Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Kath O'Donnell]

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  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
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> My name is Ruth Catlow,
>> and I am an Accelerationist.
>>
>> Back in 1996 
>> (to be continued)
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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Simon Biggs]

I worked at Edinburgh University until 2014. All staff were required to report, 
under the Prevent program, any signs of radicalisation. Of course nobody ever 
did. However, there was a well publicised case at Nottingham University a few 
years ago when a PhD student borrowed a book on Al Qaeda training and 
recruitment as part of his research. He was reported and arrested, along with 
his supervisor. He was held under terror laws for 6 days before the charges 
were dismissed.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nottingham-scholar-held-for-6-days-under-anti-terror-law/402188.article
 


At Edinburgh, as everywhere else in the UK, all staff are required to report if 
their non-EU students have not be sighted for a period of time. In some 
institutions this is as little as two hours. At Edinburgh half a day was given 
as guidance. This requirement is part of the UKs visa laws for non-EU visitors 
on certain visas, including students. Students who are reported as missing 
(after even two hours) will be reprimanded by both the institution and the UK 
border police. If the student repeats the behaviour they can be deported or 
arrested and charged under the provisions of the law. Any staff member who 
fails to report a missing student can also be arrested and charged under the 
provisions of the law.

I’m now working in Australia where no such laws exist. Australia has more 
insidious laws, such as those affecting asylum seekers who do not arrive 
through official routes (eg: governmental programs). Such refugees are arrested 
as illegal migrants and subsequently incarcerated indefinitely without trial in 
off-shore holding (prison) camps in places like Manus (a small island near New 
Guinea) and Nauru (a small Pacific island nation of dubious governance). 
Recently the PNG High Court declared Manus illegal under the PNG constitution 
and the government has ordered it closed. This leaves the Australian government 
in a quandary as to what to do with the incarcerated. It’s good to watch them 
squirm - but they will simply legislate the problem away.

On TV here there are also advertisements telling people to watch out for 
suspicious behaviour and to report it to police. The ads show a person at a bus 
stop seeing a man with a bag with loose money in it and another of a 
middle-eastern looking man looking at a terror related web-page on his laptop 
in a cafe. No racial profiling there then…

Michael needs to be careful. His college will probably, like most, have a 
clause in his employment contract stating that if he brings the institution 
into disrepute he can be disciplined and fired. Bringing this issue into the 
public would fit under such a clause. There is no legal framework in the UK for 
free speech, nor for academics. If I was Michael I would already have hired a 
lawyer, partly to defend myself but mainly for advice. He’s on thin ice...

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 1 May 2016, at 05:02, Johannes Birringer  
> wrote:
> 
> dear all
> never heard of it.  when doing some fact checking, 'prevent' seems to have 
> been a government counter terrorist initiative,
> for the past ten years, not entirely successful I read. But in the arts and 
> educational arenas where I work, it's not a factor nor has anyone 
> ever approached me to do any such reporting on any 'signs of radicalization' 
> ; our duties as tutors are educational and pastoral in the sense of caring 
> for the
> well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students (and an 
> anti-muslim policy, that you discern, Michael,
> would be completely unsupportable and unsupported at my school).  
> respectfully, Johannes
> 
> 
> From: Alan Sondheim 
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
> 
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
> 
> from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
> list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?
> 
> thanks, Alan
> 
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
>> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
>> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
>> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
>> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
>> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
>> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>> 
>> Sigh!
>> Ruth
>> 
>> On 29/0

[NetBehaviour] accelerate to Bangor

[Simon Mclennan]

‘We immanentised the eschaton the day we went to Bangor…’

Simon,
May Road - May 2016
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[NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:51 PM, erik zepka wrote:
> 
> And when the questions, as both Ruth
> and Alan have effectively talked about, get to a realm of inhuman
> problematics, ecological, species-threatening, who should advise then? 

Deodands:

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/392/deodands-dacs-for-natural-systems

;-)

> We could at least say that for every categorical norm (a type of person,
> a type of organism, a type of biosphere) there's an exception and that
> considering that exception can help expand the norm.

Or create new separate or superseding norms. The revision of norms over
time, and avoiding local contradictions between them, is a key part of
the sources of epistemic accelerationism - Sellars, Brandom, etc. .

The current work on the "Casper" algorithm for Ethereum may end up as a
realisation in code of this kind of local-within-the-global consensus.

> If we imagined an
> accelerationist advisory committee (maybe this is one), whatever our
> question, it might choose to attempt to make accountable whatever
> accelerationism then meant or did - the advisory committee then itself
> might be considered normative, but it doesn't subtract from the fact
> that it might have been a sober move within a given context.

The Manifesto is against *fetishising* democratic proceduralism.

As Ordinaryism points out, sometimes to increase our knowledge we do
have to listen to other people.

But as Big Data point outs, what people *do* is a better indicator than
what they *say*. We are increasingly able to reason about both using
computing machinery. Epistemic accelerationism may ultimately lead to
the automation of philosophy, although this is not a sufficient or
necessary destiny for it.

It would be difficult to regard this as impossible at the same time as
(for example) criticising algorithms for being racist.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Michael Szpakowski]

You are extremely fortunate  , Johannes, be working in the UK in a place it 
hasn't reached -it is enshrined in law.  I can only assume that someone at your 
institution is resisting its implementation, or that it simply hasn't been 
implemented there yet  . Is poke earlier to a friend at South Bank University 
and it hasn't reached them yet. Or maybe the union is strong at your place - at 
ours it is, sadly, not
I don't think you should be under any illusion that unless it is resisted it 
*will* eventually reach you and your students.Of course the reason that I have 
chosen to take the stand I have is that I want only to carry out " my duties as 
tutor(s ) educational and pastoral in the sense of caring for the
well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students" and likewise 
that I find an" anti muslim policy completely unsupportable". 
cheersmichael


  From: Johannes Birringer 
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 
 Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 8:32 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
   
dear all
never heard of it.  when doing some fact checking, 'prevent' seems to have been 
a government counter terrorist initiative,
for the past ten years, not entirely successful I read. But in the arts and 
educational arenas where I work, it's not a factor nor has anyone 
ever approached me to do any such reporting on any 'signs of radicalization' ; 
our duties as tutors are educational and pastoral in the sense of caring for the
well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students (and an 
anti-muslim policy, that you discern, Michael,
would be completely unsupportable and unsupported at my school).  respectfully, 
Johannes


From: Alan Sondheim 
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?

thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>
> Sigh!
> Ruth
>
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>      Hi all
>      the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
>      the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
>      made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
>      ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
>      put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
>      attend.
>
>      In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
>      management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
>      membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
>      unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
>      about things.
>      I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
>      manager.
>      I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
>      support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
>      commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
>      campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
>      email:
>
>      https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
>
>
> and here's the latest exchange:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
>
> please feel free to circulate this
>
> many thanks
> michael
>
>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:59 AM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> I love those NASA posters and actually have one hanging on my wall!

I imagine ones with a similarly confident visual aesthetic and verbal
phrasing presenting a future in which full automation / post-capitalism
/ etc. have already happened (and were always going to have happened).

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:42 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
>>
>> An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls'
>> proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the
>> gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge
>> about the art world, enabling us to understand more about it, and was
>> entirely indigestible by it, making it something other than Contemporary
>> Art.
>>
> 
> - Hans Haacke

Oh yes Haacke is a very good example.

In particular, Haacke's "Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate
Holdings, a Real-Time social System, as of May 1, 1971" was indigestible
by the artworld of its time, -

http://collection.whitney.org/object/29487

It was originally excluded from an exhibition. But as the Whitney url
indicates has since been recuperated.

Another work that exposes aspects of the artworld economy is Douglas
Huebler's "Variable Piece no.44" (1971) -

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/huebler-variable-piece-no-44-p07234

It's more open to the "art about art" charge than Haacke's work of the
time, but is still an exposure of the hidden workings of its chosen system.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 01:41 PM, Edward Picot wrote:
> The Royal College of Physicians have just announced their approval of
> e-cigarettes.

There was a controversy about them in the States recently -

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/e-cigarette-flavoring-chemicals-linked-to-respiratory-disease/

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/09/how-the-media-totally-exaggerated-study-on-risk-of-popcorn-lung-from-e-cigarettes/

Whether this is an example of media pressure on research or of misplaced
moralising I don't know.

"Popcorn Lung" is a very media-friendly name for a nasty disease...

> [...]
> 
> But that's typical of new technology, isn't it? It gives with one hand,
> and takes away with the other.

Absolutely.

Another example is that health tracker information is now being used in
criminal cases:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/11/16/fitbit-data-court-room-personal-injury-claim/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Alan Sondheim]

Thank you so much for this. In the U.S. Islamophobia is at an all-time 
high as you know, and here too it tends to be disguised except for Trump's 
followers. With Trump etc., it's out in the open and reminds me of the 
early Nazis, beer-hall putsch and all, very frightening. And frightening 
that so many many Americans believe this stuff.


I admire you so much btw for your public stance here.

- Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, Michael Szpakowski wrote:


It is a compulsory duty on all working in education in the UK to report to
the authorities concerns about vaguely defined signs of "radicalisation" ie.
to spy on their students.
It is clearly directed principally against Muslims but the examples I give
in my letter show that it is also open to use against others who might fall
under the wide ranging definition.
It is presented by its supporters as a values neutral attempt to take on all
'extremism'  -an example they are particularly fond of quoting is that of
right wing extremism, a new discovery for the powers that be who showed no
interest in any Prevent strategy when
the Admiral Duncan Pub in London was bombed by a right wing homophobe in
1999 killing three and injuring 70 or indeed when Anders Breivik conducted
his mass killing spree in Norway.
The counterpart to 'extremism' in the government narrative is 'British
values'  a concept in itself racist but additionally laughable given
Britain's colonial and racist history up to and including the cheerleading
for and participation in the invasions of Iraq and the intervention in
Libya, both of which have had disastrous consequences as you know. However
one doesn't have to accept all this to feel profoundly uneasy about prevent
as I explain in my mail - I deliberately quoted two "establishment sources"
who have expressed fears -clearly justifiable -that Prevent is both
alienating Moslems and stoking up Islamophobia.
Here's is a very good forensic examination form the website of the UCU left 
-the activist wing of the university lecturers union:
http://uculeft.org/2015/09/challenging-the-prevent-agenda/
cheers
Michael




From: Alan Sondheim 
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity

Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"


from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?

thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so
clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of
a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the
development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>
> Sigh!
> Ruth
>
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>      Hi all
>      the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
>      the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
>      made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
>      ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
>      put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
>      attend.
>
>      In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
>      management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
>      membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
>      unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
>      about things.
>      I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
>      manager.
>      I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
>      support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
>      commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
>      campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
>      email:
>
>      https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
>
>
> and here's the latest exchange:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
>
> please feel free to circulate this
>
> many thanks
> michael
>
>
>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

On 24/04/16 04:52 PM, Gretta Louw wrote:
> Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'!

>From the Manifesto:

"14. [...] Real democracy must be defined by its goal — collective
self-mastery. This is a project which must align politics with the
legacy of the Enlightenment, to the extent that it is only through
harnessing our ability to understand ourselves and our world better (our
social, technical, economic, psychological world) that we can come to
rule ourselves. We need to posit a collectively controlled legitimate
vertical authority in addition to distributed horizontal forms of
sociality, to avoid becoming the slaves of either a tyrannical
totalitarian centralism or a capricious emergent order beyond our control."

"21. [...] 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."

I allege that what is under discussion here, however unfortunate the
label and however incompletely, is the concept of "justice" rather than
that of "domination".


But Patricia Reed is also critical of this element of the Manifestio in
their response to it ("Seven Prescriptions For Accelerationism"),
arguing that:

"...the undertones of a revised Modernism peppering the Manifesto are of
deep concern: they leave untouched the violence and injustice inherent
to the universalist repercussions of the Modernist project untouched."

and:

"While the Manifesto admirably takes on the full scale of global
reality, a more nuanced version of universality (not to mention
questions of global justice) needs to take root if the ideas driving
Accelerationism are to contain the seeds of an ethics that embrace
non-totality and the constant struggle for inhuman (epistemic) revisionism."

Srnicek & Williams take up Reed's "situated universality" in their
follow-up to the manifesto ("Inventing The Future") by again referring
to the negative model of neoliberalism.

As well as critiquing the Manifesto, Reed addresses some of its critics:

"There are several aspects of the Manifesto to debate, confront, refute,
argue and so forth; but to deny the possibility for a politics of such
scale tout court (a scale we seem to have no trouble swallowing in the
context of the omnipotence of the global neoliberal economy) is as
totalising and absolutist as the claims made against the projected scale
of Accelerationism."


Laboria Cuboniks embrace this scale in the Xenofeminist manifesto,
writing of:

"...a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist
emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the
needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing,
and geographical position. No more futureless repetition on the
treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour,
productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given
masked as critique."

and a Promethean feminism:

"In the name of feminism, 'Nature' shall no longer be a refuge of
injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever!

If nature is unjust, change nature!"


(Xenofeminist music is a thing:

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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all
never heard of it.  when doing some fact checking, 'prevent' seems to have been 
a government counter terrorist initiative,
for the past ten years, not entirely successful I read. But in the arts and 
educational arenas where I work, it's not a factor nor has anyone 
ever approached me to do any such reporting on any 'signs of radicalization' ; 
our duties as tutors are educational and pastoral in the sense of caring for the
well being and creative and intellectual growth of our students (and an 
anti-muslim policy, that you discern, Michael,
would be completely unsupportable and unsupported at my school).  respectfully, 
Johannes


From: Alan Sondheim 
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 

Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?

thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
>
> Sigh!
> Ruth
>
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>  Hi all
>  the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
>  the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
>  made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
>  ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
>  put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
>  attend.
>
>  In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
>  management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
>  membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
>  unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
>  about things.
>  I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
>  manager.
>  I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
>  support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
>  commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
>  campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
>  email:
>
>  https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
>
>
> and here's the latest exchange:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
>
> please feel free to circulate this
>
> many thanks
> michael
>
>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Michael Szpakowski]

and here's a slightly more populist ( but very good) take on it from, 
bizarrely, Metro, the free London daily 
paper:http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/01/professors-are-being-told-to-spy-on-their-students-heres-what-you-need-to-know-5789770/
cheersmichael



  From: Alan Sondheim 
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 
 Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
   

from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the 
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?

thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
> 
> Sigh!
> Ruth
> 
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>      Hi all
>      the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
>      the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
>      made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
>      ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
>      put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
>      attend.
>
>      In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
>      management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
>      membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
>      unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
>      about things.
>      I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
>      manager.
>      I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
>      support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
>      commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
>      campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
>      email:
>
>      https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
> 
> 
> and here's the latest exchange:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
> 
> please feel free to circulate this
> 
> many thanks
> michael
> 
> 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Michael Szpakowski]

It is a compulsory duty on all working in education in the UK to report to the 
authorities concerns about vaguely defined signs of "radicalisation" ie. to spy 
on their students.
It is clearly directed principally against Muslims but the examples I give in 
my letter show that it is also open to use against others who might fall under 
the wide ranging definition.It is presented by its supporters as a values 
neutral attempt to take on all 'extremism'  -an example they are particularly 
fond of quoting is that of right wing extremism, a new discovery for the powers 
that be who showed no interest in any Prevent strategy when
the Admiral Duncan Pub in London was bombed by a right wing homophobe in 1999 
killing three and injuring 70 or indeed when Anders Breivik conducted his mass 
killing spree in Norway.The counterpart to 'extremism' in the government 
narrative is 'British values'  a concept in itself racist but additionally 
laughable given Britain's colonial and racist history up to and including the 
cheerleading for and participation in the invasions of Iraq and the 
intervention in Libya, both of which have had disastrous consequences as you 
know. However one doesn't have to accept all this to feel profoundly uneasy 
about prevent as I explain in my mail - I deliberately quoted two 
"establishment sources" who have expressed fears -clearly justifiable -that 
Prevent is both alienating Moslems and stoking up Islamophobia.Here's is a very 
good forensic examination form the website of the UCU left  -the activist wing 
of the university lecturers union:
http://uculeft.org/2015/09/challenging-the-prevent-agenda/cheersMichael



  From: Alan Sondheim 
 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
 
 Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 5:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"
   

from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the 
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?

thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
> what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
> institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
> those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
> (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
> wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
> of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.
> 
> Sigh!
> Ruth
> 
> On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>      Hi all
>      the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
>      the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
>      made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
>      ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
>      put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
>      attend.
>
>      In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
>      management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
>      membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
>      unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
>      about things.
>      I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
>      manager.
>      I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
>      support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
>      commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
>      campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
>      email:
>
>      https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/
> 
> 
> and here's the latest exchange:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/
> 
> please feel free to circulate this
> 
> many thanks
> michael
> 
> 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[Alan Sondheim]

from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the 
list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools?


thanks, Alan

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:


Hi Michael,
I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly
what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education
institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from
those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor and report
(and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. This is part of a
wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter press) to the development
of the critical and discursive faculties in the UK public at large.

Sigh!
Ruth

On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
  Hi all
  the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart
  the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they
  made it compulsory for every further education student to attend
  ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and
  put pressure on HE lecturers to pressure their students to
  attend.

  In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our
  management and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union)
  membership and my students too, whom I regard, perhaps
  unfashionably, as being capable of making their own minds up
  about things.
  I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior
  manager.
  I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate
  support - at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and
  commenting upon the posts but it could well come to some sort of
  campaign if they attempt to discipline me. Here's my original
  email:

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/


and here's the latest exchange:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/

please feel free to circulate this

many thanks
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Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

[ruth catlow]

Hi Michael,
I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so 
clearly what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher 
Education institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to 
hear from those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to monitor 
and report (and so impinge on the freedom of expression of) learners. 
This is part of a wider threat (along with the tactics of the gutter 
press) to the development of the critical and discursive faculties in 
the UK public at large.


Sigh!
Ruth

On 29/04/16 20:27, Michael Szpakowski wrote:

Hi all
the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart the 
government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they made it 
compulsory for every further education student to attend ( and I am 
not making this up) a /puppet show /about "prevent" and put pressure 
on HE lecturers to pressure their students to attend.


In response I sent I sent a carefully worded e mail to our management 
and copied in the UCU  ( the lecturers union) membership and my 
students too, whom I regard, perhaps unfashionably, as being capable 
of making their own minds up about things.

I have now been summoned to a meeting with HR and a senior manager.
I am chronicling events on Flickr. I would really appreciate support - 
at the moment simply in terms of favouriting and commenting upon the 
posts but it could well come to some sort of campaign if they attempt 
to discipline me. Here's my original email:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26601297832/


and here's the latest exchange:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/26716002535/

please feel free to circulate this

many thanks
michael




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