On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Andreas Wittel <[email protected]> wrote:
dear michel,
This is well put, and for me the one of the key arguments put forward by my own P2P Theory is indeed, yes, technogical affordances matter tremendously (that does not mean they come out of nothing themselves though, but once there, they are a very important factor in determing social realities), and create new possibilities that did not exist previously. So my answer would be that peer production has been enabled by technology and would not exist on the scale we know, without it. That does not mean that societies without it have no emancipatory possibilities, but they would be different ones. Digital technologies affording 'peer production' create distinct possiblities for emancipation through autonomous distributed physical and virtual production
Yes, this analysis works for me too. best, Andreas
It's also kind of interesting to note that there is no evidence I can think of where any humans existed without some form of technology at any period in time.
_______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
-- -- Sam Rose Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://forwardfound.org http://futureforwardinstitute.org http://hollymeadcapital.com http://p2pfoundation.net http://socialmediaclassroom.com "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan