I'm still pondering what it means to ''encode accountability back into these infrastructures and rebuild a foundation for civic life that is not merely an optimization of its own surveillance.'' By the way, when I lived in Lisbon for a few months, I took to buying my eggs from a rather sketchy guy selling near a discount supermarket. No accountability, no infrastructure, I'm not sure you'd call our lives civic and he was likely under some less than optimized surveillance but if so it didn't bother us. The eggs were real good.
I am too! One example of accountability comes from Fairbnb. https://social.fairbnb.coop/ It's a platform trying to compete with Airbnb. As a coop, they're accountable to neighborhoods, involve local residents and stakeholders in decision-making, limit each host to one property to prevent corporate abuses, and share 50% of booking fees with community projects chosen by locals. They also work with local authorities on compliance, set caps on listings, and try angle toward a mutually beneficial kind of tourism. But it's slow going and they have trouble scaling in the shadows of private equity. A Fairbnb in Lisbon just might work with your sketchy dude to supply eggs to renters!
I'm still pondering what it means to ''encode accountability back into these infrastructures and rebuild a foundation for civic life that is not merely an optimization of its own surveillance.'' By the way, when I lived in Lisbon for a few months, I took to buying my eggs from a rather sketchy guy selling near a discount supermarket. No accountability, no infrastructure, I'm not sure you'd call our lives civic and he was likely under some less than optimized surveillance but if so it didn't bother us. The eggs were real good.
I am too! One example of accountability comes from Fairbnb. https://social.fairbnb.coop/ It's a platform trying to compete with Airbnb. As a coop, they're accountable to neighborhoods, involve local residents and stakeholders in decision-making, limit each host to one property to prevent corporate abuses, and share 50% of booking fees with community projects chosen by locals. They also work with local authorities on compliance, set caps on listings, and try angle toward a mutually beneficial kind of tourism. But it's slow going and they have trouble scaling in the shadows of private equity. A Fairbnb in Lisbon just might work with your sketchy dude to supply eggs to renters!