Re: nettime More Crisis in the Information Society
Felix wrote: Again, this is less a media issue, than one of political economy. Perhaps, our productive systems are becoming too efficient for capitalism. Robert Kurz had a thought-provoking response to this comment you make below. http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/crisis-of-exchange-value I'm still trying to fully digest it, but I agree this is an issue of political economy and as such it is a issue of valorisation, which Kurz and others (included in that journal issue) focus on directly. Joss # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Digital condition
Hi Natalie, I found these critiques by Simon Clarke helpful on Fordism/Post-Fordism: Clarke, S. (1990) New Utopias for Old: Fordist Dreams and Post-Fordist Fantasies, Capital Class, winter, no.42, pp.131-155. http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe/pubs/GRAMSCI.pdf Clarke, S. (1992) What in F---Œs Name is Fordism? In: N. Gilbert, R. Burrows A. Pollert (Eds.) Fordism and Flexibility, London: Macmillan Press. http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe/pubs/Fordism.pdf Also, a critique of immaterial labour' worth considering here: http://www.wolfgangfritzhaug.inkrit.de/documents/immateriallabour.pdf Good luck with the seminar. Joss # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime New Book: Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media
On 21 Oct 2011, at 08:16, Dave Hollis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Almost €100 for a book of just over 300 pages is, to put it politely, more than a bit steep. Is there going to be a version published that can be bought by normal mortals? Regards, Dave Clearly books like these are best not put into our hands, despite being funded by an EU project. It's in the same Routledge series as 'Hacking Capitalism', which is a useful and fairly unique book, but I hardly ever see it cited, no doubt because it's $125 (230 pages) http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Capitalism-Routledge-Information-Technology/dp/0415955432/ It makes you wonder why authors even bother approaching academic publishers. You transfer your Copyright to Taylor Francis and then they price it out of reach of individuals to buy. It's even more remarkable when you see it happening to titles like these, where the authors spend time critiquing the structures of Capital and then turn their work over to a publisher who strangles it through pricing and copyright transferral (in the case of Soderberg's book, at least). Joss On 20.10.2011 14:53, Christian Fuchs wrote: Fuchs, Christian, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund and Marisol Sandoval (Eds.). 2011. Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-89160-8. EU COST Publication. 332 pages. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
