Where can I find the troops of solar bugs? I want to be contaminated. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Olga <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Lots of discussion on Netbehaviour, time to say hi. It looks like DIWO > at the Dark Mountain has definitely managed to bring people together > to collaborate. There are a few things of the discussion that I'd like > to comment on. > > > ABOUT UTOPIA > > Simon Biggs: "I'd rather live in a fucked up world that in somebody > else's utopia. What often fucks us up is other people's solutions." > > Instead of dismissing the utopian impulse altogether I still find more > interesting the idea of utopia as a driving force, as the possibility > of imagining the alternative, and as a pre-requisite of bringing it > into being. But Utopia should not anymore be considered as a master > plan or totalising idea, but rather as the possibility of multiple > Others to what we have now, that can be inspiring for our lives today. > > Many authors have written of the colonisation of the future by > capital. Frederic Jameson talks about the discourse of progress as "an > attempt to colonize the future, to draw the unforeseeable back into > tangible realities in which one can invest..." Then discussing Tafuri > and Cacciari (Frankfurt School) Jameson goes on to say: "It is thus > not merely to deprive the future of its explosiveness that is wanted, > but also to annex the future as a new area for investment and for > colonisation by capitalism". > > Our role as participants in this world is to regain the power of > future as disruption. Now, I completely agree with Edward Picot in > that "Principles are one thing, but implementation is another." So a > great deal of modesty is important to balance the words above and > that's why I tend to define my work as mini-interventions, > mini-troops... > > > ABOUT BEING CIVILISED > > I would not entirely agree with Michael on 'I don't accept that one > should moderate one's opinions'. Definitely this is not about > censuring each other but it is about collaboration, and in as much as > the main goal is to establish creative links among us I think we need > to deal with each other with great respect. Of course criticism is > important, and it's been proved these days that the most critical > voices have sparked discussion. I think, however, that if we get to > the point that each of the words is scrutinised to such an extent, one > - at least I do - starts feeling like she needs to be extremely > careful. I don't find that particularly helpful when it comes to > creativity. > > > AN IDEA... > > I thought I might be able to bring here some of my personal > explorations of the potential of fiction to intervene reality. I would > like to build this fictional world, parallel universe, (im)possible > future of a solar powered (un)civilisation. Like others on this list, > I also feel uncomfortable with the word uncivilisation. > > My plan is to focus on the leaks of that fictional world to see how > they might affect our reality. I wanted to start by deploying a small > troop of solar bugs... they are small and highly contagious. Perhaps > even capable of effecting a genetic mutation in humans that will allow > us to extract energy from the sun... > > > -- > Olga P Massanet > -------------------------- > www.ungravitational.net > virtualfirefly.wordpress.com > www.vimeo.com/ungravitational > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Video "Squad" fragment 3 min Riam06 http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/squad/ http://vimeo.com/6926113 "Sortir de sa bulle : entretien croisé entre Annie Abrahams et Albertine Meunier" par Cyril Thomas http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/entrevue.htm...................."Coming Out of One's Bubble" Interview with Annie Abrahams and Albertine Meunier by Cyril Thomas. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=354
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