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<nettime-ann> CFP: Value and Currency in Peer Production |
. > *The Journal of Peer Production CFP: Value and Currency in Peer Production > > Edited by: Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicol?s Mendoza and Francesca Musiani. > > The marriage of cryptography and the dynamics of open-source have now > produced a working distributed currency system. Bitcoin, as the most > notable example, can be understood as a new technics of exchange inspired > by the animal spirits of crypto-libertarianism. Whether or not there is a > place for currency -- and therefore exchange and (economic) value -- in the > utopian visions of commons-oriented thought is contested. Meanwhile, hybrid > forms like Bitcoin are developing unhindered by their constitutional > paradoxes. Capitalism, after all, equally thrives atop what David Graeber > has called a 'baseline' or 'everyday' communism. Current developments of > digital currencies are pervaded by a number of issues: Who or what issues > the money? What is the source of the collective agreement to concede value? > What forms of control are coded into currency systems and who is guiding > processes of (re)design? Who plays the role of guarantor when a currency is > decentralized? And what role does trust play in all these issues? Has > crypto-mathematics transformed trust into a technical quality of a system? > > The flipside of this issue is value: The intensification and extension of > computational procedures, which is manifested most clearly in the rise of > big data, has lead to a proliferation of bottom-up procedures to formalise > 'values', rendering them easily calculable and lending order to the > decentralised world of peers. Wikipedia contributors, for example, have > long awarded each other 'barnstars' for valued service in a range of areas, > and the site has long explored ways of rating article quality. In place of > managerial commands and bureaucratic hierarchies we have Karma points, > ranking systems, reputation metrics and the long-tail logic of networks. > Order in this sense is iterative, recursive and topological. > > This issue of The Journal of Peer Production invites contributions on the > themes of value and currency as they relate to peer production. > > Topics might include but are not limited to: > > - Decentralised and crypto-currencies; > - Non-coercive taxation systems and/or experiments/experiences; > - Analog/pre-digital (or historical) networks for distributed value > exchange; > - Currency and design; > - Currencies and the commons; > - Life after fiat (the becoming-uncertain of taxes); > - What does/should peer production value?; > - Re-thinking the constitution of value; > - Theories of non-monetary value and worth; > - The relationship between valuing practices and project hierarchies; > - Forms of belief in peer production; > - Automated systems of ranking and distributing value; > - Theories of exchange, gift and voluntarism; > - Trust and anonymity in the building of value; > - Intermediation and 'guarantees' in P2P exchanges. > > Submission proposals of under 500 words due by January 28, 2013. Full > submission details and extended CFP available at > http://peerproduction.net/value-and-currency-in-peer-production/.* > > > Nathaniel Tkacz > > Assistant Professor > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies > The University of Warwick > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann