0f0003 | maschinenkunst on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:44:50 +0200 (CEST) |
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>From: "wade tillett" <wade@281c9c.org> >what if, instead of just going out and buying deoderant and cereal and >toner cartridges, i listed off the ones i would find acceptable and >merged that list with other people who had done the same thing. we would >then have a collective bargaining power by which we could negotiate our >demands: what if ... instead of just going out + seducing 1,2,3 occident girlies with some gratis balkan toner cartridges, i listed off the ones i would find acceptable and merged that list with other people and THEN ... exercising our new + improved collective bargaining power we simply rented them andor bought them ... THEN we could negotiate our balkan DEMANDS THEN THEN ... after all - the occident `democracy`s refrain is that everything is for sale and must be integrated within the formal system - not only land, real estate and commodities, but very importantly, persons too. THEN THEN THEN THEN >disclaimer (which i know i will have to repeat): i ain't saying that >consumer choice = democracy. ne. it = prostitution as the state's scope is to make murder a good action western `democracy`s scope is to make prostitution pervasive, that is to say `arbeit macht ganz glucklich und frei` `as the communists said - comrade lovers, for your health's sake - FUKC FREELY !!!` THEN THEN THEN THEN >what if, instead of just going out and buying deoderant and cereal and >toner cartridges, they grew on trees ... and you + ur urban neo.hipedelik friends picked them what if, just what if, u couldnt buy anything and had 2 seduce everything andor produce it urself what if, just what if, the western democratic revolution, as its eastern counter-part, the communism revolution, rejects love on a small scale. THEN THEN THEN THEN >this is not a new idea of course, it is the basis of the union or >purchasing club. and the state and ur body and ... life what is important is the space between the `units` THEN THEN THEN THEN >i listed off that space cannot be thought it must be ... and then n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n ... n >i listed off the ones i would find acceptable and >merged that list with other people who had done the same thing. we would >then have a collective bargaining power by which we could negotiate our >demands: fair trade, environmental regs, price, etc. and award our large >number of purchases to the winning provider. > >in other words, what if our minute daily decisions were compiled >together as a unit by ourselves? what if the moment of aggregation of >power was done underneath the disaggregate structure? > >this is not a new idea of course, it is the basis of the union or >purchasing club. > >the difference is that the technology exists to make it much more >immediate and individual-based. > >for example, i am driving down the highway, the gas meter tells the >database i will need gas soon. thousands of other people will too. we >could all turn into one brand of gas station, or the other, depending on >what we are offered, say within the next ten minutes. > >(maybe it's an advertiser's dream!) > >in other words, the groupings are variable based on the dynamic >near-immediate needs of the common consumer. it is a swarm based on each >particular momentary decision, not a club. > >as far as doing this with regard to the labor market: this IS what temp. >agencies do, with the exception, of course, of the agency being the >middle man. > >disclaimer (which i know i will have to repeat): i ain't saying that >consumer choice = democracy. this isn't the utopic liberation device >(tm), just an idea that might be of use (probably by being turned into >some ebay/priceline online business thing - ugh, always disfigured >monsters). > >i'm sure this has many precedents.... - ORDNUNG \+\ DISZIPLIN |+| g ooooooooooooooooo l || ||9|| [p-un_kT-pr_o-T?k_oL] Ø f Ø Ø Ø 3 || herausgegeben vøm !nternat!onalen !nst!tut f:ur ordnung |+| d!sz!pl!n : / / www.tagueulebabacloanta.tm _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/