Notes on Capitalism—its characteristics and structures:
not only an economic system, but also a social system
embedded in social structures & nature:
cooperations
market
family
etc etc
extracting values & labour from people, ressources from nature, ecology
consumer
consumerism
hierarchy
hierarchical organisation
the autonomous individual is in the center of organising
a gendered and racialised system
refugee crises
exposion
exstinction
The entrepreneur accoring to Joseph Schumpeter via Hardt & Negri
decommodified organisation
Gilles Deleuze: Foucault Seminar
After Michel Foucault’s death from AIDS on June 25, 1984, Deleuze decided to devote an entire year of his seminar to a study of Foucault’s writings. Deleuze analyses in detail what he took to be the three “axes” of Foucault’s thought: knowledge, power, and subjectivation.
NEOLIBERALISM CAPITALISM
shape people as consumers & costumers & make them entrepreneurs of themselves
land and housing in Marinaleda
Michel Foucault
Lecture Series at Collège de France, The Birth of Biopoolitics, 1979 -- introducing the American model of neo-liberalism and the "redefinition of homo economicos as entrepreneur of himself"
Audio Recording of the Lecture (in French) from the Berkley archives.
Kropotkin was listed as a self-employed ‘Geographer’ in 1901... the concept of "Mutual Aid" goes back to him ....
Michael Hardt, Toni Negri: Entrepreneurship of the Multitude
and the notion of entrepreneurship according to Joseph Schumpeter
Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice: Lessons from W.E.B. Du Bois, Critical Theoretical Perspectives, and Mobilising Collective Care in Disasters
Examples:
Public Health Care System
Peer-to-Peer Network-Production
Wikipedia and other sharing knowledge platforms
Open Source Software
Creative Commons
Marinaleda: a Self-managed Village -- a city cooperative
https://criticalconcrete.com/marinaleda/
Methods and Tools Used The system in which the city of Marinaleda has operated since 1979 is based on the active participation of all citizens, politically, economically and socially. This organizational form is called self-management: the decision-making process for the management of the city is controlled by the inhabitants of the city. In Marinaleda, the divisions between the political elite and the average citizen no longer exist, the most senior politician, the mayor, has no privileges associated with this position.
LOGICS OF TRANSFORMATION
1) operating on the margins of a dominant system ... a resisting practice, trying to get away
2) symbiotic mode --- alternative organising in tight collaboration with the dominant system > trying to tame the excesses of the capitalist system
3) disruptive, ruptural mode
Self-Build Housing Schemes In Marinaleda
José Candón-Mena. University of Sevilla
Pepa Domínguez Jaime, Municipal Architect of Marinaleda
15-M, or indignados, movement
>> wikipedia
Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in the Harris Tweed industry of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
PhD download from the University of Manchester
