[p2p-research] does this correspond to your experience of contemporary youth?

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Martin,

can we report on your thesis and add the info to our
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Peerproperty (and :Research) sections?

I'd like to feature excerpts in our blog as well,

welcome back!

Michel

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:29 AM, mp <m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On 01/03/10 01:04, Ryan Lanham wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> As a contemporary youth, my impression of this article is that it's the
> >> sort of "the sky is falling" crap that has plagued humanity since the
> >> dawn of post-simianity. The fact that the author refers to a child as an
> >> 'it' in the last paragraph is an interesting slip.
>
> The entire piece is a slip: it begins with the question "What kind of
> career?", which is a leading question, infused with the very measure of
> capital that the author claims to question. Why did she not ask: "What
> kind of person would you like to become, what kind of virtues would you
> like to cultivate, any people you'd like to help, social relations you'd
> like to establish, indeed, what commons are you going to join?" ??
>
> The answer is of course that she is on the very same track herself, at
> best quantitatively different, but qualitatively the same: careering,
> competing and perpetuating those very modes of being by asking the way
> that she does.
>
> - martin
>
> PS: I just joined the list, having re-emerged to social and virtual life
> after completing a PhD titled "Property, Commoning and the Politics of
> Free Software", so: Hello all!
>
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