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digital digs: creativity, composition, and the internet socialist/socialist internet
For Lessig the hybrid economy works as long as the user feels she is getting something back, as long as the exchange feels fair to her. But the socialist critique is that that feeling is wrong and needs to be corrected.
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What is more interesting to me is the creative potential, which I think everyone sees in the network, regardless of political stripe. Even if one is an Andrew Keen type, I'd think you could at least see possibilities for networked creativity. And I think I agree with Lessig that one needs to think about these possibilities in the context of a hybrid economy.
In part that's why I think higher education is a great place to explore these possibilities. Money is spent to build and sustain the community, but the activities within the community are not solely money-driven. The university doesn't function if the faculty only think about what they are getting paid to do anymore than it works when the students only think about their education in terms of its market economy value. And, btw, I don't think that makes us suckers. We're suckers when we demand that every aspect of our work be valued in market economic terms, b/c that creates a community in which no one wants to live.
If you have a community with several thousand students and several hundred faculty who are contributing to a networked environment, then all you have to do is free them up to share with one another. Many campuses already have this; they just keep everyone locked away from everyone else in their own Bb classroom. Set the network free and I'm guessing that we can find ways to use it: to share and collaborate... Especially if we start teaching students to think critically, rhetorically, and productively about networks. Here we will share music, audio, video, text, image, software, information. We will strive to do so in ethical ways, which in part will mean figuring out what the ethics ought to be. Does that sound like socialism? Out of this network, we will produce copyrighted works and acquire networked literacies that will be desired in the corporate world. Does that sound like the market economy?
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As I argued to Lessig and others, the free economy is not viable as a replacement system without star trek replicator type technology, simply because the free economy has nothing to say about managing any of the things that we need economies to do. It doesn't manage physical good or location scarcity or allocation, it doesn't incent people to do undesirable or dangerous things. It therefore cannot replace those things fully without solving those issues. That leaves us with a hybrid, where the internet free economy wins until it hits the physical world where it loses traction.
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