In his article ↑“The economies of online cooperation: Gifts and public goods in cyberspace” (↵Kollock 1999) ↑Peter Kollock says about digital goods:
 

Well, the same is true for knowledge in general, consequently for anthropological knowledge in particular, too. Since 1999, when I met ↑Kurt Beck [meanwhile ↑Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth] for the first time, I appropriated the concept of cultural appropriation from him. It quickly became my pet paradigm and the whole ↵maxmod-project is built upon and around it. But as knowledge is indivisible, Kurt has the concept still, too
[see his current project ↑“Bedford’s appropriation—The social organisation of craftsmen’s innovation in Sudan”]. Knowledge and ideas are gifts not to be given, but to be shared.
 

The mentioned project is what should occupy me during the majority of my working time. But, as the faithful reader may have noticed till now, I am prone to reading and watching cyberpunk. So I appropriated cyberpunk for my project and more or less privately started to fuse the concept of cultural appropriation, [cyber]anthropology, cyberculture, and cyberpunk. This fusion I will celebrate next term.
 

In here I already mentioned that I will teach two courses during the upcoming winterterm (↵teaching appropriation and ↵teaching cyberpunk), now the websites for both courses are online: ↑Appropriation and ↑Cyberpunk. Until now the sites only carry the courses’ abstracts (in English and German), the dates of the sessions, and general information. The final schedules of topics do not exist yet, I will work them out in the next days and weeks. During that time the sites will be used as a collection of material on the respective topics—I already started to compile my bibliography of choice on appropriation [scroll down to the bottom of the course’s website]—apart from that: have a nice holiday ;-)