Digital Needs and the Commons under Informational Capitalism Tickets, Tue, 6 Jun 2017 at 18:00 | Eventbrite
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Summary:
"A WIAS seminar with International Research Fellows Dr. Sebastian Sevignani and Dr. Benjamin Birkinbine.
How can we define informational 'needs?' What type of information is necessary for human development, survival, and social progress? In what ways does capitalism restrict the fulfillment of these needs?
In this seminar, Dr. Sebastian Sevignani reflects on what needs are, how they develop, and offers proposals for what informational needs might be. Dr. Benjamin Birkinbine focuses specifically on the informational commons as one way to provide for such needs, while highlighting the contradictions that these movements face under capitalism. The overall goal for this discussion is to work toward a critical theory of needs under informational capitalism."