Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 10, 2006 09:20 PM
The question of government versus governance is discussed in <a href="http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/berry_moss_libre_commons.pdf" title="noemalab.org">this paper by Berry & Moss</a noemalab.org> which asks whether there should be more politics at the core of the whole <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" title="creativecommons.org">creative commons</a creativecommons.org> movements.
Its an interesting question, especially when examined by <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885466" title="ssrn.com">Niva Elkin-Koren</a ssrn.com> questioning whether private ordering can be the basis of a commons at all.
What seems to be at the core of these questions is whether there needs to be a positive conception of the '<a href="http://www.commoner.org.uk/11witheford.pdf" title="commoner.org.uk">commoner</a commoner.org.uk>'. And if so, how will the political/economic and legal rights of this <a href="http://makeworlds.org/node/99" title="makeworlds.org">citizen of these global structures</a makeworlds.org> be manifested and practically organised?
There is a great naivity by both sides in this debate about the status of the political in terms of the whole world. A touch of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0745631355/026-7062803-7348455?v=glance&n=266239" title="amazon.co.uk">International Relations</a amazon.co.uk> might help bring the discussions closer to the reality of a somewhat Hobbesian world of competing (and sometimes co-operating nation states) rather than a flat world of citizens.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 10, 2006 09:20 PMThe question of government versus governance is discussed in <a href="http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/berry_moss_libre_commons.pdf" title="noemalab.org">this paper by Berry & Moss</a noemalab.org> which asks whether there should be more politics at the core of the whole <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" title="creativecommons.org">creative commons</a creativecommons.org> movements.
Its an interesting question, especially when examined by <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885466" title="ssrn.com">Niva Elkin-Koren</a ssrn.com> questioning whether private ordering can be the basis of a commons at all.
What seems to be at the core of these questions is whether there needs to be a positive conception of the '<a href="http://www.commoner.org.uk/11witheford.pdf" title="commoner.org.uk">commoner</a commoner.org.uk>'. And if so, how will the political/economic and legal rights of this <a href="http://makeworlds.org/node/99" title="makeworlds.org">citizen of these global structures</a makeworlds.org> be manifested and practically organised?
There is a great naivity by both sides in this debate about the status of the political in terms of the whole world. A touch of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0745631355/026-7062803-7348455?v=glance&n=266239" title="amazon.co.uk">International Relations</a amazon.co.uk> might help bring the discussions closer to the reality of a somewhat Hobbesian world of competing (and sometimes co-operating nation states) rather than a flat world of citizens.
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