Re: [-empyre-] Free Cooperation

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Thanks, Tobias.

I can't stress enough the potential, the promise for individuals to
transform, while collaborating. This is an essentially different take from
the division of labour functionality approach in which the 'brigade' turns
into one organism, fulfilling the monumental tasks ahead. I guess we talk
about free cooperation because of its open end. It may as well end up in a
postive New Age ideology with Chistoph Spehr as its Leader. In order not to
end up there we need to build in disruptions, empty space, brakes, time for
reflection. Otherwise we may start to believe in the cynical reading of
cooperation as merely self sacrifice and (self) exploitation.

Best, Geert