File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 192


From: "Thomas Atzert" <atzert-AT-gmx.net>
Subject: AUT: Class Composition in Cognitive Capitalism
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:01:22 +0200


a proposal that should be of interest - atb, thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Emery [mailto:ed.emery-AT-cwcom.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: Class Composition in Cognitive Capitalism




PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MAILING TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES

An International Seminar on

CLASS COMPOSITION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM (THE "KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY")

to be held in Paris, 16-17 February 2002

Dear Friends,

I am writing to inform you that I am organising a seminar based
on the
above topic, to be held in Paris on the weekend of 16-17 February
2002.

The basic issue is simple. We are in a new phase of capitalist
development.
The preceding class composition which generated the mass
struggles of the
period up to the 1980s has been destroyed (miners, dockers,
building
workers, auto workers, railways workers, road transport workers
etc).

We are now in a new class composition, built in the new
technologies.
Broadly speaking, the "knowledge economy", or "cognitive
capitalism".

To organise the coming phase of class struggle means that we have
to
understand the contours of this new class composition.

That is the purpose of our Seminar: to prepare papers and to
compare notes
on the new class composition.

One of the starting points for the Seminar will be the materials
on
"Intellectual Property, Free Software and Internet
Subjectivities" prepared
for the May 2001 issue of the Paris-based journal "Multitudes".
Details of
that issue can be found at the Website at
http://www.samizdat.net/multitudes.

This will be an international gathering. This invitation is being
sent to
comrades all round the world. We invite you to attend the
Seminar. And if
you feel that you have something to say, we invite you to present
a paper.

Papers may be presented in English, French or Italian. Papers
will
eventually be published, either on the Website or in book format.

There is no charge for attending the Seminar. We have not applied
for
funding, so no travel expenses can be paid to contributors. As
regards
accommodation, we shall do what we can to find cheap or free
accommodation,
but no promises...

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT A PAPER at the Seminar, please write
to
ed.emery-AT-cwcom.net, presenting an outline of your proposed theme.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND the Seminar, please send your name
and contact
details to the same address.

Furhter details of the Seminar will be posted on the Website at
http://www.geocities.com/Cognitif

With best regards,

Ed Emery








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