<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Christian Siefkes</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christian@siefkes.net">christian@siefkes.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM<br>Subject: Recent text on commons-based production<br>To: Wouter Tebbens <<a href="mailto:wouter@freeknowledge.eu">wouter@freeknowledge.eu</a>>, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br>Dear Wouter and Michel,<br>
<br>
did you notice my text "The Emergence of Benefit-driven Production"<br>
<<a href="http://www.keimform.de/2011/benefit-driven-production/" target="_blank">http://www.keimform.de/2011/benefit-driven-production/</a>>, which I wrote for<br>
this years' Open Knowledge Conference? <br>
<br>
It's my first longer theoretical text in English for quite some time, since<br>
I had mainly published in German during the last years. More English texts<br>
will follow.<br>
<br>
Here's the abstract:<br>
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The free software and free culture movements have radically changed the ways<br>
of producing software and knowledge goods. In many cases, participation in<br>
such project is benefit-driven rather than profit-driven. Participants get<br>
involved in order to realize some practical or social benefit, not because<br>
of monetary gains. Another difference from market- and firm-based production<br>
is that peer production is non-hierarchical: people voluntarily cooperate as<br>
peers; there are no fixed employer/employee or client/contractor<br>
relationships. And peer production is based on commons: goods which are<br>
jointly developed and maintained by a community and which are shared<br>
according to community-defined rules.<br>
<br>
Peer production is not just about producing knowledge: Hackerspaces and Fab<br>
Labs are the first forerunners of a commons-based production infrastructure.<br>
While commons-based peer production reaches beyond capitalism, the<br>
preconditions of its development are created by capitalism itself. The<br>
paradoxical relationship of capitalism to human labor leads to developments<br>
that might make the concept of labor (as we know it today) obsolete, and<br>
with it capitalism itself.<br>
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<br>
Best regards<br>
� � � �Christian<br>
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