I hope that some members of Capital and Class will be interested in
attending this small, informal meeting this September:
MARX AND THE MACHINE
A week of discussion about computers and electronics from a Marxist
standpoint - for up to 20 people, 11th-18th September 2003, in
South-Eastern France at Paulianne (an organic farm west of the Alps,
south-east of Lyon, close to Luc en Diois, on the River Drome):
http://paulianne.free.fr/
It will cost: 60 euros/person/day, full-board (vegetarian food). Come
for as much of the week as you can manage, or stay longer and bring
family/friends. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would
like to come.
The meeting will go ahead if we have viable numbers by the end of this
month.
I intend a low-intensity affair, with a fairly small number of formal
talks and plenty of time for eating, walking and sitting around. Please
let me know if you'd like to present a paper, or if you would like
simply to initiate a discussion on some topic of personal concern.
Topics may include: the "weightless" economy and "post-industrial"
society; the open source movement; are today's computers merely
"marketing by other means"?; have computers saved capitalism or are
they its 'enemy within'?; the acceleration of obsolescence;
techno-trash; the real cost of computers; what would a socialist
computer be like?; code considered as "capital"; global exploitation
and super-exploitation of computer workers; disembodied postmodern,
post-human nonsense and the emergence of "the creative industries".
For a foretaste of my own contribution, see:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=84
With best regards,
Bob Hughes
Tel: +44 (0)1865 726804 * Mob: +44 (0)7968 292499 * Mail:
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