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On 06/29/11, Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au> wrote:
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> Hi Maurizio, all
>
> Very interesting call, though I am not clear if it will in fact
be released as a CFP. It sounds as if you only want to approach
people directly - is that right?
> Substantively I don't know what is meant by the epistemology of
hacking or the critique of the premises of software development as
a professional and research practice (other than male / middleclass
/ white) so I cant comment on whether this is more relevant than
the extension of commons and less hierarchy impact of FLOSS..
>
> cheers,
> Mathieu
>
> On 06/29/11, Maurizio Teli <maurizio maurizioteli.eu> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I send you teh text Vincenzo and myself have prepared for the special
> > issue on Free Software.
> >
> > Two main points:
> >
> > - we have thought of an invitation based issue, with papers co-authored
> > by social scientists and computer scientists; if someone among you wants
> > to participate or suggest some potential contributor, we will be happy
> > to include them;
> >
> > - we were thinking about inviting David Golumbia to the debate section
> > of this special issue before the AIR-L debate; we are once more
> > convinced of how a piece by him can be useful but we would like to have
> > your opinion before inviting him.
> >
> > Below you find the short introduction that we will share with the
> > invited contributors (so we have to check their availability too) and a
> > list of names of contributors both for the research papers and the
> > debate papers. Feel free to make any suggestion. We can reasonably
> > expect the issue to be ready in May 2012.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > M.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to
> > Epistemologies?
> >
> > From the perspective of social organization, Free Software can be
> > conceived as a form of critique by adaptability and modifiability, as
> > pointed out by anthropologist Christopher Kelty, standing outside
> > institutionalized forms of power and providing working alternatives as
> > critical tools. Starting from such kind of understanding, Free Software
> > has been interpreted as a form of critique toward consolidated
> > capitalistic tropes and contemporary forms, like the extension of
> > Intellectual Property toward any kind of common pool resources or the
> > forms of organization of labour and coordination of distributed
> > developers.
> > Nevertheless, the increasing adoption of Free Software by multi-national
> > corporations is now forecasting the domestication of free software
> > practices by contemporary global capitalism and hierarchical forms of
> > social organization. It happens in particular in the form of the Open
> > Source dialect, through the extensive overlapping of the open source
> > discourse with the capitalistic discourses, such as the one on
> > legitimate hybrid business models, between open source and proprietary
> > licensing.
> > Such perspective requires that the critical power of Free Software is
> > brought under scrutiny, moving from the undermining of the discourses of
> > Intellectual Property, organization of work or hierarchy, to the
> > understanding of the epistemological implications for computer science
> > and software engineering. From this point of view, arguments like the
> > one by David Golumbia, who sees the epistemology of computing as the
> > locus of production and reproduction of long standing inequalities in
> > power relationship, are suggesting new areas of enquiry. Is Free
> > Software able to critique the epistemological basis of computing? Is it
> > able to connect its critique of discourses of Intellectual Property and
> > organizational forms to the critique of the premises of software
> > development as a professional and research practice?
> > Those are the questions this special issue is trying to answer. It is
> > trying to do that through papers co-authored by social scientists and
> > computer scientists, who will try to envision the potential for Free
> > Software of being a form of interdisciplinary, cultural and material,
> > critique.
> >
> > Invited contributors:
> >
> > Maurizio Teli, Ahref Foundation & Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of
> > Trento (eds.)
> >
> > David Hakken, Indiana University & a CS colleague to be announced
> > (DH accepted the invitation)
> >
> > Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University (to be contacted and asked to
> > contact a CS)
> >
> > Debate invitations (to be invited):
> >
> > Fabio Casati, University of Trento
> >
> > Judith Simon, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris
> >
> > Pelle Ehn, Malmö University
> >
> > Christopher Kelty, Duke University
> >
> > David Golumbia, University of Virginia
> >
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> >
> >
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> Dr Mathieu O'Neil
> Adjunct Research Fellow
> Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
> College of Arts and Social Science
> The Australian National University
> email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
> web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php
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College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University
email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php
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