SEMINAR “BARCELONA COPYLEFT TRADEMARK”

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1
SEMINAR “BARCELONA COPYLEFT TRADEMARK. Institutions of the Commons”
from 10.30am to 2.30pm
(Sala Conservas, C/ Sant Pau 58, ground floor, 08001 Barcelona. Metro: Liceu)

Organised by Universidad Nómada, Ateneu Candela, Exit

Panel. INSTITUTIONS OF THE COMMONS VERSUS THE CREATIVE CLASS
Gigi Roggero (Edu Factory, AtelierOccupato ESC)
Felipe Brait. (Frente 3 de Fevereiro)
Marion von Osten. (to be confirmed) (Kleines postfordistisches Drama [KPD])
Introduction: Joan M. Gual (EXIT-BCN)

Panel. FROM COGNITIVE CAPITALISM TO THE COMMONFARE
Montserrat Galcerán (Universidad Nómada)
Emmanuel Rodríguez (Universidad Nómada, Traficantes de Sueños)
Matteo Pasquinelli (Rekombinant.org)
Introduction: Raúl Sánchez Cedillo (Universidad Nómada)

The seminar seeks in-depth analysis of the logic of copyleft and how it permeates the creation of new (social and arts) movement institutions. It will also explore the way these new institutions conceive the centrality of knowledge in the current phase of capitalism as a value-generating material asset, and how it is exploited in order to block social cooperation and access to shared forms of knowledge.
The University-Factory and  City-Company versus Institutions of the Commons. The Logic of Private Property versus the Logic of Common Property. Instead of the Information Society, Cognitive Capitalism, so as to state and shed light on a conflict that persists in contemporary global society: the issue of government and control in the Internet age.
“Thus, precarization and budgetary reduction force general intellect into a kind of strangulation, which, in the medium term, is expressed as a depletion of forms of production. (….) Some forms of basic income – grants systems in education and research, the reduction of reproduction assets, investments in social infrastructure – are also ways of investing in cooperation pools that make it possible to  multiply positive external factors, which companies end up using to their advantage. This means that one of the possible options for the movements would be to hasten these capital reform tendencies in a direction that allows nodes of productive and political autonomy to be established. In response to the announcement of a new type of welfare, the social movements will be ready to bring about political change that will make the commons the new status of citizenship, without the consideration of labour provision. To coin a new word, we could call it The Commonfare.”
(Raúl Sánchez Cedillo and Emmanuel Rodríguez. Capitalismo Cognitivo, propiedad intelectual y creación colectiva. Traficantes de Sueños)
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