For participants in a diversity of contemporary affinity - Memefest在多元化的当代亲和参与者memefest

PRODUCING ANARCHO-COMMUNI__: FROM DIY TO SELF-VALORIZATIONIn his compelling and provocative essay, T

PRODUCING ANARCHO-COMMUNI__: FROM DIY TO SELF-VALORIZATION The High-Tech Gift Economy In his compelling and provocative essay, , Richard Barbrook argues that the gift economy provides astarting point for thinking about social relations beyond either the state or __rket. More than that, the gift economy provides the basis for an incipient anarcho-communi__, visions of which, h__e inspired avariety of re__nt community media and "do-it-yourself (DIY) cultural activi__. Despite the contributions Barbrook's article __kes to a rethinking of both emergent social movements and alternatives to statist capitali__, his emphasis on gift exchange le__es his ____ysis at the level of consumption and exchange, rather than addressing crucial issues of production. Yet it is predominantly questions of production, and especially the transfor__tion of production relations, that h__e motivated anarcho-communists historically. In this short discussion Iattempt to look more closely at the contestatory and transfor__tive aspects hinted at by DIY production within the gift economy. Such production, more than issues of how exchange occurs, suggests possibilities for eluding or challenging relations of capitalist value production. Crucial for understanding the liberatory potential of the "new economy," beyond the practi__s of consumption or exchange, is the notion of self-valorization, or production which emphasizes community (use) values rather than capitalist value. As Barbrook suggests, for participants in adiversity of contemporary affinity groups, DIY activities offer acontext for coming together, ashared opportunity for mutual expression and unalienated labor. Contemporary usage of the term DIY in underground movements comes from punk rock and its vis__ral