ECC2013/Knowledge Stream/Resources
Readings and other resources related to stream themes to be aggregated here; feel free to add and edit, or suggest via the stream forum.
Categorization of readings is problematic; many are wide-ranging. Feel free to add further headings.
This wiki also has a much more extensive and general reading list related to knowledge commons; this page is intended to be relatively brief and directly attuned to stream themes and participants.
Introductory
These resources give a good general background on free/libre/open/commons knowledge movements, with a more commons-centric approach than is typical for such introductions.
http://freeknowledge.eu/article-the-knowledge-society-from-a-freedom-centred-perspective Wouter Tebbens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg87SR0TRw4 Prabir Purkayashta interviews Lawrence Liang
- Ostensibly about Aaron Swartz (nothing new there, in fact it was made shortly after his death), but paints a much larger picture, including that enclosures of knowledge are ancient.
The Unfolding of the Knowledge Commons by Charlotte Hess
Knowledge and Science as Commons chapter, similar material in a video lecture by Prabir Purkayashta
An Introductory Historical Contextualization of Online Creation Communities for the Building of Digital Commons by Mayo Fuster Morell
Definitions
http://www.onlinecreation.info/outline_design by Mayo Fuster Morell includes a definition of digital commons:
- information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and owned or shared between or among a community and that tend to be non-exclusivedible, that is, be (generally freely) available to third parties. Thus, they are oriented to favor use and reuse, rather than to exchange as a commodity. Additionally, the community of people building them can intervene in the governing of their interaction processes and of their shared resources.
Digital Commons: A dictionary entry by Felix Stalder
- Although many political, legal and economic questions remain yet to be solved, the digital commons represents a paradigm change, whereby new technological, social and economic frameworks have already generated an informational order in outline that is socially more just, economically more productive and politically more democratic than the current regime of informational monopolies. This movement could unleash the empowering, rather than the controlling, potential of our new digital infrastructures. Yet, gains made so far are not yet sufficient, nor are they certain to endure
All commons as knowledge commons
http://microfactoria.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/free-knowledge-and-commons-perspectives-for-industrial-production/ Wouter Tebbens
http://newsclick.in/international/commons-active-producer Prabir Purkayashta
- The key to the control of capital over production has been its ability to create continuously new knowledge and technology. Its ability create new knowledge that has given big capital its edge over other forms of production. It is here at the heart of capital that creation of new knowledge and technology -- the active commons -- is emerging. This is the active commons driven by the collective brain power of humanity. If capital can no longer control the production of new knowledge, it loses control over technology. Its use of WTO and TRIPS – creating a larger domain of “intellectual property” -- shows not its strength but its weakness. It is its inability to control the physical process of knowledge creation that it now seeks to control it through legal means. That is why this new form of collaborative knowledge creation spells the doom of capital. Even if its death throes are going to be long and painful.
http://www.zonebooks.org/pdf/ZoneBooks_A2K_.pdf chapters by Gaelle Krikorian include: Access to Knowledge as a Field of Activism and Social Mutations of the Future. From the latter:
- In a way, in this scenario (the marginalization of intellectual property), we can witness a popular outflanking not only of the intellectual property system, but of the traditional, stratified social structure that is anchored upon it. The logic and the exercise of open-source production show a tremendous normative effect on cultural production and appropriation, social practices and representations, and the rigid social structures characteristic of most societies.
- In the second scenario (the era of free exploitation), the spread of the Internet and the persistent enforcement of intellectual property restrictions leads to social mutations that are much less promising: the metastasization of neoliberal logics and practices throughout the knowledge economy and the information society and the consequent exacerbation of social and economic polarities.
Commons-first strategy for knowledge commoning
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/07/why-we-should---and-can---abolish-all-patents/index.htm Glyn Moody
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Why-it-s-time-to-stop-using-open-source-licences-1802140.html Glyn Moody
http://freeknowledge.eu/blog/wouter/can-we-liberate-the-market-through-commons-governance Wouter Tebbens
- As we saw before, copyright and patent legislation turn ideas and expressions of authorship from commons/public goods into private property. Given their non-rival nature, this is clearly a case of generated scarcities. And a very relevant one in the current industrial societies, where a large part of the formal economy is controlled by these state granted monopolies. … [F]or a commons-based market, a “liberated” one, such monopolies should not exist. Not in the least part to assure people’s freedoms to participate in the market, the threat of patent or copyright litigations should be expelled.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011/CC%27s_role_in_the_global_commons_movement video/presentations of Chuang/Dubosch/Helfrich/Walsh
- How could "Creative Commons" be more aligned with and better at commoning?
http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/04/30/future-of-copyright/ Mike Linksvayer
- Control of knowledge to perpetuate inequality ancient; assert primacy of commons values for info policy; expand options beyond increase/decrease enclosure and commoning within that regime to include pro-commons regulation
Stream reflections
Blog posts, links to discussion, interviews, other resources directly about the ECC2013 knowledge stream.
http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/05/09/econommons/
- Pre-conference blog post from stream coordinator motivating this resource list.
https://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/commons-talk/
- Post-conference blog post(s) by Alan Toner
http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/05/some-questions-and-suggestions-to-all-commoners/
- Post-conference blog post(s) by Marco Fioretti