Publisher's Synopsis
Inspired by the collaborative models of non-proprietary "open source" software, new German writer Christoph Spehr, Howard Rheingold, Brian Holmes and the editors critique both the received capitalist and socialist methods of social integration, and elaborate a practical vision for a third alternative, one that promises to surmount the problems of inequality on the one hand and the lack of individual freedoms on the other. *BR**BR*Part performative intervention, part radical polemic and activist manual, The Art of Free Cooperation includes a DVD with additional interviews and performance highlights with Spehr and others.*BR*
