S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism

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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Shownotes


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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