S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism

Platforms are ubiquitous. However, they arguably can only realise their full potential when they are no longer subjected to the imperatives of the profit motive. For this we need: Platform Socialism. Collaborative Podcast Transcription If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: [email protected] (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes James Muldoon's Website: https://jamesmuldoon.org/ Autonomy: https://autonomy.work/ Autonomy_Digital (where James is project lead): https://autonomy.work/autonomy_digital/ James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/james_muldoon_ James on the website of the University of Exeter: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/muldoon/ Muldoon, James. 2022. Platform Socialism. London: Pluto Press:  http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346953/platform-socialism/ Muldoon, James. 2021. "Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism", online article on openDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/technology-and-democracy/regulating-big-tech-is-not-enough-we-need-platform-socialism/ Further material: Tiziana Terranova (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Terranova Terranova, Tiziana. 2004. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783714421/network-culture/ Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" in New Left Review 116/117 (full article online): https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism The Social Dilemma, Netflix Show (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma Tristan Harris (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris G.D.H. Cole (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._H._Cole Guild Socialism (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_socialism Fabian Society: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society Otto Neurath (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath Resonate Streaming Platform: https://resonate.is/ Friedrich August von Hayek (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek Leigh, Phillips and Rozworski, Michal. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. New York: Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt.1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/ S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ (German) S01E55/56 | Michael Seemann zur Macht der Plattformen (pt. 1 &