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This is Seifkes' final reply in the Debating Peercommony part of the overall Parecon Peercommony exchange (https://znetwork.org/znet/zdebatealbsiefkes.htm). This piece replies to Albert's…
Christian Siefkes, 33, born in Southern Germany, lives in Berlin, Germany. Holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Freie Universität Berlin; works as a freelance software engineer and author. Homepage: siefkes.net.
He is especially interested in studying and advancing the practices of commons-based peer production, a decentralized and participatory way of production which is giving us large online knowledge sources such as the Wikipedia as well as innumerable free software programs such as GNU/Linux and Firefox. He explores how peer production works and how its current limitations can be overcome, opening the way to a society where peer production will be the primary mode of production, freeing people from the need to "make money" or the necessity to follow orders. Siefkes has written a book about his findings: "From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing Peer Production into the Physical World" (Berlin, 2007), German translation: "Beitragen statt tauschen" (Neu-Ulm, 2008). He is a co-founder of the Keimform-Blog, a bilingual blog discussing the potential of peer production and other seed forms of a future, post-capitalist society.
He hopes that the Reimagining Society Project will rekindle discussions about how a post-capitalist society might look like and how we can get there. His own contributions to the project will be aimed at deepening the interconnections between the theory and practice of commons-based peer production and other leftist, emancipatory approaches.
This is Seifkes' final reply in the Debating Peercommony part of the overall Parecon Peercommony exchange (https://znetwork.org/znet/zdebatealbsiefkes.htm). This piece replies to Albert's…
This is part of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony. The first two essays are Summarizing Parecon by Michael Albert and Summarizing Peercommony by Christian…
The following piece titled, Peercommony Reconsidered?, responds to Michael Alberts' Considering Peercommony, which was reacting to a Siefkes summary of Peercommony. Albert will comment in a…
This is part of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony. The first two essays are Summarizing Parecon by Michael Albert and Summarizing Peercommony by Christian Siefkes.…
The following piece titled Peercommony: A World Free of Money and Coercion is an initial entry for a debate/exploration conducted with Michael Albert, whose…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] The Commons of the Past In many times and in many areas, production…
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