We (my family and I) did grab what we can and head for the hills. Literally. We now live high up in the hills in an obscure and hard to find place a reasonably safe distance from where other people live about as far from the cradle of Western civilisation one can be (Australia). We are surrounded by a parcel of land that is ours and functions something like a fortress. I guess that means I can’t be an accelerationist - even if I wanted to be…
best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs > On 22 Apr 2016, at 02:57, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > > Dear Annie, Dave, Alan and Paul, > > Annie you asked > "I want to slow down, to be attentive, to touch - can that be part of > Accelerationisme?" > > Yes. I think so. > This is less about speed (as distinct from Futurism) than it is about rates > of change. > > The technologies that we use are bound up with with advanced capitalism. We > watch our political and social infrastructures unable to evolve fast enough > to solve the wicked problems - for environment, democracy, justice and a good > life- than they create. > > I think we can take two attitudes > > 1) Save ourselves! Take what we can carry, run for the hills and build the > best fortresses we can with people whose values we share. > > or > > 2) coordinate and collaborate in the higher interests of all living beings - > constantly working out who and what these are- and using all means at our > disposal. > > I like the idea of living in the hills. > But not under siege, and not in earshot of future generations of bemused, > brutalised, alienated people. > > The dominant model of global coexistence is that of endless economic growth > and Neoliberalism (the (increasingly automated) marketization of everything). > This tends to centralize power and resources and renders less effective the > usual ways of blocking and resisting; of work-based and traditional-identity > based solidarity. > > Instead Contemporary Accelerationism suggests (I think) that we use in new > combinations all the tools, tactics, and knowledges in an attempt to perform > a series of judo moves (using the force rather than resisting the force), or > to sling-shot our way through the mess we are in. > > As always, there needs to be a way to accommodate the visions and madcap > schemes of all sorts- many islands rather than one land mass as Paul said. > That's why this discussion here and now. > > Respect! > Ruth > > On 21/04/16 12:01, Annie Abrahams wrote: >> 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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <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/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > > -- > Co-founder Co-director > Furtherfield > > www.furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> > > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > Meeting calendar - http://bit.ly/1NgeLce <http://bit.ly/1NgeLce> > Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i > > Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & debates > around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997 > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee > registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, Tally > Ho Corner, London N12 0EH. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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