[p2p-research] FINAL version of FC paper on p2p subjectivity

[Michel Bauwens]

oops ...

I have postdated the blog announcement for september 30, but let me know
when I can publish it there,

were you expecting comments?

Michel

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michel
>
> Thanks for flagging this up. The article will be published in the journal
> Fibreculture http://fibreculturejournal.org/ in a special issue to be
> called 'Media Ecologies', edited by Jussi Parikka and Michael Goddard.
>
> Watch this space, as the exact bib references won't exist until I do some
> final changes to the paper and then submit it finally for the special
> issue.
>
> Thanks again and hope you enjoy the finished product in due course!
>
> Phoebe
>
>
> On 30 August 2010 16:42, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I'm publishing the below on sept\ 3,
>>
>> Phoebe can you send me the exact bibliographic reference to add to it?
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>>
>> Do the networked commons emerging from peer to peer production founded in
>> the free software arena, and the ecologies of productive and artistic
>> cooperation therein; pose a resilient threat to capitalism? This article
>> deals with that question.”
>>
>> Our friend and p2p scholar Phoebe Moore<http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/Phoebe_Moore>has an
>> essay to be published
>> <http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_to_Peer_and_the_Subject>by Media
>> Ecologies, in which she comes to the following conclusion on the previous
>> question:
>>
>> *“The emerging ecology discussed here presents a critical view of the
>> technological determinism that now pervades a tendency to place widespread
>> reliance on human innovation to immutably coincide with the contemporary age
>> of production, seen in dominant and pervasive enterprise initiatives in
>> every sector in the neoliberal age. Can the emergence of participants’
>> battle with capital transform traditional hierarchies within typified sites
>> of production of the industrial age? This contemporary post-capitalist
>> ecology is one that I argue allows workers to arrest their own
>> self-management and return to a situation wherein people can formulate
>> revolutionary subjectivities, and own their labour and means of production,
>> rather than continue to be subordinated to hierarchies and the deterministic
>> views of technology and progress. The self-organising communities of peer
>> production threaten the status quo by the ownership of the means and modes
>> and thus the ecologies of production, and structuring capital output into a
>> commons from which to adopt and adapt personally or communally through the
>> creation of a licensing model (General Public Licensing) that renders
>> obsolete the intellectual property control of ideas.*
>>
>> *Through ‘commoning’ and through the production of open software and
>> hardware and related alternative protocol, it has become possible to
>> challenge capitalism and to become new forms of employable subjects in a way
>> that casts the wage relation and the invasive externally imposed
>> subjectivity required in capitalist recipes for success into chaotic
>> disarray. The global passive revolution requires passive subjects, who
>> manifest one dominant subjectivity. Elites intend to advance this, cutting
>> through an aesthetic veneer that advances the autonomous affective self
>> (Colman 2010, 3). The peer production movement is a veritable media ecology
>> that poses an active revolutionary threat to the contemporary post-colonial
>> project of capitalist subsumption.” *
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:36 PM
>> Subject: FINAL version of FC paper.
>> To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi Michel
>>
>> This is the final draft of my paper
>>
>> Cheers, P.
>>
>>
>>
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