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Towards Objects of New Communism: Google, Facebook and other contradictions of emancipation in capitalism

Saturday, 14 August 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A talk by Toni Prug.

How do our relationships with objects shape the relations we have with each other? Can we reconcile our desire for a fairer, egalitarian world with our love of commodities? Do the spaces of production and exchange created by the objects of new technologies alter this? In this discussion workshop, Toni Prug addresses these questions as he explores the tensions between commons (objects as collective resources) and commodities (objects for commercial exchange). Taking a scene from Sex in The City II, social networking sites, and the fate of our welfare services as starting points, the discussion asks can we envisage a new model under which the production and exchange of objects can create more emancipatory relations?

Toni Prug is a writer based in London: http://hackthestate.org

Location:
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

Cost: FREE

URL: http://www.fieldsfactoriesworkshops.net