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> How would those producing these things be able to fund them? We've got
> Hollywood, not MosFilm.
Don't worry, Russia's developmental state is funding great films these days, via state-owned TV. And the hegemony of Hollywood is vastly overrated. Videogames and interactive media are taking over with amazing speed, and there are indeed information socialisms emerging all around us.
Where I disagree with Wired's techno-utopianism is the notion that the digital commons frees us from politics, which is a crock. In fact, the commons is creating new and interesting kinds of politics, ways of mobilizing and ways of being mobilized, and new collective property-relations. Some leading videogame franchises are already being driven largely by fans, and not by advertisers or console manufacturers.
-- DRR