...Unless you decide to turn your parcel of land into a bustling center of commerce.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:41 Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk> wrote: > We (my family and I) did grab what we can and head for the hills. > Literally. We now live high up in the hills in an obscure and hard to find > place a reasonably safe distance from where other people live about as far > from the cradle of Western civilisation one can be (Australia). We are > surrounded by a parcel of land that is ours and functions something like a > fortress. I guess that means I can’t be an accelerationist - even if I > wanted to be… > > best > > Simon > > > *Simon Biggs* > si...@littlepig.org.uk > http://www.littlepig.org.uk > http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs > http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs > http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs > > > > > > > > On 22 Apr 2016, at 02:57, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> > wrote: > > Dear Annie, Dave, Alan and Paul, > > Annie you asked > "I want to slow down, to be attentive, to touch - can that be part of > Accelerationisme?" > > Yes. I think so. > This is less about speed (as distinct from Futurism) than it is about > rates of change. > > The technologies that we use are bound up with with advanced capitalism. > We watch our political and social infrastructures unable to evolve fast > enough to solve the wicked problems - for environment, democracy, justice > and a good life- than they create. > > I think we can take two attitudes > > 1) Save ourselves! Take what we can carry, run for the hills and build the > best fortresses we can with people whose values we share. > > or > > 2) coordinate and collaborate in the higher interests of all living beings > - constantly working out who and what these are- and using all means at our > disposal. > > I like the idea of living in the hills. > But not under siege, and not in earshot of future generations of bemused, > brutalised, alienated people. > > The dominant model of global coexistence is that of endless economic > growth and Neoliberalism (the (increasingly automated) marketization of > everything). This tends to centralize power and resources and renders less > effective the usual ways of blocking and resisting; of work-based and > traditional-identity based solidarity. > > Instead Contemporary Accelerationism suggests (I think) that we use in new > combinations all the tools, tactics, and knowledges in an attempt to > perform a series of judo moves (using the force rather than resisting the > force), or to sling-shot our way through the mess we are in. > > As always, there needs to be a way to accommodate the visions and madcap > schemes of all sorts- many islands rather than one land mass as Paul said. > That's why this discussion here and now. > > Respect! > Ruth > > On 21/04/16 12:01, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > My name is Annie Abrahams and I don't know if I am an Accelerationist. > I don't like the word and I know that words are not innocent. > I do like Ruth and I know she never is completely wrong. > > Why in the first place I should think about it? Modernism, the Postmodern, > the New Aesthetics, Post Internet Art - just names, almost forgotten names > - containers that served to categorize discussions, postures ... analyses? > perspectives? > > Is Accelerationisme the most recent one in this row? > What should we discuss ... ? > Accelerate? What is knowledge in this frame, how is it constructed? Is it > a-historical? Is it prospective? > > I want to slow down, to be attentive, to touch - can that be part of > Accelerationisme? > > (to be continued) > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:37 AM, ruth catlow < > ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> My name is Ruth Catlow, >> and I am an Accelerationist. >> >> Back in 1996 .... >> (to be continued) >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > Gretta Louw reviews my book > <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/personal-politics-language-digital-colonialism-annie-abrahams%E2%80%99-estranger> > from "estranger to e-stranger: Living in between languages", and finds that > not only does it demonstrate a brilliant history in performance art, but, > it is also a sharp and poetic critique about language and everyday culture. > > New project with Daniel Pinheiro and Lisa Parra : Distant Feeling(s) > <http://bram.org/distantF/> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@netbehaviour.orghttp://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > -- > Co-founder Co-director > Furtherfield > > www.furtherfield.org > > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > Meeting calendar - http://bit.ly/1NgeLce > Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i > > Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & > debates > around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997 > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee > registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, > Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0EH. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- P Thayer, Artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
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