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August 5, 2016 2:57 PM
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"Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy. Drawing on economic sociology, anthropology of the gift and heterodox economics, this book proposes a groundbreaking framework for analysing diverse economic systems: a political economy of practices. The framework is used to analyse Apple, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook, showing how different complexes of appropriative practices bring about radically different economic outcomes. Innovative and topical, Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy focusses on an area of rapid social change while developing a theoretically and politically radical framework that will be of continuing long-term relevance. It will appeal to students, activists and academics in the social sciences."
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jean lievens
July 26, 2016 11:37 AM
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Framing "political action" as primarily state action, rather than a component of the new counter-institutions the kind of false dichotomy we need to avoid.
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jean lievens
July 12, 2016 7:06 AM
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Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts — where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani— we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →
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jean lievens
June 19, 2016 3:29 PM
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June 18, 2016 4:38 PM
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June 18, 2016 4:33 PM
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Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
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jean lievens
June 18, 2016 3:28 PM
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During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
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jean lievens
May 24, 2016 3:11 AM
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Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?” I invariably find new answers to that question.
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jean lievens
May 19, 2016 3:17 PM
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COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ECONOMY AND BUSINESS INTEGRAL THEORY P2P BOOKS P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P SUBJECTIVITY P2P THEORY PEER PRODUCTION PEER PROPERTY
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jean lievens
May 7, 2016 3:33 AM
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Michel Bauwens' initial analysis of Kojin Karatani's 'The Structures of World History' and how these insights potentially enrich P2P theory.
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jean lievens
April 14, 2016 5:06 AM
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In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance... Continue reading →
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jean lievens
April 11, 2016 1:39 PM
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European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue
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jean lievens
April 5, 2016 11:57 AM
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Right-wing techno-libertarianism is a last-ditch effort to capture the technologies of freedom and abundance and harness them to their own greed.
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jean lievens
July 28, 2016 2:02 PM
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Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History is an astonishing work of synthetic historical theory: world history is the history of modes of exchange.
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July 22, 2016 4:53 AM
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July 3, 2016 6:16 PM
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Perhaps the simplest lesson is that even decentralized networks need, and have, governments. Every network is a state. Every state has a government.
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jean lievens
June 18, 2016 4:45 PM
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Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
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June 18, 2016 4:36 PM
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June 18, 2016 3:37 PM
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Karatini focuses on world history as an evolution of ‘modes of exchange’, i.e. how humans produce, but most of all, ‘exchange’ value. Like Alan Page Fiske, in ‘Structures of Social Life’, Karatini recognizes four basic ways of doing this, and these modes exist at all times and in all places. For example, while the dominance of capitalism is new, markets have existed since very early times; or, if the dominance of the state was new after the replacement of tribal systems, distribution depending on rank pre-existed its dominance. This insight is very important because it allows us to recognize that any political and economic system is not just one modality, but an integration of modalities. As Dmytri Kleiner says, ‘we live in a multi-modal world’, and ‘if the capitalists won, its because there were capitalists already’
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jean lievens
June 6, 2016 12:39 PM
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Herman Daly analyses how interest (money theory) is related to the function of capital (economic theory) and how both are embedded in a real physical world.
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jean lievens
May 19, 2016 3:45 PM
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Erik Olin Wright, from a 2007 text in ‘Compass Points’: “Capitalism would be an unreproducible and chaotic social order if the state played the minimalist role specified in the libertarian fantasy, but it would also, as Polanyi argued, function much more erratically if civil society was absorbed into the economy as a fully commodified and... Continue reading →
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jean lievens
May 11, 2016 3:55 PM
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The growth of information continues exponentially until it exceeds the social processes (institutions) and technological structures that produced it.
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jean lievens
April 29, 2016 4:21 PM
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"Karatani Kojin’s (1941- ) recent thought offers a novel way of grappling or dealing with the dilemma which we pointed to in Yoshimoto and Asada, namely how the aspiration to work for societal change could be combined with an affirmation of the masses’ withdrawal from public involvement. The question is particularly timely since the 90’s has been a decade in which much discontent with the system has taken the form of exit – from school, marriage, the labor market or (in the case of the social withdrawal) from social life tout court. Can such discontent be turned into effective forms of resistance? Can it be channeled in ways that could further social change? Today questions such as these have gained renewed importance.
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jean lievens
April 11, 2016 1:42 PM
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The technologies and institutions of post-capitalism are unleashing productive forces that cannot be contained within the productive relations of capitalism
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jean lievens
April 10, 2016 9:47 AM
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"Digital Transitions explores the relationship between technological changes and the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts in which these changes occur. Digital technologies have moved into every corner of life and the classic separation between work and non-work has become obsolete. The digital economy has become indistinguishable from life in the digital age. This is a book about the merger of economy and life, about life in digital capitalism.
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