Our collaborator Vasilis Kostakis published an article in Rethinking Marxism. Here’s the editor’s note: “Web 2.0 is exploiting a reserve army of amateurs. That’s the evocative argument advanced by Vasilis Kostakis concerning the transformation of the computer industry inaugurated by the new version of the Internet. The netarchists and netocrats who now own the platforms… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2009"
A call for a global network of city arcologies
In Reality Sandwich, the writer by the name of Doctress Neutopia has an interesting essay which describes the relatively failed urban project of Paul Soleri, i.e. the Arcology project. She believes that the time is now ripe for a worldwide coalition of such urban renewal projects, especially needed in the context of what Peak Oil… Continue reading
The continued importance of unions
The report indicates that if California workers were compensated for 100 percent of their productivity gains since 1980, the average wage would be more than 30 dollars an hour, or 40 percent higher than the average real wage in 2007. The following is from the LIVING WAGE COALITION OF SONOMA COUNTY website in California. The… Continue reading