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Art of Free Cooperation
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By: Trebor Scholz
New York: Autonomedia, 2007
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect bound
Process: digital
Color: color cover, b&w throughout
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 978-1570271779
This book was selected as a part of our READING ROOM initiative which focuses on important critical thinkers and books they are excited about. This installment is with Brian Holmes.
Business has a mad crush on collaboration witness the billions spent on social networking sites, or all the hype around collaboration studies. But beneath all the flirtation, business needs to remain the boss. As long as the process of collaboration is controlled and monetized, the relationship will always be one of forced cooperation. This book argues for Free Cooperation an alternative way of doing things together, from parenting and the workplace to event organization and cultural production. Brian Holmes, Howard Rheingold, Christoph Spehr and the editors critique the dominant methods of socio-economic integration, and elaborate a practical alternative, one that promises to surmount both the problems of inequality and the lack of independence in daily life.
The Art of Free Cooperation includes a DVD with a feature-length film collage, narrated by Tony Conrad, illustrating the principles of Free Cooperation through the visual language of science fiction movies, additional texts, interviews and highlights from the international Free Cooperation conference, organized by the editors, that led to this book.
What they're saying about The Art of Free Cooperation:
If capitalism is a vampire that feeds off living labor, whats living labor anyway? This book provides a powerful answer: collective creativity. Yet somehow, as the authors note, no one ever studies collective creativity as a thing itself. If there was ever a book that deserves to kick off an entire literature, this is it.
David Graeber, author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
In coupling two troubled words together, Lovink and Scholz open up a whole new terrain for reality hacking. Under this banner they have assembled a top mob who make their own rules and show you how to live by your own rules too. Essential reading for all the artists of making the impossible possible.
McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory
The Art of Free Cooperation explores viable alternatives to forced collaborations under the over-arching principle of competition proper to neo-liberal regimes. The irreducible sociality of economic production opens up the possibility of redesigning the social here and now, through an experimental practice which cannot wait for the day after the revolution. Reinvigorating reading for those who dream (and practice) advanced exit strategies from the false choice between twentieth-century State-socialism and free market economics.
Tiziana Terranova, author of Network Culture: Politics for the Digital Age
New York: Autonomedia, 2007
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect bound
Process: digital
Color: color cover, b&w throughout
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 978-1570271779
This book was selected as a part of our READING ROOM initiative which focuses on important critical thinkers and books they are excited about. This installment is with Brian Holmes.
Business has a mad crush on collaboration witness the billions spent on social networking sites, or all the hype around collaboration studies. But beneath all the flirtation, business needs to remain the boss. As long as the process of collaboration is controlled and monetized, the relationship will always be one of forced cooperation. This book argues for Free Cooperation an alternative way of doing things together, from parenting and the workplace to event organization and cultural production. Brian Holmes, Howard Rheingold, Christoph Spehr and the editors critique the dominant methods of socio-economic integration, and elaborate a practical alternative, one that promises to surmount both the problems of inequality and the lack of independence in daily life.
The Art of Free Cooperation includes a DVD with a feature-length film collage, narrated by Tony Conrad, illustrating the principles of Free Cooperation through the visual language of science fiction movies, additional texts, interviews and highlights from the international Free Cooperation conference, organized by the editors, that led to this book.
What they're saying about The Art of Free Cooperation:
If capitalism is a vampire that feeds off living labor, whats living labor anyway? This book provides a powerful answer: collective creativity. Yet somehow, as the authors note, no one ever studies collective creativity as a thing itself. If there was ever a book that deserves to kick off an entire literature, this is it.
David Graeber, author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
In coupling two troubled words together, Lovink and Scholz open up a whole new terrain for reality hacking. Under this banner they have assembled a top mob who make their own rules and show you how to live by your own rules too. Essential reading for all the artists of making the impossible possible.
McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory
The Art of Free Cooperation explores viable alternatives to forced collaborations under the over-arching principle of competition proper to neo-liberal regimes. The irreducible sociality of economic production opens up the possibility of redesigning the social here and now, through an experimental practice which cannot wait for the day after the revolution. Reinvigorating reading for those who dream (and practice) advanced exit strategies from the false choice between twentieth-century State-socialism and free market economics.
Tiziana Terranova, author of Network Culture: Politics for the Digital Age
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