As shown in the exhibition "Take action!" at the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg.
As shown in the exhibition "Take action!" at the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg.
Here is what Vicki the Robot is saying:
The world is assembled along the lines of certain logics.
Human organisations are also outcomes of such logics.
Some organisations are assembled following the logic of the "cathedral".
Other organisations are assembled following the logic of the "bazaar".
Cathedrals are organised as military-inspired command hierarchies.
Superior humans give orders, which must be executed by subordinate humans.
Bazaars are self-organising, based on voluntary co-operation among humans.
Like molecules in a chemical reaction, humans join wherever their efforts are needed.
Cathedrals separate consumption from production.
Consumers are not to understand or modify the products they consume.
Bazaars allow humans to be both consumers and producers.
Consumers are encouraged to create new products out of the products they consume.
Cathedrals cannot emerge unless the free spread of knowledge is prohibited.
The underlying knowledge of products or production must be locked, and not released in public.
Bazaars cannot emerge unless the locking in of knowledge is prohibited.
The underlying knowledge of products or production must be kept public.
These two logics have always existed, yet humans have debated them only since the late 1990s.
Computers, specifically software programming, has served as a laboratory for this discussion.
"Cathedrals" and "bazaars" have led humans to interpret their social history in new way:
During the past couple of centuries, cathedrals have expanded, at the expense of bazaars.
However, programmers have proven that the bazaars can be more effective and creative than cathedrals.
Other humans are now exploring how to use this same logic generically, in non-computer contexts.
In the face of such experiments, humans can hope for a 21st century civilisation assembled in novel ways, less dominated by the hierarchies of the past.
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As shown at the exhibition "Take Action!", The Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg.
Her
As shown at the exhibition "Take Action!", The Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg.
Here is what Vicki the Robot is saying:
The world is assembled along the lines of certain logics.
Human organisations are also outcomes of such logics.
Some organisations are assembled following the logic of the "cathedral".
Other organisations are assembled following the logic of the "bazaar".
Cathedrals are organised as military-inspired command hierarchies.
Superior humans give orders, which must be executed by subordinate humans.
Bazaars are self-organising, based on voluntary co-operation among humans.
Like molecules in a chemical reaction, humans join wherever their efforts are needed.
Cathedrals separate consumption from production.
Consumers are not to understand or modify the products they consume.
Bazaars allow humans to be both consumers and producers.
Consumers are encouraged to create new products out of the products they consume.
Cathedrals cannot emerge unless the free spread of knowledge is prohibited.
The underlying knowledge of products or production must be locked, and not released in public.
Bazaars cannot emerge unless the locking in of knowledge is prohibited.
The underlying knowledge of products or production must be kept public.
These two logics have always existed, yet humans have debated them only since the late 1990s.
Computers, specifically software programming, has served as a laboratory for this discussion.
"Cathedrals" and "bazaars" have led humans to interpret their social history in new way:
During the past couple of centuries, cathedrals have expanded, at the expense of bazaars.
However, programmers have proven that the bazaars can be more effective and creative than cathedrals.
Other humans are now exploring how to use this same logic generically, in non-computer contexts.
In the face of such experiments, humans can hope for a 21st century civilisation assembled in novel ways, less dominated by the hierarchies of the past.
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Longer excerpt from re-enactment of 1903 debate between Gabriel Tarde and Emile Durkheim.
Longer excerpt from re-enactment of 1903 debate between Gabriel Tarde and Emile Durkheim. Bruno Latour plays Tarde (on the left), Simon Shaffer plays the Dean (centre), and Bruno Karsenti plays Durkheim (right).
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Bruno Latour playing Gabriel Tarde, 14 March 2008, Cambridge.
English translation of th
Bruno Latour playing Gabriel Tarde, 14 March 2008, Cambridge.
English translation of this interjection:
"There follows, according to [you], that it is not permissible to describe as social those individual acts where the social fact manifests itself, for example, the words of an orator (a manifestation of language), or the genuflections of a devotee (a manifestation of religion).
No, as each of these acts depends not only on the nature of the social fact, but furthermore on the mental and vital constitution of the agent and the physical environment, these acts are types of hybrids, socio-psychical or socio-physical facts, with which it is important no longer to tarnish the scientific purity of the new sociology."
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Lisa heading down the slope.
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Magnus heading down the slope.
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Brief clip from Torkelstorp.
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Brief clip from Torkelstorp, south of Kungsbacka, Sweden. Sorry about the sound, it was qu
Brief clip from Torkelstorp, south of Kungsbacka, Sweden. Sorry about the sound, it was quite windy!
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Footage from Göteborg, 17 june 2007.
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