Kombinat!

Without Kombinat! Culture Disappears

From Free Culture by L Lessig page 112-113:

"Every bit of creative property goes through different "lives.?" In its first life, if the creator is lucky, the content is sold. In such cases the commercial market is successful for the creator. The vast majority of creative property doesn’t enjoy such success, but some clearly does. For that content, commercial life is extremely important.Without this commercial market, there would be, many argue, much less creativity.

After the commercial life of creative property has ended, our tradition has always supported a second life as well. A newspaper delivers the news every day to the doorsteps of America. The very next day, it is used to wrap fish or to fill boxes with fragile gifts or to build an archive of knowledge about our history. In this second life, the content can continue to inform even if that information is no longer sold.

The same has always been true about books. A book goes out of print very quickly (the average today is after about a year³). After it is out of print, it can be sold in used book stores without the copyright owner getting anything and stored in libraries, where many get to read the book, also for free. Used book stores and libraries are thus the second life of a book. That second life is extremely important to the spread and stability of culture. Yet increasingly, any assumption about a stable second life for creative property does not hold true with the most important components of popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For these—television, movies,music, radio, the Internet—there is no guarantee of a second life. For these sorts of culture, it is as if we’ve replaced libraries with Barnes & Noble superstores. With this culture, what’s accessible is nothing but what a certain limited market demands. Beyond that, culture disappears."

Culture is built with Thrown Away Conversations.
If Conversations don't become Waste - Culture Disappears.

Arie de Geus

Jon Husband mentioned meeting Arie de Geus: I went to read an interview with the guy Stuff I mostly heard a lot before but I was surprised to read this part on a relationship between individual and large organization. De Geus sees it as "strictly hierarchical manner" as opposed to Henri Bortoft and Ryosoke Ohashi who see it as "you cannot separate the whole from the parts, for the whole presences itself in the parts. They are the locus in which the whole is enhanced, contradicted, or even transformed by them, or all of the above". - I was struck by how Homerian this distinction was. Feyerabend wrote a lot about this. I can relate to it so I think I don't really like de Geus's view. I am into Homerian Being view of parts forming whole as aggregates.

Kombinat! Vibrates with Noise

The Happy Tutor writes: "Today the moments that have not been colonized by work, consumption, advertising, marketing, and propaganda are few - for many people there are no such moments."

Thinking Noise Out Loud for future signal creation: (originally noised off at WB's comments box)

Are the Colonized hungry for such moments? For if they are then Kombiat! machine hums and vibrates to
the possibility of such a market of hunger. More so, let's colonize the colonizers as well.

Can we create a Public Domain Corporation, some kind of a corporate structure that would employ the Creative Commons license for the property it amasses? (since amassing private property is the reason for the existence of a corporation, no?)

Carnival creates no value in the eye of an economic beholder for, seen through that eye, it does not amass property whose value can be measured (with money, of course) but if Carnival becomes a legal corporation then would the value it creates become a legal property that can be measured and managed? (and therefore show up in the radar of those who forgot where to look?)

Could the saying "You can't manage what you can't measure" be relevant in the situation where an incorporated Carnival Inc. entity be a context where we could manage the measures of Carnival in a Culture. why not?

Can Carnival colonize Business using the structures of Business? Instead of fighting, resiting, protesting the devourer can we collaborate, incorporate, transform him? As a Corporate Entity equal to other Corporate Entities? In Partnership: completely different but not divided, having completely different goals but using the similar means. ("I hate what you stand for but let's work together" type of Partnership.) Can such a thing be possible? Can Carnival become an Equal Partner with Business to create culture, maintain culture, measure culture, manage culture, expand culture, be a partner in culture making

Thinking out loud: Can we create a Corporation dedicated to enriching Public Domain, accountable to its shareholders with Income and Cash Flow statements? Why not use the Business Measures to manage the culture? What if Business does not devour Culture? Can we have a busines entity that makes culture?

Instead of a business designed to colonize our Public Domain for its own private use, can we create a business designed to colonize the colonizer's private use and turn it into Public Domain.

The laws on the books are not allowing us to do that. I can't incorporate Mickey Mouse. The copyright law prevents that. (as Kombinat! says: "Mickey has not become a waste to be turned into a new conversation yet")

"Conversations are Waste but Poetry is Toxic"

We are the Pirates of Language. Awesome gem we stole today from Poetaster

"Conversations are Waste but Poetry is Toxic"

We are negotiating screen printing 1 million T shirts in China to flood the Amerikan Consumer Market this Spring.

The Fall of Troy

We are not Athenians. We are Kombinaters!

Free Culture of Garbage

Exchange of Ideas is the foundation of Culture. Culture can only expand when creators are Free to Create new Conversations creating Free Culture. Kombinat! recognizes that new Conversations are only possible when one is Free to Use Old Conversations. We consider Conversations as a Waste of Humanity from which we can Profit and Create New Conversations. Public Domain is a waste of humanity ready to be recreated as The New Public Domain which, upon its moment of creation, has already become The New Waste to be used as a source of New Conversations.

Only Creation of Conversations Matter. Everything else is Garbage.

We Love Garbage.

IPO of first ever Public Domain Corporation

Kombinat! City (March 29, 2004) -- Kombinat! (PECE: K!) announced today that it will become a Public Domain company effective immediately. In its IPO at 12:17:42 GMT(EST+5) time on March 30, 2004 Kombinat! gave away 6 billion 357 million 251 thousand and 600 shares today. Kombinat! will be traded on the Planet Earth Conversation Exchange (PECE) under the symbol K! "This breaks all the rules of business as usual." said the President of Kombinat! Mister Bada Bing!, "We are very happy to be the first ever Public Domain Corporation."

About Kombinat!:
Kombinat! is the first ever Creative Commons licensed Public Domain Corporation. Kombinat! believes in Free Enterprise and recognizes that Public Domain is the greates resource of Free Enterprise. Kombinat! recognizes that, becoming a Public Domain Corporation, any idea developed by Kombinat! may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

Kombinat! Kids To Launch

For Immdiate Release: Kombinat! City, KO! (March 29, 2004) -- Kombinat! Enterprises, a creator and a leader in a Conversation Waste Disposal industry and Charlie O'Connor Clarke, a 6.5 year old blogger from Toronto, Canada, have agreed to join forces to launch "Kombinat! Kids" - an online clothing outlet. Michael O'Connor Clarke of "Uninstalled" will serve as a Vice President of Marketing to help us become a leader in crowded bland clothing online marketplace. We are very excited to present to you our website design themed 'you never meta better sweater'.

Automatic Conversation Waste Machine

Yule has provided a visual represantation of Kombinat! Automatic Conversation Generation Waste Machine (K!ACGWM Model 2004).

Since K!ACGWM, our most efficient Conversation Waste machine, produces a lot of Nose we have designated a Sign Signal Language (SSL) for its successful operation.

Citizen K! Guilty

What follows is an official metamo from Kombinat!

"Citizen K! has been found guilty by the jury of his fears and sentenced to 20 years of writer's block for the sins of inspiring the public to making Free Culture."

K!