Seminário com Maurizio Lazzarato – UFRGS
Dec 10, 2009 Economy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1576985897713028936Seminário com Maurizio Lazzarato – UFRGS – Trabalho imaterial e subjtevididade
De la connaissance à la croyance, de la critique à la production de subjectivité
Maurizio Lazzarato
Je ne suis pas sûr que le problème politique de notre présent soit celui de l’art de la critique, puisque c’est le concept même de critique qui pose problème.
Foucault à déjà démontré que dans l’œuvre de Kant nous pouvons trouver deux concepts de critique : le premier « qui pose la question des conditions sous lesquelles une connaissance vraie est possible » et le deuxième qui pose la question « Qu’est-ce que c’est notre actualité ? Quel est le champ actuel des expériences possibles »[1]. Le premier pose la question d’une critique théorique des « limites que la connaissance doit renoncer à franchir » et le deuxième pose la question d’une critique pratique des « franchissement possibles » qu’il qualifie ailleurs comme l’art de ne pas se faire gouverner ou de se gouverner soi-même.
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Tags: 2006, français, Maurizio Lazzarato, subjtevididade, Trabalho imaterial
Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics
Oct 13, 2009 Economy
Dr. Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics on October 12th, 2009, just four months after speaking at the Frankfurt School on the same topic in which she was awarded the prize.
Renowned political scientist, Dr. Elinor Ostrom, from Indiana University – Bloomington, gave a lecture on Friday June 19th, 2009, outlining her latest research and outcomes regarding the problem of “the commons.”
In the lab, she had simulated conflicts concerning the allocation of the commons and had derived a complex theoretical framework that exploits the various elements (e.g. leadership, trust and reciprocity) of this process.
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Tags: Commons, Elinor Ostrom, english, Video
Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism
Sep 22, 2009 Economy
Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how “patient capital” can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity — to the world’s poorest. Filmed jun 2007. from TED.com
Transcript:
Tags: 2007, Jacqueline Novogratz, patient capital, poor
The Commons
Aug 28, 2009 Economy
In a just world, the idea of wealth–be it money derived from the work of human hands, the resources and natural splendor of the planet itself–and the knowledge handed down through generations belongs to all of us. But in our decidedly unjust and imperfect world, our collective wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. There is be a better way–the notion of the commons–common land, resources, knowledge–is a common-sense way to share our natural, cultural, intellectual riches.
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State Capitalism in Britain
Jun 25, 2009 Economy
James Heartfield, Mute magazine
Despite the State being the main investor in the UK’s national economy, the official rhetoric of private sector productivity is alive and well. James Heartfield takes a look at Labour’s failed strategy of privatising public services and the rise of ‘corporate welfare’
Two very contradictory stories about British capitalism are told today. The first is that the State is eating up more and more of the private sector. The sudden increase of public shares in the major banks and the falling of the railways into receivership is evidence of a return to the nationalisations of the 1970s. Some on the left even take heart from this, and urge the government to go the whole way and nationalise the banks. The Sunday Times runs stories warning of ‘Soviet Britain’, to show that in many towns in Britain (and especially in Scotland and Northern Ireland) state spending is a majority of output.
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Tags: 2009, Britain, Capital, Capitalist, corporate welfare, english, government, management, privatisation
Science reinvents the economy: An economy in a computer
Jun 25, 2009 Economy
Magazine issue 2711. New Scientist
More: Can science reinvent the economy?
Can we pack an entire economy, with all its complex human and political interactions, into a computer? Physicist Dirk Helbing of ETH thinks so – as long as we’re bold enough in going about it.
He points out that financial systems aren’t the only monsters we’ve let out of the box. How traffic flows in and around huge cities simply cannot be grasped by mathematical analysis, but computer models let millions of virtual vehicles interact on realistic road patterns – and often discover potential problems before they occur in reality.
The complexity of today’s economy, Helbing suggests, demands a similar approach. “We’re not currently using the best capabilities of science,” he says. “We need to bring together scientists from different fields and put together tools that can be used as a kind of wind tunnel for testing out social and economic policies.”
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Tags: 2009, Capital, Capitalist, computer, english, Knowledge, Market, model, Postcapital, science, text
São tempos difíceis mas interessantes
May 22, 2009 Economy
17.04.2009 – Joana Gorjão Henriques
Depois desta crise com contornos de dilúvio, o que se abre à cultura? Há cenários que já podemos desenhar
Em época de crise, o melhor mesmo é ir às compras na própria casa. Desenterrem-se leituras eternamente adiadas, leia-se finalmente o “Ulisses” de James Joyce que anda por ali há séculos. Os livros podem ser caros, mas ler ainda continua a não ser assim tanto. Até porque um livro pode sempre passar por muitas mãos. E há as bibliotecas, a “forma de entretenimento mais barata de todas”, lembra John Carey, professor de Inglês em Oxford, ao “Guardian”. Por esta lógica, a leitura – não o mercado dos livros – será uma das actividades que menos sofrerá com a crise económica mundial. Mas nem tudo é lógico e nem tudo se pode prever. O podemos esperar, então, dos próximos anos?
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Tags: 2009, Crisis, Cultural Policies, Culture, Joana Gorjão Henriques, português
Three Theses for Virtual Communism
Feb 25, 2009 Economy
Toni Negri
l. COMMUNISM AS EQUALITY, that is the material contents of communism, the critique of capitalism (the market of private individuals) and of socialism (the state-run market), the irreducible desire for equality, “social” property and “social” entrepreneurship… Reexamine and comment on the great texts: especially the Paris Commune and sections of the Grundrisse dealing with the “collective subject.” But also Spinoza, the democracy of the “multitude,” Machiavelli on class struggles, Campanella, Thomas More, Read the rest of this entry »
James Harrington… Bring the discussion of equality to bear on the reality of the capitalist world and show how capitalism constructs the conditions of equality in terms of the organization of labor and the organization of society, but then denies that equality in the framework of the judicial and political superstructures.
Tags: Antonio Negri, Communism, english
How can the cultural sector survive the financial crisis?
Feb 3, 2009 Economy
LabforCulture January 2009
Helmut K. Anheier (Ph.D. Yale University, 1986) is Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University and the academic Director of the Heidelberg Centre for Social Investment. He is also Professor and Director of the Center for Civil Society and the Center for Globalization and Policy Research at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs. Anheier’s work covers the civil society, the nonprofit sector, philanthropy, organisational studies, policy analysis and comparative methodology. In 2008, he published Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy.
It is clear to everyone who follows daily reports about the cancellation of cultural events and the closure of opera houses and theatres, or learns about economic troubles at one cultural institution or another, that the global financial crisis is already having a significant impact on philanthropic giving and non-profit organisations. [1]
It is also clear that the crisis’ impact is going to get deeper and wider for some time to come. It is less clear how long the fallout will last; and it is especially unclear what the crisis ultimately means for policy-makers, leaders and managers in the cultural sector. This article examines how the arts and culture sector is responding to growing uncertainty in the global economy – and how the sector can weather the gathering storm.
Tags: 2009, Art, Crisis, Culture, english, globalisation, Helmut K. Anheier, Keynesianism, non-profits
“El capitalismo no existirá en 30 años”
Feb 1, 2009 Economy
ENTREVISTA CON IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
El autor pasó por Madrid para hablar en un ciclo sobre la crisis del capitalismo organizado por la Universidad Nómada y el Museo Reina Sofía
Wallerstein es una de las mayores autoridades mundiales en el estudio de sistemas económicos.
CARLOS PRIETO – MADRID – 31/01/2009
Cuando Immanuel Wallerstein (Nueva York, 1930) predijo, en plena apoteosis de la Guerra Fría, que el bloque soviético se iba a derrumbar, algunos pensaron que estaba metiendo la pata hasta el fondo. Obviamente, eran ellos los que estaban equivocados. Y es que el sociólogo estadounidense lleva toda su vida académica estudiando las tendencias a largo plazo de los sistemas económicos mundiales desde el Centro Fernand Braudel (Universidad Estatal de Nueva York).
“La crisis económica actual es similar a otras crisis históricas”
Wallerstein, autor de libros como El moderno sistema mundial (Nueva York, 1930) o Capitalismo histórico y movimientos antisistémicos (Akal, Cuestiones de Antagonismo, 2004), pasó por Madrid para hablar en un ciclo sobre la crisis del capitalismo organizado por la Universidad Nómada y el Museo Reina Sofía. Durante su charla, celebrada en un abarrotado salón de actos del museo madrileño, lo que da idea de la expectación que despiertan últimamente las voces críticas con el sistema económico, Wallerstein dejó toda una serie de titulares para la historia: “¿Obama? Por favor, no hemos elegido al Che Guevara; en EEUU, no se puede votar al Che Guevara” o “A día de hoy, se ven las cosas mucho más claras en Porto Alegre que en Davos”.
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Tags: Capitalist, Che Guevara, Crisis, español, Immanuel Wallerstein, Kondratieff, Obama
