Lachlan Brown on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:18:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] The Tragedy of Capital |
There is no 'tragedy of the Commons'. On the contrary ‘the tragedy’ is not with 'the commons', it is with the power relations and investments which throughout history have put the onus of 'the tragedy of capital' upon ‘the commons’. Familiar positionality, familiar enclosure, familiar hegemonic foreclosure. The commons are usually expected to pay for the tragedy of Capital. This 'tragedy of Capital' is presently being played out at a number of levels; after all Western Capital has fucked the earth. The West is in knowing denial of this fact. Islam is supposed to pay the bill? It is carried out in Nettime around what is, essentially, a question on the nature of Property, intellectual or otherwise, the relationship of 'shareware + open source or let's simply call it ‘public service altruism’ often but not always supported by public service institutions to ‘the market’. It is not a matter of 'public commonalty vs private property', it is a matter of finding ways to make their interrelation make sense taking into account the social and the natural contract to ensure a future for our earth and for ourselves. This is the character of the present engagement or War between The National Security State and its Others. Lachlan Brown http://third.net -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold