Notes

Paradigms

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 11:31

This is the beginning of a Book on techno-political paradigm changes.
There are four meta-categories with sub-categories, which we are slowly going to fill with meanings, explanations, related bibliographies.

Forrester, Advertising and Consumer Market

Submitted by Brian Holmes on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 01:38

This is a graph by Jay Wright Forrester from his book Industrial Dynamics, showing the expected time (in weeks) that must be allotted for distribution from the factory to wholesalers, retails, and ultimately the public (on the right side of the graph) as well as the time to be allotted for advertising to be planned, executed and achieve its end, namely the creation of "effective demand" for the product (left side of the graph).

Forrester, Advertising and Consumer Market
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Bichler & Nitzan, Bear markets on NYSE

Submitted by Brian Holmes on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 00:41

This is a table from Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan's article, "Countours of Crisis, Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil," available here: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/255/

Bichler & Nitzan, Bear markets on NYSE
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Perez, technological revolutions

Submitted by Brian Holmes on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 00:22

This is a table showing the five major technological revolutions identified by Carlota Perez.

Perez, technological revolutions
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Review: Labor and Monopoly Capital. The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, by Harry Braverman

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 09:51
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This excellent book by Harry Braverman revolves around the main thesis, that labour in the 20th century has become 'degraded'. The combined effects of mechanization, scientific management and other control techniques allowed management to wrest control from workers and enforce, under ever changing circumstances, alienating practices onto workers across all industries, including office and service jobs.

Periodizing Cinematic Production

Submitted by Brian Holmes on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 19:50
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[What follows is another look at periodization in the history of media, adapted only very slightly from a post I sent to the iDC list. It follows directly on the long comment I made to Armin's 45 RPM text, concerning the dialectical transformations of the communicational commodity. The idea is to build momentum for shared investigations into the relations between the technological forms, political-economic functions, expressive uses and oppositional appropriations of communications media. Best to all, BH]

Part 1 of my Furtherfield case study chapter - Brit Art, Situationism, Fluxus...

Submitted by doll_yoko on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 10:44

This is Draft 2.5 of the first quarter of one of my 3 case study chapters, on the London-based Furtherfield art group.
Some weeks ago I posted a quarter of another of my case studies, the Hong Kong In-Media citizen journalism project.
It seems i can only work in quarter chapters - perhaps this is like semi-tones in music....

Casting a Net for Reflection

Submitted by Lindsay on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 14:32

Belated notes après beach and back into real life, however I always wonder which one is madder (the juggler on a unicycle on a tightrope between two high rises must ask themselves, but where would I be if things were not so ordinary?)

Continental Drift hypothesis - the turning point?

Submitted by Brian Holmes on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 15:52
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About four years ago, after the disastrous US elections in 2004, a group of us meeting at 16 Beaver Street in New York launched the idea of Continental Drift. The hypothesis: a coming "tectonic" shift in the geopolitical system, precipitated by the mismanagement of neoliberal globalization under the Bush-Blair regime. What we saw on the horizon was some kind of collapse of dollar hegemony -- "hegemoney," as Arrighi puts it -- and the rise of a multipolar order, with new possibilities and challenges for grassroots egalitarian movements around the world.

Outline for a Book Chapter attached

Submitted by doll_yoko on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 10:33

Here is an outline of a chapter for my colleague Jon Marshall's book on It & Disorder. Like much of what I seem to be doing for uni stuff, I have clearly crammed way too many things into this chapter. probably i could reduce it by 2/3 and it could still make a good contribution to the book, which has otjer chapters on software and failure, IT and social movements, IT and financial disorder, and quite a lot of philosophy. anyway, armin's critique of my P2P text-in-progress reminded me about this other thing i am supposed to write this year, and i am thinking some of A's ideas could fit.

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