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<div><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Journal of Peer Production CFP: Value and Currency in Peer Production</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Edited by: Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolás Mendoza and Francesca Musiani.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The marriage of cryptography and the dynamics of open-source have now produced a working distributed currency system. Bitcoin,
as the most notable example, can be understood as a new technics of exchange inspired by the animal spirits of crypto-libertarianism. Whether or not there is a place for currency -- and therefore exchange and (economic) value -- in the utopian visions of commons-oriented
thought is contested. Meanwhile, hybrid forms like Bitcoin are developing unhindered by their constitutional paradoxes. Capitalism, after all, equally thrives atop what David Graeber has called a 'baseline' or 'everyday' communism. Current developments of
digital currencies are pervaded by a number of issues: Who or what issues the money? What is the source of the collective agreement to concede value? What forms of control are coded into currency systems and who is guiding processes of (re)design? Who plays
the role of guarantor when a currency is decentralized? And what role does trust play in all these issues? Has crypto-mathematics transformed trust into a technical quality of a system?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The flipside of this issue is value: The intensification and extension of computational procedures, which is manifested most
clearly in the rise of big data, has lead to a proliferation of bottom-up procedures to formalise 'values', rendering them easily calculable and lending order to the decentralised world of peers. Wikipedia contributors, for example, have long awarded each
other 'barnstars' for valued service in a range of areas, and the site has long explored ways of rating article quality. In place of managerial commands and bureaucratic hierarchies we have Karma points, ranking systems, reputation metrics and the long-tail
logic of networks. Order in this sense is iterative, recursive and topological.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">This issue of The Journal of Peer Production invites contributions on the themes of value and currency as they relate to peer
production. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Topics might include but are not limited to:</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Decentralised and crypto-currencies;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Non-coercive taxation systems and/or experiments/experiences;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Analog/pre-digital (or historical) networks for distributed value exchange;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Currency and design;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Currencies and the commons;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Life after fiat (the becoming-uncertain of taxes);</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What does/should peer production value?;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Re-thinking the constitution of value;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theories of non-monetary value and worth;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The relationship between valuing practices and project hierarchies;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Forms of belief in peer production;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Automated systems of ranking and distributing value;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theories of exchange, gift and voluntarism;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Trust and anonymity in the building of value;</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Intermediation and 'guarantees' in P2P exchanges.</span></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Submission proposals of under 500 words due by January 28, 2013. Full submission details and extended CFP available at
<a href="http://peerproduction.net/value-and-currency-in-peer-production/" target="_blank">
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><font color="#666666">Nathaniel Tkacz </font>
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<div><font color="#666666">Assistant Professor</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666">Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666">The University of Warwick</font></div>
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