brian carroll on Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:39:33 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> commercial communism |
hi ivo. read your essay on nettime and you write about a fusion of sorts, as: 'The entire communism/dictatorship - free-market/democracy polarization is just an illusion...' .US corporations have long seemed to have become communal organizations by way of childcare, housing, eating, healthclubs, recreation when off work with employees, etc. and the role of ideology in culture is reinforced by these same mechanisms. i've wondered if it is because 'capitalism' is not so much the corollary to communism, though both of these seem to be economic- based (or at least grand narratives for why communism ('the wall') fell, due to economic stagnation, etc). instead, it would seem that capitalism|socialism are one dynamic, capital being economic and socialism being social, social-capital being the politics of that dynamic. whereas to me it seems that commercialism functions ideologically in step/queue with communism as a central organizing function- lock-step marching into oblivion as a basis for policy, for social issues, economics, politics- a type of extreme economics that forces itself as a social plan by force. thus, some hybrid variant potentially being 'commercial communism' that is in opposition to different cultural principles of 'social capitalism', the latter being grounded in ideas while the former is an ideological operation functioning as automated machine. i realize everyone knows a lot more about these things than i though the concepts are brought up within the context of daily living in the .us in this way, in my experience and your essay accesses this view, at least imo. maybe this is entirely wrong to experts yet it is more truly the situation than arcane historical arguments that cannot be placed in the present, such as tv commercials. (which, by the way, are heavily advertising Homeland Security jobs as a growth industry.) brian [plus, there's serious protectionism now in existing industries/professions to keep things unchanged. one example of total corruption is the field of architecture, where the professors are celebrity architects, schools are intern- ship mechanisms and also places for jobs to be sketched out by students for pilfering by firms, whose architects also are on committees who give themselves awards, run organizations, magazines to officiate and authenticate what are the credentials and licenses needed for a legal practice. if one does not agree with the ideology you cannot work in this field. it is completely controlled and representative of a modern commercialist ideology run amuck.] brian thomas carroll: research-design-development architecture, education, electromagnetism http://www.mnartists.org/brian_carroll http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net