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The Essays

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To approach the Cartaker-Tech Conception three essays were written to clarify specific questions. A book by other authors was always at the center of every process, and it was either edited, interpreted, or summarized.

The Essays license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

  1. The Extension Drive of Modern Commons (2020)

    Essay

    Der Ausdehnungsdrang moderner Commons

    A revision of the work on transformation, Make Capitalism History by Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti. It was highlighted that a ‘common instance for self-organization and the purposive determination of means’ is necessary in order to achieve a society based on commons. The text served as the impetus for the project ‘Global Commoning System’.

    PDF: English / German

  2. The Timeless Way of Re-Production (2021)

    Essay

    An interpretation of Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building to support complex cooperation processes. It explores (among other things) how individual knowledge can be shared in such a way that it supports complex self-organization.

    PDF: (no english translation yet) / German

  3. Ostrom for Beginners & Sharing for the Advanced (2024)

    Essay

    Ostrom für Praktiker:innen & Teilen für Fortgeschrittene

    A two-part text. The first part is an introduction to the thinking of Elinor Ostrom based on the work Understanding Institutional Diversity. The second part builds upon the structures and insights of the first part and designs software functions intended to support, in particular, the process of sharing and rule-setting.

    PDF: English / German

The essays were originally written in German. The english translation is AI-based and – according to time scarcity as well as lacking ability - only roughly reviewed. Support in the translation process would be highly appreciated. Depending on ones technical abilities reviews can be made through Pull-Requests on the Repository or in any other form send by mail at Marcus Meindel.