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There are still places available for anyone who might be in / passing through Europe. Bruce Robinson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hughes" <hughesbob@COMPUSERVE.COM> To: <CAPITAL-AND-CLASS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Conference: "Marx and the Machine" > I hope that some members of Capital and Class will be interested in > attending this small, informal meeting this September: > > > MARX AND THE MACHINE > > A week of discussion about computers and electronics from a Marxist > standpoint - for up to 20 people, 11th-18th September 2003, in > South-Eastern France at Paulianne (an organic farm west of the Alps, > south-east of Lyon, close to Luc en Diois, on the River Drome): > > http://paulianne.free.fr/ > > It will cost: 60 euros/person/day, full-board (vegetarian food). Come > for as much of the week as you can manage, or stay longer and bring > family/friends. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would > like to come. > > The meeting will go ahead if we have viable numbers by the end of this > month. > > I intend a low-intensity affair, with a fairly small number of formal > talks and plenty of time for eating, walking and sitting around. Please > let me know if you'd like to present a paper, or if you would like > simply to initiate a discussion on some topic of personal concern. > > Topics may include: the "weightless" economy and "post-industrial" > society; the open source movement; are today's computers merely > "marketing by other means"?; have computers saved capitalism or are > they its 'enemy within'?; the acceleration of obsolescence; > techno-trash; the real cost of computers; what would a socialist > computer be like?; code considered as "capital"; global exploitation > and super-exploitation of computer workers; disembodied postmodern, > post-human nonsense and the emergence of "the creative industries". > > For a foretaste of my own contribution, see: > > http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=84 > > With best regards, > > Bob Hughes > > Tel: +44 (0)1865 726804 * Mob: +44 (0)7968 292499 * Mail: > hughesbob@compuserve.com | bhughes@brookes.ac.uk > Personal page: http://www.dustormagic.net > Dust or Magic Conference: http://emedia.brookes.ac.uk/dustormagic/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.677 / Virus Database: 439 - Release Date: 04/05/2004