On 19/02/14 03:39 AM, marc garrett wrote: > > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/we-need-talk-about-networked-disruption-and-business-interview-tatiana-bazzichel
"The ideas of openness, do it yourself, sharing, the “mottos” of the hacker culture in the 1990s, became the main rhetoric of the Web 2.0 companies based on the appropriation of “free culture”." This is nicely phrased. Yes the rhetoric and language of free culture were appropriated but not its political or philosophical substance. "The notion of disruptive business is useful for reflecting on different modalities of generating criticism, shedding light on contradictions and ambiguities both in capitalistic logics and in artistic and hacktivist strategies, while rethinking oppositional practices in the context of social networking." This feels like it relates to accelerationism. Maybe. Disruption is the sine qua non of contemporary capitalism, and watching both "The Lego Movie" and "The Croods" recently I was struck by their shared narrative of how getting the girl is the reward for letting its value be reclaimed without disrupting the patriarchial order. "all my publications exist both online and on paper and are freely downloadable from the web, because it would be contradictory to write about certain topics and then release my toughts under proprietary licenses" But the license is proprietary, as it denies the freedom to use the work for reasons other than maintaining the freedom to use the work. Bazzichelli's book sounds like the next step after: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ourspace which I still feel guilty about not reviewing. Bazzichelli's strategies seem similar to Harold's "intensification". I totally agree with Bazzichelli's critique of anti-capitalist activism. And I love your relation of her arguments to Haraway, who seems to be being discussed more at the moment. "I'm not a Marxist but" Bazzichelli's emphasis on work, on producing and doing within society, and on economic form as artistic form, is both something that I and just about everyone I know has been interested in since the 90s (see recent Cybersalons) and a generational shift from the oppositional affective radicalism of the intervening era. So I got a lot from this interview. :-) - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
