Author: Felix Stalder Title: Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks Editor: New Media Center_ kuda.org Editorial series: kuda.read This book is published as part of the “The Note Book” project, initiated by New Media Center_kuda.org in 2005. Translations: Orfeas Skutelis, Nikolina Knežević, Ákos Gerold Proof reading, texts in English language: Fiona Thorn Proof reading, texts in Serbian language: Milica Skutelis, Branka Ćurčić Design: Predrag Nikolić and kuda.org Lithography and Print: Futura, Novi Sad Print run: 500 Leading publisher and local distribution: Futura publikacije Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro ISBN 86-7188-049-4 Co-publisher: Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Co-publisher and the main distributor: Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst Fahrgasse 23 D - 60311 Frankfurt am Main tel.: +49 (0)69 44 63 62 fax: +49 (0)69 94 41 24 51 mail: info@revolver-books.de url: http://www.revolver-books.de ISBN 3-86588-211-0 Order the book from Revolver All texts are published under Creative Commons license unless otherwise indicated. The license is: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks Content 5 “The Note Book” Project, introduction by kuda.org 7 Introduction by Felix Stalder OPEN CULTURES 12 The Stuff of Culture 19 Open Source, Open Society? 23 Culture Without Commodities: From Dada to Open Source and Beyond 30 Cultural Innovation Between Copyleft, Creative Commons and Public Domain 45 Sharing and Hoarding: Are the Digital Commons Tragic? 49 The Age of Media Autonomy 56 One-size-doesn’t-fit-all THE NATURE OF NETWORKS 62 Information Ecology 66 Fragmented Places and Open Societies 71 The Status of Objects in the Space of Flows 79 Global Financial Markets and the Bias of Networks 87 List of Sources 88 Credits for the Illustrations in the Book 89 Biography of the Author and the Editor 91 Production and Support Download the full text as pdf (3.8 MB)