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   neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:14:30 JST neil 🍄

   What’s the difference between [[digital commons]] and [[knowledge commons]]?

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     mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:14:29 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*

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     Enormous difference! Here's a (tendentious, materialist, contra-idealist) interpretation . .

     Digital commons is a (the?) commons centred on digital media and digital devices - might include many kinds of automation, guidance of material systems, provisioning and transportation of material goods etc. bringing a major focus on the digital capability and literacy of the commoners. It's a material commons of code, devices, media, enabled and stewarded by cultural capability (aka skill)

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     mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:15:19 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*

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     Knowledge commons is a misnomer bcos there is no such thing as knowledge. (!!)

     What there IS/ARE is/are *practices* of knowing, communicating and organising.

     So a 'knowledge commons' is a commons of literacy and (collective) labour power, thro which commoners are able to capably understand and organise their practical life as a commons, in a world of commons. It's a cultural commons.

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     mike_hales 💔*!?¿* (mike_hales@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:16:06 JST mike_hales 💔*!?¿*

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     Latter (knowledge commons) has nothing necessarily to do with the digital - only contingently, in the present historical epoch of digitally mediated hegemony, digital media and the participation in power circuits of a Professional-managerial class.

     Former (digital commons) has nothing especially to do with literacy, organising capacity & labour power - except that organising the digital - like organising *anything* that is even slightly complex - pivots on collective labour power.