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

2016-05-06 Thread Przemyslaw Sanecki
My name is Przemyslaw Sanecki and I am a Crash Accelerationist. Neither Left nor Right. They are about the control. http://fundamental.art.pl/MANIFESTO.html -- software-materialism.org ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://w

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

2016-05-01 Thread Kath O'Donnell
thank you Marc. I hadn't read the manifesto - I was on my ipad earlier and it did something weird with the url and didn't load the page - it's working ok on my computer now though. ok after reading this more, perhaps I am more aligned to accelerationism than I first thought. lots to think about in

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

2016-05-01 Thread marc garrett
Hi Kath & all, >catching up on these discussions. my mind has been >offline for past month or so, not taking in any new input. I’m also catching up with the discussions, after being deeply immersed with too other many things. Which has been immensely frustrating. However, it is a pleasure

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

2016-04-30 Thread Kath O'Donnell
catching up on these discussions. my mind has been offline for past month or so, not taking in any new input. stil getting my head around the term and its impact or method relating to art. my first thought was that I wanted to slow down too, so I enjoyed Ruth's response to Annie's post below. I t

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

2016-04-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 02:42 PM, BishopZ wrote: > My name is Bishop Zareh and I don't know much about the topic, but like > what I have read so far. > > I really connected with the 3D Additivist Manifesto and its description > of a Junk Body, the body left behind by technology and obsolescence - > the biolog

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

2016-04-24 Thread BishopZ
My name is Bishop Zareh and I don't know much about the topic, but like what I have read so far. I really connected with the 3D Additivist Manifesto and its description of a Junk Body, the body left behind by technology and obsolescence - the biological equivalent of Koolhaus' Junk Space - a shopp

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

2016-04-24 Thread Rob Myers
On April 21, 2016 10:27:26 AM PDT, ruth catlow wrote: > >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 fas

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
There is evidence of prior glacial activity in the region but the landscape around our property has been too eroded since the last ice age for it to show that much. The landscape is extremely folded - so in that sense there is a D&G quality. best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
Doesn't seem to be a lot of Dolce and Gabb... I mean Deleuze and Guattari striation going on there. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:27 PM Simon Biggs wrote: > The Adelaide Hills aren’t much like Iceland… > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherryville,_South_Australia > > best > > Simon > > > *Simon Big

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
The Adelaide Hills aren’t much like Iceland… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherryville,_South_Australia 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.

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
In Iceland, we have plants that we call "peningablóm" (moneyflowers). Maybe that would work... https://www.google.com/search?q=peningabl%C3%B3m&client=ms-android-google&prmd=mivn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&fir=BoLzPM6yCZYzmM%253A%252CO4-EINlQmWn-lM%252C_%253B169047Z1P1krYM%253A%252CDfvXgtm3vtm8FM%2

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
We’re revegetating it with local flora. There’s a lot of ornithological commerce... 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-

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
...Unless you decide to turn your parcel of land into a bustling center of commerce. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:41 Simon Biggs 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 reasonabl

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
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 surrounde

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
My name is Pall Thayer and I'm a Libre Office Calc-er... not an excel-erationist. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:35 Simon Biggs wrote: > I’ve always been sceptical of manifestos, isms and movements. They > typically corrupt themselves and end up in a car crash. The same goes for > ideology. > > I have

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
I’ve always been sceptical of manifestos, isms and movements. They typically corrupt themselves and end up in a car crash. The same goes for ideology. I have two questions: In what sense is accelerationism distinct from prior isms? Distinct or not, do I want to be associated with it - or don’t I

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: F

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
I think Haraway is a good historical example. Their Cyborg Manifesto was written against sclerotic essentialist-/eco- feminism and amidst the decline of left politics in the US during the Reagan era. They take the Cold War figure of the cyborg and re-purpose it to critique all of this. There are st

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Regarding poetry and Acceleration, here's an interview with Amy Ireland about Xenopoetry (via Nick Land) - https://www.academia.edu/24546212/Poetry_is_Cosmic_War_Interview_ On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 08:16 AM, Paul Hertz wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of contrad

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 06:06 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > does accelerationism deal with issues of > pollution, extinction, and so forth? Additivism is directly concerned with these. Contemporary Left Accelerationism is a resource for dealing with them if one wishes to do so. "Inventing The F

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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
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 wi

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Heya. My name is Rob. I'm not (yet) an Accelerationist, I just play one on the Internet. As part of which I've written about Accelerationist themes for Furtherfield over the last couple of years. Most recently about "Accelerationist Art". On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 02:37 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Hel

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

2016-04-21 Thread marc garrett
Hi all, Good to see list users are already, tentatively dipping their toes into the Accelerationist discussion. I'm actually grading student work today and through the weekend (yawn). Ruth and others will (hopefully) offer guidance through the maze, or at least support into this dialogue at its

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

2016-04-21 Thread Paul Hertz
Hello, My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of contradictory and half-ass[ed|imilated] philosophical viewpoints. There serve me well for making art, but less so for staking out any sort of theoretical terra firma. Given a choice, I would prefer islands to continents and slowing down to acc

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&Guatarri, Lyotard's *Libidinal Economy* and Baudrillard). I say "sort of accelerationist" bec

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

2016-04-21 Thread dave miller
I don't understand what accelerationism is yet, as I need to read a lot more - and a few times - and let it sink in. I find it hard to understand, to be honest. I'm interested though in the connection with Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto And I'd like to know more about the accelerationist aesthe

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

2016-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I have a naive question - does accelerationism deal with issues of pollution, extinction, and so forth? Can one wait for accelerationism? Has one already waited? Thanks, Alan On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote: Hello, My name is Ruth Catlow, and I am an Accelerationist. Back in 1

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

2016-04-21 Thread Annie Abrahams
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

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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
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