On 24/04/16 04:52 PM, Gretta Louw wrote:
> Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'!
>From the Manifesto:
"14. [...] Real democracy must be defined by its goal — collective
self-mastery. This is a project which must align politics with the
legacy of the Enlightenment, to the extent
I'm not sure there's novelty in open cultural and scientific concepts,
quite the contrary they are interested in being general/social and
consensual. Advisory committees I think are a great example of providing
instances of some of the steps that can be taken elsewhere - take for
instance a bioeth
In response to Erik’s posting - this actually sounds as if Accelerationism is a
moralist project, at least here: "a weird utopia of everyone [snip] being in
the conversation and allowing that broader counterpoint to qualify and correct
expert views”. This is why advisory committees are often com
I want to reply to this and Gretta's message that preceded it in a manner
that mediates the two perspectives. In this way, perhaps we could talk
about something like a dilettante accelerationism, but I will look a little
outside this to what I might term a genealogy of the accelerationist, that
fl
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote:
On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -
[...]
Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing
system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of
speech/ so
On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -
>
> [...]
>
> Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing
> system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of
> speech/ sound/movement; the delays wer
A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -
Ennui - Azure singing and F and I dancing and playing as fast as possible
for as long as possible - the piece usually bottoms out around ten
minutes. (started around 2002)
Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux confe
I can kind of see where Accelerationism's coming from - assuming that I
understand Accelerationism correctly, which I more than likely don't.
After you've repeated a certain number of times the usual breast-beating
and groaning about the commodification of personal space and
relationships, the
I elaborated in a previous post. Manifesto’s are rarely discursive and I don’t
really see why they require such a response.
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=sim
On April 24, 2016 1:08:38 PM PDT, Anthony Stephenson wrote:
>Doctors, lawyers and anyone who knows that what the market will bear
>sometimes knows no limit, will only contribute this disparity until,
>let’s
>say, a personal version of something like Chile’s Cybersyn is made into
>an
>app freely
I worry about dilettantes as much as master, for example people working
in bioart potentially releasing organisms into the environment without
understanding the chemical flows of biomes and organisms (no one
understands all of this today!). One of the things I've learned to respect
is the har
"The soul of wit, is the very body of untruth." -Aldous Huxley
So sharp? So definitive? Is there not room for debate?
at least can you e-lab-or-ate?
Bz
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Simon Biggs wrote:
> Nope - don’t buy it. Quackery…
>
> best
>
> Simon
>
>
> *Simon Biggs*
> si...@littlepig.o
Nope - don’t buy it. Quackery…
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 25 Apr 2016, at 03:36, Pall
I agree with Alan.
The human species has evolved to the point where it is no longer adapted to its
environment. Humans now seek to adapt the environment to the species. That is
not working. If the human species was to become extinct today that would be the
best thing that could happen to the pl
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
p
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 i
While the original Nietzschean wish for capital to play itself out, I’m
thinking that the (Left) Accelerationism of the past twenty years might
have more to do with a flash on the possibility to "Seize the Means of
Production". With the popularization of computing and cybernetics, some
might have f
The crux, again, is this - you say -
I doubt the
capabilities of our species are any more than any other in the ability
to alter the fundamentals of Life.
- but from everything I've read and researched, this just isn't true.
The disagreement is deep; for one thing I don't feel guilty, but a
Hi Alan -
You know well that the diff. between this and the Perm. for example is this is
the result of a particular species running amuck. And with 40-50 % of ocean life
scheduled to disappear, etc. as a result of climate, microspherules, etc., the
situation is a mess. Yes, there will be somethi
sounds good to me, the idea of unmastery resonates -
thanks -
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, John Hopkins 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
"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 experimentat
Hi Pall,
Here's the crux of the problem:
" whilst we cannot predict the precise result of our actions, we can
determine probabilistically likely ranges of outcomes. What must be
coupled to such complex systems analysis is a new form of action:
improvisatory and capable of executing a design
Some of the epistemic accelerationists are interested in the work of the
philosopher Robert Brandom, who talks about rational, revisable norms. There's
been some criticism of that from the point of view of "Risk Society" (Suhail
Malik in Collapse Journal VIII).
I'm uncomfortable about normativi
>From Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
):
"21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over
society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global
proble
Can you say more?
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Pall Thayer wrote:
Alan: But isn't that the whole idea behind left-acceleration?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:46 AM Alan Sondheim wrote:
I agree and the problem precisely is acceleration; the biosphere
doesn't
adapt well to accelerated
You know well that the diff. between this and the Perm. for example is
this is the result of a particular species running amuck. And with 40-50 %
of ocean life scheduled to disappear, etc. as a result of climate,
microspherules, etc., the situation is a mess. Yes, there will be
something afte
learning to listen, listening, is necessary. The fundamental problem I
think is that we're blind when it comes to ecosystems, energy, micro-
biomes, and so forth. The fundamentals of mycology are being rewritten as
we discuss, and what's emerging are whole universes of ignorance.
Meanwhile we plo
Alan: But isn't that the whole idea behind left-acceleration?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:46 AM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> I agree and the problem precisely is acceleration; the biosphere doesn't
> adapt well to accelerated change, as the plights of sealions, walrus,
> migrant birds, ocean lives, in
I agree and the problem precisely is acceleration; the biosphere doesn't
adapt well to accelerated change, as the plights of sealions, walrus,
migrant birds, ocean lives, indicate. If anything, a form of holding-back,
learning to listen, listening, is necessary. The fundamental problem I
thin
Absolutely agree with this Ruth. The imperialist and colonialist attitudes that
dominate most contemporary, western thinking are extended, of course in
exaggerated form, into thinking about other species, non-human structures etc.
The anthropocene is colonialistic.
On this, I would highly reco
rt article from the international Socialism Journal by the book's
author:http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj96/foster.htm
warmest wishesmichael
From: ruth catlow
To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Acceler
Yes Michael, and this is profoundly poetic.
All human traditions, values and communities are dissolved in an acid
bath of everlasting agitation and uncertainty.
What this passage does not describe though is a situation where the
wider ecologies of non-human planetary life, upon which we depen
This quote from Marx and Engels certainly describes current management
practices. I have experience of management workshops where the socially and
psychologically disruptive methods outlined in the quote below are promoted and
explicitly employed. The aim is to keep workers on their toes - const
Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the
instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with
them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of
production in unaltered form, was, on
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