Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 15

Does anybody remember which famous #economist that is known for a stupid though experiment about an "economy" in which there is only one single commodity which is named "utlity"?
It's kind of ungooglable because of the sheer amount of stupid economists who do nothing else in life but filling up the internet with shitloads of the same stupid utilitarism. Therefore I'd appreciate any help to find a reference to this particular one ?

Just relistened to the mixtape I recorded last March. It's pretty nice, I think it fits the season. Rather mellow and jazzy, but straying towards techno polyrhythmics in the middle. Ending with some odd bits of Georgian microtonal fusion (Giorgi Mikadze) and Swedish neo-prog naivism (Blod).
https://www.mixcloud.com/rsms/marsmixen-2022/

"The Russian vocatives родной (blood-related), любимый (beloved), милый (darling) and дорогой (dear): a corpus-based study."
That's the topic of an upcoming disputation at Stockohlm university, and it kind of sums up what I myself find most interesting when studying basic Russian at Duolingo ?

Even more goodness from Ilan Tapes. New full-length album by Andrea out today. (Note that Ilan Tapes does not release on Spotify.)
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp14-due-in-color #ambient #jugnle #breakbeat #jazz

I guess Anna's Archive is now replacing Aaaaarg as the go-to pirate library for many researchers.
That's fine, yet I miss the collective curation aspect of Aaaaarg, where people could create book collections (like syllabi or playlists) around a specific topic.

@EdvinAlpros @fischebyxa hehe. känner mig ännu inte redo att svara på frågan om vad som finns men har börjar samla på mig en del texter som jag tänkte läsa in mig på i april, efter det har jag nog bättre tips (och kanske försöker skriva något själv)

@tante you got mail

How should we understand inflation today? Interview with Pavlos Roufos in Endnotes:
https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/pavlos-roufos-inflation-blues

@Loukas 100 % agree that capitalism is not the creation of one certain class and that its abolition cannot be thought as the triumph of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie.
#wertkritik

@kravietz @Loukas For now, I just want to say that indeed, "post-capitalism" is already happening – in a myriad of ways, some of which are promising, others pointing in very dystopian directions.
As for point 4, we see both an increasing number of "failed states" and contradictory forms of supranational sovereignty (which does not mean that capitalism can do without its established state-form). I also think that Graeber & Wengrow (The dawn of everything) makes some really useful remarks on what we mean by "the state".

@kravietz @Loukas Thank you for your remarks & links – will print it for reading later today.

@Loukas "What does it mean to organize?" is a very relevant question indeed!
I'd say (with Marx) that the capitalist mode of production – just like that complex of social forms we call "the state" – is very much organized by humans. But we organize it mostly in a non-relective way, "behind our backs".
I do not say that a deliberate exit would be easy. But I also don't think that capitalism (or the state-form) can reproduce itself. So in the end it is up to us humans if what comes after will be something better or worse.

Skee Mask and his label Ilian Tape decided to remove their music from Spotify over a year ago.
Yet if you now search for "Skee Mask" on Spotify, they offer you a product branded as "Skee Mask radio" (i.e. a playlist with music by other artists). This pretty well demonstrated how little respect Spotify has for artists.

btw, can anyone help me decode #Badiou's reference to "what #Marx called the polymorphous worker", i.e. which original German term is so translated?

It doesn't matter if you call it communism or anarchism or just human emancipation – here is a four-point, spot-on, invariant definition of its horizon

(I've always been a bit sceptical of Alain Badiou, but this just nails it.)

A new research article on Spotify's transformation from being a music service towards a strategy of pushing non-musical content:
Håvard Kiberg & Hendrik Spilker, "One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03007766.2023.2184160

As the team behind Anna's Archive pointed out in Twitter: "Much of the current revolution in AI is powered by shadow libraries."
Seems obvious. Yet hardly ever mentioned?

Regardless if one wants to call it a "revolution" or just a fancy autocomplete, the question remains relevant. What would a business like OpenAI be if it wasn't for the years of criminalized work that pirate librarians put into projects like Library Genesis?

Please read this brilliant essay on G.M. Tamás written by @proufos :
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/victorious-defeat

@demosprueche I've always heard that rhyme in plural (borders, nations, deportations)

Skee Mask dropped another superb EP of dubby breakbeats yesterday: https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/iss009-iss009