<nettime> the common as a mode of production

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Are you getting a bit fed up with the do-goody commonistas? Come and 
hear it as it is. Next Thursday. East London.


Carlo Vercellone presents The Common as a Mode of Production. Towards a 
critique of the political economy of common goods.
Hosted by the Research Centre on Labour and Global Production
Thursday 14 December, 4-6pm, City Centre Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, The 
Bancroft Building (31 on the map), Queen Mary University of London E14NS

The paper is available here: 
http://generation-online.org/c/fc_rent14.htm

What is the common? What are its foundations? Is it a set of 
well-defined resources – so called common goods – or a generic principle 
governing the social organisation of production? These are important 
questions: the debate on the Common is as rich as it is confusing. On 
the one hand, notions such as the common, in the singular, and commons, 
common goods, common property, common-pool resources, are at times used 
as synonymous and at others as opposite, without definition. On the 
other hand, debates frequently lose sight of the extent to which these 
terms are being used to cover highly differentiated approaches not only 
to theory, but also to the political role that the common might play in 
projects of social transformation. The purpose of the paper is to 
present a critical analysis of the main economic and legal theories of 
common goods, in particular Elinor Ostrom’s contribution and the debate 
on the so-called tragedy of the commons, and put forward an approach 
that is alternative to that of political economy, one where the common 
is understood as an actual “mode of production”.

The Common as a Mode of Production is a book published in October 2017. 
About the authors:  Francesco Brancaccio Research Fellow at the Centre 
d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne. Alfonso Giuliani 
Researcher at the Centre of Economics at the Sorbonne, Paris 1 - 
Panthéon-Sorbonne where he teaches Comparative Economic Theories. 
Pierluigi Vattimo is a PhD candidate of International Studies at the 
University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the Université Paris 1 - 
Panthéon-Sorbonne. Carlo Vercellone is Professor of Economics at the 
Université de Paris 8 and a member of CEMTI and of the Laboratory of 
Economics at la Sorbonne.

Other works by Carlo Vercellone include:
Wages Rent and Profit, presentation at the Research Seminar Series on 
The Art of Rent, Queen Mary University of London 
(http://www.generation-online.org/c/fc_rent2.htm);
From formal subsumption to general intellect: Elements for a Marxist 
reading of the thesis of cognitive capitalism. Historical Materialism 15 
(1): 13-36, 2007 (www.generation-online.org/c/fc_rent5.pdf);
From the crisis to the ‘Welfare of the common’ as a new mode of 
production. Theory, Culture & Society 32 (7-8): 85-99, 2015. 
(http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276415597770).
Research Profile: 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlo_Vercellone/publications

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