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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.

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  1. The Expansion 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’.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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