Greetings Economists, On Jul 29, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Capitalism does standardize things, for better (e.g., orthography) and worse (e,g, eros).
Doyle; Well I think going back to your point about capitalism will do away with diversity in eros, I think diversity arises in the network structure of human relations. The kind of production of knowledge can lean toward a networked aspect of toward the more historically developed one to many media production of knowledge. Kink is a kind of erotic community production of eros. The network structure is mostly face to face though people use one to many media like photos, stories, and videos quite a bit. The missing element though in one to many media is the interaction face to face can do. Which automated in knowledge production is interactive as well, but the best examples would be online massively parallel social games. I don't seem to be getting a response to my fun sort of vision about a socialism of pleasure and fun. I think this is primarily because the networked properties of socialism are poorly understood. Eros could easily throw open what an emotion based socialism might lead to. One hundred years ago 'free love' was the socialist sort of tangent to conventional bourgeois love. Capitalism took over that with their big media. The lonely aspects of love or eros in small groups and couples isn't exactly 'free'. However socialists these days have mostly silence about eros because and this seems obvious to me, they are not ready to bring women into socialism fully and strongly. thanks, Doyle
