We’re revegetating it with local flora. There’s a lot of ornithological commerce...
best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] 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 22 Apr 2016, at 08:16, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...Unless you decide to turn your parcel of land into a bustling center of > commerce. > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 18:41 Simon Biggs <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 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 surrounded by a > parcel of land that is ours and functions something like a fortress. I guess > that means I can’t be an accelerationist - even if I wanted to be… > > best > > Simon > > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.littlepig.org.uk <http://www.littlepig.org.uk/> > http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs <http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs> > http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs > <http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs> > http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs > <http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs> > > > > > > > >> On 22 Apr 2016, at 02:57, ruth catlow <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> My name is Ruth Catlow, >>> and I am an Accelerationist. >>> >>> Back in 1996 .... >>> (to be continued) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Gretta Louw reviews my book >>> <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/personal-politics-language-digital-colonialism-annie-abrahams%E2%80%99-estranger> >>> from "estranger to e-stranger: Living in between languages", and finds >>> that not only does it demonstrate a brilliant history in performance art, >>> but, it is also a sharp and poetic critique about language and everyday >>> culture. >>> >>> New project with Daniel Pinheiro and Lisa Parra : Distant Feeling(s) >>> <http://bram.org/distantF/> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> >> >> -- >> Co-founder Co-director >> Furtherfield >> >> www.furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> >> >> +44 (0) 77370 02879 >> Meeting calendar - http://bit.ly/1NgeLce <http://bit.ly/1NgeLce> >> Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i >> >> Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & debates >> around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997 >> >> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee >> registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. >> Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, Tally >> Ho Corner, London N12 0EH. >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > -- > P Thayer, Artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > <http://pallthayer.dyndns.org/>_______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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