[NetBehaviour] Accelerationism
BishopZ
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Mon Apr 25 04:32:48 CEST 2016
"The soul of wit, is the very body of untruth." -Aldous Huxley
So sharp? So definitive? Is there not room for debate?
at least can you e-lab-or-ate?
Bz
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Simon Biggs <simon at littlepig.org.uk> wrote:
> Nope - don’t buy it. Quackery…
>
> best
>
> Simon
>
>
> *Simon Biggs*
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> On 25 Apr 2016, at 03:36, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (
> http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
> ):
>
> "21. We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over
> society and its environment is capable of either dealing with global
> problems or achieving victory over capital. This mastery must be
> distinguished from that beloved of thinkers of the original Enlightenment.
> The clockwork universe of Laplace, so easily mastered given sufficient
> information, is long gone from the agenda of serious scientific
> understanding. But this is not to align ourselves with the tired residue of
> postmodernity, decrying mastery as proto-fascistic or authority as innately
> illegitimate. Instead we propose that the problems besetting our planet and
> our species oblige us to refurbish mastery in a newly complex guise; whilst
> we cannot predict the precise result of our actions, we can determine
> probabilistically likely ranges of outcomes. What must be coupled to such
> complex systems analysis is a new form of action: improvisatory and capable
> of executing a design through a practice which works with the contingencies
> it discovers only in the course of its acting, in a politics of geosocial
> artistry and cunning rationality. A form of abductive experimentation that
> seeks the best means to act in a complex world."
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:22 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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