| Heidrun Allert via nettime-l on Fri, 7 Nov 2025 14:25:23 +0100 (CET) |
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Debatte, Community, …. Asketen die zusammen kommen Grüße, heidrun allert (sent enroute) > Am 07.11.2025 um 13:22 schrieb XLterrestrials via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>: > > 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 > > > > > > >> On 05/11/2025 12:00 CET nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org wrote: >> >> >> Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to >> nettime-l@lists.nettime.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. About my project TECHNOCOMMUNISM (KOUU MOU) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 10:57:56 +0900 >> From: KOUU MOU <moukouu413@gmail.com> >> To: nettime-l@lists.nettime.org >> Subject: <nettime> About my project TECHNOCOMMUNISM >> Message-ID: >> <CAAQ1_t2-xwy0ACu6orQrJ4tjNxJarGFDzYw3hXzAeEcptuiSOw@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> *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 >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> -- >> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission >> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, >> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets >> # more info: https://www.nettime.org >> # contact: nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 29, Issue 2 >> **************************************** > -- > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: https://www.nettime.org > # contact: nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org