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

[Jaromil]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2014, Brian Degger wrote:

>                                   Site Offline
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>    Due to an influx in popularity [1]www.promoterdb.com is temporarily
>    offline while we re-assess how things are managed and where the
>    site is heading. There has been a lot of contact and opinions given
>    about this site, so we have decided to pull it offline until we
>    have time to create a medium where people can discuss it's future
>    and functionality.

wow. interesting.

I think their idea is very good.
hope someone can keep it up.

Brian, should we start a project like this? :^)
we could think of running a db, but just for Europe...

OTOH I reiterate my doubts about such an axiomatic approach to labour
politics to be any better than actual unionism, but the rationality of
neo-liberism is asking its toll here.

good luck rating the content aggregators!

p.s. (and thanks for replying. cultural operators announce lists feel
	rather Kafkian at times)


>    On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jaromil <[2]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 [3]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?

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