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it is hard not to noticed that the week 3 of network rehearsal are all
female protagonists.... if the curatorial suggestion here is that the
the post-net network imaginary depends on female traits, let me throw in
another angle from the realm of 'mother' culture.
paraphrasing Marx, the new will appear in the womb of the old.....🐡 🐡
🐡 🐡 (thank you for this Liz)
two points here. one with regards to Kombucha culture and the resistance
presented by their mother/ daughter dyad to cultural appropriation into
the growing health drink industry or what some even have called the
kombucha war in USA between kombucha breweries and federal regulation
agencies. as some might know, the kombucha drink bottled and sold in
health food shops is always already impregnated and a live. the smallest
environmental change, be it a temperature or oxygen levels will
reactivate the fermentation process, daughters growth and rise the
alcohol levels, subsequently requiring this slavery to be regulated
under the law as an alcoholic beverage, with costs that entails.
the other point ..... like the recent rise of 'heartless psychopaths'
there are also a rise of what some could call 'heartfelt psychopaths' or
what they themselves prefer to call the crazy mother movement who are
standing up for the acknowledgment of matrixial and the rights of the
voiceless infant child. Borrowing Brecha Ettinger articulation of
matrixial space as one pregnant with potentials, possibilities and
surprises, a radical and anarchic space where 'co-emergence' takes
place, but only if undisturbed by the logic of separation, the noise of
cultural hegemony and techno excitement, they beginning to contest and
refuse what Bernard Shaw once called the "witchcraft, in modern form of
patent medicines and prophylactic inoculations".
these standpoints represent rejection of the separations that are
currently imposed on all subjects and reinforce the notions of
inter-connectivity, inter-subjectivity and **a cooperative relationship
'mother' culture represent. It still to be seen what the network of
angry mothers can bring to the life in capitalism ruins....
in such context, the DNA discussions are also already shifted from
frameworks of identity to those of epigenetics and inter-dependencies.
On 19/06/2018 07:20, Shu Lea Cheang wrote:
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Hi all
Let me just pick up a few threads here to follow through
From Kate Rich - "i'm particularly interested in non-model businesses
- experiments in business which do not scale or replicate but can
travel, cross-breed and transmit - & also in martin parker's idea of
insurgent entrepreneurship as a set of potentially transformative
practices in reorienting economy, for communities as well as individuals."
From Ilze Black - the human networks that transport kombucha, the
t-shroom, ultimately "to put forward the notion of symbiosis for the
post-net network imagination! Mycelium networks offer us organic
metaphors to re-evaluate ourselves....They give us a chance to move
away from human=machine rhetoric, from cyborg like visions of future
transhumans, and possibly change the course of current industrial
enterprise. This, however, requires for every supporter to become a
symbiosis partner, to be considered as a cell in a social mycelium. "
From Liz, risking getting into the discourse on 'immersive species",
we would certainly be interested in the tracks of UBERMORGEN's
network projects that "undermine the current networks of the heartless
psychopaths".
I offer here also a quote from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, /The mushroom at
the end of the world -on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins/
"We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and
ecological ruination….. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us
how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention
to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us— but it might open our
imaginations. "
There is new relationships to be established, some disconnection to be
made......
any takers?
sl
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