Structured Bibliography on P2P and the Commons
Ira Mollay and Michel Bauwens will work on this bibliography during the summer of 2019.
Module 1: The anthropology of peer to peer and the commons
P2P as a relational dynamic: new social relations, then and now
The Commons in History
Blockchain Machines, Earth Beings and the Labour of Trust.
By Larry Lohmann. Corner House
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Blockchain, smart contracts etc. in the context of their ecological history and pictures of labour, commons, and capital accumulation seen through different lenses from Marx to Wittgenstein.
Module 2: The Commons as a mode of production / the commons as economic system
Peer production / peer governance / peer property
Italian Community Co-operatives Responding to Economic Crisis and State Withdrawal. A New Model for Socio-Economic Development.
By Michele Bianchi and Marcelo Vieta. United Nations Task Force for Social and Solidarity Economy, 2019
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This paper presents findings from an ongoing qualitative research project aiming to better understand the territorial and economic development impacts of Italian community co-operatives and their role in concretising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The commons and capitalism
Market and Labour Control in Digital Capitalism.
By Philipp Staab and Oliver Nachtwey. TripleC, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2016
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Based on basic assumptions of monopoly capital theory, the article argues that the expansion of digital control and the organizational structures applied by key corporate players of the digital economy are evidence for the expansion of capitalist labour, not its reduction.
The commons in the context of the ecological crisis
Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy.
By John Barry. Chapter of the book: Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability, 2019
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New ways of planning for a post-growth, post-carbon economy that include social justice ‘floors’ and ecological ‘ceilings’ and a more proactive state.
Module 3: The Institutional, technical and societal logic of the commons
Governing the commons
Case studies
(Smart) Citizens from Data Providers to Decision-Makers? The Case Study of Barcelona. By Igor Calzada. Sustainability 2018, 10(9), 3252
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This paper examines how the city of Barcelona is marking a transition from the conventional, hegemonic smart city approach to a new paradigm—the experimental city which increasingly considers (smart) citizens as decision-makers rather than data providers.
Module 4: P2P as transformative emancipatory movement
Alternative Platforms and Societal Horizon: Characterisation and Strategies for Development.
By Guillaume Compain, Philippe Eynaud, Lionel Maurel, and Corinne Vercher-Chaptal, June 2019 Communication to the SASE 31st Annual Meeting; Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined; 27- 28 June 2019 - The New School - New York City
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A study that systematically looks at how platform coops combine elements of the open source movement (sharing knowledge), with those of the cooperative movement (protecting cooperative property. It highlights the emergent practices of Open Cooperativism
Commons transition as a political process
From choice to collective voice. Foundational economy, local commons and citizenship.
By Filippo Barbera, Nicola Negri, Angelo Salento
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Defence and management of local commons in the framework of Foundational Economy (FE) as referring to the «civic infrastructure» serving everyday household needs help reconsider citizenship as «the capacity and desire to act collectively».