Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

Dmytri's position boils down to an absolute deference to "authentically oppressed peoples" (or the chinese state, which is curiously synonymous with the chinese people in his analysis) at the cost of unthinkingly eschewing all of those other bothersome and inconvenient oppressed peoples (Uyghurs,

The Fascist Simulation

*The Fascist Simulation* Ian Alan Paul // January 8, 2021 https://www.ianalanpaul.com/the-fascist-simulation/ In the United States, fascism presently unfolds as a simulation. The fascist simulation constitutes itself as a pixelated sea of livestreams, images, posts, and comments, circulating

Climate, Capitalism, Control

azon Alexa. I've also pasted the script of the project below for those who would prefer to read: [ you can read/download it as a pdf here as well: https://www.ianalanpaul.com/climate-capitalism-control-text/ ] Climate, Capitalism, Control Ian Alan Paul, 2019 01. Dispersed across the surfac

Re: Nein, danke [was Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy]

tical violence as a tragic, forlorn necessity. I have > screengrabs. Who "they" are who'll be hanging is left to the reader's > fantasy. The phrase "let them hang" comes from Shakespeare's Twelfth > Night (1.3), but it's attained a slightly meme-like status in a variet

Re: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy

b90136f896525400cd8561 > <https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561>* > bio: http://floriancramer.nl > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 5:10 PM Ian Alan Paul > wrote: > >> I thought some on the list interested in infrastructural / ecological >> pol

Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy

I thought some on the list interested in infrastructural / ecological politics might find this of interest: Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy (online: https://inhabit.global/ , español: https://es.inhabit.global/ , français: https://fr.inhabit.global/ ) There are two paths: The end of the world

Re: Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

is however too much of a power base for the political > elite of ANC. That narrative feeds their power, so better keep that > narrative alive. > All the best, > David > > On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:14, Ian Alan Paul wrote: > > "My native South Africa is heading toward a cl

Re: Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

"My native South Africa is heading toward a class war or a race war. A class war is exactly what South Africa needs, a race war would be disastrous." The inability to think race and class together in this case in particular says everything you need to know about the poverty and bankrupty of

Re: Identity and difference

still very > much alive (thank the God who does not exist) even if not on the mailing > list itself. > And Ian, our dear historian of identitarianism Asad Haider will never > attract any masses. Because he again does not have a narrative to attract > anybody. Except possibly for the ete

Re: Identity and difference

n a wordgame anyway. It is through shared vision (a fetish as > opposed to an abject) that we can find a shared agenda. Not by distributing > medial attention according to ultimately infantile needs. Because that's no > better than Trump himself. > > Best intentions > Alexander B

Re: Identity and difference

If you you think being of critical and suspicious of theological metanarratives is intellectually lazy, wait until you hear about faux-Marxist class reductionism! In all seriousness, for those of you looking for actually useful analyses of the complex relations between identity, class, and

Re: Google Campus Occupied

eady expelled again > > https://twitter.com/besetzenberlin > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 07. September 2018 um 15:44 Uhr > *Von:* "Ian Alan Paul" > *An:* "a moderated mailing list for net criticism" < > nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > *Betreff:* Google C

Google Campus Occupied

The new Google campus being built in Kreuzberg, Berlin has been occupied by the neighborhood. You can follow along here: https://mastodon.social/@FuckOffGoogle # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

No We Can't

No We Can't Ian Alan Paul, 2018 [this text can also be read online @ www.ianalanpaul.com/no-we-cant/ ] While “Yes We Can” fueled a particular historical sequence, unquestionably it is “No We Can’t” that is more explosive today. As landscapes turn to tinder and melting ice sends sea levels

Re: What does Trump get right?

or needed, ~i On Aug 4, 2018 22:48, "Brian Holmes" wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Ian Alan Paul wrote: > We need more movements that, as Michael Hardt has described it, allow us > to become monstrous, to become something different and unrecognizable, t

Re: What does Trump get right?

st reckon with what is beyond its organization. ~i On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 16:13 Brian Holmes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Ian Alan Paul > wrote: > > We all should prefer that the Democrats win in November for obvious >> reasons, but to curb our political horizon to

Re: What does Trump get right?

The prognosis of the situation that has been outlined in this thread is unquestionably true. Certainly climate change, financial capital, and rising authoritarianisms/nationalisms/etc. require the greatest degree of concentration, stamina, and dedication from us all, regardless of your political

Re: Endgame?

I think that the best way to interpret this all is that neoliberalism is finally coming home to Europe and the U.S.. All of the modes of governmentality (surveillance, the logic of security supplanting the logic of sovereignty, dissolution of the divide between police and military, etc.) that

Re: Endgame?

I think that the best way to interpret this all is that neoliberalism is finally coming home to Europe and the U.S.. All of the modes of governmentality (surveillance, the logic of security supplanting the logic of sovereignty, dissolution of the divide between police and military, etc.) that

Digital Arts MFA at Stony Brook University

For those interested in studying digital media in a fine arts context, please consider applying to the MFA at SUNY Stony Brook (funding is available for top applicants). Feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions about the program. *Apply Now to the MFA Program at Stony

Antisocial Media

As a follow up from a previous post on this list, I'm writing to let you all know about a text I've just completed titled Antisocial Media. A remix/cut-up/utopian-plagiarism of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, Antisocial Media reflects on the role of the network and (anti)social media in

Re: Brexit democracy

Brian writes: "Supporting them remains essential, in the way that dreams and utopias are essential. But I think there's another responsibility, which is to imagine and get behind the factors of sweeping systemic change, which is what the times are callling for." I don't think the two are mutually

Re: Brexit democracy

taken back" by military forces in collusion with one or another of the > cartels, you will wonder when your town will be taken over by armed > militias, before being taken "back" by something very new, ie an organized > neofascist military state with the full force of the law

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown is an indispensable thinker for these times. In addition to Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, her recent short text that explores the progression from neoliberalism to neofascism is a must-read: http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/ (and for more depth on this subject, see her

Re: Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

but do you think, fellas, we could start insisting on an Internet that —“subjugates living human beings” instead of “men only”—? C’mon...ok - took the bait, but honestly, let us not exclude women and children from the digital labor force. (of the spectacle) Molly On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:55

Re: Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

; wrote: > > > is this your hack or who can i attribute? > > > > > > > On 03 November 2017 at 10:16 Ian Alan Paul <ianalanp...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social &g

Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle

The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social relation among people, mediated by networks. ... The basically tautological character of the internet flows from the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends. ... The internet subjugates living men to itself to the extent

Re: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

While this has turned into an interesting discussion on the (non?)future of AI, it's important to remind ourselves that what Zeynep is describing (and control societies in general) don't rely on the existence of advanced AI to work. The power of control societies emerges from the historical

Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

e) So to go back to that Hollywood paraphrase, we do want the prodigious potential of artificial intelligence and digital technology to blossom, but for that, we must face this prodigious menace, open-eyed and now. Thank you. _ Dr. Ian Alan Paul www.ianalanpaul.co

The Looming Impossibility of the Present

And so here we are. In the present, the new normal. In a situation that feels just as quotidian as it does impossible. With my coffee I read of fires in California and I scroll through friends' facebook posts debating which filters and breathing masks are best to buy. I read of the news from

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

The radical Left in Barcelona is conflicted. People oppose independence simply because it has the tendency to subsume all other political antagonisms (see the very strange left/right coalition currently in power in Catalonia). At the same time, there is general agreement about the right to

Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

Thank you Brian for this post, and Lincoln for the elaboration and highlighting of some of the central problems Brian posed for us. I want to respond to this in two ways, first by calling into the question the novelty of the present to some degree, and second by trying to map the dynamics /

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

to be written) and "Theses" (in the sense that they will have to be tested). Only time will tell what unfolds from here but I hope that at least some fragments of either piece can be put to good use. All of the best, ~i Dr. Ian Alan P

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

necessarily opposed to the formation of "counter power," but rather perhaps what we imagine "counter power" being may be very different in form. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, 15:56 Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com> wrote: On 01/31/2017 09:38 AM, Ian Alan Paul wrote:

10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance Ian Alan Paul, January, 2017 1. Resistance against Trump will first become manifest in radical acts of negation. Sabotage this. Slow down that. Undermine a process. Raise questions. Draw lines. Flood systems. Destroy records. Overwhelm

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

"Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word. If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply not cover what it is you are trying to say?" Thank you for this question David ~ I

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory

ck refugee camps alongside neonazis. Determining this will deeply inform how we imagine and interpret the terrain of our organizing and action. I hope that these ways of thinking are in some way helpful. In solidarity, ~i ________ Ian Alan Paul