Notes on Capitalism—its characteristics and structures:

not only an economic system, but also a social system


embedded in social structures & nature:


cooperations

market

family

etc etc

 

extracting values & labour from people, ressources from nature, ecology


consumer

consumerism 


hierarchy

hierarchical organisation


the autonomous individual is in the center of organising


a gendered and racialised system

refugee crises


exposion

exstinction

Emil Røyrvik: 

ORGANISING OTHERWISE

Intro Lecture to the KUNO express course, March 18, 2024

How

Capitalism

creates/organises

social relationships

and how can it be changed & transformed 

CRISIS

CRISES

MULTIPLE CRISES

ECOLOGICAL

JUSTICE

DEMOCRACY


The entrepreneur accoring to Joseph Schumpeter via Hardt & Negri

an overarching system 

 

but with cracks and openings and stuff happening in between

value creation 

solidarity economy 

imagining liveable futures

 

ways or self-organising out of the crisis 

cooperative market society 

decommodified organisation


Alternative 

Ways of

Organising

examples...

Marinaleda

Gilles Deleuze: Foucault Seminar

 

After Michel Foucault’s death from AIDS on June 25, 1984, Deleuze decided to devote an entire year of his seminar to a study of Foucault’s writings. Deleuze analyses in detail what he took to be the three “axes” of Foucault’s thought: knowledge, power, and subjectivation. 

 

NEOLIBERALISM CAPITALISM

shape people as consumers & costumers  & make them entrepreneurs of themselves

land and housing in Marinaleda

>>> EXAMPLES >>>

Michel Foucault 

Lecture Series at Collège de France, The Birth of Biopoolitics, 1979 -- introducing the American model of neo-liberalism and the "redefinition of homo economicos as entrepreneur of himself"  

valorisation

use value

value of experience

exchange value

Audio Recording of the Lecture (in French) from the Berkley archives.

Kropotkin was listed as a self-employed ‘Geographer’ in 1901... the concept of "Mutual Aid" goes back to him ....

Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice: Lessons from W.E.B. Du Bois, Critical Theoretical Perspectives, and Mobilising Collective Care in Disasters

All feeding into aspects of transformation 

MORE EXAMPLES... 

Decommodified Organisation

not to commodify relationships.

Products, not bought and sold

Mutual Aid in moments of desaster / DIY Organising  / Tool Libraries / Free Clinics

Examples: 

 

Public Health Care System

Peer-to-Peer Network-Production

Wikipedia and other sharing knowledge platforms

Participedia

Open Source Software

Creative Commons

Cooperative Market Economy / Cooperative Society

Workers' run organisation

Common Goods

The Commons

Marinaleda: a Self-managed Village -- a city cooperative

https://participedia.net/

https://criticalconcrete.com/marinaleda/

 

Methods and Tools Used The system in which the city of Marinaleda has operated since 1979 is based on the active participation of all citizens, politically, economically and socially. This organizational form is called self-management: the decision-making process for the management of the city is controlled by the inhabitants of the city. In Marinaleda, the divisions between the political elite and the average citizen no longer exist, the most senior politician, the mayor, has no privileges associated with this position.

LOGICS OF TRANSFORMATION


1) operating on the margins of a dominant system ... a resisting practice, trying to get away

2) symbiotic mode --- alternative organising in tight collaboration with the dominant system > trying to tame the excesses of the capitalist system

3) disruptive, ruptural mode

Law making

Legislation

Disrupt excessive more

Changes from below and above, from within and against...  

Self-Build Housing Schemes In Marinaleda 
José Candón-Mena. University of Sevilla
Pepa Domínguez Jaime, Municipal Architect of Marinaleda

decidim.org

a digital platform for citizen participation

 15-M, or indignados, movement

 >> wikipedia 

Joana Nascimento

Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in the Harris Tweed industry of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

PhD download from the University of Manchester


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