Re: <nettime> About my project TECHNOCOMMUNISM (KOUU MOU)

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Hey Mou,

Thanks for sharing your work !

Only had a chance to glance at it, but finding some useful points in your critical analysis... of the increasingly hybrid east / west mousetraps of krapitalism, big tech platforms, powerful states and/or transnational entities... and looking for whatever ways to reject them and maneuver outside them to form some new social vision. 

Also liked the reference to the Mugiwara Pirates from one-piece ( though still haven't watched any of this ), where the autonomy or sovereignty of the individual plays a parallel role in the building and supporting of collectives... (?)

just a quick clunky reply...

But also this week, this article opened these EU-based eyes to see how much worse our catastrophe + collapsing trajectory is compared to the centralized technocratic-state predicaments transpiring in the east.

The Five-Year Plan for “Beautiful China” Biljana Vankovska
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/06/the-five-year-plan-for-beautiful-china/

...

That said, we ( the XLterrestrials) tend to think that a heavily techno-centric approach to any communist futurity is probably still going to trap itself in an abusive and ecocidal direction for all interdependent terrestrial organisms. So : Less tech, more embodied community feet on the ground !  

cheers!

podinski


   

  
 
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> Dear all,
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> My name is Mou, I?m a student from China currently studying in Japan, and I
> have been engaged in critical or speculative design for several years.
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> Recently, I completed a work titled *TECHNOCOMMUNISM* as a response to the
> discussions on neo-feudalism. I have been concerned about the
> transformation of the capitalist system for years. Coming from the
> background of an authoritarian regime in China, I have found dilemmas both
> within capitalism and within the nation-state system itself. This led me to
> search for a new systemic alternative through an intuitive and critical
> design approach.
> 
> 
> 
> However, this topic is rarely discussed within my discipline today, even
> though similar systemic explorations were once popular among artists and
> designers in the 1960s and 1970s. I would be deeply grateful if I could
> receive any advice or thoughts from here.
> 
> 
> 
> My work is freely available for reading and download on the Internet
> Archive:
> https://archive.org/details/technocommunism-by-moukouu-english
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> 
> 
> *About TECHNOCOMMUNISM (excerpt from the text):*
> 
> ?I would like to summarize the tasks I hope to accomplish in this work.
> First, to construct a critical, bird's-eye perspective on the political and
> economic systems of human society under the current context of continuous
> globalization of capitalism, worsening environmental issues, intensifying
> geopolitical conflicts, the rise of a new feudal class, technological
> amplification of authoritarian political powers, and the resurgence of
> nationalism. In the following content, I will refer to this as ?a hungry,
> top-down, fragile Big Model of Society? (abbreviated as the Big Model of
> Society). Second, to attempt to conceptualize a post-disaster, bottom-up,
> democratic, and decentralized new model of society that is dialectically
> critical of such a system (reflecting on the existing social system from
> outside).
> 
> ?
> 
> You might naturally ask, why communism? Why use the notorious term
> ?communism?, which has gained such a negative reputation following the
> communist movements of the 20th century? I believe there are two reasons
> for this. The first reason is to provoke in a stand-up comedy-like way. As
> can be seen in earlier parts of this article, I am unequivocally critical
> of the communist movements of the 20th century and the authoritarian
> communist regimes that exist today. However, even so, I believe that an
> excessive aversion to the term ?communism? has blocked people from
> reflecting on its conceptual essence. This aversion has led overly
> simplistic critics to abandon contextual judgment and stop listening to the
> intentions of those who use the term. The second reason, as Slavoj ?i?ek
> describes himself as a ?conservative moderate communist? and uses the term
> ?communism? to advocate for the large-scale global cooperation he deems
> necessary, is that I use the term TECHNOCOMMUNISM also to express a form of
> collaboration. However, this collaboration is bottom-up, based on
> individual, decentralized and supported by high-tech.
> 
> TECHNOCOMMUNISM is not merely a resistance to the capitalist system or the
> state system; more importantly, it is a resistance to power relations, a
> resistance against the concentration of power.
> 
> Although this is a positive utopia, I do not hold an optimistic view of the
> context in which such a utopia might exist. In other words, even if such a
> utopia were possible, I do not believe that human society could achieve
> such a transformation through peaceful means. This is a sorrowful and
> pessimistic perspective, but I believe that, in a situation where the
> "train" of the current system cannot stop moving forward, it is not so
> difficult to imagine a massive disaster ? one that represents a big bang of
> the existing social order. Within the cracks of such a catastrophic event,
> there might be a glimmer of hope.?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Mou
> 
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