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This article aims to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on post-capitalist construction by exploring the contours of a commons-oriented productive model. On the basis of this model called “design global-manufacture local”, we argue that recent techno-economic developments around the emergence of commons-based peer production and desktop manufacturing technologies, may signal new alternative paths of social organization. We conclude by arguing that all commons-oriented narratives could converge, thereby supporting the creative communities which are building the world they want within the confines of the political economy they aspire to transcend.
Full title: “Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model“, co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis, Vasilis Niaros, George Dafermos & Michel Bauwens.
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