Any existing structures and all the conditions of doing business are always in a process of change. Every situation is being upset before it has had time to work itself out.
Crowdsourced
Andrew made a Tumblr for his forthcoming thesis. Sometimes he will get off topic though.
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As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment. Any existing structures and all the conditions of doing business are always in a process of change. Every situation is being upset before it has had time to work itself out. Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
To any mind not warped by the habit of fingering the Marxian rosary it should be obvious that…
The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – has increased in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production. The result is not, as Marx seems to have expected, the self-dissolution of capitalism, but the gradual transformation of the profit generated by the exploitation of labour into rent appropriated through the privatisation of knowledge.
Levi’s uses Instagram to crowdsource stars of next campaign
Levi’s is to launch a global casting call for its 2012 brand campaign using photo-sharing app Instagram.
The brand is testing out crowdsourcing via the app, which now has 15m users and recently saw US President Barack Obama sign up.
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Look at this fucking hipster. Look at this pathetic attempt to cash in on the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.
New Yorker cartoon on crowdsourcing - what does it mean? The metaphor seems backwards to me.
…spec work devalues the communication design profession. It reduces communication design to a commodity, rather than to a specialized service.
I am looking for another success story for crowdsourcing like Goldcorp and Toyota, that have opened up there information pathways to people for the company's for humanities greater good. Do you have any other success stories?
Success stories comprise the whole of the crowdsourcing literature; that sort of uncritical, anecdotal, cyber-utopian thing is not really what I am trying to do here. Best of luck in your search for social media gurus.
Marx is not only selling well, he has also been praised most recently by German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück, who recently told the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, ‘Certain parts of Marx’s thinking are really not so bad.’
To confront these issues, we, along with many others, have proposed possible initial steps, such as establishing a guaranteed income, the right to global citizenship, and a process of the democratic reappropriation of the common. But we are under no illusion that we have all the answers. Instead we are encouraged by the fact that we are not alone asking the questions. We are confident, in fact, that those who are dissatisfied with the life offered by our contemporary neoliberal society, indignant about its injustices, rebellious against its powers of command and exploitation, and yearning for an alternative democratic form of life based on the common wealth we share – they, by posing these questions and pursuing their desires, will invent new solutions we cannot yet even imagine. Those are some of our best wishes for 2012.
