"Shoshona (sic!) Zuboff frets that use of this surplus data is potentially destructive to people at personal, familial, and societal levels. And she has a point. De facto monopolies with overwhelming network effects can manipulate people into making unnecessary purchases or poor decisions that benefit large corporations (or governments)." But:
"As the age of customer experience takes hold, enterprises must do far more than collect and analyze customer data to enable the improvement of their products, services, and engagements. They must also tap the so-called behavioral surplus."
"The CX can be great, for example, when an insurance company tracks a driver. The company may use periodic or real-time summaries (objective or gamified) of vehicle data to reward drivers with reduced rates or other goodies for driving safely and efficiently (e.g., braking slowly, cornering gently, and accelerating evenly). For both the driver and the company, this saves money. The insurer will have fewer claims and reduced churn; the driver pays less for insurance and has fewer accidents. "
by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, November 2017 (Volume 69, Number 6) , From an ecological perspective, the Anthropocene marks the need for a more creative, constructive, and coevolutionary relation to the earth. In ecosocialist
s.a. Aktualisierung i.d. operaistischen "Militanten Untersuchung" (1960+) | Arbeitsbed. franz. Arbeiterklasse untersuchen und Befragten Bewusstsein ihrer Lebenslage verschaffen; statistische Erhebung der Lage der Arbeiter durch diese selbst
UN study: Automation stands to reduce opportunities for low-wage workers in North America, the report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development states. But the types of jobs most likely to be eliminated entirely are more prevalent in developing nations. That’s because those same jobs, in sectors like farming and manufacturing, have already mostly dried up in wealthier nations as corporations have moved their operations abroad, in search of higher profits through lower wage costs.
Alexander Bogdanov was a non-Leninist Bolshevik who also wrote science-fiction.
The terms “Bolshevism” and “Leninism” are usually treated as synonyms. In view of Lenin’s enormous influence over the Bolshevik party, that might seem fair enough. But in fact Lenin did have political and intellectual rivals inside his own party. The most important of these non-Leninist Bolsheviks was Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928).
"The study, conducted by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), finds that from 2000 to 2014, American workers’ total productivity increased 21.6 percent, while the median worker’s compensation, including pay and benefits, rose just 1.8 percent.
The new data continue a trend that goes back decades. From 1973 to 2014, "American worker productivity increased 72.2 percent while median worker compensation rose just 8.7 percent. From 1948 to 1973, by contrast, typical worker compensation and productivity grew at roughly the same rate.
Paul Mason i Guardian, bygger på Grundrisse. Hans bok: Postcapitalism is published by Allen Lane on 30 July.
"Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work, blurred the edges between work and free time and loosened the relationship between work and wages. The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all."
"By creating millions of networked people, financially exploited but with the whole of human intelligence one thumb-swipe away, info-capitalism has created a new agent of change in history: the educated and connected human being."
Kaum ein internationaler Vertrag ist derzeit so umstritten wie die Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft. In Brüssel berät nun die EU-Bischofskommission über TTIP unter der Leitung von Kardinal Marx.
Bo I. Cavefors (understreckare i SvD 1989) I Sverige publiceras sällan intressanta krigshistoriska och krigsteoretiska studier, men en sådan undantagsbok är Europas krig. Militärt tänkande, strategi och politik från Napoleontiden till andra världskrigets slut (Tidens förlag, Stockholm 1989) av Alf W. Johansson, docent vid Stockholms universitet och tillika medarbetare vid Militärhögskolan.
Wenn der Reichtum als Waren erscheint, was sagt das über den Reichtum? Was ist der Zweck der Produktion, wenn /Waren/ produziert werden? Was macht die Vergleichbarkeit der Waren? Fehler Arbeiterbewegung: Nicht dass Arbeit in den Produkten steckt – Arbeit als Quelle allen Reichtums–, sondern was für eine. Nicht Arbeit schafft Werte, sondern nur eine bestimmte. Was ist kritikabel an einer Arbeit, die Werte schafft? Das gearbeitet wird, ist dann positiv = Verschleiß statt nützliche Seite der A. & disposable time;
Statt Lohnarbeit als eine eigentlich gute Sache zu behandeln, bei der nur der Lohn wg. Amoral zu gering ausfiele ("gerechter Lohn für gerechtes Tagwerk"), will Marx zeigen, dass das "immer zu wenig" aus der Logik von kapitalistischer Lohnarbeit folgt; dass also der Kampf aus der Abschinderei einer gegen die Lohnarbeit selbst sein müsste. Jedes Lohnarbeiterinteresse wird notwendig am Kapitalinteresse relativiert und kann sich auch nur als Beitrag zum Kapital durchsetzen.
Jared Diamond: "Faktorerna bakom ett samhälles förmåga eller oförmåga att upptäcka och lösa sina problem kan grupperas i fem kategorier: mänsklig påverkan på nödvändiga resurser, extern klimatförändring, relationer med vänliga samhällen, relationer med fi
Karl Marx lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, dass in der neuesten preußischen Zensurinstruktion als charakteristische Besonderheit der Untersuchung der Wahrheit vorgeschlagen wurde, die Bescheidenheit zu nehmen, und schrieb darüber in seinem ersten publizierten Aufsatz "Bemerkungen über die preußischen Zensurinstruktionen": "Die Wahrheit ist so wenig bescheiden als das Licht, und gegen wen sollte sie es sein? Gegen sich selbst? Verum index sui et falsi. Also gegen die Unwahrheit?"
Walter Benjamin 1892-1940 För ögonblicket finns följande verk på svenska; antingen direkt i arkivet eller som länkar till andra hemsidor: 1921: Försök till en kritik av våldet 1921: Teologisk-politiskt fragment 1927: Moskva 1931: Liten fotografihistoria 1935: Paris, 1800-talets huvudstad 1936: Konstverket i reproduktionsåldern 1940: Historiefilosofiska teser
by PHAM BINH on FEBRUARY 7, 2013. "Warning them of the strings imperialist powers will attach to arms shipments or funding is one thing; attaching strings to our support for their fight by means of a litmus test is another." interventioner
1921: Försök till en kritik av våldet 1921: Teologisk-politiskt fragment 1927: Moskva 1931: Liten fotografihistoria 1935: Paris, 1800-talets huvudstad 1936: Konstverket i reproduktionsåldern 1940: Historiefilosofiska teser
The Ukrainian peninsula has had the misfortune of finding itself on the intersection of Russia’s imperialist ambitions and the brute nationalist politics of the “new” Ukraine. Open Left declares – the Crimean self-determination movement precedes both the imperialist games and the nationalist frenzy.
A speech by Ian Angus, June 2013 suggestions include (as the last one) : " closing down all military operations at home and elsewhere; transforming the armed forces into voluntary teams charged with restoring ecosystems and assisting the victims of environmental disasters." "There is a giant death sentence hanging over much of our world, and capitalism is the executioner. That’s why Climate & Capitalism rewrote Rosa Luxemburg’s famous warning, to say that humanity must choose between ecosocialism and barbarism. And that’s also why, in the 21st century, socialists must be ecosocialists, and humanity needs an ecosocialist revolution."
Vivek Chibber, author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital: "A typical maneuver of postcolonial theorists is to say something like this: Marxism relies on abstract, universalizing categories. But for these categories to have traction, reality should look exactly like the abstract descriptions of capital, of workers, of the state, etc. But, say the postcolonial theorists, reality is so much more diverse. Workers wear such colorful clothes; they say prayers while working; capitalists consult astrologers — this doesn’t look like anything what Marx describes in Capital. So it must mean that the categories of capital aren’t really applicable here." "I am endorsing the view that there are some common interests and needs that people have across cultures."
E. Marx, M. Valli, J. da Silva e Silva, S. Tiwari, and P. do Carmo. Joint Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text and the First International BiKE Challenge co-located with 20th Extended Semantic Conference (ESWC 2023), (2023)
N. Arndt, A. Langer, M. Martin, and S. Tramp. INFORMATIK 2017, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), page 1863. Bonn, Germany, Gesellschaft für Informatik, (September 2017)