[Nettime-bold] The Tragedy of Capital

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

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 between The National Security 
State and its Others. 

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