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| - | “the whole is less than the sum of parts” - a formula expressing the copiousness of social cooperation in production, where the quota of collective intelligence that is thrown away in the production of the work is not destroyed, but remains there, ghost-like, as a non-used resource that is still available. The power that is freed by the sum of the parts, even if not expressed in its whole, meet a very different destiny. Sometimes it becomes frustration and melancholic inertia, or it generates pitiless competition and hysterical ambition. In other cases, it can be used as a propeller for subversive political action. Also, here we need to bear in mind an essential ambivalence: | + | “the whole is less than the sum of parts” - a formula expressing the copiousness of social cooperation in production, where the quota of collective intelligence that is thrown away in the production of the work is not destroyed, but remains there, ghost-like, as a non-used resource that is still available. The power that is freed by the sum of the parts, even if not expressed in its whole, meet a very different destiny. Sometimes it becomes frustration and melancholic inertia, or it generates pitiless competition and hysterical ambition. In other cases, it can be used as a propeller for subversive political action. Also, here we need to bear in mind an essential ambivalence: |
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