Kategorie: Theorie

Pattern 6: Beyond Classes

This is part 6 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background. Already released patterns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Pattern 6: Beyond Classes

Capitalism is a society of separations. (mehr …)

Pattern 5: Beyond Labor

This is part 5 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background. Already released patterns: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Pattern 5: Beyond Labor

Free Software and commons in general is beyond labor. (mehr …)

Arbeit

Die Wiener Streifzüge erscheinen diesmal mit dem Schwerpunkt ARBEIT. Ja, Arbeit durchgestrichen, also gegen die Arbeit. Da konnte ich nicht zurückstehen und habe meiner Kolumne Immaterial World auch den Titel Arbeit gegeben, nicht durchgestrichen, deswegen aber lange noch nicht »für Arbeit«. Sondern ein Versuch einer differenzierten Darstellung.

Arbeit

Wenn alle gegen die Arbeit reden, soll hier für die Arbeit das Wort ergriffen werden. Nein, falsch, die Arbeit kann nicht belobigt werden, denn in einer abstrakten Redeweise kann man nicht für oder gegen die Arbeit sprechen bzw. schreiben. Wir kommen also auch hier nicht um die Mühe des Begriffs herum, die kolumnengemäß kurz ausfallen muss.

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Pattern 4: Beyond Money

This is part 4 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background. Already released patterns: 1, 2, 3.

Pattern 4: Beyond Money

Since money only makes sense for commodities, a non-commodity (cf. pattern 3) implies that there is no money involved. (mehr …)

Pattern 3: Beyond Commodity

This is part 3 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background. Already released patterns: 1, 2.

Pattern 3: Beyond Commodity

In her studies Elinor Ostrom found, that “neither the state nor the market” is a successful means for commons management (1990). (mehr …)

Pattern 2: Beyond Scarcity

This is part 2 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background. Already released patterns: 1.

Pattern 2: Beyond Scarcity

It is a common misconception that material things are scarce while immaterial things are not. (mehr …)

Pattern 1: Beyond Exchange

This is part 1 of a weekly series of articles to appear in the journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP). In the series I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. Please visit the introducing part for the background.

Pattern 1: Beyond Exchange

Free Software, or more generally, commons-based peer production is not about exchange. (mehr …)

Peer Production and Societal Transformation

The new journal Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) invited me to submit a debate paper for the next issue on Free Software. In this paper I try to describe analytical patterns developed by the Oekonux Project since over ten years of research on Free Software and commons-based peer production. The paper being part of the next CSPP issue should be released in December 2011, but according to the release-early practices in Free Software, I will publish the patterns in a series of weekly blog posts. I will extensively use cross-linking between these pattern posts. First, most of the links will not work, since futures patterns still reside in the publishing queue, but more and more links will function as the referenced pattern posts appear — please have a litte patience. Now, let’s start with the abstract, introduction, credits, and literature.

Ten patterns developed by the Oekonux Project

[Italian version]

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Knappheit ist künstlicher Mangel

Die nach meinem Artikel »Piraten und Knappheit und Eigentum« angestoßene Diskussion möchte ich gerne in einem eigenen Artikel fortsetzen (und dabei die Piraten weglassen). The User fragt mich:

Wie definierst du denn Knappheit?

So: (mehr …)

Commons

Es ist schwer, ein verständliche deutsche Übersetzung für Commons zu finden. Das Wort Gemeingut oder Gemeingüter, was wir auch hier öfter mal als Übersetzung nehmen, ist dafür nicht wirklich gut geeignet, weil es immer wieder die gleichen Verwechselungen hervorruft: »Ein Gemeingut ist ein Gut, das allen gemeinsam gehört«. Das ist zwar nicht völlig falsch, aber so grandios unterbestimmt, dass es dann am Ende doch falsch wird. Warum? Weil ein Commons kein Gut ist, sondern eine soziale Form mit Ressourcen und Gütern umzugehen.

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