Johan Söderberg: Hacking Capitalism. The Free and Open Source Software Movement (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, filesharing, floss, free software, gift economy, hacker culture, hacking, intellectual property, open source, software
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.
Publisher Routledge, 2007
Volume 9 of Routledge research in information technology and society
ISBN 0415955432, 9780415955430
252 pages
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Comments (3)Graeme B. Robertson: The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, democracy, politics, protest, russia, social movements
Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes builds on previously unpublished data and extensive fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. More generally, the book develops a theory of how the nature of organizations in society, state strategies for mobilizing supporters, and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes.
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2010
ISBN 0521118751, 9780521118750
304 pages
Alain Joxe: Empire of Disorder (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · balkans, chechnya, democracy, economy, empire, fascism, globalisation, kosovo, military, neoliberalism, philosophy, politics, serbia, sovereignty, strategy, violence, war, yugoslavia
“Globalization is quickly turning the world into a chaos, leading to an increasing disparity between rich and poor, the rise of an international, rootless ‘noble class,’ and an escalating number of endless cruel little wars. Yet the United States refuses to conquer the world and assume the protective imperial role for the societies it subjugates. Instead, it operates on a case-by-case basis, regulating disorder, repressing the symptoms of despair instead of attacking its cause. For the first time perhaps, humanity has embarked on an ocean of disorder with no final order in sight.”
Translated by Ames Hodges
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2002
Active Agents series
ISBN 1584350164, 9781584350163
221 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-26)
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