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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
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

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Heya. My name is Rob. I'm not (yet) an Accelerationist, I just play one on the Internet. As part of which I've written about Accelerationist themes for Furtherfield over the last couple of years. Most recently about "Accelerationist Art". On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 02:37 AM, ruth catlow wrote: >

[NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: Financial Times - Construction is turning London into a city of holes

2016-04-21 Thread 土木建筑学院
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: Financial Times - Construction is turning London into a city of holes

2016-04-21 Thread dave miller
Try again... Financial Times - Construction is turning London into a city of holes http://on.ft.com/1qETRe0 On 21 April 2016 at 21:31, 土木建筑学院 wrote: > > ___ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >

[NetBehaviour] Tall Bike Tour

2016-04-21 Thread James Morris
Tall Bike Tour I'm not quite sure what this is all about; it's got tall (push) bikes, anti-tv man, mobile art-studios, etc, thought it might be of interest here, I quite enjoyed it. https://vimeo.com/162496594 And this one too, some great music, and portable skateboard ramps etc

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
Regarding poetry and Acceleration, here's an interview with Amy Ireland about Xenopoetry (via Nick Land) - https://www.academia.edu/24546212/Poetry_is_Cosmic_War_Interview_ On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 08:16 AM, Paul Hertz wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of

[NetBehaviour] Financial Times - Construction is turning London into a city of holes

2016-04-21 Thread dave miller
But how much of the latest building boom will actually improve the life of Londoners? London continues to attract people from all over the world — even if the young, the creative and the unsure are increasingly pushed to the margins. There was never a perfect moment. Yet walking through its

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 06:06 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > does accelerationism deal with issues of > pollution, extinction, and so forth? Additivism is directly concerned with these. Contemporary Left Accelerationism is a resource for dealing with them if one wishes to do so. "Inventing The

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

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Myers
I think Haraway is a good historical example. Their Cyborg Manifesto was written against sclerotic essentialist-/eco- feminism and amidst the decline of left politics in the US during the Reagan era. They take the Cold War figure of the cyborg and re-purpose it to critique all of this. There are

[NetBehaviour] Taka Tales

2016-04-21 Thread { brad brace }
Sound Design 2007: Taka Tales from Narikel Jingira Island, Bangladesh (Art Exhibition with Installed Audio, Tea and free Taka Tunes CDs) available from Brad Brace flyer: http://bbrace.net/two-taka-tunes-podcast/taka-tunes.jpg complete recordings sometimes playing now:

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
My name is Pall Thayer and I'm a Libre Office Calc-er... not an excel-erationist. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:35 Simon Biggs wrote: > I’ve always been sceptical of manifestos, isms and movements. They > typically corrupt themselves and end up in a car crash. The same goes

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
We’re revegetating it with local flora. There’s a lot of ornithological commerce... 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

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
In Iceland, we have plants that we call "peningablóm" (moneyflowers). Maybe that would work...

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
I’ve always been sceptical of manifestos, isms and movements. They typically corrupt themselves and end up in a car crash. The same goes for ideology. I have two questions: In what sense is accelerationism distinct from prior isms? Distinct or not, do I want to be associated with it - or don’t

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
We (my family and I) did grab what we can and head for the hills. Literally. We now live high up in the hills in an obscure and hard to find place a reasonably safe distance from where other people live about as far from the cradle of Western civilisation one can be (Australia). We are

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
...Unless you decide to turn your parcel of land into a bustling center of commerce. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:41 Simon Biggs wrote: > We (my family and I) did grab what we can and head for the hills. > Literally. We now live high up in the hills in an obscure and hard to

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

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Kohut
Regarding what an accelerationist aesthetics might resemble (or the set of things which m ight be grouped via family resemblance as an "accelerationist aesthetics"), there's the June 2013 EFlux which was devoted to exactly this question. In it, Patricia MacCormack (In "Cosmogenic Acceleration:

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
There is evidence of prior glacial activity in the region but the landscape around our property has been too eroded since the last ice age for it to show that much. The landscape is extremely folded - so in that sense there is a D quality. best Simon Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk

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

2016-04-21 Thread marc garrett
Hi all, Good to see list users are already, tentatively dipping their toes into the Accelerationist discussion. I'm actually grading student work today and through the weekend (yawn). Ruth and others will (hopefully) offer guidance through the maze, or at least support into this dialogue at its

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

2016-04-21 Thread Pall Thayer
Doesn't seem to be a lot of Dolce and Gabb... I mean Deleuze and Guattari striation going on there. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:27 PM Simon Biggs wrote: > The Adelaide Hills aren’t much like Iceland… > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherryville,_South_Australia > > best >

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

2016-04-21 Thread Simon Biggs
The Adelaide Hills aren’t much like Iceland… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherryville,_South_Australia 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

[NetBehaviour] caiosolos

2016-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
caiosolos the instrument plays one tune or its background chording repeatedly; here's my riding the two-backed beast of the keyboard. a shell emanates and leaves us forever and often there's more to the unstated melody than there is to the unmelodic state. we're tired in rochester, close to

Re: [NetBehaviour] 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' debate on Netbehaviour & Neterarti starting Thursday 21st April////////////////

2016-04-21 Thread jk
In a slightly tangential relation to this discussion as part of the next EvenSalon: Either/Or on Sat. 30th at the Apiary in London we have two participants involved in arguments around Accelerationism. Themed around Either/Or we're delighted to have presentations from David Cunningham of the

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

2016-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I have a naive question - does accelerationism deal with issues of pollution, extinction, and so forth? Can one wait for accelerationism? Has one already waited? Thanks, Alan On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote: Hello, My name is Ruth Catlow, and I am an Accelerationist. Back in

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

2016-04-21 Thread dave miller
I don't understand what accelerationism is yet, as I need to read a lot more - and a few times - and let it sink in. I find it hard to understand, to be honest. I'm interested though in the connection with Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto And I'd like to know more about the accelerationist

Re: [NetBehaviour] not an accelerationist / not into promethean amplifiers

2016-04-21 Thread Johannes Birringer
I like Alan's question. (and stopped reading after the promo bit at the beginning) >> contemporary Accelerationism has both a philosophical and a political form with the latter only weakly related to the former. What Epistemic (philosophical) and Left (political) Accelerationism have in common

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

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Kohut
Hello, My name is Tom Kohut and I'm a sort of accelerationist. I've been following the discussion of accelerationism since version 2 began to coalesce in 2008. (V.1 being the work in the 60s/70s of Deleuze, Lyotard's *Libidinal Economy* and Baudrillard). I say "sort of accelerationist" because

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

2016-04-21 Thread Paul Hertz
Hello, My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of contradictory and half-ass[ed|imilated] philosophical viewpoints. There serve me well for making art, but less so for staking out any sort of theoretical terra firma. Given a choice, I would prefer islands to continents and slowing down to

Re: [NetBehaviour] 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' debate on Netbehaviour & Neterarti starting Thursday 21st April////////////////

2016-04-21 Thread marc garrett
Hi Jonathon, Thank you for that info -- in fact, Daniel Rourke is part of this discussion but not on this list - he will be doing his bit with some others on the Neterarti social media platform instead ;-) Wishing you well. marc On 21 April 2016 at 14:00, jk wrote: > In a

[NetBehaviour] Free help and advice with creative software and tech

2016-04-21 Thread Jake Harries
Community Days On the last Wednesday of every month Access Space has been running Community Days, an opportunity for everyone to come in and get help and advice on open source creative software, tech, Linux, how you might be able to use tools and equipment like our laser cutter, or perhaps how to

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

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hello, My name is Ruth Catlow, and I am an Accelerationist. Back in 1996 (to be continued) ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

[NetBehaviour] 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' debate on Netbehaviour & Neterarti starting Thursday 21st April////////////////

2016-04-21 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Netbehaviourists, Welcome to the first day of 'We Need to Talk About Accelerationism' a month of art, discussion and exchange here on Netbehaviour and Neterarti (https://neterarti.furtherfield.org) (drop me a line if you need an invitation to Neterarti- it's invitation only at the moment

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

2016-04-21 Thread Annie Abrahams
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