- Coming to mind, perhaps unfairly, are the declarations of confusion and outrage continuously forthcoming from J ü rgen Habermas.
- For the original 1995 “ California Ideology ” essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, see http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/pessimism/califIdeo\_I.html. For a characteristically misinformed contemporary take on Google, see Shoshanna Zuboff ’ s “ Dark Google ” in Frankfurther Allgemeine, April 30, 2014, http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/ shoshanna-zuboff-dark-google-12916679.html?printPagedArticle=true. For those unfamiliar, Survival Research Laboratories is a Bay Area-based “ industrial performing arts ” collective famous for its pyrotechnic displays of machinic mayhem and which might typify a DIY engineering ethic often associated with the “ California Ideology, ” whereas Page Mill Road in Palo Alto (and Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park) have housed important clusters of important Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
- Nick Whitford-Dyer, “ Red Plenty Platforms, ” Culture Machine 14 (2013): 1 – 27, and Tiziana Terranova, “ Red Stack Attack! ” in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, ed. Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian (Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic and Merve Verlag, 2014), 379 – 400, both make explicit connections between Spufford ’ s version of cybernetic planning, contemporary computing platforms, and my Stack thesis. Terranova considers how an alternative Stack could operate for far more communitarian economies, and Whitford-Dyer draws on the Address layer specifically to consider how that Red Plenty Platform/Red Stack might identify and index components of the economy it asked to calculate. As discussed below, parallel considerations about computational platforms and marginal cost are also coming from across the political spectrum, from bitcoin macroeconomics to Jeremy Rifkin ’ s “ Zero-Marginal Cost Society. ” See Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
- Francis Spufford, Red Plenty (Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2012).
- From Whitford-Dyer, “ Red Plenty Platforms ” : “ It will, however, identify three cybernetic tendencies that point towards the ‘ higher ’ phase of communism: automation, copying and peerto-peer production … I am thinking tangentially about a metasystem in which the minimum amount of carbon has to be assembled to meet the desires and demands of all consumers because an existing inventory of objects can be instantaneously redistributed where it is needed. ” A parallel vision, minus the self-identified socialism and plus a lot of nanoscale molecular manufacturing, is Eric Drexler, Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization (New York: Public Affairs Press, 2013).
- Eden Medina is the expert on Cybersin. See her “ Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende ’ s Chile, ” Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571 – 606, and her book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende ’ s Chile (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011).
- This is ironic for several reasons, including that when General Pinochet later invited the Chicago Boys (the neoliberal economists associated with Milton Friedman at the University of
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