C. A. Gregory: Gifts and Commodities, 2nd ed. (1982/2015)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, commodity, economics, ethnography, gift, political economy, value
“C. A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.
Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era.”
First edition published by Academic Press, London, 1982.
Second edition
Foreword by Marilyn Strathern
New Preface by the Author
Publisher HAU Books, Chicago, 2015
Open access
ISBN 0990505014, 9780990505013
lxiii+268 pages
Reviews: Ronald Waterbury (American Anthropology, 1985), C.J. Bliss (Contrib Pol Economy).
Comment (0)Keller Easterling: Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, architecture, city, design, economics, globalisation, governance, infrastructure, power, resistance, software, space
“Extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city: it’s the key to power – and resistance – in the twenty-first century.
Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us – free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. Extrastatecraft charts the emergent new powers controlling this space and shows how they extend beyond the reach of government.
Keller Easterling explores areas of infrastructure with the greatest impact on our world – examining everything from standards for the thinness of credit cards to the urbanism of mobile telephony, the world’s largest shared platform, to the “free zone,” the most virulent new world city paradigm. In conclusion, she proposes some unexpected techniques for resisting power in the modern world.”
Publisher Verso, 2014
ISBN 1781685878, 9781781685877
252 pages
Reviews: Self (AR 2014), Wark (2014), Garrett (Antipode 2015), Chan (Art Papers 2015), Owens (Icon 2015), Coggan (Oculus 2015), Harwood (Artforum 2015), Barber (CAA 2018).
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Vasilis Kostakis, Christos Giotitsas (eds.): Beyond the State and the Market: The Peer Perspetive (2014) [Greek]
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, commons, economics, governance, networks, p2p
«Η ιστορία τελείωσε», διαλαλούν μερικοί. Άραγε υπάρχει κάτι άλλο να αντιταχθεί στο παρόν καπιταλιστικό σύστημα και την οικονομία της «ελεύθερης» αγοράς;
Καθώς τα κηρύγματα περί αέναης οικονομικής ανάπτυξης έχουν οδηγήσει σε βαθιά περιβαλλοντική κρίση, υπάρχει βιώσιμη εναλλακτική που να κατανοεί το πεπερασμένο των φυσικών πόρων; Υπάρχει άλλος τρόπος κοινωνικής οργάνωσης που να συνειδητοποιεί το κοινωνικό όφελος που προκύπτει από το διαμοιρασμό της πληροφορίας, του πολιτισμού και της γνώσης;
Αν ο καπιταλισμός γεννήθηκε μέσα στο φεουδαρχικό σύστημα για να το υπερβεί στη συνέχεια, κατά παρόμοιο τρόπο υπάρχουν ενδείξεις για σπόρους ενός νέου παραδείγματος στη σημερινή συγκυρία;
A volume on the peer-to-peer theory and the commons with texts by the scholars and activists Michel Bauwens, David Bollier, Antonis Broumas, George Dafermos, Christos Giotitsas, Silke Hefric, Vasilis Kostakis, Jakob Rigi, Graham Seaman, Johan Söderberg and Raul Victor.
Πέρα από το κράτος και την αγορά: Η ομότιμη προοπτική
Publisher Voreiodytikes Publications, May 2014
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 GR License
144 pages