In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood?
On Tuesday, August 2nd, at 20:00, Dmytri Kleiner will give a presentation at The Israeli Center for Digital Art on the Telekommunist Manifesto.
Drawing from political economy and concepts related to intellectual property, TheTelekommunist Manifesto is a key contribution to commons-based, collaborative and shared forms of cultural production and economic distribution.
Proposing "venture communism" as a new model for workers’ self-organization, Kleiner spins Marx and Engels’ seminal Manifesto of the Communist Party into the age of the internet. As a peer-to-peer model, venture communism allocates capital that is critically needed to accomplish what capitalism cannot: the ongoing proliferation of free culture and free networks.
In developing the concept of venture communism, Kleiner provides a critique of copyright regimes, and current liberal views of free software and free culture which seek to trap culture within capitalism. Kleiner proposes copyfarleft, and provides a usable model of a Peer Production License.
The complete manifest is available in the Telekommunisten Network website.
Dmytri Kleiner is an artist, a hacker and web developer based in Berlin. He is a member ofTelekommunisten Network that creates alternative communication platforms like Dial Station, Dead Swap and Thimbl.
Kleiner is doing his residency at The Israeli Center for Digital Art as part of the Jessy Cohen Project, for which he is developing the open- shared cellular platform JessyCom, that encourages random communication used to spread messages among the network’s users.
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