On April 21, 2016 10:27:26 AM PDT, ruth catlow <[email protected]> wrote: > >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.
Yes definitely 2. :-). This is wonderful description of the spirit of contemporary left accelerationism. >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. Yes absolutely. My first thought on reading some of the MAP was "this has the potential to be a bit totalitarian....". Srnicek & Williams very thoroughly address how to ensure an open society in their follow-up. Reflecting what you wrote above, they do this in part by reference to neoliberalism, ironising its negative examples of international movement and regional mutaton into positive proposals. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
