That's what I was thinking about! Combine Smythe and Bataille and you have something here.
- Alan On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Simon Biggs wrote: > Richard Serra's video Television delivers the people from around 1970 > probably presents the most concise example of an artist reflecting upon the > role of the audience in mass broadcast media. Best. Simon > > Sent from my phone > > Simon > > > Simon Biggs > www.littlepig.org.uk > > > On 10 Jul 2010, at 18:58, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Years ago I think even in the 80s or so, Smythe talked about audience >> labor in terms of television - this theory was developed in a number of >> places - television has been often seen as an active zone of audience >> production - was it John Fiske who wrote on this? - there were some >> artists also dealing with the issue. So it has a long history - sorry for >> my blurriness at the moment - alan >> >> >> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, marc garrett wrote: >> >>> The Digital Surplus and Its Enemies. >>> >>> By Rob Horning >>> >>> With the advent of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to take on the >>> characteristics of what the Italian autonomists like Paolo Virno called >>> the social factory. The idea is that since many of us no longer have all >>> that much to offer society, in terms of operating machinery or that sort >>> of thing, the new way of extracting surplus value from our ?labor? is to >>> turn our social lives into a kind of covert work that we complete >>> throughout the day, but in forms that can be co-opted by capitalist firms. >>> >>> Work processes, as Virno explains in A Grammar of the Multitude >>> [Semiotext(e); 2004], become diverse, but social life begins to >>> homogenize itself in the sense that our identity becomes something we >>> all must prove in the public sphere?we all become concerned with the >>> self as brand. This results in the ?valorization??Marxist jargon for >>> value enhancement??of all that which renders the life of an individual >>> unique??which is to say our concern for our uniqueness, our identity in >>> social contexts, becomes a kind of value-generating capital, or rather a >>> circulating commodity. >>> >>> This plays out in seemingly innocuous ways. It can be a matter of hyping >>> a product free of charge but using it or talking about it. Or it can be >>> a matter of going to parties with co-workers, learning to get along >>> better and therefore increasing the efficiency of processes on the job. >>> Or it is a matter of behaving politely among strangers, extending a >>> system of politeness and trust that can be harvested economically as a >>> reduction in transaction costs. To put it in sociologist Pierre >>> Bourdieu?s terms, our habitus?our manifest and class-bound way of being >>> in the social world?has been transformed into an explicit productive >>> force without our conscious consent by the way various social media have >>> infiltrated everyday life. >>> >>> more... >>> http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/print/120581 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
