Re: <nettime> Live Your Models

[Siraj Izhar | publiclife <s-i@publiclife.org>]

some problematic assumptions re. food production and the future. Ample 
studies show small plotholder farms to be significantly more productive 
per acre than large industrial farms (cf Amartya Sen and many following 
him) with a vastly lower ecological footprint. All this aside from large 
scale industrial farming's invisible externalities and dependence on 
capital subsidies (eg CAP).

Also check the food production stats in the large Soviet collectivised 
farms; without the private allotment holdings the social order would 
have collapsed. All this points to a very different social model vis a 
vis "Folk Politics".

One advantage with industrial food production is the capacity to 
mobilise production fast eg Samir Amin's studies on post war China's 
food output but it's exceptional and has its costs. China is already 
working to redress the balance in particular in demographic terms

Don't know how to interpret Srnicek Williams' Invent the Future, it's 
very bound by the institutional and demographic context in which it was 
produced. In what it leaves out, it's not too difficult to see 
connotations of increasing monoculture and totalitarianism for such a 
future; hopefully "Folk Politics" may yet be there to save us (again).

Siraj


On 03/05/2016 11:00, nettime-l-request@mail.kein.org wrote:

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>     > More importantly, Rifkin's strategic aim in calling for an investment
>     wave centered on solar power, micro-manufacturing and smart grids is to
>     undo the hegemony of the giant corporations, particularly the oil
>     companies which are directly responsible for climate change and which
>     also constitute the civilian component of military imperialism.?
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