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Benjamin J. Birkinbine

This chapter provides a framework for understanding the political economy of peer production. As such, I interrogate the intersection of peer production and capitalism along two axes. First, I contextualize the rise of peer production within broader structural changes occurring within capitalism and evaluate the extent to which peer production contradicts, or reinforces, these global economic trends. Second, I draw from more recent theories of commons value circuits to position peer production as dialectically situated between capital and the commons, which highlights the ways in which communities of peer producers intersect with circuits of capital accumulation. The question I explore in the latter part of the chapter is whether the emergent cultural practices within peer production have the capability to subvert the prevailing tendencies of capitalism and offer a path toward a post‐capitalist future.