http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/04/27/postcapitalist-politics/ faults | sins | abuses Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:26:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/04/27/postcapitalist-politics/#comment-63368 vitia » Blog Archive » Outsider’s Hubris Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:42:23 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/04/27/postcapitalist-politics/#comment-63368 [...] So I’m going to be sitting in on some advanced Econ sections for a couple years, because I think experience goods and immaterial production short-circuit the supposedly transcendent laws of supply and demand associated with the marginal conception of value. We are at a point now, Gibson-Graham asserts in A Postcapitalist Politics, where “the economy loses its character as an asocial body in lawful motion and instead becomes a space of recognition and negotiation” (xxx). This complicates the notion implicit in Shapiro and Varian’s title that Information operates under economic Rules and brings those so-called rules back into the realm of the ethical and the social: information work, in the production, distribution, reproduction, and deployment of immaterial information labor, is ethical and social work, never disconnected from the historical and material realities of space and place, mediated rather than immediate. Such recent realizations in composition, the work folks are doing with Deleuze, with affect, with Latour, with social production, should indicate to us that composition is currently in a space of surplus possibility in the way it imagines its production and circulation of textual value. [...] [...] So I’m going to be sitting in on some advanced Econ sections for a couple years, because I think experience goods and immaterial production short-circuit the supposedly transcendent laws of supply and demand associated with the marginal conception of value. We are at a point now, Gibson-Graham asserts in A Postcapitalist Politics, where “the economy loses its character as an asocial body in lawful motion and instead becomes a space of recognition and negotiation” (xxx). This complicates the notion implicit in Shapiro and Varian’s title that Information operates under economic Rules and brings those so-called rules back into the realm of the ethical and the social: information work, in the production, distribution, reproduction, and deployment of immaterial information labor, is ethical and social work, never disconnected from the historical and material realities of space and place, mediated rather than immediate. Such recent realizations in composition, the work folks are doing with Deleuze, with affect, with Latour, with social production, should indicate to us that composition is currently in a space of surplus possibility in the way it imagines its production and circulation of textual value. [...]

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