Re: <nettime> Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

Hello John, so good to hear from you!

It's fantastic what the ZAD has achieved - not just stopping the airport, not just staying on the site, but inventing lives in the present that can imagine a viable future. I guess everyone knows that's not so easy to do.

and meanwhile on the zad we are busy thinking how a new cosmology might feel, one whose compass points towards a future where nature and culture is never separate … check out our latest ritual, here in our monthly journal - https://zadibao.net/2019/03/01/17-janvier-sera-jour-ferie/

What I have found so encouraging is the way you are able to open your struggles and inventions to others, not just in the space of a moment but also in a longer time. This kind of ritual could be practiced anywhere. It's different from the norm, yet it's also familar (feast days, carnival, vague cultural memories of paganism). It looks backward in time, but also forward, with a language of regenerative cells that includes and transforms modern biology. The norm today is a cosmology of space travel and nuclear power. This has been overarching all politics since WWII. It's time to change. If life on earth feels fundamentally different, then different decisions can be taken. I went through such a change in the way that I feel existence in the world. It matters.

love, Brian

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