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Commons Philosophy
Andrew Rens · Cape Town (South Africa) · 15/6/2007 23:05
To discuss, debate, argue and wrangle over the philosophy of the commons, and philosophical, theoretical and scholarly issues affecting the commons.
| wrestling with Ideas, by slagheap (www.flicker.com), April 24, 2007, Sports Day, USS Coronado |
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Category: Other
Project end date: 6/6/2010 (638 days to go)
Creation date: 15/6/2007 23:05
Development stage: planning
city: Cape Town
country: South Africa
Other countries:
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 7
The free culture movement, and the commons current within it, are eminently practical, concerned with increasing the freedom of culture in a multiplicity of locales, each requiring appropriate location specific responses.
There are however certain core ideas which give coherence to the free culture movement generally and the commons. These ideas are receiving most recognition at the level of political science and economics. There are however deeper philosophical dimensions of these ideas. This node is a place where attention can be paid to those dimensions.
Some of these dimensions are receiving attention at the iSummit 07:
What do we mean by free culture? Is it just a reaction against copyright, or a broader positive movement for the arts? Should we take our inspiration from the free software, and if not what philosophical and tactical differences should we account for?
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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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