allan siegel on Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:49:50 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Ubiquitous Commons and Stakhanov at transmediale in Berlin |
Hello, Since this announcement has been cross-posted I???ll add Daniel Verhoeven response to this as well as my own. FROM DV: Dear All, A good start would be to define ?commons?. The fuziness about the commons is ubiquitous, not the commons. See for a proposal: https://niepleuen.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/introduction-to-the-commons-and-some-definitions/ All the best, Dani?l Verhoeven http://danielverhoeven.deds.nl/ FROM AS: Hello, Thank you Daniel for pointing out the fuzziness of the use of the word COMMONS in relation to this conference; I think fuzziness here is being polite (as in the casual misuse of language); one could say that this conference looks like branding the word ???commons??? in the age of neoliberalism; because the description is among other things: ahistorical and apolitical-pitfully so. A good very elemental example would be the title: "In the Network Society Information and Knowledge are ubiquitous. Services like Google, Facebook and Twitter create a knowledge/information, identity and information/updates ecosystem which is spread across devices and modalities which interact with what we know about the world and its inhabitants, and also transform the ways in which we experience places, locations, events, monuments, tourist locations, restaurants, venues and more." Hello! Please tell that to the people who control and manipulate information this; and, I am sorry, knowledge is not ubiquitous as the Ubiquitous Commons website illustrates; it is nothing more than, as described at the bottom, a mash-up of wikipedia definitions very far away from the references and history that Verhoeven supplied. It is odd, sad even, that an issue such as the commons, which has been written about extensively (profoundly even) by the people Daniel mentions as well as David Harvey, Lefebvre, etc??? AND which is an issue that has come up time and again in the various occupy movements should be watered down so casually. In a nutshell: somebody needs to do some homework and connect the themes that this conference wants to address with discussions about the commons from the previous two centuries. allan # 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