Patrice Riemens on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:31:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software |
Morlock utters glorious nonsense, as usual, meaning he's right somehow, somewhere, and yet ... (i) the machines have already won. In the Global North we live in a machine ('reality') park. And unlike some other human tribes, we are not very good at taming them. But the machines are sick themselves already and their systemic and hignly transmissible diseases (-Barbara Strebel) indicate their life span might be even shorter than ours - cf eg the ireductible virus-infected US Army drone (Hello Afghanistan!)... (ii) 7 days, yes, Harold Wilson MP used to quip that a week was a long time in politics. In the current economy, to which our terrarium appears to have been reduced, it's vastly shorter (27.000 financial transactions on the same 'object' in _one second_ anyone?). What does 'future' mean in such a setting? (iii) The science fiction we need, and have, doesn't need to be in the future, since we are living in SciFi already. This is, afaiac, the essence of Cyberpunk. We are even recolonizing the past now, since the banks stole the future: steampunk rulez! Finally my last trouvaille in an interview (a rare occurence) I did yesterday: "we all know about TEOTWAKI, the end of the world as we know it. But actually we should say 'the end of the world as we _knew_ it', because it has already happened. And that space between 'know' and knew' is where we now are - in the Global North: zombie-land, zombie-time. Amidst zombie-banks, zombie institutions, zombie politics & economics, and zombie whatever." (owtte) Cheers always, patrizio and Diiiinooos! (will 'occupy' to-morrow all the same!) # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org