terminology : public vs state vs commons - P2P Foundation2024-03-28T11:49:46Zhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/terminology-public-vs-state?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A15597&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFrom http://p2pfoundation.net…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2009-09-16:2003008:Comment:155972009-09-16T08:25:22.000ZMichel Bauwenshttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/MichelBauwens
From <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Common">http://p2pfoundation.net/Common</a>, which has links to the terms mentioned just below:<br />
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More and more the concept of the common seems to become a third term, alongside the private and the collective.<br />
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The common consists of a series of inalienable rights that are hold by all individuals, rather than collective aspects governed by a separate sovereign body, and different from the individualized/privatized aspects of existence.<br />
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The difference is…
From <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Common">http://p2pfoundation.net/Common</a>, which has links to the terms mentioned just below:<br />
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More and more the concept of the common seems to become a third term, alongside the private and the collective.<br />
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The common consists of a series of inalienable rights that are hold by all individuals, rather than collective aspects governed by a separate sovereign body, and different from the individualized/privatized aspects of existence.<br />
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The difference is explained in our entry on Common Rights, from an article by Dan Sullivan.<br />
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It translates into new forms of Common Property that has it own rules and theory, applying to Common Goods and Common Pool Resources, sometimes governed by specialized Common Good Licenses such as the General Public License for software.<br />
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The concept of the common is therefore essential for building a society based on the Common Good, and is the key to understand Peer Production and how it socially reproduces itself through a process of Circulation of the Common<br />
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Common proprerty forms for physical goods that can be governed through Commons-based approaches can take the form of Trusts<br />
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And from the entry on common rights, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Rights">http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Rights</a><br />
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Description 1<br />
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common rights = natural rights common to each individual<br />
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differ from<br />
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collective rights = those that have been delegated to the community or its government<br />
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Source: <a href="http://geolib.com/sullivan.dan/commonrights.html">http://geolib.com/sullivan.dan/commonrights.html</a><br />
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Description 2<br />
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Massimo De Angelis:<br />
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"It is because this organic relation between the activity of the commoners and the commons that “commons” rights differ, in their constitution, from legal rights such as “human”, “political” or “social” rights. In the latter sense, a “right” is a legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way. A title deed constitutes evidence of such a right.<br />
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For the medieval English commoners instead,<br />
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- common rights are embedded in a particular ecology with its local husbandry. . . . Commoners first think not of title deeds, but human deeds: how will this land be tilled? Does it require manuring? What grows there? They begin to explore. One might call it a natural attitude. Second, commoning is embedded in a labor process; it inheres in a particular praxis of field, upland, forest, marsh, coast. Common rights are entered into by labor. Third, commoning is collective. Fourth, commoning, being independent of the state, is independent also of the temporality of the law and state. It goes deep into human history" (Linabough 2008: 44-45). (<a href="http://www.taller-commons.com/downloads/angelis.pdf">http://www.taller-commons.com/downloads/angelis.pdf</a>)