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Crowd funding and politics: the reconfiguration of public and private space

Eduardo Cuducos
July 12, 2016
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Crowd funding and politics: the reconfiguration of public and private space

Presentation given at Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford Internet Institute (July 2016)

Basically this is an updated version of https://speakerdeck.com/cuducos/crowdfunding-and-the-reconfiguration-of-public-and-private-space-1

Eduardo Cuducos

July 12, 2016
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  1. Crowd funding
    and politics
    the reconfiguration of
    public and private space
    Eduardo Gonçalves
    July 2016
    @cuducos
    cuducos.me

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  12. marginal to
    incumbent
    institutions
    no
    government
    or corporations
    ƃ

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  13. marginal to
    incumbent
    institutions
    no
    government
    or corporations
    ƃ
    not Occupy
    not anti-G8
    no direct
    confront

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  14. marginal to
    incumbent
    institutions
    no
    government
    or corporations
    ƃ
    not Occupy
    not anti-G8
    no direct
    confront
    not NGO
    not social
    movements
    embrace

    profit

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  15. What is political
    about crowdfunding?

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  16. What is political
    about crowdfunding?
    Is it a new form of
    political action?

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  17. What is political
    about crowdfunding?
    Is it a new form of
    political action?
    Does it changes the
    public ream?

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  18. Society assumed the disguise of an
    organization of property-owners who,
    instead of claiming access to the
    public realm because of their wealth,
    demanded protection from it for the
    accumulation of more wealth.
    Hannah Arendt

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  19. Society assumed the disguise of an
    organization of property-owners who,
    instead of claiming access to the
    public realm because of their wealth,
    demanded protection from it for the
    accumulation of more wealth.
    Hannah Arendt
    Private
    household
    labor
    Social
    political
    economy

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  20. Society assumed the disguise of an
    organization of property-owners who,
    instead of claiming access to the
    public realm because of their wealth,
    demanded protection from it for the
    accumulation of more wealth.
    Hannah Arendt
    Public
    assembly
    action
    Private
    household
    labor
    Social
    political
    economy

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  21. Contempt for politics
    Erwin A. Jaffe
    ŏ
    Menu dependence
    Sniderman and Bullock
    Contract and power
    Sheldon Wolin
    Anti-politics and the mitigation of the public
    Andreas Schedler
    Ȓ

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  22. What Jefferson perceived to be the
    mortal danger was that the
    Constitution had given all power to
    citizens, without giving them the
    opportunity of being republicans. In
    other words, the danger that all power
    was given to the people in their
    private capacity of being citizens.
    Hannah Arendt

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  23. What Jefferson perceived to be the
    mortal danger was that the
    Constitution had given all power to
    citizens, without giving them the
    opportunity of being republicans. In
    other words, the danger that all power
    was given to the people in their
    private capacity of being citizens.
    Hannah Arendt
    Social
    political
    economy
    Private
    household
    labor
    Public
    assembly
    action

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  24. 27 interviews
    One third women,
    two thirds men
    Brazil
    USA, UK, Australia, China,
    France, Germany and Romania
    Different profiles
    Supporters, creators, founders or
    staff, and experts

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  25. Heterodox way for making a living
    dancing and teaching tango, composing and recording authorial songs, coding
    software or offering specialized consultancy in sharing economy
    Maker culture
    “I am not a good bullshitter,I kind of like doing stuff.”
    Networked
    Gathering according to shared values

    Autonomy
    Reduce constrains for action

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  26. Money (and debt) is a social thing
    Nigel Dodd (and David Grabber)
    Exchanges between private and public realm
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    Expressive individualism
    Robert Bellah

    Chaotic pluralism
    Helen Margetts

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  27. “It is not interesting, it is
    too unimpressive, it is too
    dry and dull to make money
    just for the sake of it”

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  28. “It is not interesting, it is
    too unimpressive, it is too
    dry and dull to make money
    just for the sake of it”
    Count on several
    (ordinary) geese than to
    count on a (single) goose
    that lays golden eggs.

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  29. “It is not interesting, it is
    too unimpressive, it is too
    dry and dull to make money
    just for the sake of it”
    Count on several
    (ordinary) geese than to
    count on a (single) goose
    that lays golden eggs.
    “The best way to sustain
    what you are doing is
    making profit”
    Money should circulate

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  31. “Somehow you
    are playing the
    patron”

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  32. “Somehow you
    are playing the
    patron”
    “We create, hack
    this crazy system
    we live in.”

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  33. Autonomy
    Money
    as sustainability
    Maker culture
    as freedom for action
    Intense personal relationships
    building their own network

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  34. Autonomy
    Money
    as sustainability
    Maker culture
    as freedom for action
    Intense personal relationships
    building their own network
    An alternative and marginal path

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  36. “A context of mistrust and
    cynicism might discourage or
    pervert political participation,

    on the one hand, or spur

    innovation, on the other”
    Elizabeth A. Bennett

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  37. “A context of mistrust and
    cynicism might discourage or
    pervert political participation,

    on the one hand, or spur

    innovation, on the other”
    Elizabeth A. Bennett
    Would the crowd part
    or crowdfunding be a
    new possibility for the
    public realm?

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  38. “A context of mistrust and
    cynicism might discourage or
    pervert political participation,

    on the one hand, or spur

    innovation, on the other”
    Elizabeth A. Bennett
    Would the crowd part
    or crowdfunding be a
    new possibility for the
    public realm?
    Politics
    as action
    Hannah
    Arendt
    Charismatic
    leader
    Max Weber

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  39. Thank you
    @cuducos
    cuducos.me

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  40. explosm.net
    flickr.com/bnorthern
    flickr.com/doug88888
    flickr.com/ionics
    flickr.com/jbid-post
    flickr.com/markusspiske
    flickr.com/miuenski
    flickr.com/ronnyandre
    flickr.com/stevenzwerink
    flickr.com/togawanderings
    flickr.com/tonz
    startnext.com/karma-chakhs
    @cuducos
    cuducos.me

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