This paper tries to propose the existence of a late-capitalist code able to colonize individuals and communities' sense of belonging. That is made claiming individual as sovereign and owner of his/her psychological states and the aesthetization of other's misery as an insubstantial consumption. Rejecting own and other's vulnerability is paradoxically proposed as a way to socialize individuals and groups. At the same time this principle makes fragile political choices on the common future for citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
This paper tries to analyze communities of knowldege such as the communities of public domain software and the open knowledge. All knowledge's community show several characteristics in common: granularity, hospitality, mediation and an activist component to achieve a goal. Both analyzed communities share similar ethos. Evolution of theses communities in recent years are going to be analyzed, because of the appearance of new actors such as the capitalist conglomerates as intermediaries of those communities and their consequences. Final claim asserts that this new actors generate a kidnapping of the activist objectives of this communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2015
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