Collection of Core Works in P2P Theory

Introduction

Three inter-related processes, Peer Production, Peer Governance, and Peer Property, together constituting the Circulation of the Common:

Each aspect has its own category on wiki:

1. Category:Peerproduction
2. Category:Peergovernance
3. Category:Peerproperty

Each aspect also has its own value paradigm:

1. Peer Production depends on Openness, i.e. open access and input such as Category:Open
2. Peer Governance depends on Participation, Category:Participation
3. Peer Property is related to the Category:Commons and Category:Sharing

Related Aspects

See our collation of key P2P Companion Concepts for the most important concepts in P2P Theory.

Key Resources

• Ten Peer_Production_Patterns. Stefan Meretz. Comment by Michel Bauwens: A word of caution. The text by Stefan Meretz is useful to understand the post-capitalist patterns that are inherent in peer production, however, it also abstracts from its embeddedness in present society and the way these aspects are instrumentalized by the present society and economic system, and create hybrid mechanisms of mutual adaptation. It also skirts around the central question of the self-reproduction of the means of production (however, see pattern 10 on the Germ Theory of change.