[P2P-F] Fwd: Recent text on commons-based production

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Christian Siefkes <christian at siefkes.net>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Subject: Recent text on commons-based production
To: Wouter Tebbens <wouter at freeknowledge.eu>, Michel Bauwens <
michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


Dear Wouter and Michel,

did you notice my text "The Emergence of Benefit-driven Production"
<http://www.keimform.de/2011/benefit-driven-production/>, which I wrote for
this years' Open Knowledge Conference?

It's my first longer theoretical text in English for quite some time, since
I had mainly published in German during the last years. More English texts
will follow.

Here's the abstract:

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The free software and free culture movements have radically changed the ways
of producing software and knowledge goods. In many cases, participation in
such project is benefit-driven rather than profit-driven. Participants get
involved in order to realize some practical or social benefit, not because
of monetary gains. Another difference from market- and firm-based production
is that peer production is non-hierarchical: people voluntarily cooperate as
peers; there are no fixed employer/employee or client/contractor
relationships. And peer production is based on commons: goods which are
jointly developed and maintained by a community and which are shared
according to community-defined rules.

Peer production is not just about producing knowledge: Hackerspaces and Fab
Labs are the first forerunners of a commons-based production infrastructure.
While commons-based peer production reaches beyond capitalism, the
preconditions of its development are created by capitalism itself. The
paradoxical relationship of capitalism to human labor leads to developments
that might make the concept of labor (as we know it today) obsolete, and
with it capitalism itself.
---

Best regards
       Christian

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