Beka,<br><br>Thanks for this, it is a much-needed critique of the techno-utopian frame of much discourse on open-source/networked participation/distributed creativity. Especially:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Participatory frameworks are not in and of themselves politically significant, nor is power limited to distant and impersonal structures. Power is diffuse and distributed, operating through us and on us; participation therefore can turn into a vector for dominant ideologies as easily as it can liberate.<br>
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If participatory frameworks are to have any meaningful political consequence or activist import, they must intervene on some object, to operate in service of an end. <br></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>
</div><div><br>The assumption is almost always that collaboration, networking or distributed creativity is good in and of itself, event though networked power and collaboration are fast becoming the dominant mode of production/coersion/exploitation. What is missing in these conversations is the question of politics: what is it that are we networking/collaborating for (or against)? <br>
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