(E.d.) This article is a mail chat and should be read backwards starting with the last entry*
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Da: info@luigiamato.net
Data: 14-ott-2014 16.48
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: Re: N O M A D I S M O
(…) Yes, we could start from here.
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Da: flavia.presti@libero.it
Data: 13-ott-2014 15.01
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: R: Re: N O M A D I S M O
So we agree on the fact that movement is increasingly more accessible, and because of this, more simplified, because it is simultaneously a transition and an exchange of knowledge and information?
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Da: info@luigiamato.net
Data: 13-ott-2014 14.10
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: Re: N O M A D I S M O
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“Accessibility” perhaps is the term that has escaped us so far? Nomadism of any kind is, if you think about it, only possible where there is access. What you were talking about before, the tendency of the market to “become more human”, I think is simply a way to facilitate this access.
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Da: flavia.presti@libero.it
Data: 12-ott-2014 20.23
A: <info@luigiamato.net>
Ogg: R: Re: N O M A D I S M O
The fact that agreements and contracts are more virtual today than yesterday does not mean that they have a more abstract value than those made “in person”. According to me it is not the lifestyles that have adapted to the system of the “new economy” but, on the contrary, I believe that it is the market that today is adapting to our way of life.
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Paradoxically, beyond the clichés about technology, we live in a period in which everything tends (or at least attempts) to be more humane, personalized “social”. Nomadism, transition, transformation is the constant condition, what can vary are the systems we design to accommodate them.
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Da: info@luigiamato.net
Data: 12-ott-2014 15.18
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: Re: N O M A D I S M O
Actually, I think that we should run the risk of losing pieces in the so-called “new economy”. Or in other words, to give up the physicality of capital and goods according to their immaterial value. The sense of computerization lies in the transition from a human nomadism to an abstract nomadism made of contracts and agreements.
I was reading this:
“New-Economy…acceleration of the growth of wealth, productivity (but not necessarily social development) and investment (in physical and human capital, research and innovation), associated with a transformation of viewpoints and an impact on the social profile of consumer-individuals”.
On 09/ott/2014, at 13:56, flavia.presti@libero.it wrote:
Ok, interesting, and certainly true, and in part I agree with you. Do not underestimate, however, the fact that the movement of goods through virtual and digital networks is always conveying information and meaning. Whether it is for the exchange of products, images or ideas, the point of arrival is never the same and commensurable to that of departure. There is always an added value, I believe, in the move, or maybe on the contrary we lose something along the way. (…)
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Da: info@luigiamato.net
Data: 11-ott-2014 13.29
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: Re: N O M A D I S M O
I think that every form of individual nomadism is always dictated by market dynamics. Today, since almost all of the processes of production and distribution have been computerized, people have less and less need to move because they have become slower than goods …if it is still possible to speak of goods.
On 09/ott/2014, at 13:01, flavia.presti@libero.it wrote:
(…) Then we are talking about a “last generation” nomadism. I wonder, however, why you didn’t mention the nomadism of people and masses. That was the first image I had in mind when reading your e-mail. I don’t know, maybe it’s obsolete to still talk about people in movement today? Perhaps the market and the movement of goods via the network comes first, as you quoted, before that of individuals?
* (E.d) Start from this entry and then go up.
—-Messaggio originale—-
Da: info@luigiamato.net
Data: 9-ott-2014 12.39
A: <flavia.presti@libero.it>
Ogg: N O M A D I S M O
Hello (…) I was asked to think of an article on the topic of nomadism understood as a new/old paradigm of the current social condition, both economic and cultural. I wanted to know if you were interested in writing something together.
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This is not about making an historical analysis, but about developing reflections on the phenomenon as politics of the contemporary systems of production and distribution, in which the goods (and in parallel the meanings associated with them) are in constant motion in the new “economy of networks”. I thought it might be interesting to start out by outlining the transformation of the market – understood in the traditional sense – into an economy where the exchange between producer and consumer is delocalized, in favor of the creation of new expanded networks.
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