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")
Re: your "Can Carnival colonize Business using the structures of Business?
If we are able to look on modern life with its' social constructs about what is business, and the purpose of same, and the billions/trillions spent on arms, and the bondage language has placed us in by trying to make it all seem sane, one might argue that the High Farce aspects of Carnival are in fact what we know today as Business ??
Posted by: Jon Husband | Thursday, April 01, 2004 at 02:01 AM