The Adelaide Hills aren’t much like Iceland… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherryville,_South_Australia
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 08:46, Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In Iceland, we have plants that we call "peningablóm" (moneyflowers). Maybe > that would work... > https://www.google.com/search?q=peningabl%C3%B3m&client=ms-android-google&prmd=mivn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&fir=BoLzPM6yCZYzmM%253A%252CO4-EINlQmWn-lM%252C_%253B169047Z1P1krYM%253A%252CDfvXgtm3vtm8FM%252C_%253BetsLnp62ayiF2M%253A%252CtCJ-x7uP2jqqUM%252C_%253BmN8OivGCgz7l6M%253A%252CixtNDhiNIm_99M%252C_%253B41MjeO36AoMuUM%253A%252CT_6pGGsog_UPOM%252C_%253BbNLJykJh5aUD3M%253A%252Ce55hMwGN7a73jM%252C_%253BGMihfDfR8yV8QM%253A%252CNBKZCuCfFWNZ5M%252C_%253Bg_y37WtJA09dFM%253A%252CN1oS9lNgY1YUmM%252C_%253Bk2cKRFYb1pEYqM%253A%252Cc8cJ8f5R9M1xqM%252C_%253BUm7bQ1XFeIylZM%253A%252CN1oS9lNgY1YUmM%252C_&usg=__XDkhUg9a_CokXUFIwMhadO_96Q0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY25_97aDMAhUMIcAKHcpgCscQsAQIHg&biw=592&bih=280 > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=peningabl%C3%B3m&client=ms-android-google&prmd=mivn&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&fir=BoLzPM6yCZYzmM%253A%252CO4-EINlQmWn-lM%252C_%253B169047Z1P1krYM%253A%252CDfvXgtm3vtm8FM%252C_%253BetsLnp62ayiF2M%253A%252CtCJ-x7uP2jqqUM%252C_%253BmN8OivGCgz7l6M%253A%252CixtNDhiNIm_99M%252C_%253B41MjeO36AoMuUM%253A%252CT_6pGGsog_UPOM%252C_%253BbNLJykJh5aUD3M%253A%252Ce55hMwGN7a73jM%252C_%253BGMihfDfR8yV8QM%253A%252CNBKZCuCfFWNZ5M%252C_%253Bg_y37WtJA09dFM%253A%252CN1oS9lNgY1YUmM%252C_%253Bk2cKRFYb1pEYqM%253A%252Cc8cJ8f5R9M1xqM%252C_%253BUm7bQ1XFeIylZM%253A%252CN1oS9lNgY1YUmM%252C_&usg=__XDkhUg9a_CokXUFIwMhadO_96Q0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY25_97aDMAhUMIcAKHcpgCscQsAQIHg&biw=592&bih=280> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 19:13 Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk > <mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk>> wrote: > We’re revegetating it with local flora. There’s a lot of ornithological > commerce... > > best > > Simon > > > Simon Biggs > si...@littlepig.org.uk <mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk> > http://www.littlepig.org.uk <http://www.littlepig.org.uk/> > http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs <http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs> > http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs > <http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs> > http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs > <http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs> > > > > > > > >> On 22 Apr 2016, at 08:16, Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com >> <mailto:pallt...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> ...Unless you decide to turn your parcel of land into a bustling center of >> commerce. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:41 Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk >> <mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk>> wrote: >> 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 <mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk> >> http://www.littlepig.org.uk <http://www.littlepig.org.uk/> >> http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs <http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs> >> http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs >> <http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs> >> http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/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 >>> <mailto: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 <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> >> -- >> P Thayer, Artist >> http://pallthayer.dyndns.org >> <http://pallthayer.dyndns.org/>_______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > -- > P Thayer, Artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > <http://pallthayer.dyndns.org/>_______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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