collaboration

verb … work jointly on an activity or project. 2 cooperate traitorously with an enemy. 
— ORIGIN Latin collaborare ‘work together’.
questions
what is the role of compromise in collaboration? collaboration as a working with compromise or constraint creatively? collaborations as a sensing and careful shifting together in relation/ of relations (people- people/ things- people)? what is the role of a common starting point, or degree zero, in collaborative processes? to what extent does collaboration, if posited as a paradigm or general principle, produce semblances of equality (within a working group), to what extent does it assure that distribution of power will be dealt with responsibly in a group? can/ should collaboration be regulated? how does collaboration relate to community, how to cooperative, how to collective? what is the relationship between collaboration and democracy? (see also history of the notion ´collaborateur´ during/ after ww2 in france, how anyone that did not resist the occupying nazi forces was seen to have collaborated with them) what does it take to collaborate? collaboration as an experimental setup enabling investigation into democratic processes? collaboration as a model? a paradigm? a spirit? a concept? what role does affect play in collaboration, what role does language play? collaboration as engaging in imperfect intimacy? collaboration as shattering of centralized viewpoints (there can be no one “outcome”- no single result)? the suggestion of a strategy of multiplication (of author positions) rather than of a substraction (of the author). if the definition of a collaborative project holds the sum total (or multiplication) of the desires of those involved, then the representation of it can also be as multiple as the desires. the form of relation between the collaborating “group” and single persons is then one of synechdoche? synechdoche as a mode of representation of collaborative projects and their participants? what is the role of consensus within forms of collaboration? collaboration as joint thinking process (brainstorming..) as opposed to a process of production or definition? collaboration as enhanced exploitation of a set of cognitive resources; the think tank, the corporation. collaboration as temporary alliance? collaboration as motivated by self-interest, not charity or sense of community? what is at stake in collaboration is the self. do we seek stability or continuity when we enter into collaboration? does collaboration “reach out”? if yes, to whom, in what way differently than a “collective” might reach out? what is the role of a common goal within collaboration? when can collaborative processes be said to start from a common aims? what are these aims or goals concerned with; a form of production, an ethics, a process? what use do corporations make of collaboration? can the corporation be considered some kind of antidote to collaboration as an idea? what is the relationship between collaboration and complicity? what role does the idea of non-representation of collaboration play- i.e. only process, no product a kind of strategy of invisibility, abolishing representation altogether?
background: collide-collabor events in london 2006, workshops at herbstakademie, graz 2006 2008-02-06T14:55:26Z 18 true collaboration

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