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  Nils Sautter    Group moderator

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  high tech gift economy

  This article was a product of its time. When I originally wrote The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, the Net was still a novelty for most people even in the developed world. Nearly 8 years later, using this technology is no longer something special. This means that it is impossible to understand my article without remembering the bizarre moment in the late-1990s when so many pundits believed that the Net had almost magical powers. Led by Wired, dotcom boosters were claiming that the Net was creating the free market only found up to then in neo-classical economics textbooks. Inspired by post-modernist gurus, new media activists were convinced that humanity would soon liberate itself from corporate control by escaping into cyberspace. What intrigued me at the time was how these devotees of irreconcilable ideologies shared a common faith in McLuhan-style technological determinism. The Net – not people – was the subject of history. This demiurge promised the final victory of one – and only one - method of organizing labor: the commodity or the gift. When I was writing this article, my goal was to attack these almost totalitarian ideologies. The sharing of information over the Net disproved the neo-liberal fantasies of Wired. The leading role of capitalist businesses within the open source movement was incompatible with the anarcho-communist utopia. I wanted to argue that the choice wasn’t the commodity or the gift. On the Net, the same piece of information could exist both as a commodity and a gift.
  
  http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook/index.ht...
  
  • 22 Feb 2008, 4:48 pm
  Nils Sautter wrote: > This article was a product of its time. When I originally wrote The > Hi-Tech Gift Economy, the Net was still a novelty for most people > even in the developed world. Nearly 8 years later, using this > technology is no longer something special. This means that it is > impossible to understand my article without remembering the bizarre > moment in the late-1990s when so many pundits believed that the Net > had almost magical powers. Led by Wired, dotcom boosters were > claiming that the Net was creating the free market only found up to > then in neo-classical economics textbooks. Inspired by post-modernist > gurus, new media activists were convinced that humanity would soon > liberate itself from corporate control by escaping into cyberspace. > What intrigued me at the time was how these devotees of > irreconcilable ideologies shared a common faith in McLuhan-style > technological determinism. The Net – not people – was the subject of > history. This demiurge promised the final victory of one – and only > one - method of organizing labor: the commodity or the gift. When I > was writing this article, my goal was to attack these almost > totalitarian ideologies. The sharing of information over the Net > disproved the neo-liberal fantasies of Wired. The leading role of > capitalist businesses within the open source movement was > incompatible with the anarcho-communist utopia. I wanted to argue > that the choice wasn’t the commodity or the gift. On the Net, the > same piece of information could exist both as a commodity and a gift. > > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook/index.html
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  Re: high tech gift economy

  leider verbirgt sich nichts mehr hinter dem Link :-(
  
  • 25 Jan 2009, 9:24 pm
  Nils Sautter wrote: > leider verbirgt sich nichts mehr hinter dem Link :-(