This is poetic and apt! The situationist spectacle never did go away, it just expanded a million fold! Lovely piece of commentary On the current state of affairs! Thank you! Simon
Sent from my spyphone > On 16 Dec 2021, at 07:42, Julian Brooks <li...@julianbrooks.net> wrote: > > Suitably hilarious (we're so fucked). > Nice work Eryk! > Season's Greets to all, > J > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Thursday, December 16th, 2021 at 05:08, Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour >> <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Wanted to share a new piece of work created for an art & research residency, >> “Excavations: Governance Archeology for the Future of the Internet,” created >> by UCBoulder and King’s College, London: >> >> https://excavations.digital/ >> >> The goal was to research pre-digital forms of governance and imagine >> adapting them to contemporary online governance structures. >> >> Our proposal was to study the Situationist International and attempt to >> reconcile the anarchic stance with protocols and ideologies around >> cryptocurrencies. The result is The Situationist Blockchain, or LutteCoin: >> >> http://LutteCoin.com >> >> ++++ >> >> From the exhibition website: >> >> ++++ >> >> We propose a decentralized peer-to-peer Situationist blockchain. The >> Situationist International was a French anarchist movement inspired by >> surrealism, Dada, and libertarian Marxism. They proposed that we navigate >> the world through a "mystifying illusion" of spectacles present in >> advertising, films -- even vacations and leisure -- that consolidates >> control in the name of economic productivity. This is true on its face: we >> spend hours of "free" time on social networks, for example, turning that >> leisure into data which is collected and sold by those providing us with >> "leisure." This is, fundamentally, an employee relationship being given >> freely to corporations. UX interfaces and digital interactions extend the >> spectacle, rewarding users with illusions in exchange for distracting them >> from the ways they wish to actually live. >> >> Abandoning the spectacle of economic productivity, our “Proof of Non-Work >> Consensus Protocol” turns devices into an otherwise useless object, or >> “brick.” Users, liberated from the spectacle of electronic interfaces, >> pursue other dreams. Meanwhile, the devices mine and create cryptocurrencies >> only to be immediately burned. The devices are essentially frozen and >> interfaces made inaccessible. The CPU power processes at full capacity, and >> cannot be turned off. Eventually, they burn out, and with it, so does any >> currency it has produced. This perfects the process of automating human >> leisure, mining and destroying wealth in an endless parody of economics. >> >> ++++ >> >> There is also a write up of the research, included as a white paper for the >> “cryptocurrency” we’re pitching, which explores the relationship we’ve >> identified between financialization, the seductive allure of “liberatory” >> cryptocurrencies, and the spectacle of user interfaces under surveillance >> capitalism: >> >> https://static1.squarespace.com/static/615ba1842a6b1371238ebc60/t/6196a151193b52305fabe677/1637261649657/LutteCoin.pdf >> >> I welcome any feedback from the NetBehavior community on this project! >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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