"The soul of wit, is the very body of untruth." -Aldous Huxley So sharp? So definitive? Is there not room for debate? at least can you e-lab-or-ate? Bz
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk> wrote: > Nope - don’t buy it. Quackery… > > 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 25 Apr 2016, at 03:36, Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics ( > http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ > ): > > "21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over > society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global > problems or achieving victory over capital. This mastery must be > distinguished from that beloved of thinkers of the original Enlightenment. > The clockwork universe of Laplace, so easily mastered given sufficient > information, is long gone from the agenda of serious scientific > understanding. But this is not to align ourselves with the tired residue of > postmodernity, decrying mastery as proto-fascistic or authority as innately > illegitimate. Instead we propose that the problems besetting our planet and > our species oblige us to refurbish mastery in a newly complex guise; whilst > we cannot predict the precise result of our actions, we can determine > probabilistically likely ranges of outcomes. What must be coupled to such > complex systems analysis is a new form of action: improvisatory and capable > of executing a design through a practice which works with the contingencies > 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." > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:22 PM Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Can you say more? >> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Pall Thayer wrote: >> >> > Alan: But isn't that the whole idea behind left-acceleration? >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:46 AM Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I agree and the problem precisely is acceleration; the biosphere >> > doesn't >> > adapt well to accelerated change, as the plights of sealions, >> > walrus, >> > migrant birds, ocean lives, indicate. If anything, a form of >> > holding-back, >> > learning to listen, listening, is necessary. The fundamental >> > problem I >> > think is that we're blind when it comes to ecosystems, energy, >> > micro- >> > biomes, and so forth. The fundamentals of mycology are being >> > rewritten as >> > we discuss, and what's emerging are whole universes of >> > ignorance. >> > Meanwhile we plow ahead, destroying the planet. It seems to me >> > that >> > accelerationism is so fundamentally human-based (perhaps >> > man-based for all >> > that), that it really overlooks collateral damage. And what do >> > we do, for >> > example, with the increasingly violent drought in the Mid-East >> > which is >> > exacerbating warfares and genocides? This needs slow, dirty work >> > to deal >> > with it, culture theory which listens, not only to humans, but >> > to life and >> > lives everywhere - >> > >> > Alan >> > >> > >> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote: >> > >> > > Yes Michael, and this is profoundly poetic. >> > > >> > > All human traditions, values and communities are dissolved in >> > an acid bath >> > > of everlasting agitation and uncertainty. >> > > >> > > What this passage does not describe though is a situation >> > where the wider >> > > ecologies of non-human planetary life, upon which we depend, >> > are also >> > > fatally eroded. >> > > We need to sense and engage not just the real relations with >> > "our kind" >> > > (expanded to engage people and perspectives of all kinds (YES >> > Gretta!)), but >> > > beyond, with other species, and materials. >> > > >> > > This must include a correction to systems of dominance - to >> > which Simon >> > > points with his example of improper use of neuro-science to >> > validate the >> > > 'use' of humans. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On 23/04/16 16:38, Michael Szpakowski wrote: >> > > Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848: >> > > >> > > "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly >> > revolutionising >> > > the instruments of production, and thereby the relations >> > of >> > > production, and with them the whole relations of >> > society. >> > > Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered >> > form, >> > > was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence >> > for all >> > > earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of >> > > production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social >> > conditions, >> > > everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the >> > bourgeois >> > > epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen >> > relations, >> > > with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and >> > > opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become >> > antiquated >> > > before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into >> > air, all >> > > that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled >> > to face >> > > with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his >> > relations >> > > with his kind." >> > > >> > > This does the *descriptive* job as well as anything >> > written >> > > since and it still stands perfectly well... >> > > Sent from my iPhone >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > NetBehaviour mailing list >> > > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Co-founder Co-director >> > > Furtherfield >> > > >> > > www.furtherfield.org >> > > >> > > +44 (0) 77370 02879 >> > > Meeting calendar - 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. >> > > >> > > >> > >> > == >> > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >> > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tx.txt >> > ==_______________________________________________ >> > NetBehaviour mailing list >> > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > >> > -- >> > P Thayer, Artist >> > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org >> > >> > >> >> == >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tx.txt >> ==_______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -- > P Thayer, Artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- ________________________________________________________________ ================================================================ =--------------------------------------------------------=-===-=-=-====-- +_+~_=_~--+__+=-^=-+_+_=^-+__+-=+_+~__=__~-_-____-=++=_--^-===-=-==-=-=-- =--------------------------------------------------------=-===-=-=-====-- http://bishopZ.com _______________________________________________________________________
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