Global South states demanded collective ownership of information alongside natural resources

Evidence

Linking knowledge and natural resources is not only a poetic choice. In 1974, the UN General Assembly passed a declaration on the New International Economic Order (NIEO) proposed by the G77 coalition of developing nations, approving an ambitious set of demands for global redistribution, increased aid, stabilization of commodity prices, and permanent sovereignty over natural resources. The G77 made demands for collective management and ownership of the seabed, the moon, and Antarctica alongside those for central management of the world’s information. Third World demands for rents for the airspace used by Western satellites circling overhead was only one of the ways that the materiality of information infrastructure met the spaces of the so-called natural world. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 196

In 1974, the UN General Assembly passed a declaration on the New International Economic Order (NIEO) proposed by the G77 coalition of developing nations, approving an ambitious set of demands for global redistribution, increased aid, stabilization of commodity prices, and permanent sovereignty over natural resources. The G77 made demands for collective management and ownership of the seabed, the moon, and Antarctica alongside those for central management of the world’s information. Third World demands for rents for the airspace used by Western satellites circling overhead was only one of the ways that the materiality of information infrastructure met the spaces of the so-called natural world. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the discourse of Global South sovereignty claims and the anti-colonial challenge to Western epistemic and resource control — parallels decolonization scholarship treating knowledge and raw materials as twin colonial extraction sites. — connects to: Nation-states will fight over information as they once fought over territory. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 113
• SHARE: The G77 demanding collective ownership of the moon, seabed, and Antarctica alongside information management would land well with someone working on the politics of the commons or space law.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 196

Broader Connections

• Nation-states will fight over information as they once fought over territory. #expands (0.80) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 113