[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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