[NetBehaviour] Accelerationism
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Sun Apr 24 19:22:12 CEST 2016
Can you say more?
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Pall Thayer wrote:
> Alan: But isn't that the whole idea behind left-acceleration?
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:46 AM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I agree and the problem precisely is acceleration; the biosphere
> doesn't
> adapt well to accelerated change, as the plights of sealions,
> walrus,
> migrant birds, ocean lives, indicate. If anything, a form of
> holding-back,
> learning to listen, listening, is necessary. The fundamental
> problem I
> think is that we're blind when it comes to ecosystems, energy,
> micro-
> biomes, and so forth. The fundamentals of mycology are being
> rewritten as
> we discuss, and what's emerging are whole universes of
> ignorance.
> Meanwhile we plow ahead, destroying the planet. It seems to me
> that
> accelerationism is so fundamentally human-based (perhaps
> man-based for all
> that), that it really overlooks collateral damage. And what do
> we do, for
> example, with the increasingly violent drought in the Mid-East
> which is
> exacerbating warfares and genocides? This needs slow, dirty work
> to deal
> with it, culture theory which listens, not only to humans, but
> to life and
> lives everywhere -
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote:
>
> > Yes Michael, and this is profoundly poetic.
> >
> > All human traditions, values and communities are dissolved in
> an acid bath
> > of everlasting agitation and uncertainty.
> >
> > What this passage does not describe though is a situation
> where the wider
> > ecologies of non-human planetary life, upon which we depend,
> are also
> > fatally eroded.
> > We need to sense and engage not just the real relations with
> "our kind"
> > (expanded to engage people and perspectives of all kinds (YES
> Gretta!)), but
> > beyond, with other species, and materials.
> >
> > This must include a correction to systems of dominance - to
> which Simon
> > points with his example of improper use of neuro-science to
> validate the
> > 'use' of humans.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23/04/16 16:38, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
> > Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
> >
> > "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly
> revolutionising
> > the instruments of production, and thereby the relations
> of
> > production, and with them the whole relations of
> society.
> > Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered
> form,
> > was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence
> for all
> > earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of
> > production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social
> conditions,
> > everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
> bourgeois
> > epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen
> relations,
> > with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
> > opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become
> antiquated
> > before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into
> air, all
> > that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled
> to face
> > with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his
> relations
> > with his kind."
> >
> > This does the *descriptive* job as well as anything
> written
> > since and it still stands perfectly well...
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >
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