[P2P-F] sharing, essence of things, technological determinism, economic determinism, and neoliberalism

[Andreas Wittel]

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
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