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• 21 Sep 08
  

  tony curzon price

  • The reinvention of scarcity

    
    

    Tony Curzon Price
    

    
    

    The community-building projects of the digital world are celebrated for the abundance they make it possible to access and share; but what if the culture of a community only arises from jointly endured constraints? Tony Curzon Price explores a key paradox of the online age.
• 18 Jun 07
  

  Thanasis Priftis

  commons Community information democracy

• 17 Jun 07
  

  P. Gillespie
  • the information gets greater coverage, and, once created, that is all that counts
  • one of our articles is part of a publication; that publication makes a community; and every moment of attention that the community loses is one that might have contributed something of value to the greater whole that we are trying to build at openDemocracy. In this respect, our creative-commons licenses, by dispersing the energy of the community we are building, are destroying value.
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  • • The culture of communities comes out of jointly endured constraints.
    • what makes it possible for that day to become a public moment of celebration, for the move to the joint economy of the commonwealth?
    • a community
    • common understanding to jointly employ the cowherds who will stay with the animals on the commons and store their milk as cheese
    • A rich social organisation
    • Necessity, constraint, people thrown together unelectivel
    • The commons have always been sustained by communities
    • Communities both pay for and give life to endeavours in the public space.
    • squares, gardens, temples, churches, mosques, have often occupied highly prized space at the centre of societies and their cities.
    • These public spaces have existed as a compact between those who fund them and the wider group of all those that inhabit them and give them life.
    • In a world of unconstrained choice, public space faces two challenges: how to create anything that depends on a collective choice; and how to make any choice one that carries meaning.
    • the patterns of behaviour that brought the crowd together
    • A public realm needs scarcity
    • There are all sorts of things wrong with these societies built out of scarcity - the status relations of property foremost amongst them - but their public spaces are still what we want from the public realm.
    • the condition of modernity is to find our identity in the choice of the communities we elect to belong to
    • where choices are no longer meaningful, an often unbearable pressure is placed on the psychology of election
    • take our work as long as you will try to add something to it. If not, let us have its community-building benefits: allow us to build significance into the choice of this website, not that.
• 15 Jun 07
  

  Viv Waller

  digital_commons information_society

• 14 Jun 07
  

  Todd Suomela

  community opencontent open-source import-delicious creative-commons

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  kateoakley
• 13 Jun 07
  

  Michel Bauwens

  The community-building projects of the digital world are celebrated for the abundance they make it possible to access and share; but what if the culture of a community only arises from jointly endured constraints?

  Abundance P2P-Media P2P

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