A paragraph of my previous post about an article from Michel Bauwens in we_magazine lead to heavy reactions of Michel, cross-posted here and in Oekonux mailing list. Since some posts only go to the mailing list, I re-publish one of my responses here again. Here we go:
Hi Michel,
I try to answer your questions as best as I can, but I also take the freedom to question your questions, because they base on assumptions I don’t share.
Michel Bauwens from P2P-Foundation recently published an interesting article in the new we_magazine (=>Manifesto) summing up current developments in peer production. After explaining the most important aspects of immaterial peer production he discusses the differences when coming to material production. The first expansion step into the sphere of material production is the opening of the design process.
Free Software and Beyond
The World of Peer Production
4th Oekonux Conference
in cooperation with
P2P Foundation
Invitation
Project Oekonux researches the economical, political and social forms of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call peer production. In Project Oekonux, different people with different reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, the peer production can serve as a basis for a new society.
The team of the impressive Elevate festival in Graz in november 2008 released a bunch of video clips of music and discussion events. You will find them in a series of videos at elevatefestival2008.blip.tv
»Elevate the Commons« was the motto of the discourse part of the festival. Here, you can watch the final panel entitled »Reclaiming the Commons« (english):
[Concluded at World Social Forum of 2009, at Belem – Pará, Brazil. Übersetzung ins Deutsche hier folgt, vgl. auch CommonsBlog]
The enclosure movement in England during the 15th and 16th centuries limited the access to land and its benefits to its owners, thus making it inaccessible to the public as it had been traditionally. This initiated the process of the privatization of common human necessities. Subsequently, the world was ruled under the logic of the capitalistic system of production, in which everything can be transformed into money, and industrialization engendered mass production. The process of privatization, linked to an unrestrained mercantilization, aggravated greed and competition.
DE: Das »Projekt Umfassende Demokratie« von Takis Fotopoulos von 2003 kann als Vorläufer des »Peer-Ökonomie-Modells« von Christian Siefkes gelten. Es ist erstaunlich, wieviele Ideen ähnlich sind (etwa die Ablehnung von Markt und Staat, die Belohnung der Übernahme von unbeliebten Tätigkeiten oder die nicht-repräsentationalen Räte von der lokalen bis zur globalen Ebene). Im folgenden Video erklärt Takis Fotopoulos sein Modell (deutsche Übersetzung der Untertitel hier). [Update: Deutsche Untertitel können in der schwarzen Klickliste in der unteren Menüleiste des Videos gewählt werden]
EN: The »Inclusive Democracy Project« of Takis Fotopoulos may be regarded as forerunner of the »Peer Economy Model« of Christian Siefkes. It is amazing that many ideas look similar (e.g. the rejection of markets and state, awarding of taking over unpopular efforts, or the non-representational assemblies from the local to the global level). Takis Fotopoulos is explaining his model in the following video. [Update: English subtitles can be chosen using the black drop down list in the bottom menu bar of the video]
Thanks to Libertäre Reihe
Today there are really interesting sessions at transmediale: Re-hacking your World. Intro:
Re-hacking your World examines issues of crisis and possibility by intervening in the relationships between environment, industry and culture. Has our cultural hardware and software become useless and unserviceable faced with the complex challenges that confront us? In order to prevent a complete takeover of commercial interests in the development of digital cultures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it becomes essential to promote and strengthen the vocabulary of open source systems and develop fair use mechanisms.
The track has three sessions: Sensible Software, Fair Trade Hardware, I Saw Disaster
DE: Vom 27. bis 29. März 2009 sollte eigentlich die 4. Oekonux-Konferenz in Manchester (GB) stattfinden. Da bisher keine finanzkräftigen Sponsoren gefunden werden konnten und nun auch ein letzter Antrag abgelehnt wurde, steht die Konferenz auf dem Spiel.
Mehr dazu in einer Information vom Maintainer.
EN: The 4th Oekonux conference should take place from 27th to 29th of march 2009 in Manchester (UK). Due to financially strong sponsors could not have been found until now, and a final application for a grant has been rejected, the conference is at stake.
More on that in an info mail from the project maintainer.
