Morlock Elloi on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 03:21:16 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement (Brian Holmes and Vincent Gaulin)


Isn't this like going to shrink to cure the discomfort of belonging to the not-ruling class and get sedated, instead of looking for a pitchfork?

Are we at the point where problems are framed as caused by cosmic rays and weltschmerz, and need some primordial nurturing to 'heal', the 'situation' being so complex, unfathomable and requiring conferences to discuss and ensuing papers to cite? Plus this metaphysical bs. of relegating everything to the 'climate change' monster, the new Rapture for progressives.

Pathetic and impotent.

Where the f*ck are the communists on nettime?

Instead of vacuous ruminations try wearing a magnetic bracelet. It may work. Hard to get a grant for it, though.



I must admit that talk of collectivist camps and ascetic material
minimalism gives me pause, unless you are talking about short-term work
for the unemployed as in the New Deal, and unless it is voluntary. It’s
not just that, short of another Great Depression, I suspect that this
vision may not be attractive to most Americans raised in a culture of
excess and (a distorted) individualism, but also that my own experience
as an activist makes it less than attractive.
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