Peer Production in an Integral and Intersubjective Framework

* Article: PEER PRODUCTION IN AN INTEGRAL AND INTERSUBJECTIVE FRAMEWORK. By MICHEL BAUWENS. Integral World, 2006.

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Originally written for the Conference of the Association for Critical Realism. Tromse, 2006.

Description

"The author of this essay comes outside of the mould of the IACR. The purpose of the essay is to describe first of all an all-important 'total social fact': the emergence of the peer to peer relational dynamic at work in distributed networks, which we contend, is the emerging new hegemonic organizational and technical infrastructure of humankind. And second, to examine whether a 'integral' approach, our name for a family of approaches which includes Roy Bhaskar, can help us understand us this new trend, which is crucial for contemporary emancipation. We will apply a broad integral/intersubjective approach, in order to understand the precise nature of the peer to peer relational dynamic, and conclude on its potential for social change and human emancipation."