Subtle but effectives : modern forms of enclosures

Hervé Le Crosnier (1)

1 Equipe Hultech - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072

The history of the commons can be read as the expansion of the market sphere and of private decision-making over goods that hitherto were subject to common rules. From this point of view, the late 20th century technologies are double-edged: They have made it possible to expand the commons by offering new modes of regulation, favoring the non-market sphere and creating new opportunities for human activity, particularly in cyberspace.1 Yet they can also empower private control over common resources, especially in the living world and the biosphere...

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Hervé Le Crosnier. Subtle but effectives : modern forms of enclosures. The Wealth of the Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License, 2012. ⟨hal-01071813⟩