hi,
A happy new year to all :)
On 01/11/2012 10:44 AM, tterranova wrote:
I'm not saying that I agree with all these different perspectives, but
my questions to the list would be: in which ways do open practices of
publishing, writing and reading interact with the general attention
economy of
Hey Tiziana, Simon and the others.
First of all thanks for having me here.
This conversation touches of a few of the central premises of my work,
I'll avoid discussing topics like the production of subjectivity, etc,
as I'm out of my depth on the more humanistic/philosophical dimensions
of
I'm an academic and an artist and totally champion the open book. Knowledge is
made best when it is made shared.
I'm not sure what you mean by texture Adam, but the open source ethic certainly
gives life a different texture than a capitalist model.
best
Simon
On 12 Jan 2012, at 13:42, adam
Perhaps we are confusing authorship and publishing (Dmytri's distinction
between production and consumer good could also be understood as a similar
distinction). OS software is as much about writing software as distributing it,
with people having the right to re-write, re-purpose or add to
On 12.01.2012 17:26, adam wrote:
Well I think the open source ethic is well aligned with capitalism.
There is no disconnect there.
Yet, software has different economics than cultural works. Open Source
developers are paid by organisations that employ such software in
production, and thus
Definitely Simon. But as mentioned, this is only a tiny fringe. A small
percentage of the total number of cultural workers, who are are
currently working for the capitalist cultural industry.
Thus, within Capitalism, our social capacity for the production of open
works will always be tiny
