Vasilis Kostakis

My name is Vasilis Kostakis (Βασίλης Κωστάκης), 23, I come from Greece and Ι have studied business administration and information management at the University of Amsterdam (MSc) and the University of Macedonia (BSc) in Greece as well as technology governance at the Tallinn University of Technology (MA, on progress). Next academic year I will pursue a Phd at TUT on the Commons vision.

I write mainly on two P2P blogs (En and Gr) as well as occasionally on Dutch P2P blog and French P2P blog.In parallel, I am involved in several on-line and off-line non-profit projects, all of which are filling me with energy, inspiration and hope for the future. Last but not least, I co-run an accountancy and consultancy company as well as a bureau that deals with "creative" tourism, both based in my home town in Greece.

• Contact: kostakis.bΑΤgmail.com

• Photo 1, Photo 2

Publications

• Published or to be published:

Kostakis, V. 2008. "The Amateur Class or the Reserve Army of the Web". Rethinking Marxism, Routledge. (forthcoming)

Kostakis, V. 2008. "The Field of the Commons and the Universal Income". Republic Journal. URL http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=418

Kostakis, V. 2007. "The Short Manifesto of an Amateur". Republic Journal. URL http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=263

• Novel

2008, Η ιστορία του Νεμάνια (The story of Nemania), D(EN)ORIZETAI publications

• On the process of writing or evaluation:

"User Innovation in Politics: Introduction to Wikipolitics"

"Bridges to the Post Industrial Planet: Towards a Peer Era"

"The P2P Movement: Lessons for Social Democracy"

"Rebetiko and Class struggle"

"European Union, Political Production and Collective Intelligence"

"Peer governance, Cryptohierarchies and the case of Wikipedia"

"Η ανάδυση της ομότιμης προοπτικής"

"Ο χώρος στο χρόνο και τα Κοινά"

Links

The Greek P2P wiki

The Greek P2P blog

The P2P Vimeo channel

The P2P Youtube channel