neil π@adamgreenfield Really interested to hear what you think. Still finding my feet in this area. But seeing the top-to-bottom ICT stack as the latest evolution of capitalism and then as a useful site of struggle chimes (though I work in ICT so...). Similar to McKenzie Wark's #Vectoralism. I like @ntnsndr 's [[Governable Stacks against Digital Colonialism]] on this too.
Matt Cropp π²π²@Tizzie #McKenzieWark is by far one of my favorite media theorists. I've found their #vectoralism frame is super helpful in understanding a bunch of stuff... :)
Try to make sense of the dynamics of #vectoralism through the lens of #capitalism, and you're going to have a bad time...
http://thephilosophersmeme.com/2016/10/27/on-vectoralism-and-the-meme-alliance/
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html
Landed Property β Capital Property β Intellectual Property
On Vectoralism & the Meme Alliance's General Strike
We have seen in recent months the blossoming of a protest movement in Weird Facebook, a Meme Alliance of users and memepages wearing pink profile-pictures -- Facebook flags upside-down, signaling S.O.S. -- demanding satisfaction for Zuckerbergβs censorship of their content via automated moderation systems. Though their efforts have served as a coming-out of sorts for meme-scene activists, the failure of the Meme Allianceβs tactics to register demands a reconsideration of the terrain of struggle.
@Steve Some real estate, some capital, and some IP...
Christian Bundy@mattcropp Also, am I right to draw parallels between #vectoralism and Dmytri Kleiner's thoughts on #counterantidisintermediation?
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation
@christianbundy Wark's framework is a little challenging to grok, but it has really helped me make sense of a lot of the dynamics surrounding #platformcoop stuff, particularly the idea of #Vectoralism.
Very worth digging through. :P
@kdsch Among other things, his analysis of "#vectoralism" is a really useful lens for understanding the social media crisis, contemporary intra-elite class conflicts, etc. From 2004: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html
@emily In the last year, McKenzie Wark has had a lot of influence on my thinking about platforms via their analysis of #vectoralism as a thing separate from #capitalism, as well as the sorts of politics that arise from that differentiation. A Hacker Manifesto, written in 2004, rocked my world and yielded some very prescient insights into contemporary politics: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html
Birbsite: https://twitter.com/mckenziewark