Le livre "Vive les communs numériques !", paru en 2024, est passionnant.

On y explique ce que sont "les communs" au sens historique du terme, les "communs numériques" apparus avec les 1ers ordinateurs et le #LogicieLibre, les "biens publics", les tentations des #enclosures d'abord physiques (en Angleterre au 16e siècle, pour délimiter des terrains d'agriculture et de pâturage qui profitaient avant à tous et qui deviennent alors propriétés privées), puis logicielles, etc.

FF @sergeabiteboul

The only reason we don't have to pay for air is because capitalists can't put a fence around it.

what we call ‘enclosures’ were, and are, ways of abolishing collective land use for the benefit of individuals who become the new, private, exclusive owners. in 15th and 16th century england, enclosing land involved surrounding it with hedges, ditches, or other barriers to movement. as sivlvia federici notes in /caliban and the witch/, although enclosures were often secured through one or another form of legal instrument (purchases, licences, decrees, statutes, etc.), legalization was generally preceeded by prolonged campaigns of harassment, intimidation, and threats of eviction, including on the basis of economic pressures: increases in rents and taxes. as federici writes, ‘i define all these forms as /land expropriation/ because, even when force was not used, the loss of land occurred against the individual’s or the community’s will and undermined their capacity for subsistence.’

Today in Labor History July 20, 1549: Kett's Rebellion against the enclosures began. Insurgents began destroying enclosures in Morley St. Botolph on July 6. When they attacked the estate of John Flowerdew, on July 20, he tried to bribe them into attacking the estate of Robert Kett, instead. However, the plan backfired when Kett joined the rebels and helped them to tear down his own fences. Their 3,500-strong peoples' army captured Norwich. They tried landowners en masse and established a Commonwealth on Mousehold Heath. The movement gained strength, with the army growing to 16,000. The authorities eventually quashed the rebellion. Overall, 3,000 rebels and 250 mercenaries of the state died in the battles. But Kett refused the King's pardon, arguing: "Kings are wont to pardon wicked persons, not innocent men. We have done nothing to deserve such a pardon. We have been guilty of no crime." In response, the authorities tortured and hanged Kett slowly over several days.

Numerous historical novels have portrayed Kett's rebellion: “Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak” (1876), by Frederick H. Moore; “For Kett and Countryside” (1910), by F.C. Tansley; “The Great Oak” (1949), by Jack Lindsay; “A Rebellious Oak” (2012), by Margaret Callow and “Tombland” (2018), by C.J. Sansom.

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Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build.

I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness.

I gotta find the right project!

Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures

The Grey Wethers circles on Dartmoor, taken on a beautiful day in June 2021. I was backpacking across the moor with @dead.bicycles and @avonleighorchards in some serious heat. I'm glad a compromise has been fudged over the Dartmoor camping ban, but really we need proper access guaranteed in law, and a hugely increased right to roam. It's the 21st Century. England needs to ditch the feudal relics.