In his excellent paper,
Coase's Penguin: Linux and The Nature of the Firm, Yochai Benkler
explains, not the motivation, but the technical and legal
preconditions for cooperative informational and cultural production.
The technical considerations are basically: telematically interlinked
personal
I found Brian's paper very interesting. Here are a few thoughts:
Gift exchange and commodity exchange seem to me to be mutually
implicated in each other. No commodity system exists without the
gift. Economic doctrine treats the commodity system as 'pure' when
a good deal of the production of use
[hi, nettimers -- someone kindly pointed out brian's original
message, below, had somehow been lost in the nettime.org ar-
chives and replaced with keith hart's response. since We Do
Not Meddle With The Archives, the simple solution is to send
it to the list again.
Keith Hart says that my text
...legitimately invokes the work of Karl Polanyi in
support of an anti-market economics, but he does not point out that Polanyi
looked to the planning structures of socialist states to implement
redistribution as an alternative to the market.
True enough - I'm
Brian Holmes' reply to my reply is very much in the spirit of progressive
conversation. It turns out that the differences between us as quite nuanced
(as I already knew), but they can be exaggerated by a language of contrast.
Thus we can agree on this:
The problem is making the social
On Brian Holmes, Marcel Mauss and economic anthropology
[For Polanyi] The result of market-governed exchange was to wreck the
patterns of reciprocity that had made it possible for society to reproduce
itself over time.
Behind these discussions one occasionally catches a glimpse of an
[Following is the lecture I gave at the expo Geography - and the
Politics of Mobility in Vienna. It revists the gift economy debates,
via Karl Polanyi, with some new ideas thanks to the talks at the
WorldInfoCon, all in the hope of understanding networked
mobilizations. Plenty of things for
