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Goldfarmer Goldfarmer: Goldfarmer Goldfarmer: Time and the Deadbeat Time and the Deadbeat Escapements of WritingEscapements of WritingMike EdwardsMike Edwards
@preterite@preterite
[email protected]@wsu.edu
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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goldfarming:goldfarming:the exchanges of virtual goods and the exchanges of virtual goods and services in multiplayer online role-playing services in multiplayer online role-playing gamesgames
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2003: $1.5 billion2003: $1.5 billion
2007: $8.5 billion2007: $8.5 billion
2009: $12.6 billion2009: $12.6 billion
2012: $21.2 billion2012: $21.2 billion
(Lehdonvirta & Ernkvist, World Bank)(Lehdonvirta & Ernkvist, World Bank)
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$100$100 end-user gamer paysend-user gamer pays
-$2-$2 PayPalPayPal
-$30-$30 large gold retailerlarge gold retailer
-$45-$45 small gaming studiosmall gaming studio
$23$23 paid to game laborerpaid to game laborer
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60+ hours per week60+ hours per week$2.70 per hour$2.70 per hour
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60+ hours per week60+ hours per week$2.70 per hour$2.70 per hour
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technological technological infrastructureinfrastructure
51%51% physical infrastructurephysical infrastructure
administrative & administrative & overheadoverhead
32%32% worker payworker pay
17%17% profitprofit
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1865–18671865–1867
Irish railroad laborers:Irish railroad laborers:$30/month, board included$30/month, board included
Chinese railroad laborers:Chinese railroad laborers:$31/month, board not included$31/month, board not included
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Leland Stanford on Chinese railroad workers:Leland Stanford on Chinese railroad workers:
““More prudent and economical,More prudent and economical,they are contented with less wages.”they are contented with less wages.”
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August 1853:August 1853:
13 passengers are killed13 passengers are killedin the first major train collision in the United States.in the first major train collision in the United States.
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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Time as discrete commodity and measureTime as discrete commodity and measure
Time as continuous analog experienceTime as continuous analog experience
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Lewis Mumford:Lewis Mumford:
““The clock, not the steam engine, is the key-machineThe clock, not the steam engine, is the key-machineof the modern industrial age.”of the modern industrial age.”
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The digital exists in discontinuous quanta of information.The digital exists in discontinuous quanta of information.
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1873:1873:
The Seth Thomas Company built the railroad clockThe Seth Thomas Company built the railroad clockthat still sits at the heart of Grand Central Terminal.that still sits at the heart of Grand Central Terminal.
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12 noon, November 18, 1883:12 noon, November 18, 1883:
Standard Railway TimeStandard Railway Timewas adopted across the United States.was adopted across the United States.
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Today:Today:
The processes in every computer chipThe processes in every computer chipare driven by an oscillator clock putting out 1s and 0s.are driven by an oscillator clock putting out 1s and 0s.
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Dowling, Carolyn. “Word Processing and theDowling, Carolyn. “Word Processing and theOngoing Difficulty of Writing.” Ongoing Difficulty of Writing.” Computers and Computers and
CompositionComposition 11.3 (1994), 227–235. 11.3 (1994), 227–235.
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Section 20 of United States Code Part 600.2Section 20 of United States Code Part 600.2concerning Institutional Eligibilityconcerning Institutional Eligibilityof the Higher Education Act of 1965:of the Higher Education Act of 1965:
““a credit hour is an amount of work...a credit hour is an amount of work...that reasonably represents not less than...that reasonably represents not less than...one hour of classroom or direct faculty instructionone hour of classroom or direct faculty instructionand a minimum of two hours of out-of-classand a minimum of two hours of out-of-classstudent work each week for approximatelystudent work each week for approximatelyfifteen weeks for one semester... of credit.”fifteen weeks for one semester... of credit.”
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Marx:Marx: “Moments are the elements of profit.” “Moments are the elements of profit.”
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Machinery both Machinery both (1)(1) raises productivity of labor and raises productivity of labor and
(2)(2) as a repository of capital operates as a as a repository of capital operates as ameans of lengthening the working day.means of lengthening the working day.
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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Labor power as contracted, time-metered commodityLabor power as contracted, time-metered commodity
Labor input as experiential activity of workLabor input as experiential activity of work
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Marx: Marx: “In the labour process..., man’s activity, “In the labour process..., man’s activity, via thevia theinstruments of labourinstruments of labour, effects an alteration in , effects an alteration in the objectthe objectof labour... of labour... The process is extinguished in the The process is extinguished in the productproduct. Labour has become bound up in its . Labour has become bound up in its object.”object.”
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In capitalist production,In capitalist production,labor power as the digitized commoditylabor power as the digitized commodity
is fused to machines and sois fused to machines and sobecomes an aspect of the circuits of capital.becomes an aspect of the circuits of capital.
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land, labor, capitalland, labor, capital
digital devices, digital labor, immaterial capitaldigital devices, digital labor, immaterial capital
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production, distribution, use, re-productionproduction, distribution, use, re-production
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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capital as technological object in which labor is frozencapital as technological object in which labor is frozen
capital as process of increasing surplus value capital as process of increasing surplus value
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fusing labor to capitalfusing labor to capital
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1.1. workerworker
2.2. timetime
3.3. laborlabor
4.4. capitalcapital
5.5. workerworker
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Marx:Marx:
how colonialism and its effects work tohow colonialism and its effects work tospread Western capitalism’s frontiers of dominationspread Western capitalism’s frontiers of domination
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We are the goldfarmers.We are the goldfarmers.
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in digitizing our time,in digitizing our time,we are self-exploitingwe are self-exploiting