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General intellect and the Intifada: Part 2
by Ed Emery
Summary: The endemic warfare arising from Israel’s
ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands has generated a whole range of
exportable commodities (ranging from communications systems and software,
through border and security systems, to concepts such as the “war on terror”).
The war is productive. These commodities lie at the very heart of the project
of Empire (see Intel’s production of the new Wimax chip in the Negev). Israel,
and its diasporic class composition, is a defining location of immaterial
labour.
On the Palestinian side, the systematic blockage
and destruction of communicational networks has led to a situation in which the
infrastructures of the nascent Palestinian state are often provided by
informational exo-skeletons (see Electronic Intifada and others).
As a follow-up to an earlier paper (Paris, 2002),
this paper will consider these two separate aspects and their implications for
politics.
CV: Ed Emery organises an itinerant free
university under the rubric of the Universitas adversitatis. He is
engaged on a PhD project on the sonnet and the Arabic and Hebrew poetry of
al-Andalus.
E-mail: [email protected]