Oh, and let's revive the dilettantes! No more supposed experts, would-be 'masters'. Surely no one who uses this language - even in relation to ostensibly abstract problems or inanimate matter - has read and understood anything about intersectional feminism, digital colonialism and the corrupt power structures that permeate every aspect of human 'progress'.
Let's have the *delight* in (self/personal) discovery, knowledge, exchange, exploration, and the humility of non-experts joining fields of knowledge, bridging gaps, applying so-called expert knowledge. Marion Schwehr (German literature and media scholar) and I are working on a new lecture performance loosely titled 'Dilettantes Unite!', which I am beginning to think will include a critique of accelerationalist/neo-liberalist notions of mastery... Sent from the road > On 25 Apr 2016, at 07:52, Gretta Louw <gretta.elise.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'! > > I lean more towards Alan's thoughts on the role/impact of humans but think > that this is probably besides the point because, yes, we are all heading > towards an end and a new beginning and more ends anyway. I'm the meantime, > though, this idea of 'mastery' - the belief that anything approaching it is > even possible - seems to be at the heart of the majority of suffering; that > which we cause ourselves (humans) internationally, inter-culturally, locally, > personally, psychologically, but also the damage that we inflict on > environments and other species. This is where #additivism is inflential: > embrace the abyss; surrender rescue/savior fantasies; find the best and > weirdest thing to do in the meantime. Queer everything. > > g. > > Sent from the road > >> On 25 Apr 2016, at 03:01, John Hopkins <chaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> "21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over >>> society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global >> >> ...snip... >> >>> it discovers only in the course of its acting, in a politics of geosocial >>> artistry and cunning rationality. A form of abductive experimentation that >>> seeks the best means to act in a complex world." >> >> Good excerpt -- I couldn't manage the patience to drive through that whole >> manifesto -- I feel the answers do not need such bloviating -- & anyway, >> I've got to work on my water-harvesting landscaping, prune my grape vines, >> and turn my worm farm :-) >> >> What is said there, I've been writing into a practice-based curriculum at >> http://ecosa.org -- the idea of systems-thinking approaches to holistic >> un-mastery of the biosphere that we are merely transitory parts of. I >> fundamentally do not like the concept of design, though, as it pre-supposes >> changing that which flows around us. Maybe an adaptive, consciousness-raised >> going-with-the-flow ... sensual improvisation that would include, perhaps, >> the removal of our selves from living viability. If this approach was >> wide-scale enough, the population drop would start the process of a >> post-human re-balancing of the planet's dynamic equilibrium. >> >> jh >> -- >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD >> grounded on a granite batholith >> twitter: @neoscenes >> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
