Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Alan Sondheim]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote:


On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:


A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -

[...]

Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing
system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of
speech/ sound/movement; the delays were on the order of 1/10th second.
(around 2008)

Early synthesizer work in which we used patchcords to overload video or
audio synthesizers (including one we built) to create chaotic emergences
(similar to 'animals' in turbulence) that we'd build on. (around 1970)

Foofwa's dancerun work performing marathon movements/vectors through
cities dancing all the way followed by television crews and people who'd
join and drop out. (past decade or two)

My own overloading work in virtual worlds creating anomalies and
artifacts and zeroing in on them until the suicide crashes take place.
(past few years)

My audiotape piece involving a large stage, tape emerging from one
machine at twice the speed the other's picking it up, with feedback
loops - time gets drawn out, tape pools on the floor, things go out of
control, performance stops. (1980 or so)

Stelarc's wiring/writing himself into the Net, nodal-Stelarc. (twenty
years ago)


Ping Body! I was part of Stelarc's tech support for the performance at
the ICA in London at the time. :-)


Amazing! really loved his work at the time -


Chris Burden's early performance work heading towards the bring of
catastrophe. (1970s)

Raves. Speedmetal. Current punk debris. Parkour.


That's a wonderful list of work. The elements of these that I feel speak
most to accelerationism are their embrace of complexity and their
intensification of knowing/transgressing of systems.

That knowledge/transgression as craft comes through in Benedict
Singleton's writing about traps and the cunning needed to escape them
(invoking the classical Greek Metis, to go with Prometheus who we've met
already ;-)).

"The intelligence at work in the construction of the trap is most aptly
described as cunning, and it extends to activities that we can broadly
describe as ?technical? more generally. Many are the observers who have
seen in this the paradigm of craft more broadly writ, the ability to
coax effects from the world, rather than imposing effects on it by the
application of force alone. Following the grain of wood, knowing the
melting points of various ores, the toughening of metal through its
tempering: all these are not domineering strategies, exactly, but
situations ?in which the intelligence attempts to make contact with an
object by confronting it in the guise of a rival, as it were, combining
connivance and opposition.?"

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/maximum-jailbreak/


Yes! Exactly! I was thinking this even describes the viola pieces I put up 
tonight which rely on harmonics and octaves and the natural resonance of 
the instrument with and without mutes - the result is a kind of singing 
(for better or worse - I need comments here) which occupies spaces among 
instrument and room resonances, bow 'tremblings' of wrist/finger/arm, and 
harmonics in combination - when I analyze this stuff, I monitor the 
waveforms -


Then of course on some instruments there are wolf-notes to be avoided for 
the most part, a kind of negative wood-grain.


But I wouldn't use the word 'cunning,' so much as 'dwelling-knowledge,'
which indicates lived spaces, habitus, and habits to be pushed or broken - 
the same might apply to some of the pieces above -


Alan, thanks!

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[NetBehaviour] viola feet feats

[Alan Sondheim]

viola feet feats

http://www.alansondheim.org/feat.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/vi1.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/vi0.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/vi2.mp3

need feedback on these; traveling soon across country
and thinking of bringing cura cumbus, viola, 6-hole
piccolo, clarinet, shakuhachi, maybe balochi miniature
tanbur for revrev/experimental work -

this is viola, any comments greatly appreciated -

thanks, alan

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[NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: viola feet feats

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -
> 
> [...]
> 
> Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing
> system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of
> speech/ sound/movement; the delays were on the order of 1/10th second.
> (around 2008)
> 
> Early synthesizer work in which we used patchcords to overload video or
> audio synthesizers (including one we built) to create chaotic emergences
> (similar to 'animals' in turbulence) that we'd build on. (around 1970)
> 
> Foofwa's dancerun work performing marathon movements/vectors through
> cities dancing all the way followed by television crews and people who'd
> join and drop out. (past decade or two)
> 
> My own overloading work in virtual worlds creating anomalies and
> artifacts and zeroing in on them until the suicide crashes take place.
> (past few years)
> 
> My audiotape piece involving a large stage, tape emerging from one
> machine at twice the speed the other's picking it up, with feedback
> loops - time gets drawn out, tape pools on the floor, things go out of
> control, performance stops. (1980 or so)
> 
> Stelarc's wiring/writing himself into the Net, nodal-Stelarc. (twenty
> years ago)

Ping Body! I was part of Stelarc's tech support for the performance at
the ICA in London at the time. :-)

> Chris Burden's early performance work heading towards the bring of
> catastrophe. (1970s)
> 
> Raves. Speedmetal. Current punk debris. Parkour.

That's a wonderful list of work. The elements of these that I feel speak
most to accelerationism are their embrace of complexity and their
intensification of knowing/transgressing of systems.

That knowledge/transgression as craft comes through in Benedict
Singleton's writing about traps and the cunning needed to escape them
(invoking the classical Greek Metis, to go with Prometheus who we've met
already ;-)).

"The intelligence at work in the construction of the trap is most aptly
described as cunning, and it extends to activities that we can broadly
describe as “technical” more generally. Many are the observers who have
seen in this the paradigm of craft more broadly writ, the ability to
coax effects from the world, rather than imposing effects on it by the
application of force alone. Following the grain of wood, knowing the
melting points of various ores, the toughening of metal through its
tempering: all these are not domineering strategies, exactly, but
situations “in which the intelligence attempts to make contact with an
object by confronting it in the guise of a rival, as it were, combining
connivance and opposition.”"

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/maximum-jailbreak/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Rob Myers]

On 27/04/16 01:27 PM, John Hopkins wrote:
> On 27/Apr/16 12:14, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
>> The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the
>> mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental
>> and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the
>> Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced.
> 
> *Emphatically NO*
> 
> Examine the total infrastructure demands of the existing 'space'
> industry (and the military-industrial system that drives it.
>
> Cost one of the Mars rovers, and it will begin to give you a sense of
> infrastructure scope that a *single* device can involve. And the 'other'
> hidden costs from the whole mining infrastructure (you gotta build the
> damn robots *here*, and the oil that drives all of that...

Absolutely, and then add on the entire infrastructure demands of rare
earth mining and refining and distribution for, say, twenty years.

*but*

Then ramp it down as it's moved offworld, to the point where it's less
than when we started.

> There is *NO* way that off-planet *anything* is cost effective in *any*
> way. Nor will it ever be environmentally sensible!

You're not alone in arguing that:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25716103

But:

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/save-environment-mining-asteroids.html

> Do a quick calculation how to get materials back to earth -- just the
> deceleration and landing infrastructure costs *per gram* are out of this
> world...

Just solar sail the refined minerals back to Earth's gravity well then
aero-brake them (using ablative shields made from refining by-products)
into the ocean for pickup.

Whee!

(I have a dystopian short story where the target is the tundra...)

> (I just heard a 1955 Sci-Fi bubble make a HUGE 'pop'!)

Yes it's a bit Lensman. :-)

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Fleeting

[John Hopkins]

Johannes -


She drives to witness an eclipse.  She captures the shadow-cone of the moon
speeding towards her.

“It rolled at you across the land at 1,800 miles an hour, hauling darkness
behind it like plague … This was the universe about which we have read so
much and never before felt: the universe as a clock-work of loose spheres
flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds.”


I can't escape replying when eclipse is mentioned! My father took me to many 
total solar eclipses in extreme remote places (some not), starting when I was

6 y.o..

If you ever have a chance to get to a total solar, on the centerline, do it! 
(most people aren't on the centerline, and it's absolutely nothing similar to 
it) -- even being just 10km off the centerline! There are few natural phenomena 
that I have witnessed that made grown scientists shout and scream (very 
irrationally!)... and the completely warped flux of Gaia energies that converge 
on local nature (including those hysterical humans) is mind-blowing!


There will be an excellent one in the US in 2017, crossing the country
diagonally from NW to SE. With a moderately long maximum of 2.7 minutes of
totality. I plan to make an expedition taking a number of folks with me to the
Sand Hills of Nebraska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhills_%28Nebraska%29 to 
witness it. (Been checking long-term weather stats to determine the 
statistically best place for clear skies!)... I'll be taking one of my deceased 
father's telesocopes, specially modified for eclipse viewing...


Anyone want to join me?

jh

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[John Hopkins]

On 27/Apr/16 12:14, Rob Myers wrote:

got it, Rob :-)

Okay, proceeding with some humor (not!)


The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the
mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental
and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the
Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced.


*Emphatically NO*

Examine the total infrastructure demands of the existing 'space' industry (and 
the military-industrial system that drives it.


Rare earth metals, high-precision

Cost one of the Mars rovers, and it will begin to give you a sense of 
infrastructure scope that a *single* device can involve. And the 'other' hidden 
costs from the whole mining infrastructure (you gotta build the damn robots 
*here*, and the oil that drives all of that...


There is *NO* way that off-planet *anything* is cost effective in *any* way. Nor 
will it ever be environmentally sensible!


Do a quick calculation how to get materials back to earth -- just the 
deceleration and landing infrastructure costs *per gram* are out of this world...


(I just heard a 1955 Sci-Fi bubble make a HUGE 'pop'!)

jh



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, at 05:15 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> So is this the accelerationist aesthetics question?
> 
> Q. How can we as artists and people use the logics & tools of automation 
> and markets as part of making better art and better life for us all?

That's a big question about a bg question. :-)

* To answer the Q directly, the Plantoid DAO is a good example of doing
this. (For those unfamiliar with DAOs - they are "Distributed Autonomous
Organizations", code that runs on the Blockchain and controls resources
in accordance with its programming.) Plantoid's programming is intended
to try to ensure that art is made and exhibited and that artists are
paid for doing so. A charitable trust could do the same, but a DAO is
cheaper, easier to set up and run, and for those of us interested in
technologically inflected art it's easier to integrate directly with our
work (or vice versa).

I'm very suspicious of using the Blockchain to make digital art into
quasi-property forms (Monegraph etc), but this would be a way of making
new markets to pay artists for the currently un-monetizable.

And Azone's use of prediction markets (essentially betting on probable
outcomes of real world events as a way of getting people to commit their
best guesses about them) shows that the form of the market doesn't have
to be directly part of the global economy, or unironic, to possibly be
useful.

* To answer the question-question, certainly 1970s and 1990s
accelerationism was about abandoning oneself libidinally to the
deterritorialising processes of the market and its development of
technology. But Srnicek and Williams don't mention markets in the MAP,
and theirs is a surprisingly traditional Marxist project at heart with
post-capitalism as its goal.

Automation in the sense of AI-style software and 3D printing-style
manufacturing processes can give artists greater rational knowledge of
and productive power over their art (epistemic accelerationism).
Automation accompanied by UBI can free them from the busy-work that so
often has to support art-making, allowing those artists who really don't
want to manage AIs to work more on what they want to work on (left
accelerationism).

But automation can also displace, rather than supplement, aesthetic and
critical work of many kinds. Certainly it can perform the production of
kitsch, and ultimately at least probably the production of
contemporary-art-style works. Deep Dream, Style Transfer and other
techniques (that I am arguing are technically competent, rather than
critically interesting as "art") already do the former, Jonas Lund's
"The Fear Of Missing Out" and my Curatorator are harbingers of the
latter.

* There's also "how can art help bring about a positive
post-work/post-capitalist future?" and "how can artists gain the
knowledge they need to exit the straitjacket of contemporary art?". They
share the second half of the question, and the spirit of the first half.

At base, the question these questions all branch off from *may be* "how
can artists selectively avail themselves of developments in technology
and thought that are not immediately opposed to capitalism as part of
making better art and better life for us all?". 

> Left Accelerationists are critiqued as these social-power-tools (of 
> automation and market-forces) are seen as inherently dehumanising and 
> destructive of solidarity and freedom?

As I say, Srnicek and Williams don't mention markets in the MAP, rather
they say:

"8. We believe that any post-capitalism will require post-capitalist
planning."

Hands up who *isn't* wary of planning? :-)

I'm torn between"

a) "Red Plenty"'s and 1970s NATO documentation (e.g "Soviet Planning
Today") of the failures of Soviet planning and the apparent
unavoidability of some form of prices and incentives in an economy.

b) the fact that Google appears to have solved the "pricing problem"
with its PageRank algorithm, and the assertion in the Heidenreich's
paper in the Money Lab Reader (
http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MoneyLab_reader.pdf
) that money can be replaced by a matching algorithm.

Any-way: yes neoliberal markets and "Risk Society" are corrosive to
solidarity and freedom. (And to norm propagation, which may be a problem
for Brandomian epistemic accelerationists.) The embracing of Universal
Basic Income in "Inventing The Future", the follow-up to the MAP, is
designed to address this. And it would materially support intersectional
and more radical social politics.

It is for the modesty of this objective compared to, say, welcoming
Skynet that the MAP has been criticized in this sense. :-)
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Fleeting

[Johannes Birringer]

what a relief on another cold day to read you here on
this fantastical list. I was worried about the promethean
posturing the other day, as i am about offences against
the natural order. but i read something this morning
(by Annie Dillard, 'Total Eclipse'), and share with you -

She drives to witness an eclipse.  She captures the shadow-cone of the moon 
speeding towards her.

“It rolled at you across the land at 1,800 miles an hour, hauling darkness 
behind it like plague …
This was the universe about which we have read so much and never before felt: 
the universe as a 
clock-work of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds.”

How to articulate the kind of inconceivable power that can obliterate the sun; 
“The universe was not made in jest but in solemn, incomprehensible earnest. 
By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet.” 


i like that fleet bit at the end

Johannes




 [Rob Myers schreibt]

I'd hope my use of sound effects would indicate a lack of entire seriousness.

But to run with this idea for a minute...

The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the mining 
and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental and political 
gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the Earth's atmosphere would 
all be reduced.

Transitioning to higher technology economies reduces fertility rates, so this 
would reduce new bodies over time.

Maintaining industrial society (with a reduced carbon footprint!) would 
maintain more existing bodies over time than simply waiting to drown or starve. 
This includes netbehaviourists... And turning the profits into UBI means that 
we aren't just treated as surplus population to be mourned properly when it's 
the economy rather than the environment that no longer supports us.

So while (as with everything we are discussing) I am not entirely convinced by 
asteroid mining, I'm also not entirely convinced by initial rejections of it 
for environmental or philosophical reasons. it's not a simple environmental 
nightmare or offence against the natural order. The latter would be promethean 
anyway. ;-)

Art can have an impact here. The popular imagination can be seized by or turned 
against these possibilities

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, at 12:05 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote:
a nightmare
you can't be serious Rob

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:21 AM, John Hopkins 
mailto:chaz...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote:
"One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum
and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom
in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially
benefit all of humanity."
Which means more effing bodies on the planet which means a dirtier nest. You 
know what goes into prepping the machines to get to an asteroid? You know what 
energy goes into raw ore refining? I presume this is a joke? or?
Might as well start reading vintage L. Ron Hubbard...




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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Rob Myers]

I'd hope my use of sound effects would indicate a lack of entire
seriousness.
 
But to run with this idea for a minute...
 
The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the
mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental
and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the
Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced.
 
Transitioning to higher technology economies reduces fertility rates, so
this would reduce new bodies over time.
 
Maintaining industrial society (with a reduced carbon footprint!) would
maintain more existing bodies over time than simply waiting to drown or
starve. This includes netbehaviourists... And turning the profits into
UBI means that we aren't just treated as surplus population to be
mourned properly when it's the economy rather than the environment that
no longer supports us.
 
So while (as with everything we are discussing) I am not entirely
convinced by asteroid mining, I'm also not entirely convinced by initial
rejections of it for environmental or philosophical reasons. it's not a
simple environmental nightmare or offence against the natural order. The
latter would be promethean anyway. ;-)
 
Art can have an impact here. The popular imagination can be seized by or
turned against these possibilities
 
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, at 12:05 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote:
> a nightmare
> you can't be serious Rob
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:21 AM, John Hopkins
>  wrote:
>> On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote:
>>> "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in
>>> platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to
>>> a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards
>>> worldwide and potentially benefit all of humanity."
>>
>> Which means more effing bodies on the planet which means a dirtier
>> nest. You know what goes into prepping the machines to get to an
>> asteroid? You know what energy goes into raw ore refining? I presume
>> this is a joke? or?
>>
>>  Might as well start reading vintage L. Ron Hubbard...
>>
>>  ...
>>
>>  jh
>>
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[NetBehaviour] This hateful place

[Alan Sondheim]

This hateful place

http://www.alansondheim.org/crunch2.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/crunch.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/crunch1.png

This hateful place has gravity. This hateful place pushes every-
thing down to it. This hateful place has no one. This hateful
place crushes everything. There's chattering everywhere. There's
idiotic mumbling. There's things here. The things are chatter-
ing. The things built this stuff maybe. The things are pushed
down maybe. The things won't stop chattering. 2. The things are
just there and do just this. There's water everywhere. In the
water there are things. The things chatter in the water maybe.
The water chatters maybe. The water's pushed down everywhere.
The air's pushed down maybe. The air pushes the things down
maybe. The air's crunched maybe. 3. This hateful place chatters
and chatters. This hateful place goes da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da. This hateful place goes
like that maybe. 4. I hate this hateful place.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Annie Abrahams]

a nightmare

you can't be serious Rob

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:21 AM, John Hopkins  wrote:

> On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote:
>
>> "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum
>> and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom
>> in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially
>> benefit all of humanity."
>>
>
> Which means more effing bodies on the planet which means a dirtier nest.
> You know what goes into prepping the machines to get to an asteroid? You
> know what energy goes into raw ore refining? I presume this is a joke? or?
>
> Might as well start reading vintage L. Ron Hubbard...
>
> ...
>
> jh
>
> --
> ++
> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
> grounded on a granite batholith
> twitter: @neoscenes
> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
> ++
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