Welcome to the Big Society! By Benedict Seymour
The first in an irregular series of Mute columns kicks off with some reflections on a very special week for the UK and its 'plabour' pool Hello and welcome to The Big Society! This is the week that we officially entered the new Victorian order of voluntary servitude and self-managed devalorisation, courtesy of Uncle Dave Cameron. From now on public services that cannot be supplied by public-private partnerships or privatised outright will be self-managed by their users. It’s like a vast extrapolation from the ‘plabour’ economics of Web 2.0, except it’s for stuff you don’t actually want to do under any circumstances. What happened first in the social networks must now happen throughout the network society. To keep trillions in fictitious capital from total collapse we must cut our own reproduction in half. Wow, sounds great! When do we start? http://www.metamute.org/en/content/welcome_to_the_big_society _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
