On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:41 PM, marc garrett <
marc.garrett@furtherfield.org <mailto:
marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>> wrote:
Hi all,
Thought that you may be interested in a recent interview I did Dmytri
Kleiner, authour of The Telekommunist Manifesto
An Interview with Dmytri Kleiner, authour of The Telekommunist
Manifesto.
"At the dawn of the new millennium, Net users are developing a
much more
efficient and enjoyable way of working together: cyber-communism."
Richard Barbrook.
"Furtherfield recently received a hard copy of The Telekommunist
Manifesto in the post. After reading the manifesto, it was obvious
that
it was pushing the debate further regarding networked,
commons-based and
collaborative endeavours. It is a call to action, challenging our
social
behaviours and how we work with property and the means of its
production. Proposing alternative routes beyond the creative commons,
and top-down forms of capitalism (networked and physical), with a
Copyfarleft attitude and the Telekommunist's own collective form of
Venture Communism. Many digital art collectives are trying to find
ways
to maintain their ethical intentions in a world where so many are
easily
diverted by the powers that be, perhaps this conversation will offer
some glimpse of how we can proceed with some sense of shared
honour, in
the maelstrom we call life..."M.Garrett.
Dmytri Kleiner, authour of The Telekommunist Manifesto, is a software
developer who has been working on projects "that investigate the
political economy of the Internet, and the ideal of workers’
self-organization of production as a form of class struggle." Born in
the USSR, Dmytri grew up in Toronto and now lives in Berlin. He is a
founder of the Telekommunisten Collective, which provides Internet and
telephone services, as well as undertakes artistic projects that
explore
the way communication technologies have social relations embedded
within
them, such as deadSwap (2009) and Thimbl (2010).
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/interview-dmytri-kleiner-authour-telekommunist-manifesto
wishing all well.
marc garrett