[spectre] Are rating systems a placeholder for unions in a neo-lib world?

[Brian Degger]

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On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jaromil <jaromil at dyne.org> wrote:

>
> dear Spectres,
>
> some years ago (most people here might have forgotten anyway) I've
> lamented my bad experience in contributing to the Piksel media art
> festival in Bergen. At that time I thought of proposing a guideline of
> sorts and hoped in the birth of some kind of unionism for all those of
> us who are content producers and end up being milked and thrown away by
> aggregators of sorts. I'm sure many of you out there have to go through
> such experiences.
>
> Today I've found this http://www.promoterdb.com
> which might be of some interest.
>
> I'm not sure if this will work as expected and I'm not affiliated with
> it in any way. However it might be interesting to experiment, filling in
> some feedback about the good experiences at least.
>
> >From a unionist perspective it is somehow sad that the overall decay of
> labour based relationships within content producers and art institutions
> have lead to resort to such disgregating and passive methods.
> But then what else?
>
> Are on-line rating systems the place-holder for labour unions in a
> neo-lib world?
>
> ciao
>
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