Hei Brian --
While the discussion is interesting, I think for me, the crux of what you have
written here is the subject line, which I am sure you chose with that in mind.
It is our daily moment-to-moment practices (praxis!) that most affect the nature
of reality and how the world goes. How
Hi Florian and list,
I found this a fascinating discussion and also think that - despite finding
some of the contributions rather toenail splitting - it should be happen beyond
nettime as well. In four weeks time, there will be a conference in Weimar not
only focusing on exactly the questions
Hi JHB & all,
'Population control' is indeed the elephant that regularly comes in
stampeding in the chinaware shop of discussing a sustainable future.
But it is a myth that has been put long ago to rest, first in moral
terms by Mahatma Gandhi ("there is enough for everyone's needs, not
for
Hi JHB & all,
'Population control' is indeed the elephant that regularly comes in
stampeding in the chinaware shop of discussing a sustainable future.
But it is a myth that has been put long ago to rest, first in moral
terms by Mahatma Gandhi ("there is enough for everyone's needs, not
for
Hi Florian -
Thanks for sharing this. The critique of folk politics is an interesting
one. Although I share Brian's view about to focus on a more convergent
approach "to work constructively with the many forms of resistance". I
also feel like that a small scale approach, although maybe not the
Shouldn't we be tired of repeating the same reasoning over and over
about deflationary currency? and of making decalogues of what we
critical thinkers from the western black towers of doom think is
good and is bad? is this list becoming a lighthouse for fast and
cheap ethical directions so that
Maybe I'm missing something, but exchanging some gold (or BC) for some
oranges or sex does not create a debt relationship. It's unclear how
possessing an asset implies debt.
Debt can exist without any obvious exchange medium in sight. You can owe
somebody oranges, sex, or diamonds. Some of
Debt is a separate phenomenon, and not necessarily related to
non-fiat currencies, possession does not automatically imply debt,
eg. if I invest my time into digging gold, and find some, who owes
me? Debt is predicated on enforcement capabilities, without which it
does not
If the currency is inflationary, then it's useless as a vehicle for
savings, leaving only local-force-monopoly-backed notion of "property"
as the savings method. If it is not global, it's useless outside the
local fiefdom and subject to whims of the local government.
The above has been
a
future; hopefully "Folk Politics" may yet be there to save us (again).
Siraj
On 03/05/2016 11:00, nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org wrote:
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:31:11 +0200
From: Florian Cramer<flrnc...@gmail.com>
To:nettim...@kein.org
Subject: Re: Live Your
On Tue, 3 May 2016, at 01:31 PM, Florian Cramer wrote:
>[...]
>Bitcoin repeats the history of so-called "neoliberalism" precisely
>because it _is_ neoliberalism (in the sense we understand the word
>today), in its most extreme form of libertarian anarcho-capitalism. In
>fact,
Hiya,
> My issue
> with Bitcoin in particular (aside from the fact that it has ended up as
> a speculative investment Ponzi scheme where the first got rich) is that
> it is based on the economics of Friedrich Hayek and his advocacy of the
> gold standard for currencies.
... with added advantage
ms. How a negation, a Great Refusal, was by itself negated,
producing a new positive, an unbearable norm. Real cultural critique is
always an autobiography, an inquiry into how one has been made -- but
not only. In "Live Your Models" I try to twist the rearview mirror
forward and
On Mon, 02 May 2016, Florian Cramer wrote:
>In more recent projects, for example crypto currencies,
>Randianism even seems to have taken the upper hand, serving as
>trailblazers for panoptical society of control technologies
>(blockchain) that are quickly adopted by big
Dear Brian,
I am interested in this idea of yours of the "flexible self" as I wrote much
about "flexibility" in my critique of wireless imagination in my dissertation
but did not know, at the time about your work, regrettably. I used the
brilliant work of Melissa Gregg, on the flexible economy
Brian,
> That's where the ambiguities lie. On
> my view, the radical experiments of the Sixties and Seventies were
> not misguided, yet they were partially absorbed into the new hegemony
> of neoliberalism. That's why you have to be careful what you wish
> for. Today it's time
jor crisis of capitalism had ever managed to conclude...
best to all, nettime's broken record (BH) ]
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Live Your Models
Self-orientation and social form
Throughout the twentieth century and up to today, art has been a
prodigious creator of models. Models of the self, models of histo
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