Re: Technopolitics of the future

2022-10-25 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
> As such as we can theorise that we are now all colonial subjects - whoever, > wherever - and that in fact pharma-capital now primarily experiments on > subjects in the home countries, such as the Pfizer-styled argument about > vaccine apartheid entails: testing and trying was tested and tried

Re: 'The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world'

2020-09-28 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
Dear David and all, Oh boohoo. Nick Couldry cum suis are rather late to the party of general hopelessness and lack of future perspective that so many others have suffered from for decades already. Who is the 'we' they are talking about - all the white privileged men who could up until recently

Re: Bernard Stiegler R.I.P.

2020-08-11 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
Hi all, here's a nice short obit from Yuk Hui: https://www.urbanomic.com/document/in-memory-of-bernard/. Very sad to see Bernard leave like this... And fear the authoritarian technocracy that accelerated during this pandemic may have something to do with his suicide. Best, Ingrid.

Re: FWD: re: switching to teaching online

2020-03-18 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
Dear Andreas and all, That's a bunch of bollocks. Universities ARE exploiting us through our sense of care and duty for our students, whether we teach online or not. Education IS meaningful in the face of what humanity faces, just as is helping the kids next door with the groceries for

Re: California Ideology mea culpa

2020-01-21 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
"...are we really so shocked at the sophomoric a biased level of hubris and self-service that underpinned this 25 yr. trajectory - as well as our collectively blind participation? Perhaps FB’s "failure of imagination" may simply approximate a mirror of our own." Yes, precisely! I've written

Re: 20 years of Indymedia: Where are we now ?!

2019-09-07 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
Hello ex-((i)) and ex-N5M3 folks, Just like to point out that https://www.indymedia.nl/ is still very much alive! I haven't been involved for many years now, but perhaps we could do something in Amsterdam, or barring that something in Berlin together with the Dutch ((i)) folks? I'd be happy to

Re: Complexity and nostalgia

2018-11-04 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
Hi folks, Lurker here who almost climbed into her pen after many years of silence to respond to A.B.s BS and then decided that he's not worth responding too - plus others responded so eloquently already (many thanks Alice, Ian, Florian and Nina for your excellent remarks!) On a related and

Re: On Accelerationism (Fred Turner)

2016-09-05 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
"... thinkers such as Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Deleuze and Guattari turned their frustration into celebration. They not only accepted their inability to escape capitalism; they revelled in it." That's complete nonsense. Rather, some of their work has been (mis)interpreted as celebratory by some