MDSB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aol, Gift Economy, Digital Economy
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Group assig(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: do(cid:374)"t do it o(cid:374) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples of te(cid:272)h. The early internet as a space for collaboration and information freedom. Internet as commons the idea of the gift economy (p 36) In the overdeveloped countries, the end of the factory has spelled out the obsolescence of the old working class, but it has also produced generations of workers who have been repeatedly addressed as active consumers of meaningful commodities. This process is usually considered the end of a particular cultural formation, or at least the end of its authentic phase. After incorporation, local cultures are picked up and distributed globally, thus contributing to cultural hybridization or cultural imperialism (depending on whom you listen to). Rather than capital incorporating from the outside the authentic fruits of the collective imagination, it seems more reasonable to think of cultural fl ows as originating within a fi eld that is always and already capitalism.
