Platforms are ubiquitous. However, they arguably can only realise their full potential when they are no longer subjected to the imperatives of the profit motive. For this we need: Platform Socialism.

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Shownotes
James Muldoon's Website:
https://jamesmuldoon.org/

Autonomy:
https://autonomy.work/

Autonomy_Digital (where James is project lead):
https://autonomy.work/autonomy_digital/

James on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/james_muldoon_

James on the website of the University of Exeter:
https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/muldoon/

Muldoon, James. 2022. Platform Socialism. London: Pluto Press: 
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346953/platform-socialism/

Muldoon, James. 2021. "Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism", online article on openDemocracy:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/technology-and-democracy/regulating-big-tech-is-not-enough-we-need-platform-socialism/

Further material:
Tiziana Terranova (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Terranova

Terranova, Tiziana. 2004. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783714421/network-culture/

Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs:
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/

Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" in New Left Review 116/117 (full article online):
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

The Social Dilemma, Netflix Show (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma

Tristan Harris (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris

G.D.H. Cole (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._H._Cole

Guild Socialism (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_socialism

Fabian Society:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society

Otto Neurath (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath

Resonate Streaming Platform:
https://resonate.is/

Friedrich August von Hayek (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Leigh, Phillips and Rozworski, Michal. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. New York: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:
S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/

S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt.1 & 2):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/

S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/

S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/

S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/

(German) S01E55/56 | Michael Seemann zur Macht der Plattf