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{{Draft|author=MBauwens|date=2026-02-02}}
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'''Digital Commons''' refers to information and knowledge resources that are collectively owned, governed, or accessible by communities, typically using open access models and collaborative governance structures.
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== The Triple Lineage and Stakes of Digital Commons ==
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Samourai Coop explains the genealogy:
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"The genealogy of the concept of digital commons refers to three major lineages, essential for situating contemporary debates:
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The first emerges in the late 1990s, in the context of early digital capitalism and what James Boyle called the 'second movement of enclosures on intellectual resources': 'the first mentions we have of digital commons appear in 98-99, by Laurence Lessig, who uses this term to criticize the extension of intellectual property rights over informational resources.' Digital commons are then conceived primarily as informational resources with open access. The approach is widely relayed by jurists such as J. Litman, Y. Benkler, L. Lessig, J. Boyle.
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A second lineage follows from the work of Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington school. Attention shifts from questions of access alone to those of collective governance: digital commons, particularly knowledge commons, are defined as resources co-governed by communities.
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A third lineage, more critical and termed post-Marxist, is less concerned with access regimes or institutional devices than with practices of cooperation and 'doing together.' Commoning is conceived as a social and political activity inscribed in a broader critique of capitalism."
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</blockquote>
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== The Commons as a Mode of Production ==
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Carlo Vercellone asks the critical question:
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"Have digital commons, despite themselves, prepared the conditions for an even more predatory and extractive capitalism?"
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Samourai Coop reports:
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"Against approaches that reduce commons to the nature of goods or legal devices, Vercellone claims a materialist conception of operaist inspiration: the commons is defined neither by access nor by local governance, but by historical forms of organization of production founded on collective intelligence. This dynamic traverses all productive sectors and opens the possibility of a communalization of the public — that is, an internal transformation of rules of management and property according to principles of self-governance.
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He proposes to 'think, in the sense of Marx, the commons as a genuine socio-economic system in the process of emerging, which develops within capitalism itself and from its contradictions — sometimes in complementarity, but also in subordination, dependence, and predation.'"
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</blockquote>
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== Contemporary Debates ==
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"Sébastien Broca highlights three major shifts that are reconfiguring today's debates: the intensification of issues related to labor and value distribution, particularly in the face of the extractive dynamics of generative AI; the return of environmental constraints, long downplayed in a realm conceived as immaterial; and finally the rise of digital sovereignty as a political horizon, of which commons could be both a lever and a false lead."
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</blockquote>
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== See Also ==
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* [[Commons]]
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* [[Open Source]]
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* [[Knowledge Commons]]
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* [[Platform Cooperativism]]
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== Source ==
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* [https://www.samourai.world/post/event-report-study-day-on-digital-commons-review-and-outlook Study Day on Digital Commons - Samourai Coop]
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[[Category:Commons]]
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[[Category:Digital]]
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[[Category:Knowledge Commons]]
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[[Category:Open Source]]
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