Read [[The Stack as an Integrative Model of Global Capitalism]]. Dense but useful and payoff with a call-to-action at the end.
"As far as "communication power" is a central means of coordination and control, it is significant to "reprogram communication networks" by building a "communication society as a society of the commons""
"Technology appropriation and the establishment of commons-based platforms for social provisioning seem to be a potential counter-hegemonic response."
Alright!
@neil https://anagora.org/The+Stack+as+an+Integrative+Model+of+Global+Capitalism
[[the stack as an integrative model of global capitalism]] – anagora.org
@neil Havin’ a look, on your say-so.
@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.
vectoralism
@neil My very first reaction, which I may or may not sustain, is that whether or not all of these ideas are sound, the language they’re framed in only appeals to a very small subset of the people they’re intended to reach. Like, I have a whole bit in the book I’m working on that I’d initially framed out as “the convivial stack,” and the more I think about it, the more I feel like that’s unnecessarily offputting jargon & that I need to do the hard work of finding a description that works better.
@neil Will certainly let you know, though! This is an important set of ideas.
@neil (To be sure, “the stack” is a perfectly cromulent metaphor for people who already work in technology, it’s just that its gradient of comprehensibility falls off fairly rapidly the further you get from the machine.)
@adamgreenfield Ooh I do like ‘the convivial stack’. But fully hear you on the exclusivity of the terms. Stack chimes for me having heard it plenty times across my career. But as with ‘platform’ it can be weirdly jargon-y/specific yet confusingly abstract and amorphous at the same time. Terminology with a broader appeal would be great, hope you can crack that nut!
@neil Me too! : . )
@neil https://anagora.org/Governable+Stacks+against+Digital+Colonialism
[[governable stacks against digital colonialism]] – anagora.org
@neil https://anagora.org/Vectoralism
[[vectoralism]] – anagora.org