Available now from Meson Press: Shintaro Miyazaki's new book “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation”
https://meson.press/books/counter-dancing-digitality (free PDF via Open Access)

This has been my most extensive translation effort to date. Going through all these elaborations and finding English words for them, particularly for the idiosyncratic expressions, has been a deep dive into the inspiring network of thoughts presented in this text. I am happy it is finally published: “Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning. The aim is a world where profit and property no longer exist, but instead where a cooperative dance – between all the needs posed by our ecosystems, and all the needs of people – becomes practicable. This book is a critical media theory of future-building, modulated by a focus on the potentials of counter-dancing as providing ways to unfold fugitive practices.”

Prof. Dr. Shintaro Miyazaki teaches and researches in the field of media studies (digitality, computation, critique, and social transformation) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His collaegue Jussi Parikka, professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University & Winchester School of Art, says: “Shintaro Miyazaki’s joyful book builds a media theoretical proposal for collective rhythms in computational culture. The mix of wonderful readings and insights offers alternatives to the depressing beat of capitalism, while maneuvering from cybernetics and computational modeling to play, from media archaeology to Marx and digital commons.”

The German version, published a few months earlier, can be accessed from https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6626.

#MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #DigitalMedia #Cybernetics #Commonism #Commons #DigitalCommons #DigitalCulture #Politics #AntiCapitalism #DigitalSolidarity #OpenAccess

It's possible to see the criminalization of sex work as enclosure of productive commons in support of capitalism. I feel like people must already have thought about this and am hoping someone could recommend reading? The argument:

1. Everyone has a body and can potentially use it to make money directly through sex work. Bodies are a means of production available to every person without intermediation.

2. People who can support themselves directly may not choose to engage in wage labor. This threatens capitalism, which requires a steady supply of commoditized labor.

3. Capital's response is to cut off access to the means of production, an enclosure process. Liberated sex work, with no entree for the state through criminalization, threatens capitalism and is therefore illegal.

I'm not claiming that this is the sole reason sex work is criminalized. Criminalized sex work, like all aspects of capitalism, has many uses and so is highly overdetermined. There are many, many reasons for it.

#Capitalism #SexWork #Anarchism #Capital #Anarchy #Criminalization #Enclosure #Commons #Abolition #Commonism #Commons

"Beyond all the ideology of the special mission of the university sector it is worth remembering two things. First, students make the higher education system. Professors are primarily supervisory. Second, students working to become teachers, in any area, are – all of them – being groomed for management. Graduate students feel this contradiction and it hurts because they are moving from the shop floor to management. But the fact is that if you want to teach for money in our system, you’re supposed to supervise. None of this would need saying if we were talking about the automobile sector."

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Plantocracy and Communism
@IllWill

https://illwill.com/plantocracy-and-communism

#FredMoten #StefanoHarney #Plantocracy #Communism #Commonism #Undercommons #HigherEducation #Universities #College #Education #IllWill

"Make Capitalism History -
A Practical Framework for Utopia
and the Transformation of Society"

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-14645-9.pdf?pdf=button

https://commonism.org/

#Anticapitalism #Commons #Commonism aka #Commonsgesellschaft #Politik #Gesellschaft

Freshly out finally: Counter-Dancing Digitality (free PDF) https://doi.org/10.14619/0481 I am very looking forward to read spicy feedback. Let's practice futuring everyday! #commonism

From the book blurb: Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning.