Absolutely love this! Tired of Situationism, but see this opening up Monolectical-Natural Materialism, Earth-Isness, fantastic! One thing, at least for the elderly or the homeless, you'd have to create something else, untoward; many people rely on their devices as the urban landscape itself becomes harsher, more violent, more neoliberalist-capitalist in terms of who can be where. As you accumulate, if you brick, you might find yourself increasingly isolated; the neighborhood for many people is a fantasy that for them electronic communication can transcend in part. I'm thinking of Covid isolation for example, which at least where I live is going to get worse, and the benefits of Zoom (I'm tired of hearing about the negatives, we know them already) for example in relation to this.
- Alan, absurdly - On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:10 AM 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 > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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