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S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism


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Episode: S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism
Pub date: 2022-01-09

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Platforms are ubiquitous. However, they arguably can only realise their full potential when they are no longer subjected to the imperatives of the profit motive. For this we need: Platform Socialism.


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James Muldoon's Website:

https://jamesmuldoon.org/


Autonomy:

https://autonomy.work/


Autonomy_Digital (where James is project lead):

https://autonomy.work/autonomy_digital/


James on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/james_muldoon_


James on the website of the University of Exeter:

https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/muldoon/


Muldoon, James. 2022. Platform Socialism. London: Pluto Press: 

http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346953/platform-socialism/


Muldoon, James. 2021. "Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism", online article on openDemocracy:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/technology-and-democracy/regulating-big-tech-is-not-enough-we-need-platform-socialism/


Further material:

Tiziana Terranova (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Terranova


Terranova, Tiziana. 2004. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783714421/network-culture/


Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs:

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/


Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" in New Left Review 116/117 (full article online):

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism


The Social Dilemma, Netflix Show (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma


Tristan Harris (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris


G.D.H. Cole (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._H._Cole


Guild Socialism (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_socialism


Fabian Society:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society


Otto Neurath (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath


Resonate Streaming Platform:

https://resonate.is/


Friedrich August von Hayek (Wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek


Leigh, Phillips and Rozworski, Michal. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. New York: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart


Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:

S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/


S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt.1 & 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/


S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/


S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/


S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/


(German) S01E55/56 | Michael Seemann zur Macht der Plattformen (pt. 1 & 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e55-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-1/;

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e56-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-2/

 

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