catching up on these discussions. my mind has been offline for past month or so, not taking in any new input.
stil getting my head around the term and its impact or method relating to art. my first thought was that I wanted to slow down too, so I enjoyed Ruth's response to Annie's post below. I think from a pov of technology, things are moving ahead quickly, with agile comes lots of bugs and regression issues though, and often no time to go back and mend. we need both mending/support for systems as well as forward movement. and so far wrt working with progression of tech, it seems that the idea of letting the machines do the work was a broken promise. it's a job for life keeping them running, they're not self sufficient yet. perhaps I was more of an Accelerationist when younger/in the early 90s, but less so now. am enjoying reading the discussions though. I'm interested in the accelerationist art/aesthetic examples to gain a better idea of what they would mean/look like. I did find it ironic the accelerationist reader is only available in print form, not pdf/ebook? perhaps I haven't searched wide enough yet for the ebook version On Friday, 22 April 2016, 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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/> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing listnetbehavi...@netbehaviour.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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. >
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