Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'! I lean more towards Alan's thoughts on the role/impact of humans but think that this is probably besides the point because, yes, we are all heading towards an end and a new beginning and more ends anyway. I'm the meantime, though, this idea of 'mastery' - the belief that anything approaching it is even possible - seems to be at the heart of the majority of suffering; that which we cause ourselves (humans) internationally, inter-culturally, locally, personally, psychologically, but also the damage that we inflict on environments and other species. This is where #additivism is inflential: embrace the abyss; surrender rescue/savior fantasies; find the best and weirdest thing to do in the meantime. Queer everything.
g. Sent from the road > On 25 Apr 2016, at 03:01, John Hopkins <chaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> "21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over >> society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global > > ...snip... > >> it discovers only in the course of its acting, in a politics of geosocial >> artistry and cunning rationality. A form of abductive experimentation that >> seeks the best means to act in a complex world." > > Good excerpt -- I couldn't manage the patience to drive through that whole > manifesto -- I feel the answers do not need such bloviating -- & anyway, I've > got to work on my water-harvesting landscaping, prune my grape vines, and > turn my worm farm :-) > > What is said there, I've been writing into a practice-based curriculum at > http://ecosa.org -- the idea of systems-thinking approaches to holistic > un-mastery of the biosphere that we are merely transitory parts of. I > fundamentally do not like the concept of design, though, as it pre-supposes > changing that which flows around us. Maybe an adaptive, consciousness-raised > going-with-the-flow ... sensual improvisation that would include, perhaps, > the removal of our selves from living viability. If this approach was > wide-scale enough, the population drop would start the process of a > post-human re-balancing of the planet's dynamic equilibrium. > > jh > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD > grounded on a granite batholith > twitter: @neoscenes > http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
