Felix Stalder wrote about David Harvey's idea of separate but interrelated
"activity spheres":
"One cannot understand the shape and dynamics of the state without its
relation to capital and vice-versa, or, increasingly, without eco-system
pressures. While these domains are related, they also follo
On 07/11/2022 18:59, Felix Stalder wrote:
In the 20th century, in the West, there have been, as far as I can see,
three ways of reacting to such 'total crises'. Fascism, Keynesian and
'war efforts'.
For 6-7000 years the same approach to the basic social metabolism (i.e.
food systems) has b
On 27.10.22 20:50, Brian Holmes wrote:
Indeed. The point is now to think those politics, and make their
possibilities recognizable.
I think it's pretty obvious that we are living in a period that is
characterized by what one could call, with a nod to Durkheim, "total
social crises". Meaning
Hi all,
Re: Technopolitics of the future
( in the "possible follow-ups" category ... haha ! )
thx for the comments...
and just to clarify...
The XLterrestrials' analysis of *Guineapigdom* is an attempt to analyze
ALL technological environments in the throes and whims and
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 4:03 AM Felix Stalder wrote:
>
> there is now a collective awareness of the reality of the Anthropocene.
> And this is a massive shift on collective awareness over a very short
> period. It makes a wide-range of previously unthinkable politics possible.
>
>
Indeed. The po
ttime-l@mail.kein.org
Subject: Re: Technopolitics of the future
On 24/10/2022 12:56, podinski wrote:
> re: mRNA developments
>
> One really shouldn't be surprised by these dismal achievements to "
> hack the body" and " under the skin surveillance"
W
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:00:44AM +0200, Felix Stalder wrote:
apps etc are more or less the same than five years ago. In response,
lots of VC-capital is funding blockchain technologies, which, so far,
have proven completely useless. A real dead-end.
They're very good for scamming people, thou
On 24/10/2022 12:56, podinski wrote:
re: mRNA developments
One really shouldn't be surprised by these dismal achievements to " hack
the body" and " under the skin surveillance"
Was/is mRNA a scientific achievement or a political measure, bypassing
already/anyway rather weak (read: corrupt)
ms:
particularly the notion that the system itself must be expanded, at
whatever eventual cost to life."
- Lewis Mumford ( 1895-1990 )
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:00:44 +0200
> From: Felix Stalder
> To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
> Subject: Re: Technopolitics of t
On 20.10.22 23:18, Brian Holmes wrote:
I recall speculation on the list about whether a new technopolitical
paradigm would ever take form. Would there be economic growth again?
Would innovation return? Could global capitalism really develop new
forms of self-regulation? Or is it stalked by en
Dear Brian,
> Thoughts about it?
there is no doubt that we indeed have the chance to observe interesting
developments. Maybe inflation should be added to the list. And the
current crises might really be the expression of a paradigm shift.
Since you referred to Marx: Wasn't it to be expected
Maybe it's interesting to add this interview to get another perspektive
On The Radical Possibilities of Leading With Love: An Interview with
Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey
https://aaww.org/on-the-radical-possibilities-of-leading-with-love-an-interview-with-dr-margo-okazawa-rey/
She spoke yesterday
Dear Frederic, I admire the wager on utopia, it's resonant for me. What's
more, the George Floyd uprising finally made me understand how many people
want to go through a social breakdown, to emerge on the other side,
somewhere else. For them, the bad accident is good.
It's not my desire because I
Dear Brian,
It's always a gift to read your analysis, your posts, they really feed my
attempts to understand what's going on.
Just a thought: what happens when we reverse the order of things in your
analysis: instead of a) the technopolitical paradigmatic shift (what
appears as a sort of historic
As a first reaction to these mind boggling questions, I would say, let’s make a
disorganized inventory of people, intentions, projects and see if it all points
in any particular direction. Brian already spoke of the Covid vaccines. Here’s
a start, quickly and messily, because it’s time for bed:
For years on nettime, the much-regretted Armin Medosch, myself, Felix
Stalder and a number of others developed a theory of technopolitical
paradigm shifts: a grand narrative to explain social change in industrial
societies. Well, even if you don't like grand narratives, you may have
noticed that a
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