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Mute Vol 2, No. 1 − Underneath The Knowledge Commons

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.

2005-12, ISSN 1356-7748-201 & ISBN 9780955066417

FURTHER DESCRIPTION

 

Free Labour or Social Sculpture?

Mute canvasses a small selection of cultural producers working with FLOSS about the bottom line

 

Patently Obvious

The OpenMute project explains its approach to FLOSS and the public domain

 

FLOSS Redux

Soenke Zehle on the politics of 'tropicalised' software in South Africa

 

Reality Check

Steve Wright applies Marx's law of value to immaterial labour

 

Freedom's Standard Advanced?

Benjamin Mako Hill asks just how many licences we need to preserve freedom

 

Change of the Century

Martin Hardie scrutinises the 'freedoms' enshrined in FLOSS licensing, and the American constitutionalism it extends

 

Copy that Floppy!

Mute talks to Palle Torsson about the Pirate Bay, filesharing, piracy and the 'grey commons'

 

Charters of Liberty in Black face and White Face

Peter Linebaugh links the English enclosures to Atlantic slavery and financial liquidity

 

State Wide Shut

Gregor Claude on Demos' blueprint for open sourcing the State

 

Gender Dimensions of FLOSS Development

Yuwei Lin shows how the gender gap in FLOSS development contradicts in own ideals

 

Illustrations

Per Wizen, Anya Kirschner, Benedict Seymour, Raquel Perez de Eulate

 

 

ISBN 0-9550664-1-7

 

Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

108 pages

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Free Labour Or Social Sculpture?

By Mute

Patently Obvious

By Simon Worthington

FLOSS Redux: Notes on African Software Politics

By Soenke Zehle

Reality check: Are We Living In An Immaterial World?

By Steve Wright

Freedom's Standard Advanced?

By Benjamin Mako Hill

Change of the Century: Free Software and the Positive Possibility

By Martin Hardie

State Wide Shut

By Gregor Claude

Gender Dimensions of Floss Development

By Yuwei Lin
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