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Owning is the New Sharing
by Neal Gorenflo 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Dear colleagues, Shareable is increasing it's coverage of new and resurgent forms of enterprise ownership and governance. It appears that there's increasing activity in this field. We just published a feature story which covers some of this ground: http://www.shareable.net/blog/owning-is-the-new-sharing I invite you to read, discuss, and share it. But more importantly for this list, I'd really appreciate any leads about new developments in this field. We're going to deepen our coverage in this area. Thanks for any help, Neal -- Neal Gorenflo, co-founder Shareable <http://www.shareable.net/> | @Shareable <https://twitter.com/@shareable> | 415.867.0429 Get Shareable's weekly e-news about sharing here <http://www.shareable.net/signup-for-shareables-weekly-sharing-economy-e-new…> .

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] CfP Journal of Peer Production: Alternative Internets
by Michel Bauwens 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

hi Kevin, this is worth publishing on our blog as well, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johan Söderberg <johan.soderberg(a)sts.gu.se> Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:48 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] CfP Journal of Peer Production: Alternative Internets To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > States are attempting to consolidate their control over the Internet, turning it into an instrument for minute surveillance, whilst a handful of tech-corporations seek to use it as a means to manipulate human behaviour toward their own objectives and siphon off the wealth from local and national markets. In response, alternative technologies have arisen, aiming to restore the Internet’s initial values of net neutrality, distributed control, freedom of speech, and self-organization. Community networks, offline networks, darknets, peer-to-peer systems, encryption, anonymization overlays, digital currencies, and distributed online social networks appear today as examples of alternative technologies aiming at emancipation, redistribution, and maximal autonomy. However, these tools are as ambiguous as the contradictory values and claims that have been invested in them. We can therefore expect alternative infrastructures to be appropriated for ends deemed illegitimate, such as tax evasion or arms trading, thus renewing the calls for restoring “law and order” on the Internet. Can we learn from the past and avoid the transformation of the utopian promises of these technologies into a dystopian future as, arguably, is happening to the promises of the early Internet? In order to address such concerns, this special Journal of Peer Production issue seeks to document and critically assess past and ongoing efforts to alter the commercial development process of mainstream Internet technologies in order to build viable alternatives. What are the futures awaiting these alternatives, which contradictions and ambiguities will they undergo, and which steps can be taken today to avoid failures and disappointments? Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: •Technical, social, political, economic and legal hurdles faced by alternative projects. •The evolution of utopian imaginaries when mediated through socio-technical artifacts and the conflicting interests of multiple stakeholders. •The strategic trade-off between “voice and exit”: going off-grid, developing offline and online alternative networks, or engaging in the public sphere on mainstream platforms. •The politics of self-organization: actors, local and global institutions, trust, design, regulation, ambiguities. What is an “alternative” imagined to be, how is it concretely realised? •Lessons learned from the history of the Internet and other communcation networks. •Utopias, dystopias, and pragmatic imaginaries of the future Internet and its role in society. •How market or state actors develop their own visions of alternative Internets to foster business interests (e.g. the proposition for a tiered Internet by dominant telecom operators) or facilitate social control (e.g. Iran’s “halalnet”). •Hijackings and détournements of existing infrastructures to serve purposes other than those first intended. •The environmental challenges raised by communications technologies and possible responses for ensuring their sustainability and resilience in the face of the mounting ecological crisis. Submission abstracts of 300-500 words are due by *February 8, 2015 *and should be sent to *alternets(a)peerproduction.net <alternets(a)peerproduction.net>*. All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines. Full papers and materials (peer reviewed papers around 8,000 words; testimonies, self-portraits and experimental formats up to 4,000 words) are due by *June 31st, 2015 *for review. While the issue will be mainly comprised of academic papers, we also welcome 1-page poster-like “visual”, more or less artistic, submissions, without format restrictions, on stories from the past (alternatives to the current Internet that didn’t survive), today’s alternative technologies, real-life experiences and case studies, as well as future imaginaries. These contributions which could range from diagrams and cognitive maps to paintings, photos, installations, even poems, will be included as an appendix to the main volume. The deadline for submission is *June 31st, 2015* Editors: Félix Tréguer (EHESS), Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich), Johan Söderberg (Göteborgs Universitet) _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Call "Critical Media Sociology Today" ESA 2015 Conference Prague: RN18 stream
by Christian Fuchs 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

http://fuchs.uti.at/1338/ Call: RN18 Panel “Critical Media Sociology Today” 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association August 25-28, 2015. Prague ESA Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research Abstract submission (max. 250 words): Deadline February 1, 2015 Submission: http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission Please indicate the session number to which you submit (see below, e.g. RN18_1) and provide one session number only for this purpose. Critical Media Sociology Today We live in times of ongoing crisis, the extension and intensification of inequalities concerning class, gender, and race, a return of the importance of the economy and political economy, a lack of imaginations of alternatives to neo-liberalism and capitalism, an intensification of right-wing extremism and fascism all over Europe, a lack of visions and power of the political Left, an intensification and extension of extremely repressive forms of state power such as communications surveillance conducted by secret services, ideological scapegoating conducted by conservative and far-right parties, and law and order-politics. Left-wing movements and parties have in some countries emerged or been strengthened, but the crisis has overall brought a further political shift towards the right and an intensification of capitalism and inequality. We today require politically a renewal of the Left. For critical media sociology this means that it needs to ask questions, theorise, and conduct critical analysis of media and communications in the context of capitalism, class, ideologies, racism, fascism, right-wing extremism, gender, state power, activism and social movements, challenges for public service, media reforms, crisis, globalisation, the rise of China, digitalisation, consumer and advertising culture, information/cultural/media work, digital labour, the new international division of cultural and digital labour, warfare and military conflicts, the new imperialism, financialisation, etc. ESA RN 18 calls for contributions that shed new light on questions that Critical Media Sociology needs to ask today and on theoretical and analytical insights that help to shape Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century. RN18’s panel at the ESA 2014 Prague Conference “Differences, Inequalities and contributions are organised in the form of specific session topics. ESA RN18 calls for contributions to the following sessions: RN18_1: Critical Media Sociology and Karl Marx Today: What is the role and legacy of Karl Marx’s works and Marxist theory for critical media sociology today? RN18_2: Critical Media Sociology and Capitalism Today: How does capitalism shape media and communications today? RN18_3: Critical Media Sociology and Critical Theory Today: What is a critical theory of 21st century society? What role do communication, media and culture play in such a theory? RN18_4: Critical Media Sociology and Stuart Hall Today: How do Stuart Hall’s works, projects, and collaborations matter for critical media sociology today? RN18_5: Critical Media Sociology and Cultural Materialism Today: How does Raymond Williams’ approach of cultural materialism matter today for understanding the sociology of media and communications? RN18_6: Critical Media Sociology, Patriarchy and Gender Today: What is the role of and relationship of identity politics and anti-capitalism for feminist media sociology today? RN18_7: Critical Media Sociology and the Critique of the Political Economy of the Internet and Social Media: How does capitalism shape the Internet and social media? RN18_8: Critical Media Sociology and Ideology Critique Today: What are the main forms of ideology today and how do they operate in the media? Which forms and approaches of ideology critique do we need to understand them? RN18_9: Critical Media Sociology, Right-Wing Extremism and Fascism Today: What is the relationship of far-right movements and parties, the media and communication? RN18_10: Critical Media Sociology and Digital Labour Today: What forms of digital labour and digital class struggles are there and how can they best be theorised, analysed, and understood? RN18_11: Critical Media Sociology and the Left: How could a 21st century Left best look like and what is the role of media and communications for such a Left? What is the historical, contemporary, and possible future relationship of critical media sociology to the Left? What is the role of media, communications, the Internet, and social media in left-wing movements? What problems do such movements face in relation to the media, communications, the Internet, and social media? RN18_12: Critical Media Sociology and China: How can critical media sociology understand the media in China and the role of China and Chinese media in global capitalism? What are differences and commonalities between European and Chinese media understood with the help of critical media sociology? RN18_13: Critical Media Sociology, Democracy and the Public Sphere Today: How can we best theorise and understand potentials and limits for the mediated public sphere in the 21st century? RN18_14: Critical Media Sociology, the Commons, and the Alternatives Today: What are the problems and post-capitalist potentials of alternative projects such as cultural and media co-operatives, left-wing and radical media projects, alternative social media, alternative online platforms, alternative media, community media projects, commons-based media, peer production projects, etc.? RN18_15: Critical Media Sociology and State Power Today: How does the relationship of media, communication and state power’s various forms of regulation, control, repression, violence and surveillance look like? RN18_16: Critical Media Sociology, the University and Academia Today: What are the challenges and problems for teaching and conducting research about the media and communication from a critical perspective? What can be done to overcome existing limits and problems? RN18_17: Critical Media Sociology and Cultural and Communication Labour: What are characteristics of cultural and communication labour in capitalism today? Are there potentials that they can transcend precarity? What is the role of alternative economic models such as co-operatives (self-managed companies) in this respect? RN18_18: Critical Media Sociology and Political Communication: What is the role of political communication for a critical sociology of the media? Notes Please submit only to one session. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Each paper session will have the duration of 1.5 hours. Normally sessions will include 4 papers. Abstracts must be submitted online to the submission platform, see below. Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and selected for presentation by the Research Network; the letter of notification will be sent by the conference software system in early April 2015. http://esa12thconference.eu/abstract-submission Conference fee: http://esa12thconference.eu/fee ESA/RN18 membership: Paying members of ESA and RN18 have strongly reduced conference fees: http://www.europeansociology.org/membership.html Mailing list, Facebook: You can join RN18′s media sociology mailing list http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/esa-rn18 and follow RN18 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/esarn18?ref=ts&fref=ts

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Fwd: TTIP or climate, make your choice ! Joint briefing paper Attac France / Aitec
by Michel Bauwens 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maxime Combes <maxime.combes(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:52 AM Subject: TTIP or climate, make your choice ! Joint briefing paper Attac France / Aitec To: Maxime Combes <maxime.combes(a)gmail.com> Dear all, Please find the briefing paper published by Attac France and Aitec in the framework of the Lima UNFCCC conference to highlight how TTIP and CETA are jeopardizing climate and energy transformation processes : Here in English : *Climate or TTIP, make your choice! <https://france.attac.org/IMG/pdf/note_tafta_lima_-en.pdf>* https://france.attac.org/IMG/pdf/note_tafta_lima_-en.pdf Here in French : *Climat ou TAFTA, il faut choisir ! <https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/notes-et-rapports-37/article/clim…>* https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/notes-et-rapports-37/article/clim… ? Please let me know if you prefer to receive the .pdf directly. Hope you'll find it useful, feel free to get in touch to discuss that further. Maxime - Attac France -- Avez-vous votre petit *guide de l’anthropocène* <https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/brochures/article/petit-guide-de-…> ? --- Maxime COMBES maxime.combes(a)gmail.com +33 6 24 51 29 44 skype : maxime.combes Twitter : MaximCombes --- -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Terminology for EU CAPS Grants ? ( Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation )
by Michel Bauwens 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM Subject: Terminology for EU CAPS Grants ? ( Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation ) To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com>, " op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com" <op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com> http://caps2020.eu/library/ CAPS Background Documentation - Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation: an introduction – VV.AA. (CAPS Handbook produced during a Book Sprint) <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CAPS_Handbook.pdf> - Collective Awareness Platforms: Engine for Sustainability and Ethics – Fabrizio Sestini <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CollectiveAwarenessPlatformsE…> - CAPS in Horizon 2020 – Fabrizio Sestini <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CAPS-Vilnius.pdf> - Policy-Making in a hyperconnected era: game over for modernity? – Nicole Dewandre (Advisor for societal issues, DG Connect, European Commission) <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Dewandre_CAPS.pdf> - CAPS and foresight – Andrea Ricci (ISIS – Flagship project) <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ricci_CAPS_040214.pdf> - CAPS and Internet Science – Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly and CERTH – EINS project) <http://caps2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Internet_Science-CAPS_Tassiul…> - See more at: http://caps2020.eu/library/#sthash.xim6NSSs.dpuf -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Owning Is the New Sharing
by Michel Bauwens 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nathan Schneider <nathan(a)therowboat.com> Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM Subject: Owning Is the New Sharing To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Owning Is the New Sharing <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a139…>What if we owned the Internet? Would we get paid for our likes and comments? What privacy policies would we write for ourselves? Last month, the Silicon Valley-based network Shareable dispatched me to write a report on the growing movement to experiment with new forms of economic democracy online. The folks at Shareable recognized that, more and more, the so-called "sharing economy" is being recognized as extractive and invasive <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>. In search of alternatives, I looked at cooperatives, networks of freelancers, cryptocurrencies, and more. A popular mantra among sharing-economy boosters has been "sharing is the new owning." *What I found is the opposite: Read my report at Shareable.net <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>.* As soon as the article appeared last week, I started hearing from entrepreneurs and activists around the world who were excited about it. Trebor Scholz, who recently hosted an extraordinary conference on digital labor at the New School <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>, told me that he had been polishing an article on the same topic. It's up now at Medium, and is a helpful companion to mine: "Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a139…> ." So old that it looks like new? I said that this stuff is new, but I was kind of lying. Lately I've been trying to keep my eye out for things that are old and new at the same time—or, as Catholic Worker founder Peter Maurin put it, "so old that it looks like new." That's why I also wrote about cooperative ownership in my latest column for *America* magazine <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>, with a focus on the long legacy of Catholic cooperativism, from monastic communities to Mondragon, the largest network of cooperatives in the world. In the column, I said that this tradition is mostly dormant in the United States and should be awakened—but readers wrote back to tell me that, happily, I was wrong. Though they're not terribly visible, faith-driven cooperatives are making a comeback <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>. Pope Francis once recalled something he heard his father say about cooperativism: "It goes forward slowly, but it is sure." This deeper kind of sharing is present in many traditions—especially those suffering gross injustice. As we wrestle to come to terms with the disparities of economic and police power that plague our communities, now is a good time to be reading Jessica Gordon Nembhard's recent book <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…>, *Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice*. But business will only get us so far; now is also a good time to be in the streets <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…> . This is a list for very occasional updates about major milestones in my work. Unsubscribe michel(a)p2pfoundation.net, entirely guilt-free, <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a139…> here. For more regular and obnoxious updates, you can always follow me at @nathanairplane <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a1394…> . Nathan Schneider Leaves of Grass Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA update subscription preferences <http://therowboat.us5.list-manage.com/profile?u=9f3ed41904eeb9d7c3a139492&i…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Uncanny Abundance (Neural 48) is still available
by Michel Bauwens 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

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Fwd: vidéo Roumics
by Michel Bauwens 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

I don't have much material in French, so thanks for spreading this in the french-speaking networks, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emmanuel Vandamme <vandamme.emmanuel(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-11-27 1:47 GMT+07:00 Subject: vidéo Roumics To: Flodrops Helene <hflodrops(a)anis.asso.fr>, Bauwens Michel < michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Cc: Simon Sarazin <simon.sarazin(a)gmail.com> Bonjour à tous les 2, la vidéo est en ligne, encore merci Michel ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paRmUwI_4I8&feature=youtu.be et j'ai aussi mis en ligne les 6 vidéos ADEME mais en "non référencé" : Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 1 : quels sont les enjeux de cette question pour l'ADEME ? Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/uIcsvpYHVpQ . Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 2 : quelles sont les notions clés de l'innovation sociale ? Pour un état facilitateur de l'économie des communs. Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/Qyoqdo0M1X8 . Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 3 : innovation sociale et communs. Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/7PePUDn97bg . Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 4 : innovation sociale et numérique, le passage à l'échelle. Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/NkrkX7MtvlM . Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 5 : le rôle de la communauté et des coopératives ouvertes. Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/axXt9MWEN-8 . Interview de Michel Bauwens - Question 6 : éclairage international sur l'innovation sociale. Votre vidéo est désormais accessible à l'adresse http://youtu.be/WQmKZIaIS5A . je l'ai publiée sur mon compte YouTube mais je peux aussi t'envoyer le fichier source Emmanuel Vandamme président de l'association ANIS evandamme(a)anis.asso.fr +33 (0)6 73 39 26 83 -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] [StopTTIP-ECI] Crowdfunded journalism project TTIP
by Michel Bauwens 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Mair <mm(a)mediaweb.at> Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:22 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] [StopTTIP-ECI] Crowdfunded journalism project TTIP To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org Dear all, As I mentioned briefly already in our last call, there is a crowdfunded investigative journalism project in the Netherlands called Yournalism. One of their project will be researching the chilling effect that TTIP already has on legislation during the negotiations. They plan to publish it in Dutch, English and German. They asked me to forward their proposal/crowdfunding appeal to all of you to ask if you would be interested to promote it (on your own platforms/websites or social media). The text (In English, German and Dutch) can be found here: NL http://yournalism.nl/voorstellen/beinvloeden-onderhandelingen-ttip-nu-al-mi… EN http://yournalism.nl/ttip-negotiations-already-affecting-environmental-legi… DU http://yournalism.nl/beeinflussen-die-ttip-verhandlungen-schon-jetzt-die-um… If you would like to receive more info or get in touch with the journalists you can contact them through: info(a)authentiekejournalistiek.org thanks and best wishes Hilde -------------------------------------------------------- Hilde van der Pas Economic Justice Programme Transnational Institute https://twitter.com/HildevanderPas Tel: +31-20-6626608 Email: hildevanderpas(a)tni.org De Wittenstraat 25 1052 AK Amsterdam, The Netherlands Skype: hildevanderpas Website: www.tni.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TransnationalInstitute Twitter: https://twitter.com/transinstitute -- ============================================= Mag. Ing. Martin Mair, Publizist virtuell & traditionell Krottenbachstrasse 40/9/6, A-1190 Wien+43 676 3548310, [email protected]://www.mediaaustria.athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmairhttp://www.youtube.com/user/theaaatv ============================================= _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] McKenzie Wark | Digital Labor and the Anthropocene
by Michel Bauwens 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:46 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] McKenzie Wark | Digital Labor and the Anthropocene To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> *McKenzie Wark <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_Wark> is author of A Hacker Manifesto <http://www.amazon.com/A-Hacker-Manifesto-McKenzie-Wark/dp/0674015436>, The Spectacle of Disintegration <http://www.amazon.com/The-Spectacle-Disintegration-Situationist-Twentieth/d…>, the forthcoming I’m Very Into You <http://www.amazon.com/Very-into-You-Correspondence-1995-1996/dp/1584351640> – a correspondence with the late Kathy Acker – and Molecular Red <http://www.versobooks.com/books/1886-molecular-red>, among other books. The following transcript is taken from a recent talk delivered at the Digital Labor conference <http://digitallabor.org/> presented by The New School.* I want to start with the proposition that in a place like New York City, we live in the over-developed world. Somehow we overshot some point of transformation. A transformation that didn’t happen, perhaps couldn’t happen. But in having failed to take that exit, we end up in some state of over-development. In the over-developed world, the commodity economy is feeding on itself, cannibalizing itself. There is of course an under-developed world, sometimes in intimate proximity to the over-developed one. You can find it even here in New York City. One can critique the orientalism of the fact that Willets Point, Queens is known among New Yorkers as ‘little Calcutta’, but it really is a place without paved roads, running water, and with mostly off the books, illegal or precarious jobs. But you can forget that under-developed world exists if you live in the bubble of the over-developed world. Some of us don’t have to do the manual version of precarious labor, at least. But there is a sense in which some characteristics of that labor have actually found their way into the over-developed world as well. Viewed from inside the bubble of New York, the paradox of digital labor these days is the way that tech enables the over-development of under-development. Technologies are shaped by the struggle over their form. It was not given from an essence that the digital would end up as control over labor rather than control by labor. But in the current stage of conflict and negotiation, the over-development of under-development seems to me to describe a tendency for labor. In any case, labor isn’t the only class struggling in and against the digital. I still think there is a difference between being a worker and being a hacker. I think of hacker as a class category: there is a hacker class. Hackers are those whose efforts are commodifed in the form of intellectual property. What they make can be turned into copyrights, patents or trademarks. The hacker class is distinguished by a few qualities. It usually means working with information, but not in a routine way. It is different from white-collar labor. It is about producing new arrangements of information rather than ‘filling in the forms.’ As such, it can be a bit hard to make routine. New things just don’t appear on time. Not if they are really new. There’s a kind of ‘innovation’ that is actually quite close to routine, and the hacker class does that too. It’s the new ad campaign, the new wrinkle on the old technical process, the new song or app or screenplay. But the big qualitative leaps are much harder to subordinate to the reified, routinized forms of labor. The ruling class of our time, what I call the vectoral class, needs both these kinds of hack. The vectoral class needs the almost-routine innovation. The existing commodity cycles demand it. As our attention fades and boredom looms, there has to be some just slightly new iteration of the old properties: some new show, new app, new drug, new device. What is interesting at the moment are the strategies being deployed to spread the cost and lower the risk of this routine innovation. This is what I think start-up culture is all about. It spreads and privatizes the risk while providing privileged access to innovation that is starting to prove its value to the vectoral class, whose ‘business model’ is to own, control, flip, litigate, and – if absolutely necessary – even build out new kinds of intellectual property. The other kind of hack, the really transformative ones, are another matter. To some extent the vectoral class does not really want these, no matter what the ruling ideology says about disruption. Having your life disrupted is for little people. The vectoral class doesn’t like surprises. Its goal is to come as close enough to a monopoly in something to extract rent from it. The kind of mode of production we appear to be entering is one that I don’t think is quite capitalism as classically described. This is not capitalism, this is something worse. I see the vectoral class as the emerging ruling class of our time, whose power rests on attempting to command the whole production process by owning and controlling information. In the over-developed world, an information infrastructure, a kind of third nature, now commands the old manufacturing and distribution infrastructure, or second nature, which in turn commands the resources of this planet, which is how nature now appears to us. The command strategies of the vectoral class rely on the accumulation of stocks, flows and vectors of information. The vectoral class turns information as raw material into property, and as property into asymmetry, inequality and control. It extracts a rent from privatized information, held as monopoly, while minimizing or displacing risk. One strategy is to socialize the risk of the real hack. This is probably why public universities and publicly funded research still exist. The tax-payer can take the risk on the really basic research. The university research park model is now set up to carefully modulate access to information about anything that might make a valuable property. Another strategy is what one might call auto-disruption. Learning from the mistakes of the old capitalist firms of the industrial eras, this model takes the hacker practice in-house. Firms with existing rent-extraction revenue flows become hoarders of potentially monetizable intellectual property, or the people who look like they could produce it. This is to be deployed only when it disrupts somebody else’s business more than one’s own. So that’s the vectoral class. The problem with belonging to the hacker class in a world the vectoral class rules are these: firstly, certain modest forms of the hack now fall into an outsourced, ‘casualized’, even amateur kind of economy. Certain competences became widespread that there is no way to extract value from them as skills. Certain models of distributed or algorithm-based path-seeking turn out to work as well as hiring the top talent to pick a path for you. Secondly, more higher-order hack abilities might still command their own price in the market, and one might even end up owning a piece of whatever one produces. But it becomes less and less likely that you get to own it all. One becomes at best a minor share-holder in one’s own brain. Of course the situation with the worker is even worse than the hacker. The commodification of the life-world eats into the old cultures of solidarity and equality. Everything becomes game-like, a win-lose proposition. The world of third nature, that Borgesian data map <http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/bblonder/phys120/docs/borges.pdf> that exactly covers its territory, is quite literally programmed to be anti-social. In daily life there can be a continuum of experience between being a worker and a hacker. They are not absolute categories from the point of view of experience. One can pass from one to the other. Both can be precarious ways to make a living. The white male ‘bro-grammer’ is not the only kind of hacker, just as the blue collar hard-hat is not the only kind of worker. For worker and hacker alike, the dominant affects are those of envy and jealousy, and covetousness. One is supposed to hate those with just a bit more than you, while at the same time loving those with much, much more. Those with a bit more must be undeserving; those who own everything apparently do so with unquestionable right. For worker and hacker alike, there is a struggle to achieve some kind of class consciousness, and a social consciousness even beyond that, against the atomizing affect of the time. I just don’t think it is quite the same class consciousness. For labor, it is always a matter of solidarity and equality. For the hacker, class consciousness is always modulated by the desire for difference, for distinction, for recognition by one’s real peers. It is a sensibility that can be captured by the bourgeois individualism propagated by the vectoral class, but it is not the same thing. Winning the stock-option lottery is not the same thing as the respect of one’s peers. Nor does it translate into any agency in giving form to the world. It may not come as any surprise that the world this work and these hacks are building is one that cannot last. One might as well say already that this is already a civilization that does not exist. The material conditions that afford it are eroding already. Whether we are adding to the world some quantity of labor or some quality of hack, it is as if we were just building more sandcastles while the tide comes in. This is the meaning of the Anthropocene: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene> that the futures of the human and material worlds are now totally entwined. Just as Nietzsche declared that God is dead, now we know that ecology is dead. There is no longer a homeostatic cycle that can be put right just by withdrawing. There is no environment that forms a neutral background to working and hacking. Just as the category of ‘man’ collapses once there is no God, so too the category of the social collapses when there is no environment. The material world is laced with traces of the human, and the human turns out to be made of nothing much besides displaced flows of this or that element or molecule. The dogma that ‘reality is socially constructed’ turns out not so much to be wrong as to be meaningless. What all the workers and hackers of the world are building is more and more of the same impossible, nonexistent world. We are building third nature as the hyperreal. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality> Two tasks present themselves, then. The first is to think the worker and hacker as distinct classes but which have a common project. The second is to think that common project as building a different world. Can this infrastructure we keep building out, this second and third nature, actually be the platform for building another one? Can it be hacked? It is a dizzying prospect. This is why I turn to the work of Alexander Bogdanov <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov>, because he thought it could be done. Sometimes it is good to have ancestors, even if they are funny uncles and queer aunts rather than the patriarchs. Bogdanov was Lenin’s rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party. Shunted aside by about 1910, he turned to two projects, which went by the names of tektology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektology> and proletkult <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletkult>. I think of Bogdanov’s tektology as a project of worker and hacker self-organization that would use the qualitative medium of language rather than the quantitative one of exchange as the means for conveying forms, ideas, diagrams, from one design problem to another. Could there be an art of sharing what works? Could a hack that derives from one design problem be floated speculatively as a possible form or guide for another? Bogdanov’s tektology is like a philosophical Github. I think of Bogdanov’s proletkult as a project of autonomous worker and hacker cultural production. Bogdanov had a positive, rather than a negative theory of ideology. We all need an affect, a story, a structure of feeling that is really motivating and connecting. Can we be moved and joined by something other than envy, greed, spite, rage or the other click-bait of the game-ifed, commodifed, hyperreal world? Can there be other worldviews and worldviews of the others? In a way tektology is the work and proletkult the play aspects of building an actual world, in the gaps and fissures of this unreal one that surrounds us. The keynote for Bogdanov was that this had to be a cooperative and collaborative project, based on the worldview of the hacker and worker. This would be a different worldview to both those of authoritarianism and exchange. We have to think how things work without assuming there is someone or something in charge, a final God-like arbiter, even if it is the hyper-chaos God of the speculative realists. And we also have to think how things work without imagining there’s just a bunch of atomized monads, competing with each other, where the ideal order is magically self-organizing and emergent. We need another worldview, one drawn out of what is left of the actually collaborative and collective and common practices via which the world is actually built and run, a worldview of solidarity and the gift. A worldview that works as a low theory extracted from worker and hacker practices, rather than a high theory trying to legislate about them from above. It is not hard to see here what infuriated Lenin about Bogdanov. For Bogdanov, both proletkult and tektology are experimental practices, of prototyping ideas and things, trying them out, modifying them. There’s no correct and controlling über-theory, as there is in different ways in Lenin or Lukacs. There is more of a hacker ethos here, rather than that of the authoritarian worldview one still finds in a Lenin or a Lukacs or in parody form in Zizek, where those in command of the correct dialectical materialist worldview are beyond question. In Bogdanov’s worldview, there is no master-discourse that controls all the others. There is a continuum of practices, from the natural sciences, through engineering and design, to culture and art. The science and design part is mostly covered by the idea of a tektology; the culture and art part by proletkult. But they overlap, and both matter. Bogdanov’s openness to the natural sciences, engineering and design are, I think, very contemporary. We only know about things like climate change — and other signs of the Anthropocene — because of the natural sciences. Without the very extensive global knowledge hack that is climate science, we would literally not know what the hell is going on around us. Why these droughts? These floods? These weird changes in the ranges of species, or their sudden extinctions or population booms? None of it would make sense. Neither Heidegger nor Adorno have anything to say about any of this. But curiously, Bogdanov almost figured out global climate change for himself, between 1908 and 1920. He understood something about the carbon cycle. He understood the need to think social labor as acting on and in and with and against nature, producing a second nature and even a third. He understood the need to build an infrastructure that could adapt to changes in its interactions with its conditions of existence. Lenin conducted a vigorous campaign to excommunicate Bogdanov, one which the Marxist tradition has strikingly never really revisited or attempted to reverse. This is among other things a great injustice. Bogdanov’s kind of experimental, open-ended Marxism, which neither tries to dominate, ignore, or subordinate itself to the natural sciences, became something of a rarity. His closest contemporary analog is, I think, Donna Haraway <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway>. Or so I argue in Molecular Red. <http://www.versobooks.com/books/1886-molecular-red> The Anthropocene calls not so much for new ways of thinking as for new ways of practicing knowledge. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. And it is likely to get weird — in this lifetime, or the next. That’s why I think we could start working now, not on theory of the Anthropocene, but theory *for* the Anthropocene. One could do worse, I think, than imagine and practice again something like a tektology and a proletkult – a tektology for hackers, a proletkult for cyborgs. Let’s build a world, and live in it. _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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