On 06/27/2011 10:57 AM, Florian Cramer wrote:
Of course, this is just a small part of a larger development. The
bigger picture is that Europe, and the Western World, is rapidly
moving towards the model of Chinese politbureau capitalism where
governments act as supreme CEO boards, and public
and open-access activism are great, it's excellent
to hear about. So are the other open-acesss initiatives that have been
discussed here. Florian's idea of pursuing the conversation in an OA
journal is perfect. All of this could come to something!
best, Brian Holmes, PhD and blah blah blah
On 09/24/2011 06:00 AM, Florian Cramer wrote:
Therefore, almost every
position paper on the creative industries starts with impressive
economic figures. In the Netherlands, the most recent of these is
Creatieve industrie in topvorm, a report of the Topteam Creatieve
Industrie chaired by
[Generally speaking, US fascism is closer than you think. That is, it's
already here, celebrating its tenth anniversary with pepper spray,
swinging nightsticks, entrapment, arbitrary arrest and strict obedience
to the paymasters. Not BP or Exxon in this case, but Wall Street itself,
the 1%
Hey Keith, greetings from Chicago -
On 10/15/2011 01:35 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote:
There are no Koch Bros on the left in the US, though there might be
some Mensheviks with a conscience. There is evidence of the late
1990s piggybacking of the RCP at work though. They have gone from a
more Maoist
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/a-coup-in-the-european-union
Failure for 90 Percent of the People (The Rest Will Be Fine)
A Coup in the European Union?
by SUSAN GEORGE
European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working
conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement
Dmytri, I like your proposal of the transnational party. In fact the
convergence of the European Indignado movements and the US Occupy Wall
Street upsurge already lays the basis for such a thing. The question is,
what exactly in this case would correspond to the internal organization
and
[The sidebar texts on Al Jazeera have become the single best source for
written analysis of global events, to my knowledge anyway--please inform
if there is any place of similar quality. This article is the most
far-ranging I've yet read on the current terminal crisis of
neoliberalism. It
On 01/04/2012 07:46 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
OCCUPY your own *life*!!
The ONE-PERCENT is a statistical account of wealth distribution -- NOT a
useful description of *power* distribution.
I agree with Jodi, this is idiotic.
What's happening in the world right now is the perilous breakup
This text is at once challenging and generous: it seeks the core of
unfulfilled possibility in every limitation it critiques. Thanks for that.
You say the Occupy movement lacks strong core principles that could
serve to define itself as a transformative force in society. I agree.
That lack is
Well, Snafu was right and I'm sure that many good debates will flow from
his and Jodi's co-written text.
Keith, when I said the anarchists, I was thinking of David Graeber
among others. And when I said Kudos to the anarchists I really meant
it! Maybe I will find the answers to my questions in
On 01/10/2012 02:39 AM, Prem Chandavarkar wrote:
Modernist art has centralized the notions of creativity and
innovation because it seeks to align with history. Without seeking to
either diminish or sideline creativity and innovation, we now must
simultaneously seek to align art with
On 03/01/2012 08:23 PM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:
To me, the problem is the complexity of what is to be thought, and
a general refusal to allow paradox - ie that something can be both
good and bad, that it can have contradictory drives - to exist
within the same thought.
I'm generally on
Mark, this one is truly fascinating. Send updates as you go.
What you say about desire largely holds, I don't disagree. But over
that three hundred years since Adam Smith, a major corrective to
the moral theory of desire, which is visible already in Marx and
explicit in Nietzsche, is that the
On 03/03/2012 08:22 PM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:
Let me put it this way, if you will allow. People using facebook, or
any other source, engage in labour. The question here is do they get
the full return on that labour? The answer is, I believe, 'no'. Do
they get anything from that labour, yes
On 03/07/2012 12:57 AM, Mark Andrejevic wrote:
If you boil it down, the valuation of Facebook is based on the promise of
the power of the social graph and detailed forms of targeting and
data-mining to do what? To serve the needs of advertisers. What needs? To
move products and sell services.
'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation
Michel Bauwens
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/2012361233474499.html
Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the
broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create
Salut Patrizio!
Here's a quote from the article on education and its payoffs in the late
great United States:
For instance, the typical worker with a bachelor's degree in petroleum
engineering earned $120,000 a year and those with a degree in math and
computer science earned $98,000,
On 05/03/2012 04:40 PM, Sascha D. Freudenheim wrote:
My point is that I don't think over-generalizing from Conard's absurd
comments is necessarily very helpful. He's one guy. He's entitled to his
opinions, however ignorant we think they are. But there are people with
significantly more complex
On 05/05/2012 01:56 PM, Nicholas Knouf wrote:
How does one take a principled stand against the repugnant policies
of the Koch Bros., while also holding out the possibility that their
philanthropic actions just_might_ cause some positive change in the
world?
I reckon it's close to impossible.
Hey Keith, good to hear from you.
On 05/06/2012 05:50 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
The first thing that stands out to me is that you identify your own
role with that of a critic. There are other ways of engaging society
and perhaps we should start with that. Which critics in history do
you think made
On 05/10/2012 03:23 AM, Dan S. Wang wrote:
My friend at Yahoo, a senior engineer, tells me that his co-workers are in a
lather. Their CEO, known for a leadership style, reorganization strategy,
and corporate housecleaning method akin to swinging a double-headed axe
blindfolded, apologized twice
Thanks to Keith for the brilliant recap of Veblen's Business Enterprise
(which is definitely the foundation behind The Engineers and the Price
System). For anyone who hasn't read Veblen, Keith's choice phrases
occasionally quoted in parentheses are there as a writer's homage to one
of the
On 05/17/2012 12:28 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
I would add that each individual or group inserts themsleves
into the social and technical movement at a particular point in
time with a bundle of assets and drawbacks in terms of skills,
experience, online history and offline engagements. It is how
[Greets everyone. I will be holding a version 2.0 or European redux of the Three
Crises Seminar in Berlin from June 17 to 23 (http://occupybb7.org/node/34).
Armin Medosch will be there as an interlocutor for about half of it. Given the
context I guess many will want to talk about KW, Occupy
On 06/30/2012 07:45 PM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
On the technical side, the Minitel was the losing pawn in the end in the
'system battle' between the centralised Transpac/X.25 network and the
distributed TCP/IP based Internet (whose basic feature, packet switching,
is claimed by the French to be
On 07/15/2012 09:48 AM, Patrice Riemens forwarded this:
The notion that the entire global financial system is riddled with
systemic fraud – and that key players in the gatekeeper roles, both in
finance and in government, including regulatory bodies, know it and
choose to quietly sustain this
On 10/01/2012 02:55 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
For me, the political test for all these things is whether they are
set as alternatives to commodity markets and private ownership, or
as alternatives to public infrastructures. In the first case, one
might get something interesting, in the second
forward?
Thanks, Brian Holmes
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Fabulous article.
The art market (now based on auctions and mega-fairs much more than
galleries) is said to be the world's largest totally unregulated market.
But I think narcotics have been conveniently left out of that calculation!
Typically there is a large boom in the art market after
[From the we're-much-closer-to-socialism-than-you-think department.]
Seriously, what's so funny about a trillion dollar coin?
by Dan Hind
Mohandas Gandhi once gave a useful summary of the political process:
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win. Each
On 01/18/2013 08:05 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
A century ago, Alfred Marshall, author of Principles of Economics (1890)
and Keynes' teacher at Cambridge defined economics as both a study of
wealth and a branch of the study of man. But, in a manifesto published in
the Harvard Business Review last
Hello Keith, hello everyone -
On 01/19/2013 12:48 PM, Keith Hart wrote:
I believe we are witnessing a drive for corporate home rule which would
leave them the only citizens in a world society made to suit their
interests. This is the logical conclusion of the collapse of the
difference
Are our Dutch hacker friends too embarrassed to report anything about
last week's DDoS that is said to have caused the greatest slowdown of
the Internet ever?
Some nasty anti-Semitic declarations by the chief suspect filled the US
brainwaves - repulsive stuff. Yet for all the rest I am
On 04/25/2013 05:31 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
The software uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and
short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.
Such as:
a. raw domination
b. rank servitude
c. outright revolution
[Note: You can only tick one of the
On 05/13/2013 07:11 PM, Keith Hart wrote:
Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial product of
modernity are interesting and of course I loved all that stuff about the
digital revolution generating a shift from formal to informal economy.
The middle classes dependent on a
I'm sorry, I should have given the source for my observation about the
return of high-wage and low-wage jobs in the US, compared to the
devastating loss of mid-wage jobs. It is here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/interactive-great-reset
It's an amazing little animated graph, dated 2013.
On 05/15/2013 08:56 AM, allan siegel wrote:
The thesis of the death of the middle class is simple and not
peculiar to Sweden: every time you try to define the allegedly most
important contemporary social formation, this middle class breaks
into two, writes Greider; one part that serves the
On 05/24/2013 04:50 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
Larry Summers, former US treasury secretary, thinks that
the challenge of the decades ahead is not debt or competition from
China but the dramatic transformations that technology is bringing
... a world of what Summers calls automated doers.
For a few additional links and images see the blog version:
http://permanentcrisis.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-weakest-link.html
THE WEAKEST LINK:
Spain in the Circuit of European Capital
An elder woman with a yard-long wooden spoon stirs a huge pan of paella
bubbling over a ring of blue flame.
Here's something interesting:
On 06/03/2013 07:04 PM, Fenwick Mckelvey wrote:
... we must come to terms with our own online activities
feeding the appetites of algorithmically-driven machines designed to
facilitate the expansion of profit and power by quantifying and
modulating our desires.
I agree with Dimitry below. It should be noticed that existing
communication circuits and forms of social cooperation have all been
built over the last twenty years. On the one hand, social media was at
least partially prefigured by Indymedia and similar iniatives fifteen
years ago, the huge
I agree that' the specialist responses are the saddest. Not just clever
people, but anyone who paid attention since TIA in 2002 knew this was
going on. All the people who are trying to be more cynical than thou are
lame. There is a huge difference between intellectuals knowing what the
state
On 07/02/2013 08:32 PM, Marko Peljhan wrote:
Here in the US, more than half of the public opinion does not care much
about the fact that all of our communications and patterns are being
gathered and stored...it is an incredible reaction.
Ah ha, but the beauty is in the other half, no?
I
On 07/29/2013 09:57 AM, Karen O'Rourke wrote:
Brian, I think we sometimes need clearly drawn theoretical storylines
(or pat simplifications, if you will) to allow some rewiring to take
place (keep those neurons on their toes). We need to get Turner's map in
our heads before we can confront it
On 09/23/2013 01:46 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
The researchers say there’s much more to learn, especially at the border
where human traders and robotic ones interact. One question is whether
moving at computer speeds is inefficient because there’s less
information available at that time
In 2009 I had a visceral experience of the world described in this post.
As a former Californian I had long since understood that I was priced out
of my home state and would never again live in the city of San Francisco
(which anyway was losing its charms as the monoculture set it). It is a
On 01/22/2014 03:06 AM, allan siegel wrote:
exactly what kind of planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary
(or possible) not simply as a defense against the OS of a corporate
totalitarianism but to envision and plan a new trajectory of
possibilities altogether?
Allan, always so
On 01/31/2014 04:26 AM, d.garcia wrote about:
the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form
of re-booted labor movement able garner credibility from the workforce
in these van garde creative economies exemplified by Silicon Valley
Well, if the Valley is the hivemind
On 02/01/2014 03:02 PM, Michael H Goldhaber wrote:
Sadly, Brian misspoke (or miswrote)
Indeed I misspoke - or deluded myself? A moment of wish-fulfillment?
The interesting thing is that the neighboring airport town of SeaTac
passed a 15-dollar minimum wage law. It was challenged and a judge
Jeremy Gilbert has written a beautiful tribute to Stuart Hall. Nothing
could tell us more about the qualities of the man who has just passed
than this living echo of those qualities, remade and transformed by
another human being. One learns that the greatest thing you can possibly
create is
On 02/16/2014 02:25 PM, t byfield wrote:
A first step in a conjunctural analysis might be to note that
students and faculty are structural, maybe even 'natural,' allies. Step
two might be for faculty to act accordingly.
Understatement of the year award! ...
One of the most decisive
changes
On 02/19/2014 10:38 PM, d...@geer.org wrote:
Tangentially related, this is a rundown of student economics as measured
by lifetime ROI for the price of tuition (in the US):
http://www.payscale.com/education/average-cost-for-college-ROI-2011
I loaded that up in Excel to get a picture of
It's important news.
US academia has primarily been a game of self-interest over the
neoliberal period. Will these new threats finally convince professors
of two things?
One: Only by taking the problems faced by debt-struck students
seriously can they find powerful allies in their own
On 04/13/2014 01:54 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
More companies are entering partnerships with colleges to help design
curricula, as state universities seek new revenue and industry tries
to close a yawning skills gap.
Well, yeah, these are the trends that have been emerging since 2008. The
On 04/13/2014 03:41 PM, © Robbins wrote:
Actually these trends have been recognized as in existence for
far longer . Relative to my own experience on the academy ( in
California, ) their both overt and covert influence relative to
the directives of curricula has been exercised since the
On 05/11/2014 01:38 PM, Michael Weisman wrote:
I don't think this is a Bay Area thing. Google, Schmidt, and even
Cory, operate at a supranational level, traveling from place to place
and speaking and working all over the globe, without any regard to
national borders or local cultures.
Yet
On 05/13/2014 12:31 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
Now that Google's halo is a wee bit dented some deeper reflection on what
Google might, through its search algorithms, be doing to our underlying
frameworks of knowledge--either inadvertently by structuring them in pursuit
of its commercial goals
in the US, the
epitome of the Chinese-American exploitative production line, and what
soft power wants to be when it grows up (ie, total ideological
domination). So if you are already captured to the point of total
servility, fine. They will enjoy that.
Brian Holmes
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In 2008, a fellow named Mark Leonard published what was probably the
most useful book of the year, entitled What does China think? With
great concision he went through the country's think tanks, one by one,
with a five or six page summary of the people, the problematics and the
major
Hello everyone -
Here's a report from recent activities in Chicago:
Since April 25, Rozalinda Borcila and I have been developing a research
device called Foreign Trade Zone: A People's Consultancy, in the
metropolitan region of Chicago. It consists of a map room in ThreeWalls
Gallery, a
On 07/09/2014 12:53 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent
psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of
Defense to study the contagion of ideas
So why should the crossover of one researcher be so
On 07/14/2014 09:19 PM, nettime_2.0 wrote:
* Why did people who communicate and learn together, people who had
the world, leave it, en masse, for a shopping mall?
Once I met one of the enrages of May 68, who explained to me that even
after that fateful day when De Gaulle
Excuse me, my infatuation with impressive numbers caused me to write
billionaires, not millionaires, in the sentence below. Still, 114,000 of
them makes a good-sized oligarchy! And a helluva dinner party, I would
imagine...
On 10/05/2014 10:28 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
Hong Kong is the city
What I'm wondering is, where is Luther Blissett in all this? Now there's
a guy who was interested in the ideas, not the authors. There's a guy
(but it was also a girl) who really knew how to plagiarize.
But... But... But... it's dawning on me! We misunderestimated him!
Evgeny Morozov is a
On 12/27/2014 02:26 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to announce the publication of a 100-pages long book
authored by Vasilis Kostakis and myself
Find it here, for free of course:
Michel, Vasilis, how encouraging to receive your answers. I will read
the texts you suggest, and I will respond to some of your remarks here.
For those who are interested in such things, I have surfed the long
waves myself:
https://brianholmes.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/crisis_theory.pdf
I agree with Felix. As I said before, we are now at the political
turn of the this new Great Depression in Europe. And it's not just a
few radicals who think that there are two forks in this road, one to
the left, one to the right. Everyone thinks so. The disagreements are
about the
Just before Christmas, Joschka Fischer - a man who incarnates the
institutionalization of 1968 - published an article on the Project
Syndicate website entitled Europe's Make-or-Break Year. At stake, for
him, was the failed recovery, the divisive policy of austerity, the rise
of economic
On 01/13/2015 03:58 PM, allan siegel wrote:
Yes, there is a crisis, that shouldn�t be a big surprise but
what precisely is the crisis?A number of contemporary philosophers
have been wading into this question for some time now; is it the
crisis that marks a break with modernity? Quite possibly.
On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, d.garcia wrote:
The dialectical relationship between new styles of production, the rise of
affective labor and the emergence of new social movements are yet to be
theorised in ways that will help us as to locate the agents of progressive
change in a control society. 13.
-that-has-to-do-with-life-itself
**
Something that has to do with life itself
A review of *World of Matter*
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 9/1-11/1, 2014 / by Brian Holmes
How to face the natural crisis of global society? How to engage with the
overwhelming material conditions
Many fascinating things are coming out of this sudden burst of
self-reflexivity on nettime, and I appreciate the listing of issues that
Eric just did. It's also fabulous to hear from so many people who rarely
post, like Sean or Peter or Claire or Helen with her fabulous poem. Now
that we are
Hey, I heard something in the USA! People are, like, talkin' in
Baltimore! They're makin' smoke signals and everything! They're
signifying! Go Baltimore!
We live here in a country of great democratic ideals, murderous class
violence, and until about a year ago, effective repression of any
[ On Tuesday, the French National Assembly passed a law granting the
state sweeping powers of surveillance in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
massacre. On Wednesday, the city council of Chicago passed the first US
law granting reparations to African Americans tortured by the city's own
police
Down the street there used to be a bar called Dorothy's. A real Chicago
dive, it was run forever by a Greek guy known as Gus. Home to
down-and-outs and shambling drunks, the place would be seized by
wild-eyed hilarity on Saturday nights or during football games. I used
to stop by to pick up a
This is an intricate text with a lot of angles on the subject - not a
bad thing, since the subject in question is now 4,500 people! I want to
look behind just one sentence:
"From the beginning, served as an environment for
experimentation with the new medium and, beyond that, as a
Well, 20 years after the Californian Ideology, at least we have three
good concpets:
-thanaticism
-the inhumanities
-the antisocial sciences
Like a good cyber-communist, I'm just gonna put 'em in my bag and use 'em.
thanks, BH
On 10/16/2015 11:36 PM, nettime's_trial_balloon wrote:
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d a darkening cupola and start
projecting their fantasies instead of looking at anything around them.
Still hope springs eternal. So let's share our readings and our insights
and see whether artists, software engineers and other random
intellectuals can still perceive what's actually happening on
On 09/16/2015 12:41 PM, wcameronjack...@gmail.com wrote:
The sculpture seems to beg the question of "standing up" as an endeavor
in itself. As is rightly pointed out, these figures are now, by and
large, unable to "stick their heads out." Their chairs are inaccessible
(or, at best, they may
dear nettimers, dear everyone,
You may or may not know them personally, but Sean Dockray and Marcell
Mars are at the heart of our extended community. Who's the we? Quite
simply, anyone who has desired to participate.
Knowledge was supposed to be the oil of the 21st century. Despite the
fact
Whoah. Change.org or not, this is a fascinating greater-than-life-size
experiment.
Mexico City is at once one of the most difficult and one of the most
vibrant urban regions in the world. The spirit of the early 20th century
Mexican Revolution, relayed by 1968, continually clashes with the
On 05/24/2016 11:29 PM, Alex Foti wrote:
Wow, Brian, comparative analysis of euroamerican middle classes and the
populist left!
More like a provocation to make people think on their feet!
according to laclau-chantalmouffe (from what I learned from Paolo
Gerbaudo, check out
On 06/25/2016 03:56 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
For some time now Europe's political leaders and financial cities have
threatened to abolish the City's immunity. That was the issue. The City
wanted out, but didn't wish to make it obvious. See Nicholas Shaxson's
Treausure Islands for the gruesome
On 06/26/2016 11:30 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
> I live in Paris and have in-laws in Switzerland, so I pick up more than
> average doses of anti-City rhetoric. A major factor is that I spent a
> quarter century in Cambridge and have a good feel for the British secret
> state and its active wings in
On 06/25/2016 10:30 PM, siegel allan wrote:
the present moment is simply a prologue marking more critical
struggles that lay beyond our immediate horizon or sense of the
possible
Man, that's the interesting thing.
[Allan and I met each other in Budapest for the first time a few weeks
ago
On 06/23/2016 11:42 PM, Alex Foti wrote:
Either We Do Europe Now or We're Dead - meaning the chauvinists
and the xenophobes will bring us back to the European nation-state
that defends itself against migrants and any threat to its supposed
cultural identity, unless we fight for a European
Orit Halpern's book, Beautiful Data, suggests that we live not so much
in worlds of pure simulation a la Jean Baudrillard (or Philip K. Dick),
but instead, in a fascinated relation with flows of signals whose
referential nature does not stop them from forming a "new landscape" for
the
We've come full circle. Forget the Californian Ideology, forget the
Flexible Personality. At issue today is exactly the thing that Adorno
and his colleages studied in their sociological attempt to understand
Fascism. What's happening in the US right now, and undoubtedly across
Europe, is
This is so true, so goddamned true, Brian.
Geert, I think you have to begin with the idea that societies across
the world are gripped by the Big Fear. It came in a lot of ways,
the economic crash, the realization of accelerating climate change,
Fukushima, Greece, the failed revolutions in
On 03/13/2016 12:39 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
"here's to that future" indeed, Brian, but I wonder how deeper we must
sink before things get better.
To answer your questions, Patrice, for sure, both North America and the
EU are sunk in governmental gridlock, and that is the essence of the
This is a great article because it identifies a new variety of
capitalism and demands a response. But Shoshana Zuboff should take
three more steps to give her argument the scope it needs.
First, it's false to claim that surveillance capitalism "corrupts
the unity of supply and demand that has
On 03/17/2016 09:14 PM, d...@geer.org wrote:
What I see is way,
way too much private money looking at way, way too few differentiated
ideas.
Dan, your thoughts are really interesting and I like the specifics of
"the mid-space between investment capital and government programs."
It seems to
Nicholas Shaxson has written the so-far definitive book on tax havens,
entitled Treasure Islands (2012) - a fantastic book, I am amazed no one
seems to be talking about it right now. His central thesis is that with
the waning of Empire, British elites sought a way to retain their
On 04/06/2016 07:17 AM, Florian Cramer wrote:
The Cold War has taught us to be suspicious about NGO activity and
possible governmental agendas behind them.
But Florian, don't you think we're at antipodes from the Cold War? And
how much suspicion is really needed to understand those
It is rather astounding to me - a token of the profound laziness and
irresponsibility of contemporary intellectuals - that people still be in
doubt or even in complete ignorance as to what neoliberalism is, how it
has developed, what its major doctrinal differences have been, how its
theory
On 05/11/2016 02:23 AM, John Young wrote:
On the other hand it satisfying to graze among the 1.7M
items released by ICIJ yesterday, to ogle the 100,000s
of offshore officers entities around the world, led by China
and the Five Eyes, Russia a distant third, Europe hardly
in the running. Then see
Molly Hankwitz wrote:
I am interested in this idea of yours of the "flexible self" as I
wrote much about "flexibility" in my critique of wireless imagination
in my dissertation but did not know, at the time about your work
Molly, when I was a kid in the 70s I went to the SNACK concert:
On 05/04/2016 11:13 PM, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
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
[ I am about to put the footnotes on this text and send it off for
publication, but I'd like to give nettime a crack at it first. It is
the impossible conclusion to that long drawn-out project entitled
"Three Crises: 30s-70s-Now," which would've ended long ago if the
current major crisis of
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