Slobodna Dalmacija je objavila intervju sa mnom napisan sredinom listopada 2009. Ovdje stavljam zadnju autoriziranu verziju. Crvenim slovima sam označio djelove koji su izbačeni (od strane urednika, a ne novinara). Poprilično je izbačena kritika neo-liberalizma, mada ne u potpunosti. Evo dijela za koji mi je najviše žao što nije objavljen, i za kojeg mislim da je najbitniji, jer nije samo kritika neo-liberalizma, već i afirmacija ideja i praksi jednakosti i zajedništva povezana sa trenutnom borbom studenata protiv neo-liberalno-parlamentarne mašinerije:
Nove državne forme treba stvarati transformirajući, hakirajući, ono što trenutno imamo, razvijajući praksu i teoriju paralelno. Puno toga što neoliberalizam obećava, kao efikasnost, transparetnost i otvorenost, on nije u stanju izvesti, jer princip privatnog profita korumpira i kvari. Dok mi, pobornici jednakosti i zajedništva, to možemo. Trebaju nam ideje i prakse koje od prošlosti uče, ali joj ne robuju.
Otvorenost i direktna demokracija svih su naši pravci, a studentski protesti u Hrvatskoj dobar su primjer. Kapitalizam je poznat po integraciji i neutralizaciji protivničkih praksi i ideja. Vrijeme je da tu taktiku preuzmemo.
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Abstract
Publishing and knowledge production in academia can be significantly improved if aspects of cooperative models developed in software and networking communities are adopted. Open Access movement does that partially, by focusing on the openness of the final result. The most important attributes of the development of the Internet, the Web and their communication-cooperation tools is openness of the entire process of production. The novelty that can take many forms is in the organizational structures, decision making and cooperation. This article argues that journals adopting a form of open-process approach could benefit by increased quality of submissions and publications, faster and more responsive pace of research and by attracting more risk taking and innovative authors. Through clearer structure and visibility of tasks, equally important could be possible internal benefits for journals: recognition of the most important workers and decision making in their hands, easier and improved project management, attracting new volunteers and reducing the impact of counter-productive participants. If these changes were implemented well, such open-process journals would gain readership and reputation. Open-process academic publishing can take procedurally and technologically complex forms. A simple transition model is suggested: how to start with an email list and right cultural safeguards.
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Free-market capitalist ideology died in the financial crisis of 2008. But its zombie flesh eaters – destruction of the planet and human spirit, its wars, thieves and speculators – might linger for centuries. Unless we make it obsolete. Dismissing the parliamentary capitalist framework as dysfunctional is easy. 1) what do we replace it with?; 2) and HOW do we replace it?
We need a new egalitarian project. A new attempt at implementing the ideas of communism. I conceptualize it as communism hacked with Open Process [1]. Hacked with ethics and organization, both in the political domain and through the eventual replacement of the capitalist economic model, of its trade secrets and commodities. Namely, hacking ‘to reinvent the organizational principles of mediation between productivity and circulation that wouldn’t go via alienation through commodification and general equivalent of money’ [2], nor via alienation and corruption of the representative political models.
The open-process model can be derived from communities of hackers, engineers, academics and hobbyists that gave us the Internet, the Web, their protocols and tools. Open Source is a capitalist appropriation, selectively composed rewritten history of partially excluded original communities for the purpose of fitting the capitalist economy. Free Software stands for ethics, Internet Engineering Task Force for open process, Open Source for capitalism.
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The Internet Model = why Open Access is not enough
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Publishing and peer review processes in academia are currently closed models. In my view, at least in the areas i operate in (social sciences and humanities), these processes should be far more, if not entirely, open, with a provision for privacy in special cases. I call this model Open-process academic publishing. The name deliberately distinguishes it from Open Access, which refers to only the final outcome of academic knowledge production being open. The suggestion is not to open the processes in random ways, but in ways in which this openness — fundamentally based on volunteer participation — brings/enables more structure, more internalized working discipline, more commitment, and more ability to improve cooperation/collaboration with deliberate precision – all with the goal of improving the outcomes. “[...] culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has”, hence, we could call it The Internet Model (software/FS + networking/IETF). Its potential screams for being reused, hacked, for other areas of production. Academia, especially its publishing side, seems to me capable of embracing such volunteer-core open-process cooperation.
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