[ox-en] Re: [ox-en] DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT - CfC for the conference - DRAFT DRAFTDRAFT
- From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk telekommunisten.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:59:07 +0100
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:45:32 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa cbs.dk> wrote:
Michel Bauwens wrote:
In the sharing economy, users are still creating and sharing use value,
but using proprietary platforms.
Can't say that I agree on this distinction - I have before made some
comments in regard to 'sharing cultures' (which also in essence have to
be recognized as 'economical systems'), and I don't really see the
argument for including any notion of proprietary platforms (unless you
somehow place your notion into some kind of step-by-step evolutionary
argument)?
Hi Michel, Gregers.
I have trouble with Michel's position here as well, for me it is too
categorical (sharing is sharing) and not sufficiently dialectic
(one form vs another).
These "proprietary systems of sharing" did not appear ex nihilo out
the imagination of TechCrunch readers, but rather where deliberately
built and funded, therefore we must look at what alternatives where
possible, and indeed already available, and why the choice was made
to fund centralized, proprietary systems instead of P2P, free systems.
This choice was made with the logic of Capalist, and not Peer
social relations.
When compared to systems of sharing from the earlier generation of
Internet platforms, email, usenet and irc, systems where development
is being systematically neglected in the hope they will die,
imo, what is striking about the new platforms is not the sharing,
which was already happening, but rather the centralization,
propriety, and exclusivity of moderation.
I also endorse Greger's understanding of "sharing cultures" as
"economic systems," and thus must inevitably understand these
developments as a reaction against peer production, not for it,
reasserting capitalist social relations, and thus see these
proprietary platforms as a step backward, not forwards.
Other technologies being systematically neglected because
they promote decentralization are IPV6 and IP Multicasting.
I wonder how crippled the P2P characteristics will become before
the neo-utopian understanding of peer production finally gives
way to a more critical perspective that recognizes that peer
to peer systems are being actively dismantled under our noses,
and that client-server replacements are not to be seen as
progress.
--
Dmytri Kleiner
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