Underneath the Knowledge Commons, Volume 2, Issue 1J. Berry Slater A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods. As with the pre-capitalist common lands on which the majority of people subsisted, the idea is that we can build a resource, a life source, of intellectual wealth to sustain people within informatic capitalism. But this endeavour is not without political, tactical and philosophical problems. In this first issue of the new format Mute, we foreground the antagonisms which the Knowledge Commons throw up. Texts by: Gregor Claude, Yves Degoyon, Martin Hardie, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jaromil, Yuwei Lin, Peter Linebaugh, Aymeric Mansoux, Agnese Trocchi, RampArt Hacklab, Palle Torsson, James Wallbank, Steve Wright, Simon Yuill and Soenke Zehle |
Contents
Editorial When America Sneezes | 6 |
Free Labour or Social Structure | 10 |
Patently Obvious | 18 |
Notes on African Software Politics | 22 |
Are We Living in an Immaterial World? | 34 |
Freedoms Standard Advanced? Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement | 46 |
Free Software and the Positive Possibility | 54 |
Copy that Floppy | 66 |
Race Slavery and the Commons | 72 |
State Wide Shut | 86 |
Gender Dimensions of Floss Development | 90 |
End of document Backcover | 108 |
Common terms and phrases
advocacy African alternative Antonio Negri artists Benjamin Mako Hill Blacks capital capital's capitalist production CC licences CC's Charter collaborative constitution corporations Creative Commons critical opalescence culture distribution economy Email enclosures environment exploited by capitalist filesharing FLOSS community FLOSS development force of law FOSSFA free software free software definition Free/Libre freedom Giorgio Agamben global Hardt and Negri immaterial labour important infrastructure innovation intellectual property issue Knowledge Commons Lawrence Lessig legal principle Linux LinuxChix Magna Carta Martin Hardie Microsoft Mute Name of Organisation notion open source software OpenMute participation in FLOSS Pirat Byran Pirate Bay political positive possibility programmers proprietary proprietary software Richard Stallman sector share slave social movement software industry software movement Source Software FLOSS South Steve Wright text based users women work/labour as resisting