[P2P-F] .... on commons-based production, bk

Sat Sep 10 18:40:35 CEST 2011

Excellent stuff in multiple ways. There is list of iso-morphisms that can  
be used through various of alternative organizing, historicity. and  
economics as examples, all P2P. The hits directed to capitalism are  
earned, and such generalities seem to create an ideological strait-jacket.  
And it is essentially abstracted, and as much as Plato was ever about  
realism and its shadowed ideas, or was it the other way around. I still  
believe that Plato was a better playwright than he was a philosopher. The  
author seems to share this sort of abstracted idea-ism/idealism. The  
revolutionary stance relies on a fiction of dys-junctions as well. In its  
place the re-programming of behavior as the reproducing of a cooperative  
culture can be also done incrementally and by cultural zones for creative  
and integrative cooperation.

Tadit

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:58:51 -0400, Michel Bauwens  
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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:
>
> ---
> 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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> industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course -- the computer
> industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
>        -- Douglas Adams
>
>
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