On 09/16/2017 04:48 AM, Felix Stalder wrote: <snippage> > But they are about > inventing new public institutions to embody a different pattern how to > relate to the biosphere and to each other. > > And technology, which created much of this complexity, can also be used > to render it legible and thus make it politically addressable, if we use > it to reinvent and extend democracy. > > Of course, the white middle-class perspective will not suffice, but > rather than seeing new Platonic universals, we need ways of thinking and > doing that can be translated into different experience, change their > language, but remain some coherence. > > > Felix
I've been lurking here for quite a while, but the above expression leads me to share a book I read recently called _The Patterning Instinct_ by Jeremy Lent. The author's URL is at http://www.jeremylent.com/the-patterning-instinct.html and the book was striking enough to me that I responded with my own thoughts at https://medium.com/@cderr/the-web-of-meaning-c3abd902b2a5 I don't see much reason for optimism (either here on nettime or anywhere else), but when solutions are proposed, it seems to me worth our consideration. best, ~c
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