Morlock Elloi on Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:15:49 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Means of production: The factory-floor knowledge. |
I think this strangeness is what this thread is about. On one level there is a $value chain. Like it or not, most proles do subscribe to the $value of things and phenomena, and any distribution of production from the silo-ed factories/newsrooms to masses will reduce the $value. We live in a highly ideological times, and $value ideology is blinding. On the other level, there is what you are describing as complex shifts and emergent phenomena that happened when DTP, publishing, or whatever, got de-silo-ed - and they did happen. But they do not matter, the amount of academic papers notwithstanding: the real net effect of the Internet is that more people get commercial shit content for free and everyone is tracked. One needs to be blind (or young and illiterate) not to see the death of the content and 'epic' rising of the rule of the lowest common denominator, likes and dislikes. To put it in simple terms: the bare-bones-primitive $value of anything today is a piece of meat. The fine superstructures, complex relationships, fantastic possibilities, poetic and esoteric phenomena accompanying it, are the cloud of flies around it. Acute observers keep their eyes on the meat: is it guarded and expensive, or is it on the ground and free. Some keep their eyes on the flies and imagine that the flies will somehow make the difference, one day. I find the elective blindness to $value among fly watchers fascinating. Shifts will not happen by liberating bits and thus destroying their $value. They may happen by empowering more entities to create $value by protecting their bits and selling them. Fuck the sharing culture. Capitalism is great, but it's so hard to achieve it. > More and more, I find that something very strange -- and strangely > unremarked -- has happened. People don't really know how to listen to > music or watch TV or read books or look at pictures now. It used to > be simple: there was a pimitive temple to the music gods # 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: nettime@kein.org