as it will take me some time

mdurante1 — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:56:11 +0000

as it will take me some time to go through the concepts behind the 'Cognitive Capitalism'. Even though, I strongly believe that a new perspective from a successful point of view (in terms of models to study and maybe adopt) could come following David Brady. An American folk, a sociologist that has studied in depth poverty and the welfare system.

here's his CV. This is the introduction on google books of his seminal work 'Rich Democracies Poor People' is really worth a reading. What i found interesting is the fact that now he's off to Berlin at the WZB, a social research centre, to study the way Germany has dealt with the crisis in social terms and why it has probably the highest workers' wage in the world, very strong unions combined with a strong welfare state.

Commercially the position of Germany is strongly debated, some says it's even benefiting from the Eurozone crisis. What interests me though more than the economics here, is the model Germany can offer in terms of innovation. If the Silicon Valley is a model we surely need to look at, I want to stress the fact that there are alternative models where innovation and entrepreneurship have been successfully nourished.

Great article "emergence of

cfollows — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:12:17 +0000

Great article "emergence of autonomous, self-organized learning communities" nice. I'm working my way through it, and lots to reference. Also see another poor ICA debate, must be common practice - http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/cognitive-capitalism

Although some good stuff came out of it -In her essay “Academy as Potentiality,” Irit Rogoff draws attention to the changing priorities of the academy and proposes an alternative to its corporatization through the adoption of research and knowledge projects that privilege what is significant over what is useful. She introduces the concept of potentiality (and fallibility) as a way of re-thinking and re-making the academy as a space for speculation and experimentation rather than the manufacture of knowledge products. http://fillip.ca/content/a-pedagogical-turn

process.arts - Comments for "Open Access #### read the article on current issue 173 of Radical Philosophy"

as it will take me some time

Great article "emergence of