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

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Martin!

I'm keeping track of such trends via
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Agrifood, but hadn't made the connection
with land as commons, but you are right, it's definitely part

perhaps it is true that we should pay most attention to what needs to
happen, but doesn't,

instead of the path I have chosen which is to see which are the most
productive trends that should be supported and that can be used as a wedge
for further progress,

thanks for the reference to the land magazine,

Michel

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:49 PM, j.martin.pedersen <
m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>



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