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{{Short description|Interactions with a peer-to-peer dynamic}}
'''Social peer-to-peer processes''' are interactions with a [[peer-to-peer]] dynamic. These peers can be humans or computers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a term that originated from the popular concept of the P2P distributed computer application architecture which partitions tasks or workloads between peers.<ref>{{cite web|title=What does Peer-to-Peer Architecture (P2P Architecture) mean?|url=https://www.techopedia.com/definition/454/peer-to-peer-architecture-p2p-architecture|publisher=Techopedia Inc}}</ref>{{better source|date=September 2018}} This application structure was popularized by [[file sharing]] systems like [[Napster]], the first of its kind in the late 1990s.

The concept has inspired new structures and philosophies in many areas of human interaction. P2P human dynamic affords a critical look at current [[authoritarianism|authoritarian]] and [[centralization|centralized]] social structures. Peer-to-peer is also a political and social program for those who believe that in many cases, peer-to-peer modes are a preferable option.

== Definition ==
P2P is a specific form of relational dynamic, based on the assumed equipotency<ref> {{Cite web|title=Equipotent definition and meaning {{!}} Collins English Dictionary|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/equipotent|access-date=2020-12-23|website=www.collinsdictionary.com|language=en-US}}</ref> of its participants, organized through the free cooperation of equals in view of the performance of a common task, for the creation of a common good, with forms of decision making and autonomy that are widely distributed throughout the network.

There are several fundamental aspects of social P2P processes:
* [[peer production]] - the collaborative production of use-value is open to participation and use to the widest possible number (as defined by [[Yochai Benkler]], in his essay Coase's Penguin);<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf | title = Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm | first = Yochai | last = Benkler | journal = The Yale Law Journal | year = 2001 | arxiv = cs/0109077 | bibcode = 2001cs........9077B | access-date = 2010-04-15 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101010152105/http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf | archive-date = 2010-10-10 }}</ref>
* peer governance - production or project is governed by the community of producers themselves, not by market allocation or corporate hierarchy;
* peer property - the [[Use value|use-value]] of property is freely accessible on a universal basis; peer services and products are distributed through new modes of property, which are not exclusive, though recognize individual authorship (i.e. the [[GNU General Public License]] or the [[Creative Commons]] licenses).

Peer production does not produce commodities for exchange value and does not use the [[price mechanism]] or [[corporate]] [[hierarchy]] to determine the allocation of resources. It must, therefore, be distinguished from both the [[capitalist]] [[Market (economics)|market]] (though it can be linked and embedded in the broader market) and from production through state and corporate planning; as a mode of [[governance]] it differs from traditional [[linear]] hierarchies; and as a mode of property it differs from both traditional private property and state-based collective [[public property]]; it is rather the common property of its producers and users and the whole of humankind. Unlike [[private property]], peer property is inclusive rather than exclusive — its nature is to share ownership as widely, rather than as narrowly, as possible.

== Characteristics ==
P2P processes are not structureless but are characterized by dynamic and changing structures that adapt themselves to phase changes. Its rules are not derived from external authority, as in hierarchical systems, but are generated from within. It does not deny ‘authority’, but only fixed forced hierarchy, and therefore accepts authority based on expertise, initiation of the project, etc.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bruns|first=Axel|title=Peer-to-Peer Interaction|url=https://snurb.info/files/2016/Peer-to-Peer%20Interaction.pdf|journal=Queensland University of Technology|pages=9}}</ref> P2P may be the first true [[meritocracy]]{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}. P2P eliminates most, if not all, barriers to entry. The threshold for participation is kept as low as possible. Equipotency means that there is no prior formal filtering for participation, but rather that it is the immediate practice of cooperation which determines the expertise and level of participation. Communication is not top-down and based on strictly defined reporting rules, but feedback is systemic, integrated into the protocol of the cooperative system. Techniques of 'participation capture' and other social accounting make automatic cooperation the default scheme of the project. Personal identity becomes partly generated by the contribution to the common project. P2P characteristics have been studied by [[Howard Rheingold]] ''et al.'''s Cooperation Project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/CooperationProject_3_30_05.pdf |title=The Cooperation Project: Objectives, Accomplishments, Proposals |access-date=2010-04-15}}</ref>

P2P is a network, not a linear or 'pyramidal' hierarchy (though it may have elements of it); it is 'decentralized'; intelligence is not located at any center, but everywhere within the system. Assumed equipotency means that P2P systems start from the premise that ‘it doesn’t know where the needed resource will be located’, it assumes that ‘everybody’ can cooperate, and does not use formal rules in advance to determine its participating members. Participants are expected to self-select the module that corresponds best to their expertise. Equipotency, i.e. the capacity to cooperate, is verified in the process of cooperation itself. [[Data validation|Validation]] of knowledge, acceptance of processes, are determined by the collective through the use of digital rules which are embedded in the project's basic protocol. Cooperation must be free, not forced, and not based on neutrality (i.e. the buying of cooperation in a monetary system). It exists to produce something. It enables the widest possible participation. These are a number of characteristics that we can use to describe P2P systems ‘in general’, and in particular as it emerges in the human lifeworld. Whereas participants in hierarchical systems are subject to the panoptism of the select few who control the vast majority, in P2P systems, participants have access to holoptism, the ability for any participant to see the whole.

== Infrastructure ==
The first requirement to facilitate the emergence of peer-to-peer processes is the existence of a technological infrastructure that enables distributed access to fixed capital. Individual computers that enable a universal machine capable of executing any logical task are a form of distributed fixed capital, available at low cost to many producers. The internet, as a point to point network, was specifically designed for participation by the edges (computer users) without the use of obligatory hubs. Although it is not fully in the hands of its participants, the internet is controlled through distributed governance, and outside the complete hegemony of particular private or state actors. The Internet's hierarchical elements, such as the stacked [[Internet protocol suite]] and [[Domain Name System]], do not deter participation. Viral communicators, or meshworks, are a logical extension of the internet. With this methodology, devices create their own networks through the use of excess capacity, bypassing the need for a pre-existing infrastructure. [[Wireless community network]]s, Open Spectrum advocacy, file-serving television, and alternative meshwork-based telecommunication infrastructures are exemplary of this trend.<ref name="Ctheory">{{cite news |last=Bauwens |first=Michel |date=2005-01-12 |title=The Political Economy of Peer Production |publisher=CTheory |url=https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14464/5306|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025020354/https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14464/5306 |archive-date=2022-10-25 }}</ref>

The second requirement is alternative information and communication systems which allow for [[autonomous]] communication between cooperating agents. The web (in particular the Writeable Web and the [[Web 2.0]] that is in the process of being established) allows for the universal autonomous production, dissemination, and 'consumption' of written material while the associated [[podcasting]] and [[webcasting]] developments create an 'alternative information and communication infrastructure' for audio and audiovisual creation. The existence of such an infrastructure enables autonomous content production that may be distributed without the intermediary of the classic publishing and broadcasting media (though new forms of mediation may arise).<ref name="Ctheory"/>

The third requirement is the existence of a 'software' infrastructure for autonomous global cooperation. A growing number of collaborative tools, such as blogs and wikis, embedded in [[social networking]] software facilitate the creation of trust and [[social capital]], making it possible to create global groups that can create [[use-value]] without the intermediary of manufacturing or distribution by for-profit [[Business|enterprises]].<ref name="Ctheory"/>

The fourth requirement is a legal infrastructure that enables the creation of use-value and protects it from private [[appropriation (economics)|appropriation]]. The [[General Public License]] (which prohibits the appropriation of software code), the related [[Open Source Initiative]], and certain versions of the [[Creative Commons]] license fulfill this role. They enable the protection of common use-value and use viral characteristics to spread. [[GPL]] and related material can only be used in projects that in turn put their adapted source code in the [[public domain]].<ref name="Ctheory"/>

The fifth requirement is cultural. The diffusion of mass intellectuality, (i.e. the distribution of human intelligence) and associated changes in ways of feeling and being ([[ontology]]), ways of knowing ([[epistemology]]) and value constellations ([[axiology]]) have been instrumental in creating the type of cooperative individualism needed to sustain an [[ethos]] which can enable P2P projects.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

== In the economy ==

=== Capitalism ===
There are two important aspects to the emergence of P2P in the economic sphere. On the one hand, as a format for peer production processes, it is emerging as a 'third mode of production' based on the cooperation of autonomous agents. Indeed, if the first mode of production was [[laissez-faire]] based [[capitalism]], and the second mode was the model of a [[Central planning|centrally-planned]] economy, then the third mode is defined neither by the motor of profit, nor by central planning: to allocate resources and make decisions, it does not use market and pricing mechanisms, or managerial commands, but instead uses [[social relations]]. Peer production is a significant part of the mainstream economy, even if it is not much advertised as such in mainstream economic literature.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

Despite significant differences, P2P and the capitalist market are highly interconnected. P2P is dependent on the market and the market is dependent on P2P. Peer production produces [[use-value]] through mostly [[Intellectual capital|immaterial]] production, without directly providing an income for its producers. Participants cannot live from peer production, though they derive meaning and value from it.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

The market and capitalism are also dependent on P2P. Capitalism has become a system relying on distributed networks, in particular on the P2P infrastructure in computing and communication. Productivity is highly reliant on cooperative [[teamwork]], most often organized in ways that are derivative of peer production's governance. The support given by major IT companies to [[open-source software development|open-source development]] is a testimony to the use derived from even the new common property regimes. The general [[business model]] seems to be that businesses use the P2P [[infrastructure]], and create a surplus value through services, which can be packaged for [[exchange value]]. For-profit enterprises mostly use partial implementations of P2P. [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] built itself around user reviews,{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} [[eBay]] lives on a platform of worldwide distributed auctions, and [[Google]] is constituted by [[user-generated content]]. Value creation today is no longer confined to the enterprise, but beholden to the mass intellectuality of [[knowledge worker]]s, who through their lifelong learning/experiencing and systemic connectivity, constantly innovate within and without the enterprise.<ref name="Ctheory"/> Yet more recently, in the last decade, peer-to-peer exchanges have become even more prevalent in the so-called "[[sharing economy]]",<ref>{{cite news|title=The rise of the sharing economy|url=https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> also termed an "access economy" or a "peer exchange economy."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Popularity of Peer-to-Peer Exchanges in the Last Decade|url=http://www.gearpeers.com/blog/the-popularity-of-peer-to-peer-exchanges-in-the-last-decade/|publisher=Gear Peers|access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> For instance, businesses such as [[Uber]], [[Lyft]], and [[Airbnb]] are all based on peer-to-peer physical exchanges. This sharing economy is projected by some analysts to encompass $335 billion by 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Car Sharing Economy|url=http://www.drivemycar.com.au/Long-term-rental-in-the-car-sharing-economy|publisher=DriveMyCar|access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Zhuo|first1=TX|title=Airbnb and Uber Are Just the Beginning. What's Next for the Sharing Economy.|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244192|magazine=Entrepreneur|access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref>

Peer-to-peer systems contribute to more specific forms of distributed capitalism. The massive use of [[open source software]] in business, enthusiastically supported by [[venture capital]] and large IT companies such as [[IBM]], is creating a distributed software platform that will drastically undercut the [[monopolistic]] rents enjoyed by companies such as [[Microsoft]] and [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]], while [[Skype]] and [[VoIP]] will drastically redistribute the [[Telecommunications service provider|telecom]] infrastructure. It also points to a new business model that is 'beyond' products, focusing instead on services associated with the nominally free FS/OS software model. Industries are gradually transforming themselves to incorporate user-generated innovation, and new intermediation may occur around user-generated media. Many knowledge workers are choosing non-corporate paths and becoming mini-entrepreneurs, relying on an increasingly sophisticated participatory infrastructure, a kind of digital corporate commons.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

=== Market economy ===
Social P2P systems are different from [[market economy]]:<ref name="Ctheory"/> neither market pricing nor managerial command are required for P2P processes to make decisions regarding the allocation of [[resources]]. There are further differences:

* Market economy is similar to insect-like [[swarm intelligence]]. There are autonomous agents in a distributed environment, but each individual only sees their own immediate benefit.<ref name="Ctheory"/>
* Markets are based on 'neutral' cooperation, and not on [[synergistic]] cooperation: no [[Norm of reciprocity|reciprocity]] is created.<ref name="Ctheory"/>
* Markets operate on the production and exchange of value to generate [[Profit (economics)|profit]], not [[production for use]].
* Whereas P2P aims at full participation, markets only fulfill the needs of those with [[purchasing power]].

Markets do not function well for common needs that do not involve direct payment<ref name="Ctheory"/> ([[national security|national defense]], general policing, [[education]] and [[public health]]). In addition, they fail to take into account [[negative externalities]]<ref name="Ctheory"/> (the environment, social costs, future generations).

=== P2P economic system ===
In ''The Political Economy of Peer Production'' Bauwens regards P2P phenomena as an emerging alternative to capitalist society. P2P economy may be seen as extending or already existing outside the sphere of free/open source software production and other non-rival immaterial goods. Peer production effectively enables the free cooperation of producers, who have access to their own means of [[Production (economics)|production]], and the resulting use-value of the projects supersedes for-profit alternatives.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

Historically, though forces of higher [[productivity]] may be temporarily embedded in the old productive system, they ultimately lead to deep upheavals and reconstitutions of the [[political economy]]. The emergence of capitalist modes within the [[feudal system]] is a case in point. This is particularly significant because leading sectors of the for-profit economy are deliberately slowing down productive growth (through patents and [[Monopoly|monopolization]]) and trying to outlaw P2P production and sharing practices.<ref name="Ctheory"/>

== In politics ==
=== Governance ===
[[Government]]s of countries are composed of a specialized and privileged body of individuals, who [[monopolize]] political decision-making. Their function is to enforce existing laws, [[legislate]] new ones, and arbitrate conflicts via their monopoly on violence. Legislation can be open to the general [[citizenry]] through [[open source governance]], allowing policy development to benefit from the collected wisdom of the people as a whole.

[[Michel Bauwens]] has stated, that society is not a peer group with an [[A priori and a posteriori|a priori]] [[Consensus decision-making|consensus]], but rather a [[decentralized]] structure of competing groups and [[representative democracy]] cannot be replaced entirely by peer governance.<ref name="Re-public">{{cite news|url= http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=133|title= P2P politics, the state, and the renewal of the emancipatory traditions|date= 2007-02-25|last= Bauwens|first= Michel|publisher= Re-public|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110722003910/http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=133|archive-date = 2011-07-22}}</ref>

Peer projects which evolve beyond a certain scale and start facing issues of decisions about scarce [[resources]], will probably adopt some representational mechanisms. Representative and [[bureaucratic]] [[decision-making]] can and will in some places be replaced by global governance networks which may be self-governed to a large extent, but in any case, it will and should incorporate more and more [[Multistakeholder Model]]s (i.e. [[collaborative e-democracy]]), which strives to include all groups that could be affected. This group-based partnership model is different, but related in spirit, to the individual-based peer governance, because they share an [[ethos]] of participation.<ref name="Re-public"/>

=== Open source movements ===
Many new movements are taking on P2P organizational formats, such as the [[alter-globalization]] movement and the [["Occupy" protests|"Occupy"]] movement (i.e. [[Occupy Wall Street]]). The movements see itself as a network of networks that combines players from a wide variety of fields and opinion, who, despite the fact that they do not see eye to eye in all things, manage to unite around a common [[Computing platform|platform]] of action around certain key events.

They are able to mobilize vast numbers of people from every [[continent]], without having at their disposal any of the traditional [[news media]], such as television, radio or newspapers. Rather, they rely almost exclusively on the P2P technologies described above. Thus, Internet media are used for communication and learning on a continuous basis, prior to the mobilizations, and also during the mobilizations.

Independent Internet media platforms such as [[Indymedia]], as well as the skillful use of mobile phones, are used for real-time response management, undertaken by small groups that use buddy-list technologies, and sometimes open-source programs that have been explicitly designed for political activism such as TextMob.

Many reports have appeared, including those described in Howard Rheingold's [[Smart Mob]]s, about the political significance of [[SMS]] in organizing successful protests and ‘democratic revolutions’. The network model allows for a more fluid organization that does not fix any group in a permanent adversarial position. Various temporary coalitions are created on an [[ad hoc]] basis depending on the issues.

== Notable contributors ==
The following is a list of individuals who have made contributions to the peer-to-peer paradigm.
; Business and economics:
* [[Eric Von Hippel]], author of ''The Democratisation of Innovation'', on user innovation communities
* [[Pekka Himanen]], for his examination of the new work culture in 'Hacker Ethics'
* [[Peter Drucker]] author of ''[[Concept of the Corporation]]'' for term 'federal decentralization'
* [[Michel Bauwens]], co-founder and primary activist of the P2P Foundation.
* [[Elinor Ostrom]], for her work on Common Pool Resources (CPR).
* Rachel Botsman for co-writing 'What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption' (see [[Collaborative consumption]])

; Culture:
* [[Lawrence Lessig]], created the [[Creative Commons]] licenses and is an advocate of Free Culture against the encroachments of excessive intellectual property restrictions
* [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Wikipedia]] founder
* [[Dan Gillmor]] for his advocacy of citizen-based [[journalism]]
* [[Mark Pesce]], for his campaign around the issue for an alternative information and communications infrastructure
* [[Howard Rheingold]], for his books on the emerging sociality in the online world, such as ''[[Virtual Communities]]'' and ''[[Smart Mobs]]''

; Philosophy and spirituality:
* [[John Heron (social scientist)|John Heron]], founder of cooperative inquiry techniques in the field of spirituality
* [[Jorge Ferrer]], author of ''Revisioning Transpersonal Psychology'', an extended review of the development of participatory spirituality
* [[Henryk Skolimowski]], author of ''The Participatory Mind''
* [[David Skrbina]], author of a history of the participatory worldview
* [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]], for their early anticipation of the 'rhizomatic' future

; Politics:
* [[McKenzie Wark]], author of a class analysis of the information age, and her hypothesis of the vectoralist class (owners of the vectors of information) in her book ''A Hacker Manifesto'' [2004]
* [[Toni Negri]] and [[Michael Hardt]], for their analysis of the Multitudes in ''[[Empire (Negri and Hardt book)|Empire]]'' and ''[[Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire|Multitude]]''
* [[John Holloway (sociologist)|John Holloway]], author of ''Revolution without Power''
* [[David Bollier]], [[Commons]] advocate
* [[Alexander R. Galloway]], for his unveiling of the importance of protocol as a form of power, in his book ''Protocol'' [2003]
* [[Eben Moglen]], founder of the [[Software Freedom Law Center]]

; Science:
* [[Yochai Benkler]], study of Commons-based peer production

; Technologies:
* [[Vint Cerf]] - 'father' of the internet
* [[Richard Stallman]], founder of the Free Software movement
* [[Eric S. Raymond|Eric Raymond]], founder of the Open Source initiative
* [[Irene Greif]], for her definition of an operational semantics for [[History of the Actor model|the actor model]] in 1975<ref name="greif1975">{{cite journal|last=Greif|first=Irene|author-link=Irene Greif|title=Semantics of Communicating Parallel Processes|publisher=MIT|version=EECS Doctoral Dissertation|date=August 1975}}</ref>
* [[Robin Chase]] for work on Buzzcar
* [[Juliana Rotich]] for work on [[Ushahidi]]

==See also==
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Anarchist economics]]
* [[Collaborative e-democracy]]
* [[Commons-based peer production]]
* [[Distributed economies]]
* [[Distributism]]
* [[Leaderless resistance]]
* [[Network economy]]
* [[Occupy movement]]
* [[Open-source governance]]
* [[Participatory Guarantee Systems]]
* [[Peer education]]
* [[Peer mentoring]]
* [[Peer support]]
* [[Peer-to-peer]]
* [[Peer-to-peer banking]]
* [[Peer-to-peer carsharing]]
* [[Peer-to-peer lending]]
* [[Peer production]]
* [[Production for use]]
* [[Sharing economy]]
* [[Open design]]
* [[Heterarchy]]
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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* [[Janet Abbate|Abbate, Janet]]. Inventing the Internet. MIT Press, 1999 (describes the underlying P2P ethos of the internet's founding fathers)
* Aigrain, Philippe. Cause Commune. L'information entre bien commun et propriete. Fayard, 2005 (on the new Commons and associated social movements)
* [[Michel Bauwens|Bauwens, M.]], 2005, ''[[Peer to Peer and Human Evolution]]''
* [[Jorge Ferrer|Ferrer, Jorge N.]] Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality. SUNY, 2001 (outlines the new paradigm of participatory spirituality)
* Gilmor, Dan. We the Media. O'Reilly, 2004 (on participatory journalism)
* Gunderson, Lance H. and C.S. Holling. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature. Island Press, 2001 (on networked and P2P physical and social laws)
* [[John Heron (social scientist)|Heron, John]]. Sacred Science. PCCS Books, 1998 (defines relational spirituality and the methodology called Cooperative Inquiry)
* Galloway, Alexander . Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
MIT Press, 2004 (power as embedded in the digital protocols governing networked systems)
* Himanen, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House, 2002 (on the 'P2P' work culture exemplified by the hackers but spreading in the general economy)
* Lasica, J.D. Darknet: Hollywood's War against the Digital Generation. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 (cultural and political consequences of P2P filesharing)
* Malone, Thomas. The Future of Work. How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life. Harvard Business School Press, 2004 (coordination theory and decentralisation in the corporate enterprise)
* Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990 (how to manage the physical commons)
* [[Eric S. Raymond|Raymond, Eric]]. [[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]. O’Reilly, 2001 (the [[gift economy]] culture of the free software and open source movements)
* Sagot-Duvauroux, Jean-Louis. Pour la Gratuite. Desclee-De Brouwer, 1995 (the gratuity of common goods as indicative of civilizational progress)
* Stallman, Richard. Free Software, Free Society. Free Software Foundation, 2002 (the ethos of the Free Software movement)
* Tuomi, Ilkka. Networks of Innovation. Oxford Press, 2003 (networked forms of innovation)
* von Hippel, Eric. The Democratization of Innovation. MIT Press, 2004 (examines participatory innovation starting from the users/consumers themselves)
* Weber, Steve. The Success of Open Source. Harvard University Press, 2004 (studies Open Source and peer production)
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==Further reading==
* {{Citation |publisher = Riverhead Books |location = New York |last = Johnson |first = Steven |author-link=Steven Johnson (author) |title = Future perfect: the case for progress in a networked age |date = 2012 |ol = 25372378M}}
*[http://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/article/view/228/177 How to Reap the Benefits of the “Digital Revolution”? Modularity and the Commons]. 2019. By Vasilis Kostakis, published in ''Halduskultuur: The Estonian Journal of Administrative Culture and Digital Governance'', Vol 20(1):4–19.

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