Dis/agreement in participatory organizations. Digital Commons After the
Internet
Wednesday April 5th @ 12PM, online:
https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2023/04/05/cover-seminar-dis-agreement-in-participatory-organizations
James Fox (University of Essex) & Tiziana Terranova (University of
Naples, “L’Orientale”)
This session will feature a presentation by James Fox on his research
into cybernetics and alternative organizational forms, with invited
participation and response from people from the collaborators he has
been working with, followed by a discussion with Tiziana Terranova on
related themes in her new book After the Internet: Digital Networks
between Capital and the Common.
James’ project explores the relationship between cybernetic theory and
non-managerial forms of organization, consider in detail the
implications of organizational cybernetics on non-hierarchical
organizations. He argues that Alternative Organization Studies requires
a more stable, scientific grounding; and that cybernetic theory is an
appropriate language through which to understand these varied
organizational structures. In particular James focuses on the work of
Stafford Beer. Despite the fact that Beer’s work has deep theoretical
resonances with non-hierarchical organizational ideas, his work does
largely assume some role for managers and management, particularly in
the meta-systemic control of large organizations. Can Beer’s theoretical
work be understood and developed without the use (or at least
presupposition) of mangers and management? Can it be used to develop an
understanding of non-managerial, non-hierarchical cybernetic control in
an organization as form of organizational democracy?
In After the Internet Tiziana explores the passage from the internet as
an apparently open space to its transformation today into the Corporate
Platform Complex. In the book Tiziana bears witness to this monstrous
transformation. Mobilizing theories of cognitive capitalism,
neo-monadology, and sympathetic cooperation, considering ideas such as
the attention economy and its psychopathologies, and evoking the
relation between algorithmic automation and the Common, she provides
real-time takes on the mutations that have changed the technological,
cultural, and economic ethos of the Internet. Mostly conceived,
elaborated, and discussed in collective activist spaces, After the
Internet is neither apocalyptic lamentation nor melancholic “rise and
fall” story of betrayed great expectations. On the contrary, it looks
within the folds of the recent past to unfold the potential futurities
that the post-digital computational present still entails.
COVER:
https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/commons-organising-values-equalities-and-resilience
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