My name is Bishop Zareh and I don't know much about the topic, but like what I have read so far.
I really connected with the 3D Additivist Manifesto and its description of a Junk Body, the body left behind by technology and obsolescence - the biological equivalent of Koolhaus' Junk Space - a shopping mall forever under construction. Visually, the images associated with these works are the most distinctive aesthetic to come from theory journals since Glitch. I created a pinboard for them: https://www.pinterest.com/eduatx/accelerationist-additivist-accelerationism/ I see a lot of connection to Virilio's work. Even before Dromology, in War & Cinema Virilio writes about the apparatus of perception control. As we move from Mass Media to Mass Technology, the same apparatus appears. The Internet's always-on resilience is also a product of military invention. Left Accelerationism seems to make a call to action towards creating a beneficial technology with remnants of the corrupted commercial systems. Are they attempting a middle path between the extremes of "use the API" and "get off the grid"? >From Alan's question: does accelerationism deal with issues of pollution, extinction, and so forth? Can one wait for accelerationism? Has one already waited? My guess is that they also split a middle path between Kurzweil-style utopian futurism and doomsday dystopia. Saying something like, The future is set, we are going there anyway, lets just get on with it already. I could be completely wrong. Anyway, thanks for the article Rob and discussion Ruth, much needed! Bz On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- ________________________________________________________________ ================================================================ =--------------------------------------------------------=-===-=-=-====-- +_+~_=_~--+__+=-^=-+_+_=^-+__+-=+_+~__=__~-_-____-=++=_--^-===-=-==-=-=-- =--------------------------------------------------------=-===-=-=-====-- http://bishopZ.com _______________________________________________________________________
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