Vasilis Kostakis

Short summary

Vasilis Kostakis (PhD, MSc, MA) is a political economist and founder of the P2P Lab. Currently he is serving as a research fellow at Tallinn University of Technology as well as at P2P Foundation. Occasionally he does stints as a public speaker, business and government consultant, author, and musician. Vasilis' ongoing research focuses on the conjunction of Commons-based peer production with desktop manufacturing and its impact on economy, culture, and education.

• contact: kostakis.b at gmail.com

2012-13 research

Published

• Article: The political economy of information production in the social Web: Chances for reflection on our institutional design [click]
• Edited issue: The political economy of 3D printing + A tentative approach to the political economy of 3D printing [click]
• Book (in Gr): The P2P manifesto (Το ομότιμο μανιφέστο) [click]
• Book (in Gr): The man with the spotted tie (Ο άνδρας με την πουά γραβάτα) [click]
• Pop science essay (in Gr): The emergence of the P2P movement (Η ανάδυση του ομότιμου κινήματος) [click]

Submitted

• Production and governance in hackerspaces: A manifestation of Commons-based peer production in the physical realm?
• Peer production and desktop manufacturing: The case of the Helix_T wind turbine project.
• Commons-based peer production in art: Two cases from Greece.
• At the turning point of the current techno-economic paradigm: The role of civil society in the new economy.
• The P2P perspective (Η ομότιμη προοπτική).

Working

• 3D printing as a means of communication and education: The case of Braille.
• Commons-based peer production and desktop manufacturing: The case of Lego.
• Commons-based peer production and desktop manufacturing: From economies of scope to economies of scale.

Full CV

It can be downloaded [here]

Open access texts

Articles

• Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s peer governance [click]
• Commons-based peer production and the neo-Weberian state: Synergies and interdependencies [click]
• The advent of open source democracy and wikipolitics: Challenges, threats and opportunities for democratic discourse [click]

Pop science essays

• In Re-public journal En, Gr
• The emergence of the P2P movement (Η ανάδυση του ομότιμου κινήματος) [click]

Books (scholarly & literature)

• (2012) The P2P manifesto (Το ομότιμο μανιφέστο) [click]
• (2011) The political economy of information production in the social web: Towards a “partner state approach” [click]
• (2012) The man with the spotted tie (Ο άνδρας με την πουά γραβάτα) [click]
• (2011) Matryoshka (Ματριόσκα) [click]
• (2010) Sti giorti (Στη γιορτή) [click]
• (2008) Nemania's story (H ιστορία του Nεμάνια) [click]