Accelerationism, Prometheanism, and Posthumans

2016-05-04 Thread Frederic Neyrat
Excerpts from the Accelerationist Manifesto: "We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global problems or achieving victory over capital." "We believe it must also include recovering the dreams

Re: Live Your Models

2016-05-04 Thread morlockelloi
Maybe I'm missing something, but exchanging some gold (or BC) for some oranges or sex does not create a debt relationship. It's unclear how possessing an asset implies debt. Debt can exist without any obvious exchange medium in sight. You can owe somebody oranges, sex, or diamonds. Some of

Re: Live Your Models

2016-05-04 Thread Florian Cramer
Debt is a separate phenomenon, and not necessarily related to non-fiat currencies, possession does not automatically imply debt, eg. if I invest my time into digging gold, and find some, who owes me? Debt is predicated on enforcement capabilities, without which it does not

Re: Live Your Models

2016-05-04 Thread morlockelloi
If the currency is inflationary, then it's useless as a vehicle for savings, leaving only local-force-monopoly-backed notion of "property" as the savings method. If it is not global, it's useless outside the local fiefdom and subject to whims of the local government. The above has been

Re: Live Your Models

2016-05-04 Thread Siraj Izhar | publiclife
some problematic assumptions re. food production and the future. Ample studies show small plotholder farms to be significantly more productive per acre than large industrial farms (cf Amartya Sen and many following him) with a vastly lower ecological footprint. All this aside from large scale