My name is Annie Abrahams and I don't know if I am an Accelerationist. I don't like the word and I know that words are not innocent. I do like Ruth and I know she never is completely wrong.
Why in the first place I should think about it? Modernism, the Postmodern, the New Aesthetics, Post Internet Art - just names, almost forgotten names - containers that served to categorize discussions, postures ... analyses? perspectives? Is Accelerationisme the most recent one in this row? What should we discuss ... ? Accelerate? What is knowledge in this frame, how is it constructed? Is it a-historical? Is it prospective? I want to slow down, to be attentive, to touch - can that be part of Accelerationisme? (to be continued) On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:37 AM, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > Hello, > My name is Ruth Catlow, > and I am an Accelerationist. > > Back in 1996 .... > (to be continued) > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Gretta Louw reviews my book <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/personal-politics-language-digital-colonialism-annie-abrahams%E2%80%99-estranger> from "estranger to e-stranger: Living in between languages", and finds that not only does it demonstrate a brilliant history in performance art, but, it is also a sharp and poetic critique about language and everyday culture. New project with Daniel Pinheiro and Lisa Parra : Distant Feeling(s) <http://bram.org/distantF/>
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