Networks for Life

Open Source Cuba for the Long Run (II): Adrian Lopez Denis: "People developed alternatives to it, or a sense of networks… Building on top of a long tradition of an informal economy in Cuba, those networks are now responsible for the dynamics of daily life… They cross all divisions. These are networks of survival, so when you need to survive you can not look at the ideology or the race or the gender of the person you are interacting with. You can’t be that picky.

This talk about networks of survival ties with Jeff Vail's ideas about Rhizomes as a resilient social model for the future of life.

Unfortunately as Dr. Lopez points out this network is formed to survive in a society because of racism and the opression of the Afro-Cuban people, most of whom are of a slave background. The network is a creative response but the Revolution likes a top down approach and anyone who gets creative gets sent to jail. Life fights accomodatively to survive but diembodied dare I say intellectual approaches don't play fair.