Re: [NetBehaviour] "If nature is unjust, change nature!" Re: Accelerationism

2016-05-03 Thread Tom Kohut
While there are obviously damaging changes to "nature" (as though the meaning of that terms was obvious and univocal), not all "changing nature" is morally wrong, surely. (The eradication of smallpox, for example, seems to me to be an unambiguously good and progressive action). Tom Sent from

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-22 Thread Tom Kohut
L2M15ePL39Ror > > I agonized about the aesthetics of the work- at first- so un-"cool", so > un-cyber - because the humans are so alive AND they make the work. > But now I'm really happy with it and would like to assert a place for this > almost folksy aesthetic (rather than a rush

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Kohut
Regarding what an accelerationist aesthetics might resemble (or the set of things which m ight be grouped via family resemblance as an "accelerationist aesthetics"), there's the June 2013 EFlux which was devoted to exactly this question. In it, Patricia MacCormack (In "Cosmogenic Acceleration:

Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Kohut
Hello, My name is Tom Kohut and I'm a sort of accelerationist. I've been following the discussion of accelerationism since version 2 began to coalesce in 2008. (V.1 being the work in the 60s/70s of Deleuze, Lyotard's *Libidinal Economy* and Baudrillard). I say "sort of accelerationist&quo