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el proyecto socialista" [@smith-2006].

Anthropocene Knowledge Infrastructures An abundant communist society of

Anthropocene Knowledge Infrastructures

# Infraestructuras de conocimiento en el Antropoceno

An abundant communist society of

high automation, free software, and in-home replicators might, however,

as Fraise (2011) suggests, need planning more than ever – not to

overcome scarcity but to address the problems of plenty, which

such as industrial fishing and destructive logging, the reshaping of

transportation methods, ‘a revolution in the energy-system’ and the

drive for a ‘solar communism’ (Lowy, 2009: np).  Such transformations

Sin embargo Fraise [-@fraise-2011] sugiere que una sociedad comunista

de la abundancia con alta automatización, software libre y replicadoras

domésticas necesitará más planificación que nunca antes.  No para

superar la escasez sino para resolver los problemas de la abundancia,

que hoy en día amenazan las condiciones de la vida misma.  El cambio

climático global y un conjunto de problemas ecológicos intervinculados

son un desafío para todas las posturas que hemos discutido.  La

bio-crisis llama a la planificación, o al cálculo, pero un cálculo de

acuerdo a métricas que midan límites, umbrales y grados de la

supervivencia de las especies, humanas o no.  Al discutir los

imperativos de una planificación eco-socialista, Michael Lowy

[-@lowy-2009] señala que requeriría una dirección social mucho más

comprensiva que el mero "control obrero" o incluso la reconciliación

negociada entre los intereses de las trabajadoras y las consumidoras que

sugieren abordajes como los de Parecon.  Antes bien, implica una

reconstrucción profunda de los sistemas económicos, incluyendo la

abolición de ciertas industrias, como la pesca industrializada o la tala

indiscriminada, la reformulación de los métodos de transporte, "una

revolución en el sistema energético" y un impulso hacia el "comunismo

solar" [@lowy-2009].  Tales transformaciones

would involve cybernetics along two major axes, as both contributors to

the current bio-crisis and as potential means for its resolution. On the

first of these axes, the ecological costs of nominally ‘clean’ digital

plenty.  However, cybernetic systems are also a potential part of any

resolution of the bio-crisis – or, indeed, of even fully recognizing it.

Paul Edward’s (2010) A Vast Machine analyzes the global system of

incluirían a la cibernética en dos ejes mayores, ambos contribuyendo a

la bio-crisis actual y a la vez como medios potenciales para su

resolución.  En el primero de estos ejes, los costos ecológicos de las

tecnologías digitales nominalmente "limpias" se han vuelto cada vez más

aparentes:  los requisitos en energía eléctrica de los centros de datos

de la computación en la nube, la demanda de agua limpia y minerales de

la manufactura de microchips y la prodigiosa cantidad de basura

electrónica tóxica resultante.  Convertir a todas las casas en

mini-fábricas _fablab_ solo aceleraría la muerte por calentamiento

planetaria.  Contrariamente a todas las nociones idealistas de los

mundos virtuales, la cibernética es parte inextricable del mismo sistema

industrial cuyas operaciones deben ser puestas bajo escrutinio en un

nuevo sistema de regulación metabólica que apunte a una abundancia tanto

roja como verde.  Sin embargo, los sistemas cibernéticos son también una

parte potencial de cualquier resolución de la bio-crisis.  A Vast

Machine [Una máquina vasta] de Paul Edward [-@edward-2010] analiza el

sistema global

climatological measurement and projection – the apparatus of weather

stations, satellites, sensors, digitally archived records and massive

computer simulations, which, like the Internet itself, originated in US

sources.  By revealing the contingency of conditions for species

survival, and the possibility for their anthropogenic change, such

‘knowledge infrastructures’ of people, artifacts, and institutions

(Edwards, 2010:

17) – not just for climate measurement, but also for the monitoring of

    ocean acidification, deforestation, species loss, fresh water

    availability – reveal the blind spot of Hayek’s catallaxy in which

(Edwards, 2010: 17) – not just for climate measurement, but also for the

monitoring of ocean acidification, deforestation, species loss, fresh

water availability – reveal the blind spot of Hayek’s catallaxy in which

the very grounds for human existence figure as an arbitrary

    ‘externality’.  So-called ‘green capital’ attempts to subordinate

    such bio-data to price signals. It is easy to point to the fallacy

    of pricing non-linear and catastrophic events: what is the proper

    tag for the last tiger, or the carbon emission that triggers

    uncontrollable methane release?  But bio-data and bio-simulations

    also now have to be included in any concept of communist collective

    planning. Insofar as that project aims at a realm of freedom that

    escapes the necessity of toil, the common goods it creates will have

    to be generated with cleaner energy, and the free knowledge it

    circulates have metabolic regulation as a priority. Issues of the

    proper remuneration of labor time require integration into

    ecological calculations. No bio-deal that does not recognize the

    aspirations of millions of planetary proletarians to escape

    inequality and immiseration will succeed, yet labour metrics

    themselves need to be rethought as part of a broader calculation of

    the energy expenditures compatible with collective survival.

de medición y proyección climatológica, es decir el aparato de

estaciones meteorológicas, satélites, sensores, registros digitales y

simulaciones por computadora masivas que se originaron, como la

Internet, durante la planificación estadounidense de la Guerra Fría

‘externality’.  So-called ‘green capital’ attempts to subordinate such

bio-data to price signals. It is easy to point to the fallacy of pricing

non-linear and catastrophic events: what is the proper tag for the last

tiger, or the carbon emission that triggers uncontrollable methane

release?  But bio-data and bio-simulations also now have to be included

in any concept of communist collective planning. Insofar as that project

aims at a realm of freedom that escapes the necessity of toil, the

common goods it creates will have to be generated with cleaner energy,

and the free knowledge it circulates have metabolic regulation as a

priority. Issues of the proper remuneration of labor time require

integration into ecological calculations. No bio-deal that does not

recognize the aspirations of millions of planetary proletarians to

escape inequality and immiseration will succeed, yet labour metrics

themselves need to be rethought as part of a broader calculation of the

energy expenditures compatible with collective survival.

Conclusion: For K-ommunism?  Marx (1964), in his famous, or notorious,

comparison of the ‘worst of architects’ and the ‘best of bees’, saw the