{"id":4962,"date":"2011-07-09T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2011-07-09T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:10:04","slug":"plasticity-run-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/07\/09\/plasticity-run-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasticity run wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/07\/08\/the-dharma-of-file-sharing\/\">Dharma of file sharing<\/a> post, visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/thomasgokey.com\/home.html\">Tom Gokey<\/a>, whose work readers may know from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpraxis.com\/speculations\/?page_id=10\">Speculations<\/a> journal, shared a link to his video on &#8220;Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs, and Hackerspaces.&#8221; It is&#8230; stunning in its implications. Just watch.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCXlJ36x-q0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The democratization of production? The total plasticization of the world?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Tom wants to read the book that will become <em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em> or <em>Kapital<\/em> for the new economic system that will result from these technologies. I would like to throw a quiet   warning into the mix: since both Adam Smith and Karl Marx got the future of their own visions very wrong (witness: capitalism today, and communism\/socialism circa 1990 or, better yet, 1932-3), should we find this new Adam Marx of the New Digital Wilderness &#8212; send out a search party like  Tibetan monks  on the quest  for the new Karmapa or Dalai Lama &#8212; and quickly innoculate him against utopian over-reach? A quick course in the history of how-things-become-completely-different-from-what-we-intend-them-to-be? (G. I. Gurdjieff had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ardue.org.uk\/university\/intro\/octave.html\">right insight<\/a> about this.)<\/p>\n<p>Class assignment: In the world that will result from this, what, if anything, will the following mean (or become)? Nature. Culture. Materiality. Textuality. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SolDeXO_eOQC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=plasticity+malabou&amp;hl=en&amp;src=bmrr&amp;ei=MK0YTuS8L4Ts0gGi5pGXBQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Plasticity. Writing<\/a>. Wild(er)ness. Domestication. Property. Freedom. Ecology. Reality.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea that we will all one day be Children of Joseph Beuys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my Dharma of file sharing post, visual artist Tom Gokey, whose work readers may know from Speculations journal, shared a link to his video on &#8220;Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs, and Hackerspaces.&#8221; It is&#8230; stunning in its implications. Just watch. The democratization of production? 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