[p2p-research] [Commoning] Information sector: a qualitative different mode of production?

[j.martin.pedersen]

On 03/01/11 04:59, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I think the commonality between land and digital commoners is an interesting
> path to argue for and pursue, though in a western context, I don't see much
> wiggle room for land commons, as I wonder which social forces would stand
> behind it in current circumstances ... I know of no farmers who would
> support the recommonalizing of land, and even workers in large
> agribusinesses have not expressed this demand for ages. Or is that a wrong
> perception?

Yes, this is a perception that misses some of the most important aspects
of contemporary social movements in Euro-America: firstly, of course,
the movement that Roberto and I have been bantering at cross-purposes
about, namely permaculture movements that struggle with reclaiming land
or living with nature vis-a-vis planning laws and conservative rural
dwelling city professionals and other disgruntled locals. There is a
very good magazione in which many of their stories and analyses are
collected called The Land:
http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/

Secondly, the community-supported agriculture movements are reorganising
relations between people and the land - and transforming in doing so
also the relation between people and the fruits of the land, which are
rendered collective fruits of commoning instead of commodities.

In any case, if there were noone trying to reclaim land we would have to
focus even more in it, not less..

m