New Inclusive English

Hey all, I read this article yesterday: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/equity-language-guides-sierra-club-banned-words/673085/ (or https://archive.is/iPQ2D). I'm almost concerned to open this can of worms, for reasons that are touched on in the article i'm sharing -- on

Re: Relationships with computers between 1990 and 2010

Hey John, I would be very interested to see what comes out of such a project. I have some ideas about that timeframe too (being as it is when i "came of age" online), and i think you're right that it was a pivotal time. Or perhaps that's the "this generation's time is the most important epo

Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

Hello all, This is my first time responding on nettime-l, after lurking for a while (not that long, comparatively - i only discovered this amazing list about a year or two ago). I always look forward to reading the well-considered messages, and often humbling levels of knowledge of literatur

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

Dmytri's position boils down to an absolute deference to "authentically oppressed peoples" (or the chinese state, which is curiously synonymous with the chinese people in his analysis) at the cost of unthinkingly eschewing all of those other bothersome and inconvenient oppressed peoples (Uyghurs, T

The Fascist Simulation

*The Fascist Simulation* Ian Alan Paul // January 8, 2021 https://www.ianalanpaul.com/the-fascist-simulation/ In the United States, fascism presently unfolds as a simulation. The fascist simulation constitutes itself as a pixelated sea of livestreams, images, posts, and comments, circulating

Climate, Capitalism, Control

azon Alexa. I've also pasted the script of the project below for those who would prefer to read: [ you can read/download it as a pdf here as well: https://www.ianalanpaul.com/climate-capitalism-control-text/ ] Climate, Capitalism, Control Ian Alan Paul, 2019 01. Dispersed across the s

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

Hang ..." It's a homebrew photo (not available elsewhere) of a > bouquet of flowers, hanging upside-down on a wall, above a US-style > electrical socket. That seems like a pretty sophisticated proposition: a > sentimental appeal phrased in the passive voice but strongly suggestive

Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy

13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561 > <https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561>* > bio: http://floriancramer.nl > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 5:10 PM Ian Alan Paul > wrote: > >> I thought some on the list interested in infrastructural / ecological &g

Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy

I thought some on the list interested in infrastructural / ecological politics might find this of interest: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy (online: https://inhabit.global/ , español: https://es.inhabit.global/ , français: https://fr.inhabit.global/ ) There are two paths: The end of the world

Re: Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

ion. > The notion of “race” is however too much of a power base for the political > elite of ANC. That narrative feeds their power, so better keep that > narrative alive. > All the best, > David > > On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:14, Ian Alan Paul wrote: > > "My native South

Re: Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

"My native South Africa is heading toward a class war or a race war. A class war is exactly what South Africa needs, a race war would be disastrous." The inability to think race and class together in this case in particular says everything you need to know about the poverty and bankrupty of Alexan

Re: (no subject)

Well said Brian! To further distill the point: Marx wrote about the specific antagonisms of a particular historical period defined by processes of industrialization, and to romanticize the analysis of a past/outdated Marx as being universal without being attentive to the distinct material/historic

Re: Identity and difference

g how many > offlist new amazing contacts my postings created. Nettime is still very > much alive (thank the God who does not exist) even if not on the mailing > list itself. > And Ian, our dear historian of identitarianism Asad Haider will never > attract any masses. Because he agai

Re: Identity and difference

versal was > never more than a wordgame anyway. It is through shared vision (a fetish as > opposed to an abject) that we can find a shared agenda. Not by distributing > medial attention according to ultimately infantile needs. Because that's no > better than Trump himself. > &g

Re: Identity and difference

If you you think being of critical and suspicious of theological metanarratives is intellectually lazy, wait until you hear about faux-Marxist class reductionism! In all seriousness, for those of you looking for actually useful analyses of the complex relations between identity, class, and emanci

Re: Google Campus Occupied

eady expelled again > > https://twitter.com/besetzenberlin > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 07. September 2018 um 15:44 Uhr > *Von:* "Ian Alan Paul" > *An:* "a moderated mailing list for net criticism" < > nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > *Betreff:* Google C

Google Campus Occupied

The new Google campus being built in Kreuzberg, Berlin has been occupied by the neighborhood. You can follow along here: https://mastodon.social/@FuckOffGoogle # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

No We Can't

No We Can't Ian Alan Paul, 2018 [this text can also be read online @ www.ianalanpaul.com/no-we-cant/ ] While “Yes We Can” fueled a particular historical sequence, unquestionably it is “No We Can’t” that is more explosive today. As landscapes turn to tinder and melting ice sends sea l

Re: What does Trump get right?

cs. In solidarity, because it's the only thing we've ever had or needed, ~i On Aug 4, 2018 22:48, "Brian Holmes" wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Ian Alan Paul wrote: > We need more movements that, as Michael Hardt has described it, allow us &g

Re: What does Trump get right?

state power must reckon with what is beyond its organization. ~i On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 16:13 Brian Holmes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Ian Alan Paul > wrote: > > We all should prefer that the Democrats win in November for obvious >> reasons, but to curb our politi

Re: What does Trump get right?

The prognosis of the situation that has been outlined in this thread is unquestionably true. Certainly climate change, financial capital, and rising authoritarianisms/nationalisms/etc. require the greatest degree of concentration, stamina, and dedication from us all, regardless of your political ca

Re: Endgame?

I think that the best way to interpret this all is that neoliberalism is finally coming home to Europe and the U.S.. All of the modes of governmentality (surveillance, the logic of security supplanting the logic of sovereignty, dissolution of the divide between police and military, etc.) that hav

Re: Endgame?

I think that the best way to interpret this all is that neoliberalism is finally coming home to Europe and the U.S.. All of the modes of governmentality (surveillance, the logic of security supplanting the logic of sovereignty, dissolution of the divide between police and military, etc.) that hav

Digital Arts MFA at Stony Brook University

For those interested in studying digital media in a fine arts context, please consider applying to the MFA at SUNY Stony Brook (funding is available for top applicants). Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions about the program. *Apply Now to the MFA Program at Stony Broo

Antisocial Media

As a follow up from a previous post on this list, I'm writing to let you all know about a text I've just completed titled Antisocial Media. A remix/cut-up/utopian-plagiarism of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, Antisocial Media reflects on the role of the network and (anti)social media in

Re: Brexit democracy

Brian writes: "Supporting them remains essential, in the way that dreams and utopias are essential. But I think there's another responsibility, which is to imagine and get behind the factors of sweeping systemic change, which is what the times are callling for." I don't think the two are mutually

Re: Brexit democracy

r by narcos and then > "taken back" by military forces in collusion with one or another of the > cartels, you will wonder when your town will be taken over by armed > militias, before being taken "back" by something very new, ie an organized > neofascist military st

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown is an indispensable thinker for these times. In addition to Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, her recent short text that explores the progression from neoliberalism to neofascism is a must-read: http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/ (and for more depth on this subject, see her

Re: Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

ould start insisting on an Internet that —“subjugates living human beings” instead of “men only”—? C’mon...ok - took the bait, but honestly, let us not exclude women and children from the digital labor force. (of the spectacle) Molly On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:55 AM Ian Alan Paul wrote: > I

Re: Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

elp translators: > http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com/article-releve-des-citations-et-des- > detournements-de-la-societe-du-spectacle-42307956.html > > -- > Marc > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 23:23:08 +1300 (NZDT) > lincoln dahlberg wrote: > > > is this your hack or who

Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social relation among people, mediated by networks. ... The basically tautological character of the internet flows from the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends. ... The internet subjugates living men to itself to the extent

Re: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

While this has turned into an interesting discussion on the (non?)future of AI, it's important to remind ourselves that what Zeynep is describing (and control societies in general) don't rely on the existence of advanced AI to work. The power of control societies emerges from the historical conjun

Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

easy. We might not even easily agree on what those terms mean. But if we take seriously how these systems that we depend on for so much operate, I don't see how we can postpone this conversation anymore. These structures are organizing how we function and they're controlling what we can and

The Looming Impossibility of the Present

And so here we are. In the present, the new normal. In a situation that feels just as quotidian as it does impossible. With my coffee I read of fires in California and I scroll through friends' facebook posts debating which filters and breathing masks are best to buy. I read of the news from Puert

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

The radical Left in Barcelona is conflicted. People oppose independence simply because it has the tendency to subsume all other political antagonisms (see the very strange left/right coalition currently in power in Catalonia). At the same time, there is general agreement about the right to self-det

Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

"the arc of social movement experience shows that anarchist/autonomist exodus strategies have reached a dead end. Unfortunately, demos like those in Hamburg are just a detail for the state, they don't spill over to the general population and their main effect is to feed the militarization of the po

Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

Thank you Brian for this post, and Lincoln for the elaboration and highlighting of some of the central problems Brian posed for us. I want to respond to this in two ways, first by calling into the question the novelty of the present to some degree, and second by trying to map the dynamics / ruptur

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

deliberately label these two texts as "Preliminary" (in the sense that more will need to be written) and "Theses" (in the sense that they will have to be tested). Only time will tell what unfolds from here but I hope that at least some fragments of either piece can be put to

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

I don't think my theses are necessarily opposed to the formation of "counter power," but rather perhaps what we imagine "counter power" being may be very different in form. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, 15:56 Brian Holmes wrote: On 01/31/2017 09:38 AM, Ian Alan Paul wrot

10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance Ian Alan Paul, January, 2017 1. Resistance against Trump will first become manifest in radical acts of negation. Sabotage this. Slow down that. Undermine a process. Raise questions. Draw lines. Flood systems. Destroy records. Overwhelm

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

"Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word. If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply not cover what it is you are trying to say?" Thank you for this question David ~ I certai

10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

10 Preliminary Theses on Trump Ian Alan Paul, January 2017 1. Trump's power is fundamentally virtual in form. Propose this, suggest that, lie about yesterday, declare the inevitability of that which is yet to come, retreat from one position while advancing on two

Re: The Meme Wars

social media, but these tactics unquestionably shape events across political spectra and we should remain attentive to them in the coming months and years, especially as their effects and consequences become apparent over much longer historical arcs than are easily visible from the e

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory

ere police attack refugee camps alongside neonazis. Determining this will deeply inform how we imagine and interpret the terrain of our organizing and action. I hope that these ways of thinking are in some way helpful. In solidarity, ~i

Haunt the U.S.-Mexico Border on July 15th

hetic experiment. Best, -Ian Paul ianalanp...@gmail.com # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/ne