Tiziana Terranova

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Tiziana Terranova (2019)

Tiziana Terranova (born February 14, 1967 in Italy ) is a theorist and activist whose work focuses on the impact of information technologies on society through concepts such as digital work and common goods, and as an author of network culture politics for the information age as well numerous articles and known as a participant in conferences.

She is professor and researcher in culture, digital media and politics at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Naples L'Orientale . She is a member of the free university network Euronomade and the Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative .

life and work

Theories

Perhaps the best-known part of Terranova's work is the thesis formulated in early 2000 that unpaid user work is the source of economic value in the digital economy. The concept of free labor or free labor is rooted in Italian value theories of work and autonomy, such as rereading Paolo Virno von Marx 's idea of ​​the intellectual general, Antonio Negri's theory of the social factory and Maurizio Lazzarato's concept of immaterial labor .

Free work can be understood in the double sense of the expression in English free movement: in the sense that employees offer it voluntarily and in the sense that they are not remunerated by the beneficiaries (such as social media companies). As such, free labor is just the most extreme form of social work that receives little or no financial compensation. Terranova, for example, describes the university as a "diffuse factory": "An open system that opens up to the broader field of socialized, potential and poorly paid workers." With this in mind, Terranova views free labor as structural in late capitalism .

In the digital economy, free labor is not restricted to that of a particular class of "knowledge workers", but generally refers to collective labor of knowledge production. It is a concept that corresponds to that of "collective intelligence" and is manifested by users on the Internet , for example, through writing, reading, managing and participating in online communities using the example of updated mailing lists, chats and websites. In this sense, it counts not only for intellectual work of creative works, but also for a broad spectrum of cultural and emotional work, the value of which is captured by capital in the digital economy. Of the large amount of work required to keep the internet running, the vast majority don't pay and only a small fraction is overcompensated by the logic of venture capital.

However, Terranova argues that free labor is not necessarily exploited work, as it is often done as part of an exchange between people. Your idea of ​​"free labor" then encompasses both exploited and unused community work. For Terranova, this concept of work also implies a refusal to identify work with paid employment.

Another fundamental aspect of their theory is the importance of the internet in late capitalism. The internet would be neither a break in capitalism nor a mere continuity. For Terranova this means an intensification of capitalism within the framework of a broader economic and cultural logic.

Terranova also argues that non-hierarchical, open access, free association and non-profit P2P networks can provide a form of market compatible with anarcho-communism.

Fonts

  • Network culture. Politics for the Information Age. Pluto Press, London 2004.
    • in German: network culture. Politics in the information age

Essays and lectures

  • Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy - Summer 2000.
  • Failure to comply. Bioart, security and the market - Transversal , June 2007.
  • Netwar 2.0: the convergence of streets and networks - Le Monde diplomatique , March 2012.
  • Attention, Economy and the Brain - Culture Machine , Vol 13 (2012).
  • Red Stack Attack - Effimera , February 2014.
  • Keynote: Capture All Work - January 29, 2015.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tiziana Terranova  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy ( MIT website)
  2. ^ Tiziana Terranova: Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy. . In: Social Text . 18, No. 2, 2000, pp. 33-58. doi : 10.1215 / 01642472-18-2_63-33 .
  3. ↑ Failure to comply. Bioart, security and the market ( EIT website)
  4. ↑ Netwar 2.0: the convergence of streets and networks ( Le Monde diplomatique website)
  5. ↑ Attention, Economy and the Brain ( Culture Machine website)
  6. ↑ Red Stack Attack ( Effimera website)
  7. ↑ Keynote: Capture All Work on YouTube


personal data
SURNAME Terranova, Tiziana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theorist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy