Reposting this bloated commentary on recent art market trends by a pungently named French art writer.
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subject: Art | Business | Finance & Trade | Intellectual Property
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 - 13:45
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Ironic distance is ambiguous. It grounds both critique and detached resignation to the status quo. What becomes of it in the viral world of web 2.0?, ask Pil and Galia Kollectiv
subject: Blogging | Intellectual Property | Internet | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Web 2.0
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 18 July, 2007 - 13:56
Dmytri Kleiner
Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide ranging debate on the future of copyright. Dmytri Kleiner brings existing critiques of material property from the left to bear upon the realm of copyleft artistic production and asks how, within the existing copyright regime, can artists earn a living?
subject: AntiCapitalist | Art | Computing | Economics | Free Software | Intellectual Property | Labour Struggles | Law | Media | New Media Art | Peer2Peer | Politics
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 May, 2007 - 11:20
Paul Helliwell
As the scarcity essential to the cultural commodity is undermined by digital abundance and social networking, social relations and the unique ‘live’ performance are all that's left to sell. Mass market music increasingly resembles relational art with its dream of waking the ‘zombies’ of consumer culture, but are the citizens of Web 2.0 society born again or undead? Paul Helliwell shuffles through the mall
subject: Blogging | Free Software | Intellectual Property | Music | Peer2Peer | Relational Aesthetics | Web 2.0
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 16:43
Olga Guriunova
Will the ‘hive mind’ of social networking replace classical forms of knowledge production? Comparing Web 2.0 and small-scale, self-run cultural platforms, Olga Goriunova maintains the possibility for originality in both contexts, while identifying how the same old commercial and institutional pressures still operate
subject: Avant-Garde | Blogging | Independent Media | Intellectual Property | Internet | Net Art
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 16:41
Angela Mitropoulos
Do blogs and social network-based sites offer the prospect of a democratic sociability without borders or wars? Should unpaid producers of content struggle for fair compensation? Or does the very sense of ownership, justice and right founded on labour need to be shaken up?
Angela Mitropoulos takes a critical look at the dissident pragmatism of the startup and the ‘alternative’ economies of the digital commons
subject: Blogging | Class | Commons | Globalisation | Intellectual Property | Internet | Marxist | Post-Autonomist | Technology | War
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 16:35
Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick
The hype surrounding Web 2.0’s ability to democratise content production obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing. Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick expose Web 2.0 as a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production
subject: Blogging | Commons | Free Software | Intellectual Property | Internet | New Economy | New Enclosures | Peer2Peer
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Submitted by anthony on Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 - 11:00
Dmytri Kleiner
Dmytri Kleiner strikes again! This time responding to comments by
Michel Bauwens regarding this previous post, Kleiner spells out in
more detail his views on the compatibility of the existing form of
'commons-based peer production' with really existing capitalism
as well as providing a retort to arguments for a basic-income as the
material plug-in to the 'weightless economy' of information production
circulation.
subject: AntiCapitalist | Computing | Conferences | Economics | Finance & Trade | Free Software | Intellectual Property | Media | New Economy | New Media