[NetBehaviour] Fw: Emanuele Braga: Common Intelligence

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Hi all,

These are both topics I addressed in my old Genius 2000 project back in 1998-99 
with the idea of genius as both an individual and group phenomenon, the 
"apocalypse" or end-phases of various resource depletions, and the quantum or 
"talent" of genius.

The video is online on you-tube under the Genius2000 Network Channel for its 
20th anniversaire, and the old site is on a geocities salvage site at 
http://www.geocities.ws/genius-2000/   On the site, I recommend the Contents 
link for all of the original materials and early documents:  
http://www.geocities.ws/genius-2000/contents.html

In my current work I am integrating further the elements of mindfulness and 
neuroscience, which were mentioned in the video and site via James Austin's 
1998 book Zen and the Brain and are of course implicit in the title.  The 
mindfulness/neuroscience angle is crucially important for both science and 
personal choices, which in concert with the narrative-as-network elements are 
necessary to counterbalance some of the mistakes and dead-ends of 
postmodernist/poststructuralist theory.  This approach is also quite different 
from Harari's, which is quite doubtful as the "sage of silicon valley" and for 
his many questionable conclusions.

All best,

Max



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behalf of Geert Lovink 
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:10 PM
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Subject:  Emanuele Braga: Common Intelligence

Dear nettimers, for us, at the Institute of Network Cultures, MoneyLab #7 is 
approaching soon: November 14/15. Because of limited funding the event did not 
take place in Amsterdam for three years so the event is extra special. In the 
run-uo we’re collecting discussion contributions which we are posting on the 
MoneyLab blog. The first one is from Emanuele Braga of the Macao centre in 
Milan. It is a really good European strategy text that takes the money design 
question in a necessary broader political perspective about what’s to be done. 
Best, Geert

https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/

Emanuele Braga: Common Intelligence

When the world’s on fire, it will not be an artificial intelligence that puts 
it out. What is needed is a common intelligence,​ a use of technology that can 
build a non-oppressed social body. What's beyond the apocalyptic singularity 
daughter of the anthropocene? What's beyond the technological drift that 
destroys energy resources?

Social cooperation must be radically rethought and must distance itself from 
the modern project as an exasperation of control through the technical domain 
on nature and ​bios​. We need to better understand how large-scale social 
cooperation is destroying the planet, creating economic inequalities, and the 
power of life and death along the lines of gender and race.

The social cooperation that is destroying the planet and reproducing 
exploitation processes on multiple levels is inscribed in our bodies. We want 
to travel around the world with airplanes, have a big car, devote so much 
attention to the luminous screens of our social devices, we want these 
techniques of construction of social cooperation. But these same techniques 
control us, impoverish us, make us sad and put the Amazon on fire. This 
ontological contradiction is interesting to me. Why do we value what oppresses 
us?

Let’s follow an unconventional methodology. This essay aims to be an exercise 
in sharing questions and references. I will try to define the boundaries of a 
struggle and identify its possible alliances.

What do we value?

Talking about value is not just an issue of money, finance, logistics, work 
automation and the cost of living. Talking about value also means talking about 
what interests us. It’s a question of body and subjectivity. Something acquires 
a value that we are willing to pay, only starting from the fact that we want 
it. We are willing to pay to realize ourselves, to build our future, to escape 
from our anxieties and fears, to satisfy our needs. In this sense, a question 
to start with is how does our desire work?

In 1970 Pierre Klossowski writes La monnaie vivante (The Living Currency) In it 
he makes an important reading of the relationship between sexuality and 
capitalism. Klossowski puts the theory of value in direct relation to the 
theory of desire. Michel Foucault will write a letter to Klossowski in which he 
greets the manuscript as the most important text of the 20th century. In 
reading this text are these questions: what do we value? Why are we willing to 
work, to struggle and make all the sacrifices we make? And why is the value we 
give to things a social experience? That is to say, why does the desire to do 
something, give importance to something, define an economy, a circulation of 
values? But above all, why do those who acquire value are objects, needs, 
hopes, future scenarios, political projects, or an equivalent as abstract as 
that of money? 

Re: [NetBehaviour] London ICA Presentation tomorrow - (reminder if you're around!)*

[Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour]

wooo woo wauw - wish I could too

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>> Bells might be an issue, but looking forward to seeing you!
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>> > I'll be there with bells on! Looking forward to it.
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>> >>  *Actually a reminder either way, but that's obvious -
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>> >>  Reminder - tomorrow night at the ICA London !! Please come !!
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