Week 2, group 1:: Private Property of the Virtual MEDIAcrity
Mohaned, Etienne, Jon Kebe, Bastien, Jason, Brent
Again, we face the challenge of interrelating a masterpiece of political position and innovation, such as Marx’s ultimate views on private property, with a very valid and important reflection (Oosterling). Then again, after sharing a few ideas amongst ourselves, it is not hard to see where the relation is, in terms of access to the most precious thing there is in the world: information. (Oosterling himself says that “Knowledge empowers subjects”).
We frequently feel the need to be consumed by society. In the intro of Oosterling’s article, the subjected individual constantly feels the need to e-mail his peers and/or become centered around communications, etc. When he does not have these technologies available, ‘things break down’, feeling incomplete. When you take away a cellular phone, it may feel like you’re loosing your leg. Communism’s objectives: equality, and to satisfy all classes. The same objective is shared with new media and the internet.
We are useless if we are not connected, just like the nodes. A laborer is made alien to himself because everything he produces is taken away from him and does not belong to him "he looses his rightful existence". A laborer works as a medium to produce something that might be tangible, but that it does not necessarily have an effect on him. Just like we have become nodes of our society and rely excessively on each other in crazy levels of inter-connectivity.
The more a man works as a laborer, the less he has to consume for himself because his "product and labor" are estranged from him. So this will inevitably create a gap between the lower and higher class which will only get bigger with time and the evolution of mass production, and will lead to the uprising of the lower class against the upper class.
Private property becomes a product and casue of "alienated labor", which cause disharmony . The workers are therefore seen as machines and not individuals, this is why they can be so easily be removed \nand replaced, because you always can find a guy who you know can be qualified to do the exact thing the previous guy was doing. Alienated labor is seen as the consequence of market product, the division of labor and the division of society into "antagonistic classes". Then again, there are parallelisms between Private Property, Capitalism and the massified access to the internet and its economic repercussions in the daily lives of our node-icized selfs: “Spam creates choices. It makes us want what we could not even imagine. Telling is selling. Information pays off, because it connects. The will to be informed turns modern interiority inside out: We do no longer enjoy knowledge, but sheer access.”
Again, we face the challenge of interrelating a masterpiece of political position and innovation, such as Marx’s ultimate views on private property, with a very valid and important reflection (Oosterling). Then again, after sharing a few ideas amongst ourselves, it is not hard to see where the relation is, in terms of access to the most precious thing there is in the world: information. (Oosterling himself says that “Knowledge empowers subjects”).
We frequently feel the need to be consumed by society. In the intro of Oosterling’s article, the subjected individual constantly feels the need to e-mail his peers and/or become centered around communications, etc. When he does not have these technologies available, ‘things break down’, feeling incomplete. When you take away a cellular phone, it may feel like you’re loosing your leg. Communism’s objectives: equality, and to satisfy all classes. The same objective is shared with new media and the internet.
We are useless if we are not connected, just like the nodes. A laborer is made alien to himself because everything he produces is taken away from him and does not belong to him "he looses his rightful existence". A laborer works as a medium to produce something that might be tangible, but that it does not necessarily have an effect on him. Just like we have become nodes of our society and rely excessively on each other in crazy levels of inter-connectivity.
The more a man works as a laborer, the less he has to consume for himself because his "product and labor" are estranged from him. So this will inevitably create a gap between the lower and higher class which will only get bigger with time and the evolution of mass production, and will lead to the uprising of the lower class against the upper class.
Private property becomes a product and casue of "alienated labor", which cause disharmony . The workers are therefore seen as machines and not individuals, this is why they can be so easily be removed \nand replaced, because you always can find a guy who you know can be qualified to do the exact thing the previous guy was doing. Alienated labor is seen as the consequence of market product, the division of labor and the division of society into "antagonistic classes". Then again, there are parallelisms between Private Property, Capitalism and the massified access to the internet and its economic repercussions in the daily lives of our node-icized selfs: “Spam creates choices. It makes us want what we could not even imagine. Telling is selling. Information pays off, because it connects. The will to be informed turns modern interiority inside out: We do no longer enjoy knowledge, but sheer access.”
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