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Re: [ox-en] The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage



Matteo Pasquinelli wrote:

Dear friends, I send my last essay to this list as it covers many issues
debated in the last days. It is actually an extract of a forthcoming
book (autumn 2008) for the Studies in Network Cultures (a book series of
the Institute of Network Cultures published by NAi Publishers,
Rotterdam). Please download the printer-friendly PDF. Best /M


I found it rather odd. It seems to me that the number of people making a
career of showing that free culture in general is simply a way of
exploiting a naive but oppressed workforce is significantly larger than
the number of people who believe it may have more meaning than that (or
at least it is among the artistic end of social theorists). So that in
that sense the large (or at least noisy) post-operaist groups are
dependent on the existence of the tiny (and quite quiet) oekonux to have
someone to criticise; in that sense, it's the post-operaists who are the
parasites. And who will be endlessly going over ground first covered
long ago by Richard Barbrook's 'Californian Ideology' unless oekonux
keeps supporting them by providing new ideas to complain about.

Graham
PS RENT is a new theoretical category??? purleeease..... someone point
Negri and co at the last two hundred years worth of theories of monopoly...
PPS Someone should point them at Barbrook's 'Holy Fools' as well, as an
antidote to excessive Guattari.


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Matteo Pasquinelli
The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage

http://www.rekombinant.org/docs/Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf
http://www.rekombinant.org/mat


Abstract. Bringing post-Operaismo into network culture, this text tries
to introduce the notion of surplus in a contemporary media debate
dominated by a simple symmetry between immaterial and material domain,
between digital economy and bioeconomy. Therefore a new asymmetry is
first shaped through Serres' conceptual figure of the parasite and
Bataille's concepts of excess and biochemical energy. Second, the crisis
of the copyright system and the contradictions of the so-called Free
Culture movement are taken as a starting point to design the notion of
autonomous commons against the creative commons. Third, a new political
arena is outlined around Rullani's cognitive capitalism and the new
theory of rent developed by Negri and Vercellone. Finally, the sabotage
is shown as the specular gesture of the multitudes to defend the commons
against the parasitic dimension of rent.

* The living energy of machines.
* Michel Serres and the cybernetic parasite
* Digitalism: the impasse of media culture
* The ideology of Free Culture
* Against the Creative Anti-Commons
* Towards an Autonomous Commons
* Rent is the other side of the Commons
* The four dimensions of cognitive capitalism
* A taxonomy of the immaterial parasites
* The bicephalous multitude
* The grammar of sabotage


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