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Excerpted from a text from co-organizer Jean Noël Montagné, without associated pictures, sent via te what-the-flok email list, September 2015, announcing a festival on the subject: (english text from native french speaker, not corrected) “I am the founder of a hackerspace in Nice, france, called Nicelab, ” Open Laboratory of Nice”. I started collaborations with …
And that's to say nothing of the food police and sundry other noodgers who are increasingly worming their way into our private culinary decisions. I wish Feastly nothing but the best.
"This article aims to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on post-capitalist construction by exploring the contours of a commons-oriented productive model. On the basis of this model called “design global-manufacture local”, we argue that recent techno-economic developments around the emergence of commons-based peer production and desktop manufacturing technologies, may signal new alternative paths of social organization. We conclude by arguing that all commons-oriented narratives could converge, thereby supporting the creative communities which are building the world they want within the confines of the political economy they aspire to transcend."
In order to set up a laboratory in a garage, people depend on a multitude of objects, networks, and people. They heavily depend on other people interested in do-it-yourself biology, they rely on scientific institutions (even if indirectly), they rely on the sharing of information, on the circulation of objects, on Internet platforms, on emails, on donations, etc. In short, people who want to practice do-it-yourself biology need to tap into these emerging and open collectives of people, ideas and objects that are currently materialising around the notions of garage biology, DIY biology, biohacking, etc. These citizen biotech-economies are to be open, collective, distributed, and accessible.
* Article: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing. By George Dafermos. Journal of Peer Production, 2015 From a special issue of the JPP journal, dedicated to the FLOK Society Project proposals, which are now continued by the Commons Transition Project. Summary: “This policy document examines the …
Journal of Peer Production seeks papers for issue on Feminism and Hacking
Boing Boing
They want articles and experimental pieces exploring the relationship between hacking and gender, race and orientation.
Jakob Rigi is a marxist researcher focusing on peer production, who here offers an analysis of “What Needs To Be Done” in the current configuration. The text appeared in the Networked Labour mailing list.
How TYPO3 meetups turned out to be a great way to foster personal relationships and improve the companies technology and business.
P2PVALUE project drives peer production forwardCordis NewsDeveloped using Drupal, the technology behind the directory is robust but also flexible enough to, for example, manage different categories of users ?
This is really good panel on the necessary cooperative forms for the sharing economy: ““Given the mounting attention to the unethical labor practices in the so-called “collaborative sharing economy” with labor brokerages like Handy and Uber, what are the alternatives? Imagine for one moment that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism …
This is a truly heartening interview to see the depth of activity of urban commoners. The interview with Marion Rousseaux was conducted by Michel Bauwens, with the assistance of Mélanie Gabard and Simon Sarazin who are active in the same projects. * Michel Bauwens: First of all, tell us a bit about your personal backgrounds …
Crowdfunding capacity for peer production - from #sensorica 's experience http://t.co/OIeBhbnu87 @SENSORICA_OVN
With the rise of information and communication technologies (ICTs), a fundamental transformation has taken hold of the knowledge processes that define the operations of nearly every facet of contemporary life. Whether in the industrialised North, or in the transitional economies of the South, information and communication technologies are remaking economics, politics and social life itself. Today, the technological organisation, control and dissemination of knowledge and information has taken centre stage in the growing debate concerning the nature and direction of democratic governance, of economic and social development, and ultimately of the limits and prospects for personal freedom in today’s digital culture.
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Differentiation within the peer production economy
R Street
While the franchising mental model may be a good way to think about at least some companies in the peer production space (most notably Uber), a few caveats are in order.
JAMA Pediatrics | Physicians deliver about half of indicated care, and patients do about half of what it takes to stay healthy, despite the best intentions and tireless efforts of both physicians and patients.
Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-Based Economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
Michel Bauwens, Chiang Mai, August 16, 2015: Commons-based peer production is a new way of value creation and distribution that was first defined by Yochai Benkler in The Wealth of Networks. In peer production, open and transparent technological platforms and technological infrastructures allow individuals to permissionlessly communicate, self-organize, and thus, to create value together. The …
"This policy document examines the application of social knowledge economy principles to the secondary sector of the economy, with an emphasis on manufacturing. The Introduction dissects the concept of the knowledge economy, highlighting the role of access to knowledge as the fundamental criterion for determining its character: In contrast to capitalist knowledge economies that block access to knowledge through the use of patents and restrictive IP rights, social knowledge economies use inclusive IP rights to provide free access to knowledge. In the next section, A critique of cognitive capitalism, we look at how the use of restrictive IP rights has been theoretically justified: In short, IP rights are supposed to promote innovation and productivity. However, the available empirical evidence on the effect of IP rights on innovation and productivity furnishes no such proof. On the contrary, looking at the way in which capitalist firms actually use IP rights reinforces the conclusion that they do not promote innovation, but are in fact hindering it.
We cannot hide from the harsh truth: the system we have built now looks in a particularly complex situation.
Pulse Capitalism is Ending Pulse Buzzwords such as the “commons” and “peer-production” are thrown around, but few have bothered to ask what this development means for capitalism itself.” Although the “sharing economy” is the one that is most...
P2PVALUE project drives peer production forwardCordis NewsDeveloped using Drupal, the technology behind the directory is robust but also flexible enough to, for example, manage different categories of users ?
“Where the more-than-human commons departs from other interpretations is in recognizing how the starting point is not an individual subject separated from other people and the world around them, but a relational subject who is always already caught up in a world that is intimately shared . This understanding is not based on an ideal but on the materially and socially constituted relations and practices that tie humans and non-humans together within a particular collective or territory. If we talk of ‘use-rights’ in the commons then these must be contingent on ongoing participation in the production and care of the commons understood as the entire collective of humans, animals, artifacts, elements that are necessary to maintain life processes. This meaning can already be found in the roots of the word ‘commons': ‘com’ (together) and ‘munis’ (under obligation). First, this tells us that the commons is produced together, reflecting our inter-dependence, the assumption that our world is already shared. Second, and arising from this, the obligation that such inter-dependence demands of us. The commons is not a ‘thing’ that we have access to because we hold a title deed or authorization, but something that is ours because we produce and care for it, because we common.”
Thierry Belleguic's insight: A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of the Commons. Without a doubt, the world system is in a crisis of such magnitude that the existing state of affairs cannot possibly be maintained for much longer.
Thierry Belleguic's insight: A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of the Commons. Without a doubt, the world system is in a crisis of such magnitude that the existing state of affairs cannot possibly be maintained for much longer.
We don’t believe the author has actually read the P2P Foundation works, except perhaps superficially, since our analysis is the same as his. We emphatically do not believe that open source itself leads to a commons-oriented society, and have addressed multiple times the issues described in the article below. In fact, rather than bemoaning the inscription of open source in the current dominant political economy, we have been working on the very connection of peer production and the solidarity economy.
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