC ___________________________________________

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Re: [JoPP-Public] Lists for spreading the word about JoPP
by Francesca Musiani 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Nate: "i also did: nettime p2p foundation ecrea meccsa" Thanks! I get the digest mode, so our messages must have crossed paths :) I'll do the rest (and link to the ToC). cheers, F. -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France

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Lists for spreading the word about JoPP
by Francesca Musiani 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello all, following up on Mathieu's message, I have seen that Nico Carpentier has relayed the info on the ECREA mailing list. I was thinking to do eurograd, stsgrad, IAMCR, the Berkman Center list, the list of the P2Pvalue project, and STS Italia. Has any of these been done already? I'll also put it up on the website of my research project ADAM. I haven't seen the announcement popping up on the P2PFoundation list -- am I wrong? Best regards Francesca -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | Outreach officer, GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Projet ANR ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Internet Policy Review @ HIIG Berlin <http://policyreview.info/> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Re: [JoPP-Public] linking on the landing page
by Mathieu ONeil 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hi Nate First, congratulations on a really great issue - apart from the general quality, I'm particularly happy that one of the comments engages with Dmitry Kleiner as I believe this is the first time his ideas etc have been addressed in JoPP. Re the frontpage links to peer reviewed articles bypassing the peer review metadata page: yes, I was wondering about that myself recently. It has been set up like that by the person who originally designed the site, Franco Iacomella, so the usual caveats apply re contacting him. We are currently without an official webmaster as Jarkko Moilanen is in the end unable to help. Specifically: the "latest" tag hoovers up article titles and links from the page it is affixed to (such as an issue TOC) and pastes it on the frontpage. It is weird that in the case of peer reviewed articles it chooses the links that go straight to the html version of the articles, as on the TOC the links are to the peer review metadata page. So we could try experimenting with that TOC page. Or perhaps someone out there is wordpress-savvy and can offer us some help? The generic homepage url was put in your release notices rather than the specific issue TOC page url.? I think unaware people could well stumble on the peer review metadata page.? In addition we could indicate something on the frontpage to alert readers about this unique feature? Something to think about. If you write up those bits of advice for prospective editors that we talked about, I could look into how to change the frontpage - deal? (cc-ing the journal list as I think this is relevant to everyone - there is low traffic there so a bit of technical detail is better than nothing ;-)) cheers Mathieu ________________________________ From: nathanieltkacz(a)gmail.com <nathanieltkacz(a)gmail.com> on behalf of nathaniel tkacz <n.tkacz(a)warwick.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 19:25 To: Mathieu ONeil Subject: linking on the landing page good evening mathieu, i was wondering, from the jopp front page, instead of linking directly to the articles is it possible instead to link to the peer review page (at least for the reviewed articles)? some people have asked about that and it seems a shame to bypass all that info because it is what makes jopp unique. i think a lot of people will see the 'latest issue' info and just click through from the front page directly to the articles. best nate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nathaniel Tkacz - Assistant Professor | CIM - The University of Warwick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research: CIM<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/tkacz/> | Twitter: @__nate__<https://twitter.com/__nate__> | Current Project: MoneyLab<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION: CURRENCY AND VALUE
by nathaniel tkacz 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

The editors are pleased to announce the publication of Issue #4 of the Journal of Peer Production on the topic of Currency and Value. All of the issue content is freely available at: http://peerproduction.net THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION ISSUE #4: CURRENCY AND VALUE Editorial Notes by Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolas Mendoza and Francesca Musiani PEER REVIEWED PAPERS ‘Karma, precious Karma!’ Karmawhoring on Reddit and the Front Page’s Econometrisation by Annika Richterich The Paradoxes of Distributed Trust: Peer-to-Peer Architecture and User Confidence in Bitcoin by Alexandre Mallard, Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani The Politics of Cryptography: Bitcoin and the Ordering Machines by Quinn DuPont Reproducing Wealth Without Money, One 3D printer at a Time by Johan Söderberg INVITED COMMENTS Why Contractors Make More Money Than Employees by Amir Taaki Can Bitcoin Compete with Money? by Beat Weber Towards the Democratization of the Means of Monetization: The Three Competing Value Models Present Within Cognitive Capitalism by Michel Bauwens Between Copyleft and Copyfarleft: Advance Reciprocity for the Commons by Miguel Said Vieira & Primavera De Filippi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nathaniel Tkacz - Assistant Professor | CIM - The University of Warwick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research: CIM <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/tkacz/> | Twitter: @__nate__ <https://twitter.com/__nate__> | Current Project: MoneyLab <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Interference conference in Amsterdam in August
by george dafermos 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

hello JoPP-ers! this might be of interest to list members: ========================== Call for Papers Interference, n: 1. preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out properly. 2. the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or cancelled. Interference is a gathering of people, perspectives, theories, and actions that share a critical approach to society and technology. It will take place at the Binnenpret in Amsterdam, NL from 15th to the 17th of August 2014. It will be a space where we can meet, debate, share, learn, and find our affinities and oppositions. Interference is not a hacker conference. From a threat to the so-called national security, hacking has become an instrument for reinforcing the status quo. Fed up with yet another recuperation, the aim is to re/contextualize hacking as a conflictual praxis and release it from its technofetishist boundaries. Bypassing the cultural filters, Interference wants to take the technical expertise of the hacking scene out of its isolation to place it within the broader perspective of the societal structures it shapes and is part of. The gathering comes as a response to the lack of a common ground for confrontation and discussion over themes like hacking, technology and politics that could break out of the existing containers and roles for such concepts and practices. Interference does not wish to define itself. Interference challenges hacker's identity, the internal dynamics of hackerculture and its ethical values. It undermines given identities and rejects given definitions. Interference is a hacking event from an anarchist perspective: it doesn't seek for uniformity on the level of skills or interests, but rather focuses on a shared basis of intuitive resistance and critical attitude towards the techno-social apparatus. Interference is three days of exploring modes of combining theory and practice, depunctualization, breaking and (re)inventing systems and networks, and playing with the art and politics of everyday life. Topics may or may not include hacking shenanigans, spectacle and communication guerrilla, temporary autonomous zones, refuting the cybernetic hypothesis, exterminating "social media experts", unraveling the illusions of liberating technologies, ruining the creative capitalism joke, exposing hidden- & self- censorship, and refusing the binarity of gender, life, and logic. Interference welcomes discordians, intervention artists, artificial lifeforms, anarchist militants, digital alchemists, oppressed droids, luddite hackers and critical engineers to diverge from the existent, dance with fire-spitting robots, hack the urban environment, break locks, perform ternary voodoo, decentralise and disconnect networks, build botnets, and party all night. The event is intended to be as self-organised as possible which means you are invited to contribute on your own initiative with your skills and interests. Bring your talk, workshop, debate, performance, opinion, installation, project, critique, the things you're interested in, the things you want to discuss. Please send a (brief) abstract for your proposal before June 15 via e-mail to interference [at] puscii.nl. Updates and more information can be found on http://interference.io ==========================

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JoPP + FSCONS Conference
by Johan Söderberg 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I am probing the terrain for organising a JoPP-conference together with FSCONS (Free Software Conference and Nordic Summit). FSCONS is a yearly event with 200-300 participants, and with a strong track record of mixing technical presentations with visionary and political debates about all things relating to hacking. It is as close as one gets in the lineage of Oekonux-conference series. The idea is that we co-organise a JoPP-track in connection with FSCONS, which would give us an occasion to meet physically and make our journal known among an audience of socially-politically interested tech-geeks. Let me know if you would like to come and/or to present. If there is a reasonable amount of interest, I proceed with the planning of our part of the event. https://fscons.org/2013/ Göteborg, Fri. 31 Oct. - Sun. 2 Nov., 2014 /Johan

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progress of the special issue on shared machine shops
by maxigas 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Dear joppers, this is maxigas and Peter Troxler reporting on the progress of the special issue on shared machine shops. numbers! -------- * received 20 abstracts * commissioned 10 papers in a few cases we did not accept or reject abstracts but asked authors to gather 'more intellectual courage and look at how your data goes beyond “illustrating the theory”, because it is based on the contradictions that the theory can be strengthened and wherefrom it receives its political value'. in the long run this gesture did not change much. after the first round of peer reviews we have the following: * 4 papers minor revisions * 3 papers major revisions * 3 papers papers for which we discourage publication because they are not relevant or would require too much effort to revise properly and fix all issues the relevant papers are now being reworked by the authors. we also plan a comments section with a more broad and engaged look at shared machine shops, concentrating on controvertial moments in their historical trajectory. this is much more fluid yet but currently there are four texts in preparation for this although we are not sure we will receive the last: * Troxler on "how fablabs ran out of control" of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms * maxigas on relations to state (authorities) and capital (security industry) of hackerspaces * bron (pseudonym) on their experience between fablabs, hacklabs and hackerspaces * a senior organiser of an early fablab commenting on the contents of the issue comments! --------- three reviews were written for each paper: 1. senior reviewer with relevant expertise in the field 2. one of the issue editors 3. an author of another paper considered in the same process the last point was quite experimental, giving a totally new meaning to the term "peer review"... and now we can say that the outcome of the experiment was very positive! often the best quality and most thorough reviews came from these authors. on the other hand we had mixed experience with senior reviewers. of course in the jopp spirit all drafts and reviews will be published and in cases where the reviewers agreed their names will be included too. all in all we are happy with the material, with critical and strategic points addressed in almost all papers, although the reflection on political economy is not very wide spread. we are also learning a lot about what other researchers are doing, which is the literature on the topic, and what is happening in shared machine workshops around the world. deadlines! ---------- finally, we are happy to say that we are more or less on time according to the schedule negotionated earlier when we embarked on this project: * January 31 ― deadline for authors * Febuary 10 ― papers sent to reviewers * March 23 ― reviews due * March 31 ― reviews sent to authors ← WE ARE HERE! * April 30 ― revised papers due * May 23 ― second review due * June 1 ― decision on publication * early July ― publication of special issue (online / print) regarding the last point: we plan to release during the The 10th International Fab Lab Conference, Barcelona, 2-8 July 2014. https://www.fab10.org/en/home our research shows that physical fabrication tools are fashionable nowadays, so we plan to release limited edition hardcopies of JoPP! interactive! ------------ please feel free to ask here or if you want then in private mail to fablabissue(a)peerproduction.net happy hacking, -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ Computers are just carefully organised sand.

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