There is another interesting outcome proposed here
http://www.ninaillingworth.com/2016/09/30/tales-from-the-american-dmz-its-almost-all-economics/
namely, gated communities/city-states in the midst of medieval chaos:
The third solution, and if the truth be told the path I suspect at least
[I'm really enjoying the discussion in this thread, thanks all!]
If we do end up with a new vastly distributed factory then the question
becomes how do we build a similarly distributed and decentralised system
to orchestrate it? There are already many startups (3dhubs.com,
WikiFactory,
Dear Brian, Felix, and all
the Schumpeterian state is already with us (e.g. The Entrepreneurial
State by Mazzuccato). The crisis has brought industrial policy back
into fashion, and today this means innovation policy, or rather
incentives and subsidies for digital innovation. So in a sense, all
I totally agree you have to look at productivity distribution regimes
(in this boyer-coriat supplemented perez-freeman) - in 1950-1973 it was
basically productivity growth out of taylorized assemly-line operation
going to wages (in the US, for Germany, Japan and other laggards it
> I would like to push forward this idea: we will develope to be an
> automaton-society. Mashinery will do a more and more growing part of
> everything that has to be done to create good and sustainable living
> conditions for everyone.
This seems to be the case - human work is getting redundant
hope this could be or at least could contain some 'pudding' for a
call to arms.
Cheers, Ludger
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Betreff: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism
Datum: 2016-07-17T16:37:59+0200
Von: "Felix Stalder" <fe...@openflows.com>
An: "nettim...@mx.kei
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/35800940/alex-foti-the-grid-amp-the-fork-left-curve/2
in case you wanna read what appeared on nettime 2006 on crisis theoy
and then was reissued on left curve shortly after. i have a scaled back
and refined version of the grid in english if
Maybe I'm making mistake assuming that "theory" here means
normative/scientific theory, something that strives to provide
predictions in sustainable and repeatable fashion. Theories that predict
past are useless, and what someone feels the future should be and steps
to achieve that is, in my
well this is about falsificationism in social theory - and it pretty
much applies to any theory in social science - be it modernization
functionalism underdevelopment etc
in my view a good social theory must at least explain the basic facts
of the present and the recent past
Brian poses the right questions. As for regulation theory mixed with
kondratiev please also see (in addition to paul mason) my two 2009
contributions which built on stuff posted on nettime
https://www.academia.edu/9343417/Climate_Anarchists_vs_Green_Capitalists
(pag 5-6)
and
On 07/17/2016 09:35 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
But what if, this system is like the Soviet Union, unable to reform
itself, sticking to its ideology and forms of organization, despite
mounting evidence that the problems it tries to solve are getting
worse, rather than better?
This is a possible
The problem with global social theories that deal with long time
constants is that they are next to impossible to prove, unless one has
access to parallel universes (even assuming that existence of correct
theory is possible, which may not be true due to the underlining
complexity which at
When one accepts that the exception is the rule, the question changes
from "How do I recover social order?" to "How do I live with being
lost?" Rebecca Solnit argues that we must acquire the wisdom of the
woodsman who can wander into the most unfamiliar woods, but because he
has learnt to discern
Past a certain point of chaos, the question is no longer whether or
not to enter a state of exception. The question is when, how, with
whom, by what means, and to what ends.
The idea of a "social order" is very similar to the idea of "the sun
rising in the morning." It may be cloudy, the horizon
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