| thanks for this 
interesting discussion to everyone, I think a crux is to look at 
altermodern epistemologies and systems of knowledge – and the 
(political) question is how to (finally) acknowledge and federate these 
to the planetary political. – this can be spelled out in terms of 
'post-humanism' (though one always should be aware of the 
SiliconValley/Accellerationist attempt to capture this imaginative 
trajectory, I think), it can also be thought of along other lines of 
'altermodernity', of 'de-colonialism', 'cognitive justice' etc etc. in
 all of this, I think the very notions of 'knowledge' and 'discourse' 
need to change; and as to 'voices' (and the implied idea of raionality):
 an issue brought to the fore by all the above mentioned discourses (as 
well as other recent ones; think: embodiment; new materialism; social 
semiotics etc.) is that *language* (in the Western/rationalist sense) as
 sole or master modality / measure of knowledge and discourse does no 
longer hold it – if it ever has. I think, the whole new resurgence in 
aesthetics (or, I would say with Merlea-Ponty and others, aesthesiology)
 is all about that. (btw. and randomly talking in Guattarian parlance: 
one prbobably will encounter the whole idea of asemiotics and other 
paradigms challenging traditional ideas of 'language representation' 
here once again). generally, I think visiting any of the current 
art-related exhibitions, conferences etc around Anthropocene and 
'post-humanism' gives examples in abundance of the search for one thing:
 new modes, modalities and medialities of knowledge, experience, 
communication, understanding, 'reading', rationality etc. of 
course to unsettle the strong anthropo-cenric (colonial, 
subsumptive,...) tradition of discourse and politics (and giants like 
Habermas and others) it is crucial to spell all of this out in terms of 
political processes. starting with acknowledging 'non-european' 
(non-industrial) knowledges and forms of discourse (not last 
'aboriginal', 'indigenous' and other 'minoritarian' (Guattari) systems 
would be a starting point. (note that this is not part of any *serious* 
official discourse on the anthropocenic political  crisis we are seeing 
nowadways every day in the 8´clock news). thus, cherishing Seans 
whole theory + politics tracetory, I would be equally inerested in other
 voices from the list in regards to such central quesions. David Garcia 
in particular worked a lot recently on knowledge and the constitution of
 social politics. a lot of others work on 'how to listen to mountains, 
bees, and morasses' – e.g. the whole sub-discourse on techno-shamanism 
plus some others. people working on new dialogues with indigenous and 
other sidelined knowledge communities should also be on this list... ...
 I´d sincerely like to hear from them on this question, as it´s a HUGE 
*question* for us all... ... some pointers in the meantime that I
 can find in my quick drawer on how to listen/talk to mountains, stones 
and oceans: • Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and 
rebellious transformation, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : 
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22170 • 
Surfing the Semiosphere: Encounter in Kilpisjärvi, Judith van der Elst :
 http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?page_id=11202 • articles by Tyson 
Yunkaporta (from Muck Rack) - on things like 'Sand Talk: How Indigenous 
Thinking Can Save the World', 'Indigenous Science: Water knowledge 
systems', 'Lessons from stone - Indigenous thinking and the Law' :  
https://muckrack.com/tyson-yunkaporta/articles best to all oliver            25. 
November 2020 um 10:56Sean, Brian, 
others, thank you for the interesting and engaging 
contributions. (Some of it gets a bit cryptic since it refers to 
political discourses that are not immediately apparent, at least to this
 
reader, but that's generally OK for a most-of-the-time lurker.)
 Sean Cubitt wrote (Nov 24, 2020 at 3:53 PM):
 >     Any 21st century politics has to be formed by an alliance 
of the
 >     excluded - human, ecological and - I would add, though it 
needs a
 >     longer argument - technological.
 I wonder whether you could expand on this a bit; I understand the 
argument (I don't know whether you would call it posthumanist, for lack 
of a better word I would), but i cannot get my head around the idea how 
the anthropo-logical systems of political representation, of governance,
 
could be transformed into systems that would encompass nonhuman beings, 
incl. technological, as equals.
 You are imputing that all of the following: women, ex-slaves, 
migrants, 
oceans, mountains, [technics], are all "excluded" in a way that can be 
overcome. I would maintain that what may have been unthinkable for some 
people in some places in some past (that women, ex-slaves, migrants 
would have a say in how they are governed), is of a different order, not
 
only because it relates to the way in which humans treat other humans 
(thus an intra-anthropological issue), but because these once excluded 
individuals and groups can speak for themselves in a human language.
 I agree that all humans must factor the oceans, mountains, trees, 
etc., 
into the way they live on the Earth (some do), and I also agree that 
capitalism systematically treats these as cheap or free resources. (But 
maybe it is not only capitalism, but homo sapiens in general? What has 
brought about and sustained the non-nature-exploitative civilisations?)
 But I wonder what the "voice" of the oceans, mountains, trees is 
going 
to be. Will that "voice" be the storms, the droughts, the fires? Or will
 
it be the voice of human scientists (some of whom search for the 
sentience of trees and stones, while others support geo-engineering, and
 
yet others look for the next site for open pit mining)?
 And then there is the question of how the "technological" is brought
 
into the alliance of the excluded...
 Regards,
 -a
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November 2020 um 01:19
War: is already the de facto result of climate change in what used to be
 the Fertile Crescent. Trump damn near made it an issue of war on the 
Mexican border. If Australia wasn't a federation, its states would be at
 war over the selling off of the Murray Darling
 river system's water. And the pyrocene is entrenched in Australia.  
 
 
There used to be a sour joke: There are Irish nationalists, Welsh 
Nationalists, Scottish nationalists and... English Greens. Like 
anarcho-fascists (Dominic Cummings, late of Downing Street, was just 
such a right-wing situationist), green-nationalists are equally
 revanchist. 
 
 
Crutzen and Stoermer closed their 2000 proposal for the term 
'Anthropocene' thus: 
'An exciting, but also difficult and daunting task lies 
ahead of the global research and engineering community to guide mankind 
towards global, sustainable, environmental management' 
 
Geoengineering by a class of scientists (shades of HG 
Wells' Shape of Things to Come') may be as risky as scientists running 
nuclear programs. Tho maybe Wells also had something smart
 behind his aeronautical Übermenschen - world government. There's a good
 history of the UN that uses the Victorian poet Tenison's lofty vision 
of The Parliament of Man for its title - the gender is clearly out; but 
so is the speciesism. Rancière argues that
 politics occurs when the excluded demand a part in their governance - a
 demand that changes government permanently (as women and ex-slaves have
 done already). It is unthinkable that oceans and mountains should have a
 seat in government, just as it was unthinkable
 for women - and still is unthinkable for migrants - to have a say in 
how they are governed. The unthinkable has to be thought.
 
 
Eco-socialism yes - but only if the 'social' is rethought -
 and re-practiced - no longer exclusively as human: The Commons is a 
better phrase, common land, general intellect (including
 those forms it takes when congealed into machines and infrastructures).
 We could start with that absurd contradiction 'intellectual property' -
 commons as peer-to-peer ecology/economy may start from undoing at least
 property as core concept of western Enlightenment.
 That this implies undoing the 'proper' as the principle of 
individualism is one way to recognise where anarchism belongs to capital
 and when it doesn't 
 
Think local, act global 
 
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:53 PM Sean Cubitt <sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au >
 wrote:
 
Nationalism builds on the other great crisis of our times, migration. 
Post-nationalism means opening borders. Only that way will the wealthy 
learn that removing the causes of migration - war, pandemic, climate 
change, colonialism - is the only way to survive
 (unless of course you're one of the billionaire class)
 
 This is for certain, because the only alternative to opening 
borders - and at the same time, engaging in co-development strategies 
that allow some people, at least, to remain where they are - is war 
plain and simple. Climate change is going to translate
 into burnt crops, forced migration and war long before rising seas 
drive people out of lower Manhattan. And state collapse induced by 
neoliberalism will do the same. The current political economy is a 
vicious circle getting worse, 2020 has sure made that clear!
   
 
Any 21st century politics has to be formed 
by an alliance of the excluded - human, ecological and - I would add, 
though it needs a longer argument - technological
 
 The question I have, is how to build an effective alliance of the 
excluded, one that does not become a wrecking ball in its own right?
 
 A lot of anarchism is now doing the work of neoliberalism, it's 
heavily nihilistic. Autonomism itself was an uneasy fusion, 
anarcho-communism, but the communist part was gradually reduced to a 
kind of fantasy for intellectuals whose real politics were
 anarchist by default - not their own default, but because every attempt
 to construct a state-for-the-multitudes was foreclosed. In the absence 
of a constructive principle you get alienated people looking to 
accelerate the breakdown, on both right and left
 btw. The US is rampant with that kind of accelerationist now - in fact,
 on the extreme right they describe themselves with that exact word.
 
 I think we need an eco-state. I mean a form of social coordination 
that doesn't precipitate collapse, but protects against, reverses the 
trends, allows human and ecological healing. Of course you can imagine 
an eco-state in an authoritarian vein, because
 that's where China is going. Rana Dasgupta surely sees it differently -
 I'm looking forward to read that text - but I see China going toward a 
state that will internalize earth system imperatives, and actually 
respond to the climate crisis by producing self-driving
 electric cars, total surveillance and geoengineering. Geoengineering is
 good - or at least, it's inevitable - but authoritarianism isn't. How 
should the Western countries and their "integrated peripheries" respond?
 What can civil-society movements do about
 it? The answer is, we don't have a clue. Shame on us. Mexico is 
collapsing, and white people in the US think they can bring back the 
good old days.
 
 As for the carbon tax that someone mentioned, I hear you, but it's 
too little too late. It might have helped twenty years ago, if it hadn't
 been just another neoliberal ploy for gaming the system. It can still 
do some good, in a more serious form, but
 now we're on a timeline that's going to require central coordination in
 addition to market coordination. Unless we just want civilizational 
breakdown in the megafires of the Pyrocene. Which is really coming into 
its own in Colorado, by the way. I'm afraid
 it will put a real dent in the tourist industry.
 
 Green New Deal or bust. I'm not kidding when I talk about 
eco-socialism. The question is how to get there. 
 Brian
 
 
 
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On 24.11.20 04:14, Brian Holmes wrote: 
> Here's my two cents: Keynes aimed to save capitalism from itself. 
Double 
> down on Keynes, unleash vast new creative energies on the basis of 
fiat 
> money, and maybe, instead of sapping capital's foundations, we can 
push it 
> over the top into ecosocialism.
 
There are probably two distinct political strategies here. And it would 
be interesting to work out their relation.
 
The first is move capitalism towards a different regime of accumulation, 
one based less on extractivism and consumerism but rather more on 
renewable energy and "eco-system services" for repairing some of the 
damage already done (I know, this term is conventionally used in a 
different sense). A little bit of this we are already seeing, with the 
EU's project to become a first climate neutral continent by 2050, China 
commitment by 2060 and new Biden admin making similar gestures. So far, 
actual effects, in terms of reducing the output of CO2 and and 
ending/slowing down the loss of biological diversity, have not been 
achieved. The big question is: is that too little too late, unable to 
overcome very real system barriers to substantial change? Or can this be 
made into the beginning of a self-accelerating shift in the energy 
regime of global civilization?
 
In the longer run, it's hard to imagine how capitalism can still be 
capitalism without treating "nature" as an externality. So the question 
then becomes, what are the condition under which a 'greener capitalism' 
can be pushed into something else. In a way that is like an update of 
the old Marxian idea that capitalism will produce productive forces on 
which communism can be realized.
 
all the best. Felix
 
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Nationalism builds on the other great crisis of our times, migration. 
Post-nationalism means opening borders. Only that way will the wealthy 
learn that removing the causes of migration - war, pandemic, climate 
change, colonialism - is the only way to survive
 (unless of course you're one of the billionaire class)
 
 This is for certain, because the 
only alternative to opening borders - and at the same time, engaging in 
co-development strategies that allow some people, at least, to remain 
where they are - is war plain and simple. Climate change is going to 
translate into burnt crops, forced migration and war long before rising 
seas drive people out of lower Manhattan. And state collapse induced by 
neoliberalism will do the same. The current political economy is a 
vicious circle getting worse, 2020 has sure made that clear!
   
 
Any 21st century politics has to be formed 
by an alliance of the excluded - human, ecological and - I would add, 
though it needs a longer argument - technological
 
 The question I have, is how
 to build an effective alliance of the excluded, one that does not 
become a wrecking ball in its own right? 
 
 A
 lot of anarchism is now doing the work of neoliberalism, it's heavily 
nihilistic. Autonomism itself was an uneasy fusion, anarcho-communism, 
but the communist part was gradually reduced to a kind of fantasy for 
intellectuals whose real politics were anarchist by default - not their 
own default, but because every attempt to construct a 
state-for-the-multitudes was foreclosed. In the absence of a 
constructive principle you get alienated people looking to accelerate 
the breakdown, on both right and left btw. The US is rampant with that 
kind of accelerationist now - in fact, on the extreme right they 
describe themselves with that exact word.
 
 I
 think we need an eco-state. I mean a form of social coordination that 
doesn't precipitate collapse, but protects against, reverses the trends,
 allows human and ecological healing. Of course you can imagine an 
eco-state in an authoritarian vein, because that's where China is going.
 Rana Dasgupta surely sees it differently - I'm looking forward to read 
that text - but I see China going toward a state that will internalize 
earth system imperatives, and actually respond to the climate crisis by 
producing self-driving electric cars, total surveillance and 
geoengineering. Geoengineering is good - or at least, it's inevitable - 
but authoritarianism isn't. How should the Western countries and their 
"integrated peripheries" respond? What can civil-society movements do 
about it? The answer is, we don't have a clue. Shame on us. Mexico is 
collapsing, and white people in the US think they can bring back the 
good old days.
 
 As for the carbon tax that 
someone mentioned, I hear you, but it's too little too late. It might 
have helped twenty years ago, if it hadn't been just another neoliberal 
ploy for gaming the system. It can still do some good, in a more serious
 form, but now we're on a timeline that's going to require central 
coordination in addition to market coordination. Unless we just want 
civilizational breakdown in the megafires of the Pyrocene. Which is 
really coming into its own in Colorado, by the way. I'm afraid it will 
put a real dent in the tourist industry.
 
 Green
 New Deal or bust. I'm not kidding when I talk about eco-socialism. The 
question is how to get there. 
 Brian
 
 
 
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On 24.11.20 04:14, Brian Holmes wrote: 
> Here's my two cents: Keynes aimed to save capitalism from itself. 
Double 
> down on Keynes, unleash vast new creative energies on the basis of 
fiat 
> money, and maybe, instead of sapping capital's foundations, we can 
push it 
> over the top into ecosocialism.
 
There are probably two distinct political strategies here. And it would 
be interesting to work out their relation.
 
The first is move capitalism towards a different regime of accumulation, 
one based less on extractivism and consumerism but rather more on 
renewable energy and "eco-system services" for repairing some of the 
damage already done (I know, this term is conventionally used in a 
different sense). A little bit of this we are already seeing, with the 
EU's project to become a first climate neutral continent by 2050, China 
commitment by 2060 and new Biden admin making similar gestures. So far, 
actual effects, in terms of reducing the output of CO2 and and 
ending/slowing down the loss of biological diversity, have not been 
achieved. The big question is: is that too little too late, unable to 
overcome very real system barriers to substantial change? Or can this be 
made into the beginning of a self-accelerating shift in the energy 
regime of global civilization?
 
In the longer run, it's hard to imagine how capitalism can still be 
capitalism without treating "nature" as an externality. So the question 
then becomes, what are the condition under which a 'greener capitalism' 
can be pushed into something else. In a way that is like an update of 
the old Marxian idea that capitalism will produce productive forces on 
which communism can be realized.
 
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Brian hits the nail on the head when he writes "paying out fiat money to smooth thejagged edges of the business cycle and thereby making proletarian
 consumption into the very engine of capitalist growth."
 
 
As Felix adds, capital absolutely requires externalised nature - a 
cost-free resource which can be mined and dumped into at no cost.
 
 
The model also applies now to the proletarian consumer: once merely 
formally subsumed under capital, the new form of consumption has been 
'really' subsumed: the form of consumption is fully integrated - all 
consumption is also productive, generating data for
 further exploitation. The mass production of debt is a crucial part of 
the process: as is the mental health epidemic that it generates - this 
is one way capital dumps its unwanted product, just as it dumps unwanted
 heat into the atmosphere.
 
 
Waste is not marginal: it is integral to capital - and that includes 
wasting excess humans, ie those that are not in the inner circle of 
obscene wealth. The destruction of the state by capital under Brexit / 
Trumpism is one strategy for ensuring a) the proletarianization
 of the real subsumption of consumption under capital and b) the 
externalisation/environmentalisation of the bio-mass and - in a way that
 must terrify all post-autonomists - the general intellect.
 
 
Ex-communist polities (populist cronyism in its Putin/Xi variants) still
 seem to prefer state capture; neo-con/neo-libs go for state 
destruction: but the distinction is blurry (Georges Monbiot has a 
suggestion why: 
 
More depressing is the failure of the Left - while half believed the EU 
was a flawed but viable system for controlling the worst excesses of 
capital (which is why Murdoch and other gang members wanted it wrecked),
 the other half, including Corbyn, saw it as
 a capitalist conspiracy. Given that nationalism is such a hallmark of 
the rhetoric of neo-populists, one obvious experiment to make is a 
post-nationalist left - which instantly implies not rebuilding 
globalisation as it existed prior to the GFC but one that
 builds on what now constitutes the material infrastructure: 
populations, networks and ecologies.
 
 
Nationalism builds on the other great crisis of our times, migration. 
Post-nationalism means opening borders. Only that way will the wealthy 
learn that removing the causes of migration - war, pandemic, climate 
change, colonialism - is the only way to survive
 (unless of course you're one of the billionaire class)
 
 
Any 21st century politics has to be formed 
by an alliance of the excluded - human, ecological and - I would add, 
though it needs a longer argument - technological 
 
 
 
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On 24.11.20 04:14, Brian Holmes wrote: 
> Here's my two cents: Keynes aimed to save capitalism from itself. 
Double 
> down on Keynes, unleash vast new creative energies on the basis of 
fiat 
> money, and maybe, instead of sapping capital's foundations, we can 
push it 
> over the top into ecosocialism.
 
There are probably two distinct political strategies here. And it would 
be interesting to work out their relation.
 
The first is move capitalism towards a different regime of accumulation, 
one based less on extractivism and consumerism but rather more on 
renewable energy and "eco-system services" for repairing some of the 
damage already done (I know, this term is conventionally used in a 
different sense). A little bit of this we are already seeing, with the 
EU's project to become a first climate neutral continent by 2050, China 
commitment by 2060 and new Biden admin making similar gestures. So far, 
actual effects, in terms of reducing the output of CO2 and and 
ending/slowing down the loss of biological diversity, have not been 
achieved. The big question is: is that too little too late, unable to 
overcome very real system barriers to substantial change? Or can this be 
made into the beginning of a self-accelerating shift in the energy 
regime of global civilization?
 
In the longer run, it's hard to imagine how capitalism can still be 
capitalism without treating "nature" as an externality. So the question 
then becomes, what are the condition under which a 'greener capitalism' 
can be pushed into something else. In a way that is like an update of 
the old Marxian idea that capitalism will produce productive forces on 
which communism can be realized.
 
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