<div dir="ltr">dear Orsan,<div><br></div><div>would be great if you could some write up of this for our p2p blog !!</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for considering it,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Örsan Şenalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:01 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Accelerating Capitalism, or Coding emancipatory modes of production?<br>To: "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br><br><br>This is a new book curated by Matteo Pasquinelli:<br>
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<a href="http://matteopasquinelli.com/algorithms-of-capital/" target="_blank">http://matteopasquinelli.com/algorithms-of-capital/</a><br>
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The book is based on the #Acclerationisty politics. Anyway the above<br>
link is to Italian version. Yet most of the articles are already<br>
online in English. I paste the links to English versions below:<br>
<br>
#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Alex<br>
Williams and Nick Srnicek<br>
<a href="http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/" target="_blank">http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/</a><br>
<br>
Reflections on the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Toni<br>
Negri: <a href="http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/riflessioni-sul-manifesto-per-una-politica-accelerazionista/" target="_blank">http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/riflessioni-sul-manifesto-per-una-politica-accelerazionista/</a><br>
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Mattoe Pasquinelli: “To Anticipate and Accelerate: Italian Operaismo<br>
and Reading Marx’s Notion of Organic Composition of Capital”,<br>
Rethinking Marxism journal, vol. 26, n. 2, 2014.<br>
:<a href="http://matteopasquinelli.com/anticipate-an" target="_blank">http://matteopasquinelli.com/anticipate-an</a><br>
<br>
[another goed one from Matteo: “The Power of Abstraction and Its<br>
Antagonism. On Some Problems Common to Contemporary Neuroscience and<br>
the Theory of Cognitive Capitalism”,Psychopathologies of Cognitive<br>
Capitalism, Part 2. Berlin: Archive Books, 2014.:<br>
<a href="http://matteopasquinelli.com/power-of-abstraction/" target="_blank">http://matteopasquinelli.com/power-of-abstraction/</a>]<br>
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Red stack attack! Algorithms, capital and the automation of the common<br>
– by Tiziana Terranova:<br>
<a href="http://quaderni.sanprecario.info/2014/02/red-stack-attack-algorithms-capital-and-the-automation-of-the-common-di-tiziana-terranova/" target="_blank">http://quaderni.sanprecario.info/2014/02/red-stack-attack-algorithms-capital-and-the-automation-of-the-common-di-tiziana-terranova/</a><br>
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To be honest #Accelerationist manifesto sounded to me like a call for<br>
a Kautskian and Plekhanovian politics 2.0, to hunt down the global<br>
networked captialism by leading it to a trap. Though it sounds<br>
exciting, to hear about the anger and hope hope of getting away with<br>
the system, Though I always had trouble with the idea to realize<br>
something first to be able to transcend it -even though the imagery is<br>
to push the target down from the cliff. It sounds like a good and<br>
crazy idea. Though I partly semphatize with McKenzie Wark's critics<br>
here and think that there is anither way to hack capitalist mode of<br>
production:<br>
#Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist<br>
Politics: <a href="http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/celerity-a-critique-of-the-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/" target="_blank">http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/celerity-a-critique-of-the-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/</a><br>
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Here is how I would formulate a part of the code needs yet to be put<br>
in algorithms:<br>
I agree with many others who think global working class is currently<br>
making it self<br>
through ongoing and intensifying struggles. In my opinion any form of<br>
self-organisation of the global working classes needs to be,<br>
simultaneously very well grounded, transnational, and global. It also<br>
needs to be open to all the working people, so free [gratis and<br>
accessible] to enter and leave, designed as modularly integrated<br>
organized networks linking workers [including hacker-, academic-,<br>
art-, sex-. ... so on workers],<br>
social-environmental-cultural-informational-sexual justice activists.<br>
Adoptable principles, in form of the 'code', which can be<br>
pre-determined, as well as the coding process itself needs to be very<br>
well documented, totally open and accesible to local, workplace,<br>
neighbourhood, issue based, activist or other forms of political<br>
collectives. In a way similar to Anonymous, 15M, Occupy, Gezi. or<br>
other decentralized forms, but with more structured and open working<br>
protocols, as it is in FLOSS projects, or grassroots and worker<br>
cooperatives. It sould not be including membership, service,<br>
representation type logics that leads to reproduction of<br>
disempowerment for the involving nodes. It should not be organized by<br>
intellectual activists from out side in, and from top down towards the<br>
working class. With an opposite perspective, it should be designed by<br>
volunteer participation based on self-governing and representation<br>
principles. It should be able to put forward creative, assertive and<br>
effective direct non-violent mass action, which makes fun of and<br>
ridicule the target by allowing the formation of collective<br>
intelligence. Therefore active peer to peer self-learninig should be<br>
the core cultural production and learning principle. Instead of having<br>
teachers who must show the right and enlightented road to the<br>
candidate working class members, who needs to get a<br>
self-consciousness, a global and networked labour union should be<br>
providing working people with the access to the tools, resources and<br>
key networks that would make self- empowerment easily possible. By<br>
linking spaces where continious open exchanges take place and carry<br>
the energy from one space to other. Utilizing How to(s), Do it<br>
Yourself and Do it With Others guides, in online and real world<br>
context, by FLOSS communication tools as well as mass-action tactics<br>
it would replace top down (issue-anger-action) organizing model, which<br>
would allow self-articulation, respectful and collaborative working<br>
praxis by harmonized through peer to peer digital communication -where<br>
possible and desirable, as well as face to face and secure meetings,<br>
cultural and recreational events cultural events. It should be<br>
collaboraing with other organizations, creative and productive<br>
projects that undermines capitalist mode of production and develop the<br>
algorithms and codes of alternative modes, as operating systems that<br>
could replace capitalism. Such global network needs to grow by linking<br>
existing radical networks groups of activists, hackers, organizers,<br>
makers, DIY groups, squatters, eco-willages, diggers, immigrants,<br>
asylum seekers, solidarity networks, and so on. In a way all nodes<br>
could associate with the globally networked ties, while keeping their<br>
autonomy.<br>
<br>
So instead of #Accelerate motto, i would suggest some thing like:<br>
"All empower one, one empower all!"<br>
<br>
Orsan<br>
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