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

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 14:19:55 CET 2011


super!!

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Andreas Wittel <andreas.wittel at gmail.com>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
>
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