[Nettime-nl] Dissertation Rushkoff

[Menno Grootveld <rabotnik@xs4all.nl>]

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Dissertation *Monopoly moneys: the media environment of corporatism and 
the player's way out*

By analysing corporatism through the lens of media ecology, Douglas 
Rushkoff shows how an invented set of rules became - like any totalising 
media environment - indistinguishable from nature. He concludes that 
while the corporatist rule set may have become the default operating 
system of our economy, it is not necessarily closed to intervention.

While a closed economic operating system may have been consonant with 
the closed, top-down media of the print and broadcast eras, as Rushkoff 
argues, interactive technology does offer new avenues for resistance and 
redesign. This "playability," as he describes it, might yet return to 
economic systems in the form of digital innovations such as peer to peer 
exchange, decentralised value creation, and even new alternative 
currencies. This playability would be a positive development for the way 
it would allow for human intervention in a mechanism that has 
disproportional influence over our society.

Date and time:

	

25/6/2012 16:15

Location:

	

Academiegebouw <http://www.uu.nl/nl/academiegebouw/Pages/default.aspx> - 
Domplein 29, Utrecht


PhD student:

	

Douglas Rushkoff

Faculty:

	

Faculty of Humanities

Thesis:

	

Monopoly Moneys. The media environment of corporatism and the player's 
way out

Supervisor 1:

	

Prof. dr. F.E. Kessler

Supervisor 2:

	

Prof. dr. J.F.F. Raessens

Co-supervisor 1:

	

Dr. M.T. Schaefer

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