[p2p-research] Cultural Policy Should Support Organized Networks

[Alex Rollin]

I'm not sure how quashing organizing efforts is in line with free  
culture.  If there is an approach there is no policy.



On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

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> Michel Bauwens
> 24th August 2010
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> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/19/new-cultural-policy-support-organized-networks/
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> This is an abstract from a presentation by Geert Lovink: New  
> Cultural Policy: Support Organized Networks, to be given in Dortmund  
> on August 24.
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> Apart from Geert’s customary snide remark on the open and free cultu 
> re movement, his proposal is entirely congruent with the kind of app 
> roach we have followed here, and entirely compatible with the aims o 
> f the free culture movement.
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> Geert Lovink:
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> “Much like the shifting relationship between social movements and NG 
> Os 10-15 ago, we see a growing tension between the existing models o 
> f ‘cultural organizations’ that deal with new media culture and  
> arts versus informal networks. Unlike a decade ago the cultural new  
> media sector can no longer claim to embody the ‘avant-garde’  
> position because that has been taken over by the market. This situat 
> ion leads to a void: neither truly innovative nor particularly criti 
> cal, new media organizations in the non-profit sector are starting t 
> o float. They are not doing proper research either, or at least not  
> what policy makers and academics consider useful. Should they then a 
> ll just be closed now that the introductory phase of new media is co 
> ming to a close? The massive digitization of ‘cultural heritage’  
> has proven to be useless for the new media sector and has merely rep 
> roduced the existing, conservative cultural landscape that is domina 
> ted by museums, opera and concert halls.
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> Instead of aligning ourselves with the ‘creative industries’  
> agenda, the proposal here would be transform the current organizatio 
> nal model into facilitating hubs that empower ‘organized  
> networks’. Over the past years, together with Ned Rossiter, I have d 
> one both theoretical and practical work to find out how we can devel 
> op ‘new institutional forms’. It is not enough to submerge in the  
> bitter insider-outsider logic over ever diminishing budgets. It is t 
> ime to invent our own sources of income. A first step for this would 
>  be to recognize the ideology of free and open, such as advocated by 
>  some in the ‘free culture’ movement as a trap. We also need a  
> new notion of the public domain and public broadcasting in particula 
> r in which new media will have an equal status, next to film, public 
>  radio and television and (subsidized) print. Barcamps, unconferenci 
> ng, booksprints, festivals, bricolabs and our recent Wintercamp even 
> t (Amsterdam, March 2009) are all manifestations of a thriving cultu 
> re of temp media labs. Instead of asking how these emerging practice 
> s can contribute to ‘policy’ we should reverse this question: how  
> can cultural policies strengthen networks?”
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