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To compost the #dotcons, the #openweb needs more people with shovels
Yes, the #web02 revolution was a con, it always was. The problem is now most people have spent years pretending that the dominant technology companies were somehow neutral actors - clever companies making useful tools, occasionally getting a little too powerful, occasionally needing a bit of regulation. But now this comforting chattering class story is harder to maintain, as the long "invisible" problem has finally reached the #mainstream, the act of stepping over the smoke and mirrors can […]https://hamishcampbell.com/to-compost-the-dotcons-the-openweb-needs-to-shovel-harder/
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To compost the #dotcons, the #openweb needs more people with shovels
Yes, the #web02 revolution was a con, it always was. The problem is now most people have spent years pretending that the dominant technology companies were somehow neutral actors - clever companies making useful tools, occasionally getting a little too powerful, occasionally needing a bit of regulation. But now this comforting chattering class story is harder to maintain, as the long "invisible" problem has finally reached the #mainstream, the act of stepping over the smoke and mirrors can […]https://hamishcampbell.com/to-compost-the-dotcons-the-openweb-needs-to-shovel-harder/
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The #openweb and projects such as the #OMN are more than technical alternatives
Techno #feudalism is a description of the power that large #dotcons technology platforms now have over the economy and society. The comparison is with medieval feudalism. Under feudalism, land was the critical means of production and ordinary people worked land they did not own. Lords controlled access to it and extracted rents or surplus from those who depended on it. This is relevant today were the critical bottleneck is increasingly digital capital: platforms, servers, algorithms, data, […] -
There is a wide gap between the people who talk about changing society and the people who actually have to live in the current mess
The #fashionista left problem isn't simply “bad messaging”, but the loss of relationships, class politics and ordinary participation. This left path is #blocking, leading to a serious problem, that there is a growing gap between the people who talk about changing society and the people who actually have to live with the consequences of the society we have. A lot of contemporary so-called left politics has become a culture of credentials, language, status and moral performance. Political […] -
The old system is already compost, the question is what we grow from this mess
We need to stop talking about “climate change” as though we are discussing a slightly inconvenient change in the weather. Climate change is too soft, too neutral. Climate change makes it sound as though something simply happened to us. It didn't, we pushed this mess, we built an economic system that treats the living world as raw material, turns everything into property, pushes everything through markets and then calls the resulting destruction “growth”. The next twenty years will be […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-old-system-is-already-compost-the-question-is-what-we-grow-from-it/