Tags - Cognitive Capitalism

Translation, then comments, from Stefan Meretz of Oekonux.

In `issue 31`_ of the magazine krisis_, Ernst Lohoff published a very interesting article_. Title: “Der Wert des Wissens. Grundlagen einer Politischen Ökonomie des Informationskapitalismus” (”The value of knowledge. Fundamentals of a political economy of the information capitalism”). It discusses the question whether digital information goods are commodities and whether they represent value substance (”Wertsubstanz”). Lohoff’s answer: They are neither commodities nor in an economical sense do they contain value. Here are the arguments in a short form.

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This is Yihong-Ding’s response to some of our earlier remarks about the measurability of mind assets.

Yihong-Ding:

Thank you for blogging my post and raising these questions. Web evolution is an interesting, but also very important issue that is still less of well study until now. I expect that my thoughts may bring a few momentum for the exploration of this topic.

continue reading "Yihong-Ding on the market for low quality vs. high quality mind assets"

David Bollier has a presentation of the debate on the relation between the commons and the market, which has a great citation of a fairly traditional left critique (see just below), then counterposes the positive interpretation of the commons, using Adam Arvidsson’s (I co-authored later versions with Adam) Crisis of Value essay as a guide for the latter argumentation.

continue reading "Is peer production capitalist exploitation? A reply to Jasper Bernes and David Bollier."