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

Wed Jan 12 16:34:52 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:24 PM, 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
>
>

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.

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